Elizabeth Brabec

About

Elizabeth Brabec is a professor of landscape architecture and regional planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on culture and heritage and their impacts on migration and displacement, as well as perceptions of land and nature.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Geography
• History
• Business
• Philosophy
• Environmental ethics
• Economic geography
• Operating system

Selected publications

• Visual preferences for wind turbines: Location, numbers and respondent characteristics

  Applied Energy · 2011-12-05 · 218 citations

  articleSenior author
  PublisherDOI

• Assessing climate change-induced flooding mitigation for adaptation in Boston’s Charles River watershed, USA

  Landscape and Urban Planning · 2017-06-07 · 69 citations

  articleSenior author
  PublisherDOI

• Windows of opportunity: addressing climate uncertainty through adaptation plan implementation

  Journal of Environmental Planning and Management · 2013-12-09 · 41 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  There is a pressing need for municipalities and regions to create urban form suited to current as well as future climates, but adaptation planning uptake has been slow. This is particularly unfortunate because patterns of urban form interact with climate change in ways that can reduce, or intensify, the impact of overall global change. Uncertainty regarding the timing and magnitude of climate change is a significant barrier to implementing adaptation planning. Focusing on implementation of adapt…

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Toward an Ecology of Cultural Heritage

  Change Over Time · 2015-09-01 · 36 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding

  Around the globe, the impacts of climate change are increasing the risk of catastrophic events and the resulting loss of human life and communities. Until now, responses to these events and planning for future occurrences have focused on ecological and social impacts, to the almost total exclusion of the impacts on heritage. Cultural heritage includes archaeological sites, historic buildings, and artifacts, but—more importantly—it also includes the meanings, values, and contemporary social behav…

  PublisherDOI

• Linear infiltration systems along urban streets: evaluating aesthetic values

  Journal of Landscape Architecture · 2014-01-02 · 10 citations

  articleSenior author

  AbstractThe last decade has seen the design of numerous infiltration systems along urban streets. With the goal of reducing the impact of runoff on urban watersheds, they have largely been functionally designed with little regard to design aesthetics even though aesthetic value is important to public acceptance and increased use. This paper compares three case studies of linear infiltration systems along urban residential streets: one in Hannover-Kronsberg (Germany) and two in High Point, Seattl…

  PublisherDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Kristina Janečková

  Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

  6 shared

• Yaser Abunnasr

  American University of Beirut

  4 shared

• Miroslav Šálek

  Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

  4 shared

• Peter Kumble

  Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

  4 shared

• Geoffrey Lewis

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  4 shared

• Petr Sklenička

  Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

  4 shared

• Chingwen Cheng

  Pennsylvania State University

  4 shared

• Randall Arendt

  3 shared

Labs

• Landscape Architecture and Regional PlanningPI

Education

• Juris Doctor, School of Law

  University of Maryland Baltimore

  2002

• Master of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture

  University of Guelph

  1984

• Bachelor of Science in Agriculture

  University of Guelph

  1981

Similar researchers at University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Robert Ryanh-28
• Theodore Eisenmanh-17
• Carey Clouseh-7