Kirsten Schwarz, Ph.D.
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Using a transdisciplinary systems approach, my research aims to  understand how the ways in which we build and shape cities affects environment, health, and justice. 
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Community-led Green Infrastructure Design

Does community engagement in urban planning make green infrastructure (and neighborhoods) more resilient ?
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Urban Agriculture and Soil Lead

Urban agriculture and soil lead are often seen as competing interests - could gardening be part of the solution?
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Urban Vegetation and Shrinking Cities

Do we need to rethink environmental justice indicators for shrinking cities? Are they green, but not just?
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Urban Tree Canopy and Environmental Justice


​Money may not grow on trees, but do trees grow on money?
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Funding Community-University Partnerships

You've heard of seed money to support new research. Could soil money support community-university partnerships?
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Soil Lead Contamination in the City

Cities are patchy places - can that patchiness be used to explain patterns of soil lead?
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