Top honour in land systems science awarded to Environment researcher
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Congratulations to Dr. Dawn Parker on being selected as the winner of the 2024 Influential Female Researcher in Land System Science Award.
The award was established in 2022 to acknowledge female investigators for their excellence in the field of land-system science. Land is an international and cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal published by MDPI. Dr. Parker and her students’ contributed articles to LAND including An Overview of Fractal Geometry Applied to Urban Planning and Why did the Missing Middle Miss the Train?
A professor in the School of Planning and a core member of the Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, Dr. Parker’s research interests span residential land markets, modelling land-use/transportation/environment interactions and planning sustainable cities, applying complex systems theories and models. She is best known for leadership that catalyzed non-linear development of research using agent-based models of land-use and land-cover change. Her recent work develops urban-systems-based real-estate market models, where she has most recently led an international consortium of scholars to improve model standarization. She comments frequently in the media around housing policy and housing/environment interactions. In addition to this award, she is a recipient of the 2012 International Environmental Modelling and Software Biennial Medal, and is a Fellow of the Global Land Programme, also in recognition of her contributions to land-systems science.
