David Iwaniec
Associate Professor Urban Studies Institute- Education
Ph.D. Sustainability, Arizona State University
M.S. Ecosystem Ecology, Florida International University
- Specializations
Sustainable Urban Systems: Anticipatory Governance, Climate Adaptation and Resilience, Future Studies, Participatory Modeling, Scenario Development, Social-Ecological-Technological Systems, Transformations and Transitions Research, Urban Ecology
Courses:
• The Interdisciplinary City (URB 8097 / URB 4097)
• Urban Environmental Sustainability (URB 9012)
• Urban Environments (URB 8060 / URB 4060 /GEOS 6020 / GEOG 4020)
• Urban Resilience Studio (GEOS 6097 / GEOL 4097 / GEOG 4097)
- Biography
David M. Iwaniec is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Futures at the Andrew Young School’s Urban Studies Institute. He is a sustainability scientist researching anticipatory and systemic approaches to advance urban sustainability, resilience, and justice.
The Sustainable Futures Lab integrates research, practice, and engagement to explore sustainable futures and the social-ecological-technological transformations needed to bring them about.
Dr. Iwaniec conducts research to learn from and improve the governance of urban systems, including the co-development of sustainability solutions and transition pathways for positive futures of urban transformation.
- Publications
Iwaniec, D.M., M. Gooseff, K. Suding, D. Johnson, D. Reed, D. Peters, B. Adams, J. Barrett, B. Bestelmeyer, M. Castorani, E. Cook, M. Davidson, P. Groffman, N. Hanan, L. Huenneke, P. Johnson, D. McKnight, R. Miller, G. Okin, D. Preston, A. Rassweiler, C. Ray, O. Sala, R. Schooley, T. Seastedt, M. Spasojevic, E. Vivoni. (in press, accepted 2020). Future trajectories for ecosystems of the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network: The importance of connectivity. Ecosphere
Iwaniec, D.M., M.J. Davidson, E.M. Cook, M. Berbés-Blázquez, N.B. Grimm. (in press, accepted 2020). Integrating climate adaptation planning into future visions: A strategic scenario for the central Arizona–Phoenix region. Landscape and Urban Planning
Sampson, D., E.M. Cook, M.J. Davidson, N.B. Grimm, D.M. Iwaniec. (accepted 2020, in press). Simulating sustainable urban water futures.
Sustainability ScienceIwaniec, D.M., E.M. Cook, M. Davidson, N.B. Grimm, N.B, M. Berbés- Blázquez, M. Georgescu, E.S. Krayenhoff, X. Li, A. Middel, D.A. Sampson. (2020) The co-production of sustainable future scenarios. Landscape and Urban Planning, 197, 103744
Raudsepp-Hearne C., G. Peterson, E. Bennett, O. Biggs, A. Norstrom, L. Pereira; J. Vervoort, D.M. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, T. Hichert. (2019) Seeds of Good Anthropocenes: Developing sustainability scenarios for Northern Europe. Sustainability Science, doi.org/10.1007/s11625-019-00714-8
Iwaniec, D.M., E.M. Cook, O. Barbosa, N.B. Grimm. (2019) The framing of urban sustainability transformations. Sustainability, 11(3):573
Markolf, S., M. Chester, D. Eisenberg, D.M. Iwaniec, B.L. Ruddell, C. Davidson, T. Miller, R. Zimmerman, H. Chang. (2018) Interdependent infrastructure as linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (SETS) to address lock-In and improve resilience. Earth’s Future, 6
Rosenzweig, B.R., L. McPhillips, H. Cheng, C. Welty, M. Matsler, D.M. Iwaniec, C.I. Davidson. (2018) Pluvial flood risk and opportunities for resilience. WIREs Waters, e1302
McPhearson, T, D.M. Iwaniec, B. Xuemei. (2017) Positives visions for guiding transformations toward desirable urban futures. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 22:1–8
van Riper, C., A. Landon, S. Kidd, P. Bitterman, L. Fitzgerald, E. Granek, S. Ibarra, D.M. Iwaniec, C. Raymond, D. Toledo. (2017) Incorporating sociocultural phenomena into ecosystem-service valuation: The importance of critical pluralism. BioScience, 67(3):233–244
Iwaniec, D.M., G.S. Metson, D, Cordell. (2016) Towards urban food & water security through collaborative design and impact. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 20:1–7
Munoz-Erickson, T., L. Campbell, D.L. Childers, M. Grove, D.M. Iwaniec, E. Svenden, S. Pickett, M. Romolini. (2016) Demystifying governance and its role for transitions in urban social-ecological systems. Ecosphere, 7(11):1–11
Cordell, D., G.S. Metson, D.M. Iwaniec. (2016) Transforming Cities: Securing food and clean waterways through phosphorus governance. In Fam, D., J. Palmer, C. Mitchell, C. Riedy (Eds.) Transdisciplinary Research and Practice for Sustainable Outcomes. Taylor & Francis
Grimm, N.B., E.M. Cook, R.L. Hale, D.M. Iwaniec. (2016) A broader framing of ecosystem services in cities: benefits and challenges of built, natural, or hybrid system function. In Seto, K.C., W.D. Solecki, C.A. Griffith (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook on Urbanization and Global Environmental Change. Taylor & Francis
McHale, M.R., S.T.A. Pickett, O. Barbosa, D.N. Bunn, M.L. Cadenasso, D.L. Childers, M. Gartin, G. Hess, D.M. Iwaniec, T. McPhearson, M.N. Peterson, A.K. Poole, L. Rivers III, S.T. Shutters. (2015) The new global urban realm: Complex, connected, diffuse, and diverse social-ecological systems. Sustainability, 7(5):5211–5240
Turner, K., K. Benessaiah, S. Warren, D.M. Iwaniec. (2015) Essential tensions in interdisciplinary scholarship: Navigating challenges in affect, epistemologies, and structure in environment-society research centers. Journal of Higher Education, 70(4):649–665
Metson, G., D.M. Iwaniec, L. Baker, E.M. Bennett, D.L. Childers, D. Cordell, N.B. Grimm, J.M. Grove, D. Nidzgorski, S. White. (2015) Urban phosphorus sustainability: Systemically incorporating social, ecological, and technological factors into phosphorus flow analysis. Environmental Science & Policy, 47:1–11
Iwaniec, D.M., A. Wiek. (2014) Advancing sustainability visioning practice in planning – the General Plan revision in Phoenix, AZ. Planning Practice and Research, 29(5):543–568
Iwaniec, D.M., D.L. Childers, K. VanLehn, A. Wiek. (2014) Studying, teaching and applying sustainability visions using systems modeling. Sustainability, 6(7):4452–4469
Wiek, A., D.M. Iwaniec. (2014) Quality criteria for visions and visioning in sustainability science. Sustainability Science, 9(4):497–512