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title: "Involving Ecologists in Shaping Large-Scale Green Infrastructure Projects"
slug: "involving-ecologists-shaping-large-scale-green-infrastructure-projects"
tags: ["research", "green infrastructure", "peer-reviewed", "framework"]
updated: 2022-01-13T22:37:37Z
published: 2022-01-13T22:37:37Z
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# Involving Ecologists in Shaping Large-Scale Green Infrastructure Projects

<meta charset="utf-8">The article examines a large-scale green infrastructure project that integrates hypothesis-driven experimental research and baseline monitoring with park design, implementation, and maintenance. Drawing on this case study, the authors recommend strategies to facilitate the inclusion of research ecologists in green infrastructure projects.

### In a nutshell, this resource offers:

- <meta charset="utf-8"> Additional skills and practices needed to develop new relationships and improve credibility, to define project roles, to identify new funding, and to integrate multidisciplinary knowledge.
- <meta charset="utf-8">Evaluations of embedded research project design to provide a mechanism for both evaluation and development of the ecological knowledge needed to improve infrastructure for services provision and its long term efficacy.
- Recommendations to enhance the professional certification process, establishing research ecologists as consultants, and integrating ecology and design in graduate programs.

### How to use this resource:

- Develop <meta charset="utf-8">a more formal methodology for the inclusion of <meta charset="utf-8">ecologists as essential
components of large-scale green infrastructure projects.
- <meta charset="utf-8">Propose a formalized framework that should
expedite the translation of scientific knowledge into the construction of ecosystems and services for urban areas
- <meta charset="utf-8">Recommend ways to promote
the involvement of ecologists in green infrastructure projects, primarily by improving the interdisciplinary dialogue
between designers and ecologists, formalizing relationships
between professional societies, and focusing on interdisciplinary education.

**Author: <meta charset="utf-8">**Alexander J. Felson, Emily E. Oldfield, and Mark A. Bradford

**Date published:**November 2013

**P****oint of contact:**Alexander J. Felson, Professor and Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture, The University of Melbourne, [alex.felson@unimelb.edu.au](mailto:alex.felson@unimelb.edu.au)[](mailto:alex.felson@unimelb.edu.au)**[](mailto:alex.felson@unimelb.edu.au)<meta charset="utf-8">**

**Citation:**Felson, A.J.;<meta charset="utf-8"> Oldfield, E. E.; <meta charset="utf-8">Bradford, M. A. 2013. *Involving Ecologists in Shaping Large-Scale Green Infrastructure Projects*. Bioscience Magazine, 6p.

[Resource is available online here.](https://bradfordlab.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/felson-et-al-bioscience-2013.pdf)

[PDF document](https://cdn.document360.io/18a9acd7-787d-47fa-9b54-01592bb1d507/Images/Documentation/Felsonetal.BioscienceInvolvingecologistsinGreeninfrastructure.pdf)

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