Marina Alberti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marina Alberti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marina |
| FAMILY NAME | Alberti |
| SIGNATURE | ALBERTI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1920-309X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Urban landscape heterogeneity disaggregates the legacy of redlining on land surface temperature
The lingering effects of redlining are linked to contemporary heat inequities observed across US cities. Residential security maps created by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) have been widely used to analyze neighborhood-level disparities in land surface temperatures. However, the use of aggregated spatial units often fails to capture internal landscape heterogeneity and the heat vulnerabilities associated with redlining. In this study, w…
Legacies of redlining lead to unequal cooling effects of urban tree canopy
Urban landscape affects scaling of transportation carbon emissions across geographic scales
Coupled human and natural systems
Urban Science
Sustainability in an urbanizing planet
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Earth as a Hybrid Planet
Advancing Urban Ecology toward a Science of Cities
Urban ecology is a field encompassing multiple disciplines and practical applications and has grown rapidly. However, the field is heterogeneous as a global inquiry with multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks, variable research approaches, and a lack of coordination among multiple schools of thought and research foci. Here, we present an international consensus on how urban ecology can advance along multiple research directions. There is …
Maintaining ecological integrity and sustaining ecosystem function in urban areas
Urban Ecology
Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Integrated studies of coupled human and natural systems reveal new and complex patterns and processes not evident when studied by social or natural scientists separately. Synthesis of six case studies from around the world shows that couplings between human and natural systems vary across space, time, and organizational units. They also exhibit nonlinear dynamics with thresholds, reciprocal feedback loops, time lags, resilience, heterogeneity, an…
Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Humans have continuously interacted with natural systems, resulting in the formation and development of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS). Recent studies reveal the complexity of organizational, spatial, and temporal couplings of CHANS. These couplings have evolved from direct to more indirect interactions, from adjacent to more distant linkages, from local to global scales, and from simple to complex patterns and processes. Untangling co…
The Effects of Urban Patterns on Ecosystem Function
Urban ecological systems are characterized by complex interactions among social, economic, institutional, and environmental variables. These interactions generate complex human-dominated landscapes, which significantly influence the functioning of local and global earth ecosystems and the services they provide to humans and other life on earth. Urban development fragments, isolates, and degrades natural habitats; simplifies and homogenizes specie…
Ecological resilience in urban ecosystems
Integrating Humans into Ecology
Our central paradigm for urban ecology is that cities are emergent phenomena of local-scale, dynamic interactions among socioeconomic and biophysical forces. These complex interactions give rise to a distinctive ecology and to distinctive ecological forcing functions. Separately, both the natural and the social sciences have adopted complex system theory to study emergent phenomena, but attempts to integrate the natural and social sciences to und…
Urban Patterns and Environmental Performance
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the relationships between urban patterns and various dimensions of environmental quality and performance. I first examine approaches to measuring urban environmental perfomance, drawing on the concepts of carrying capacity, ecological footprint, environmental space, and appropriated ecosystem area. Since cities affect and are affected by ecological systems far beyond their physical boundaries, I propos…
Managing urban sustainability
High-intensity mineral resource exploitation has resulted in numerous ecological problems that seriously threaten the sustainability of resource-based cities. Resilience is considered as the key to maintaining regional sustainability. Therefore, this study established an index framework that affected the resilience of resource-based cities. We selected Changzhi in China as the study area and determined its current distribution of resilience. The …
Interview with the mayor of Curitiba on habitat II
The objectives of Habitat II were (1) in the long term to arrest the deterioration of human settlements and create the conditions to achieve improvement in the environment on a sustainable basis, and (2) to adopt a general statement on principles and related Global Action Plan to guide national and international efforts in the next two decades. We have asked the Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil Rafael Greca de Macedo to comment on the conference results…
Measuring urban sustainability
The present study investigated the spatial distribution and accessibility of parks and urban green spaces in Tehran using the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) and the Geographical Information System (GIS) with an emphasis on the approach of spatial justice. For the purpose of analyzing the spatial distribution pattern of urban green spaces in Tehran, the nearest neighbor method and multi-distance spatial cluster analysis were applied. As a r…
Regional integration and environmental policy in Europe
Indices of environmental quality
Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Humans have continuously interacted with natural systems, resulting in the formation and development of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS). Recent studies reveal the complexity of organizational, spatial, and temporal couplings of CHANS. These couplings have evolved from direct to more indirect interactions, from adjacent to more distant linkages, from local to global scales, and from simple to complex patterns and processes. Untangling co…
Measuring urban sustainability
The present study investigated the spatial distribution and accessibility of parks and urban green spaces in Tehran using the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) and the Geographical Information System (GIS) with an emphasis on the approach of spatial justice. For the purpose of analyzing the spatial distribution pattern of urban green spaces in Tehran, the nearest neighbor method and multi-distance spatial cluster analysis were applied. As a r…
Maintaining ecological integrity and sustaining ecosystem function in urban areas
Urban Patterns and Environmental Performance
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the relationships between urban patterns and various dimensions of environmental quality and performance. I first examine approaches to measuring urban environmental perfomance, drawing on the concepts of carrying capacity, ecological footprint, environmental space, and appropriated ecosystem area. Since cities affect and are affected by ecological systems far beyond their physical boundaries, I propos…
Coupled human and natural systems
Managing urban sustainability
High-intensity mineral resource exploitation has resulted in numerous ecological problems that seriously threaten the sustainability of resource-based cities. Resilience is considered as the key to maintaining regional sustainability. Therefore, this study established an index framework that affected the resilience of resource-based cities. We selected Changzhi in China as the study area and determined its current distribution of resilience. The …
Earth as a Hybrid Planet
Indices of environmental quality
Indices of environmental quality
Regional integration and environmental policy in Europe
Managing urban sustainability
High-intensity mineral resource exploitation has resulted in numerous ecological problems that seriously threaten the sustainability of resource-based cities. Resilience is considered as the key to maintaining regional sustainability. Therefore, this study established an index framework that affected the resilience of resource-based cities. We selected Changzhi in China as the study area and determined its current distribution of resilience. The …
Interview with the mayor of Curitiba on habitat II
The objectives of Habitat II were (1) in the long term to arrest the deterioration of human settlements and create the conditions to achieve improvement in the environment on a sustainable basis, and (2) to adopt a general statement on principles and related Global Action Plan to guide national and international efforts in the next two decades. We have asked the Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil Rafael Greca de Macedo to comment on the conference results…
Measuring urban sustainability
The present study investigated the spatial distribution and accessibility of parks and urban green spaces in Tehran using the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) and the Geographical Information System (GIS) with an emphasis on the approach of spatial justice. For the purpose of analyzing the spatial distribution pattern of urban green spaces in Tehran, the nearest neighbor method and multi-distance spatial cluster analysis were applied. As a r…
Urban Patterns and Environmental Performance
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on the relationships between urban patterns and various dimensions of environmental quality and performance. I first examine approaches to measuring urban environmental perfomance, drawing on the concepts of carrying capacity, ecological footprint, environmental space, and appropriated ecosystem area. Since cities affect and are affected by ecological systems far beyond their physical boundaries, I propos…
Integrating Humans into Ecology
Our central paradigm for urban ecology is that cities are emergent phenomena of local-scale, dynamic interactions among socioeconomic and biophysical forces. These complex interactions give rise to a distinctive ecology and to distinctive ecological forcing functions. Separately, both the natural and the social sciences have adopted complex system theory to study emergent phenomena, but attempts to integrate the natural and social sciences to und…
Ecological resilience in urban ecosystems
The Effects of Urban Patterns on Ecosystem Function
Urban ecological systems are characterized by complex interactions among social, economic, institutional, and environmental variables. These interactions generate complex human-dominated landscapes, which significantly influence the functioning of local and global earth ecosystems and the services they provide to humans and other life on earth. Urban development fragments, isolates, and degrades natural habitats; simplifies and homogenizes specie…
Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Integrated studies of coupled human and natural systems reveal new and complex patterns and processes not evident when studied by social or natural scientists separately. Synthesis of six case studies from around the world shows that couplings between human and natural systems vary across space, time, and organizational units. They also exhibit nonlinear dynamics with thresholds, reciprocal feedback loops, time lags, resilience, heterogeneity, an…
Coupled Human and Natural Systems
Humans have continuously interacted with natural systems, resulting in the formation and development of coupled human and natural systems (CHANS). Recent studies reveal the complexity of organizational, spatial, and temporal couplings of CHANS. These couplings have evolved from direct to more indirect interactions, from adjacent to more distant linkages, from local to global scales, and from simple to complex patterns and processes. Untangling co…
Urban Ecology
Maintaining ecological integrity and sustaining ecosystem function in urban areas
Advancing Urban Ecology toward a Science of Cities
Urban ecology is a field encompassing multiple disciplines and practical applications and has grown rapidly. However, the field is heterogeneous as a global inquiry with multiple theoretical and conceptual frameworks, variable research approaches, and a lack of coordination among multiple schools of thought and research foci. Here, we present an international consensus on how urban ecology can advance along multiple research directions. There is …
Sustainability in an urbanizing planet
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences.
Earth as a Hybrid Planet
Urban Science
Coupled human and natural systems
Legacies of redlining lead to unequal cooling effects of urban tree canopy
Urban landscape affects scaling of transportation carbon emissions across geographic scales
Urban landscape heterogeneity disaggregates the legacy of redlining on land surface temperature
The lingering effects of redlining are linked to contemporary heat inequities observed across US cities. Residential security maps created by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) have been widely used to analyze neighborhood-level disparities in land surface temperatures. However, the use of aggregated spatial units often fails to capture internal landscape heterogeneity and the heat vulnerabilities associated with redlining. In this study, w…
Geography (14 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (13 works) · Biology (12 works) · Environmental Science (12 works) · Environmental resource management (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental planning (7 works) · Sustainability (7 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (7 works)