Ashwani Vasishth Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: ST 206
Phone: (818) 677-6137
Fax: (818) 677-5850
E-mail: vasishth@csun.edu
Website: http://www.csun.edu/~vasishth
Education
Ph.D. 2006. University of Southern California, Environmental Planning
M.S.. 1985. MIT, International Development
B.A. 1972, School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi.
Specialty Areas
Environmental Planning
Sustainable Development
Ecosystem Approach to Urban Ecology
Integrative Regional Planning
International Development
Courses
URBS 250 – Planning the Multiethnic City
URBS 300 – The Planning Idea
URBS 310 – Growth and Development of Cities
URBS 350 – Cities of the Third World.
URBS 400 – Planning for the Built and Natural Environment
Publications and Presentations
Articles and Chapters:
Vasishth, Ashwani. (Accepted for publication). "An Ecosystem Approach to the Ecological Resurrection of the Lower Mississippi Delta," in Land Use and Natural Resources: Context of Disaster Reduction and Sustainability, Anil K. Gupta & Amit Pal & Pallavee Tyagi (eds.).
Vasishth, Ashwani. (Under consideration). "A Scale-Hierarchic Ecosystem Approach to Integrative Ecological Planning," Progress In Planning.
Vasishth, Ashwani. (Under consideration). "Using the Levels-of-Organization Concept to Establish Context and Consequence in Planning Depictions: The Case of Goods Movement in Southern California," Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design.
Vasishth, Ashwani. 2006. Getting Humans Back Into Nature: A Scale-Hierarchic Ecosystem Approach To Integrative Ecological Planning. PhD Dissertation, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Vasishth, Ashwani & David C. Sloane. 2002. "Returning to Ecology: An Ecosystem Approach to Understanding the City," pp343-366 in Michael Dear (ed.), 2002, From Chicago to LA: Making Sense of Urban Theory, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Book Reviews:
Vasishth, Ashwani. 2008. "Scaling Urbanization in International Development: Review of Marcotullio & McGranahan (eds.), 2007, Scaling Urban Environmental Challenges: From Local to Global and Back; and Saunier & Meganck, 2007, Dictionary and Introduction to Global Environmental Governance." Journal of the American Planning Association, submitted for publication.
Vasishth, Ashwani. 2008. "Downslope Energetics: Review of Odum, 2007, Environment, Power, and Society for the Twenty-first Century: The Hierarchy of Energy," American Society for Environmental History, January 9, 2008.
Vasishth, Ashwani. 2006. "Perlman & Milder, 2005, Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens." Journal of the American Planning Association, v 72n1 (Winter 2006: 130-131.
Vasishth, Ashwani. 2005. "Foltz & Frodeman (eds.), 2004., Rethinking Nature: Essays in Environmental Philosophy." Environmental History, v10n3 (Jul 2005): 545-546.
Research:
- The use of a scale-hierarchic ecosystem ecology to develop an evolutionary ecosystem approach
to integrative regional environmental planning. - The application of an ecosystem approach to global sustainable development.
- The significance of boundaries and scales in generating a nested structures approach to in the
construction of categories in planning