Assistant Professor of Earth, Environmental and Geographical Sciences
University of North Carolina at CharlotteEnvironmental Justice, green infrastructure, social-ecological systems, stormwater management, urban water
Fushcia-Ann Hoover, Ph.D. is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in social-ecological urban systems. She employs a range of approaches and perspectives from the fields of planning, engineering, social and environmental sciences. Her research centers environmental justice, green infrastructure planning, and relationships between people, place and the environment.
Hoover joined the department in 2021 as an assistant professor of environmental planning, where her projects explore green infrastructure planning, urban water quality, and environmental decision-making. Prior to joining the department, Hoover held postdocs at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), and the Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, OH. She is also the founder of EcoGreenQueen LLC, a company dedicated to teaching and expanding the knowledge and use of environmental justice frameworks and methods across research and practice.
Hoover earned her master’s and doctorate from the Interdisciplinary Ecological Sciences and Engineering program in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of St. Thomas, MN. Dr. Hoover is a 2023-2024 Harvard Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellow, and a faculty affiliate with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability’s Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research site at Arizona State University.
Ecology, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Landscape, social-ecological systems
Andy Kliskey is President’s Professor of Community & Landscape Resilience and the Director of the University of Idaho Center for Resilient Communities (CRC). Kliskey is also the Idaho EPSCoR Director (Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research). He is a social-ecological systems scientist and behavioral geographer with training, teaching and research experience in landscape ecology, behavioral and perceptual geography, geographic information systems (GIS), planning, policy analysis, and surveying. Andy has spent the last 20 years working in Maori communities in New Zealand, rural communities in western Canada, Inupiat communities in northwestern Alaska, Denai’na communities in southcentral Alaska, and rural communities in Idaho examining community and landscape resilience. His teaching and research is interdisciplinary in nature and directed at integrated methodologies in social-ecological systems that combines stakeholder-engagement, scenario analysis, and geospatial modeling. Kliskey is project lead on two NSF Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy, and Water Systems (INFEWS) awards.