Auteur: Robert I. McDonald

Dr. Robert McDonald is Senior Scientist for Sustainable Land Use at The Nature Conservancy, where he is lead scientist for the organization »s efforts to figure out how to make cities more sustainable. He holds a PhD in Ecology from Duke University and has published more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, many of them on the science of how cities impact and depend on the environment. He blogs for The Nature Conservancy »sCool Green Scienceblog and has published two recent essays on urban/environment interactions in a collection calledTaking Sides: Clashing Views in Global Issues(McGraw-Hill) and inThe Chronicle of Higher Education.