Dr. Fushcia-Ann Hoover is an interdisciplinary researcher specializing in social-ecological urban systems. She employs a range of approaches and perspectives that include environmental justice, green infrastructure performance, and urban planning, evaluating the impacts of green infrastructure planning when framed by racism, justice, and place-making.
“Environmental justice enriches our work by empowering us to ask questions that go beyond our typical models or analyses.”
Dr. 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.
She is an assistant professor of environmental planning at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, and is a research affiliate with the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability’s Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-term Ecological Research site at Arizona State University. Dr. Hoover’s past positions include postdoctoral research fellowships at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), and the Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati.
