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Kelly Turner’s research addresses the relationship between institutions, urban design, and the environment through interrelated questions, such as how urban design relates to ecosystem services in cities and the extent of social institutions' capacity to deliver these services. Her approach employs social-ecological systems frameworks to tackle issues in urban planning and design. Recent work utilizes this framework to investigate microclimate regulation through New Urbanist design, water biodiversity management in Homeowners Associations, and stormwater management via green infrastructure interventions. She has explored water resources related to co-benefits of heat mitigation and water conservation in sustainable design. Currently, she is examining the role of policy, planning, and social norms driving the adoption of green versus grey stormwater control measures in cities like Cleveland, Denver, and Los Angeles. Turner holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University, where she was an IGERT Fellow in urban ecology. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation and she chairs the Human Dimensions of Global Change specialty group at the American Association of Geographers. Turner also employs interdisciplinary pedagogy in the classroom by teaching courses on environmentalisms, urban sustainability, and urban ecology.
Department of Economics admits primarily for the PhD program.