Publications

1. Riedman, E., L.A. Roman, Pearsall, M. Maslin, T. Ifill, D. Dentice. [forthcoming]. Why don’t people plant trees? Uncovering barriers to participation in urban tree planting initiatives? Urban Forestry and Urban Greening.
2. Fisher, H., D. Block, A. Bosse, T. Hawthorne, J.K. Jung, Pearsall, A. Rees, J. Shannon. [In Press]. Doing Community Geography. GeoJournal
   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-021-10457-8
3. Pearsall, H. S. Heck, M. Tablas, J. Pierce, C. Hinrichs, L.A. Roman, J. Shabazz. 2022. Building knowledge infrastructure for diverse stakeholders to scale up co-production equitably. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 54, 101156.
   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877343522000082
4. Shokry, G., I. Anguelovski, J. Connolly, A. Maroko, and Pearsall. 2022. They didn’t see it coming”: Green resilience planning and vulnerability to future climate gentrification. Housing Policy Debate. 32(1), 211-245.
   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10511482.2021.1944269
5. Karkun Sen, S., Pearsall, V.H. Gutierrez-Velez, M.R. Gilbert. 2021. Measuring equity through spatial variability of infrastructure systems across the urban-rural gradient. Land 10(11), 1202.
   https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/11/1202
6. Conway, T., C. Ordóñez, L.A. Roman, Yuan, H. Pearsall, M. Heckert, S. Dickinson, C. Rosan. 2021. Resident knowledge of and engagement with green infrastructure in Toronto and Philadelphia. Environmental Management (68),566–579
   https://rdcu.be/ctXG5
7. Shannon, J., Hankins, T. Shelton, A. Bosse, D. Scott, D. Block, H. Fischer, L. Eaves, J. Jung, J. Robinson, P. Solís, H. Pearsall, A. Rees, A. Nicolas. 2021. Community Geography: Toward a Disciplinary Framework. Progress in Human Geography 45(5), 1147-1168
   https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0309132520961468
8. Haddad, M., Z. Christman, Pearsall, & M. Sanchez. (2021). Using Google Street View to Examine Urban Context and Green Amenities in the Global South: the Chilean Experience. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 3, 68.
   https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2021.684231/abstract
9. Pearsall, H., V.H. Gutierrez-Velez, M.R. Gilbert, S. Hoque, H. Eakin, E. Brondizio, W. Solecki, L. Toran, J.E. Baka, J.E. Behm, C. Brelsford, C. Hinrichs, K. Henry, J. Mennis, L.A. Roman, C. Rosan, E.C. South, R.D. Valletta. (2021). Perspective: Advancing equitable health and well-being across urban-rural sustainable infrastructure systems. npj Urban Sustainability, 1, 26.
   https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00028-8
10. Roman, L, I.C. Catton, E.J. Greenfield, Pearsall, T.S. Eisenman, J.G. Henning. 2021 Linking urban tree cover change and local history in a post-industrial
    city. Land 10(4), 403.
    https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/10/4/403/htm
11. Masucci, M., Pearsall, and A. Wiig. 2020. The Smart City Conundrum for Social Justice: Youth Perspectives on Digital Technologies and Urban Transformations. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 110(2): 476-484.
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24694452.2019.1617101
12. Pearsall, H., Eller. 2020. Locating the green space paradox: A study of gentrification and public green space accessibility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Landscape and Urban Planning. Vol. 195. 103708. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016920461930194X

13. Anguelovski, I., J.J.T. Connolly, Pearsall, G. Shokry, M. Checker, J. Maantay, K. Gould, T. Lewis, A. Maroko, and J.T. Roberts. 2019. “Opinion: Why green “climate gentrification” threatens poor and vulnerable populations.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.116(52): 26139-26143.
    https://www.pnas.org/content/116/52/26139?etoc=
14. Anguelovski, I., J. Connolly, M. García Lamarca, H. Cole, and H. Pearsall. 2019. New scholarly pathways on green gentrification: What does the urban “green turn” mean and where is it going? Progress in Human Geography. 43(6): 1064-1086. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132518803799
15. Anguelovski, I., J. Connolly, L. Masip, and H. Pearsall. 2018. Assessing Green Gentrification in Historically Disenfranchised Neighborhoods: A longitudinal and spatial analysis of Barcelona. Urban Geography. 39(3): 458-491. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2017.1349987
16. Roman, L. H. Pearsall, T. Eisenman, T. Conway, R. Fahey, S. Landry, J. Vogt, N. van Doorn, J. M. Grove, D. Locke, A. Bardekjian, J. Battles, M. Cadenasso, C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch, M. L. Avolio, A. Berland, D. Jenerette, S. Mincey, D. Pataki, C. Staudhammer. 2018. Human and biophysical legacies shape contemporary urban forests: A literature synthesis. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 18: 157-168. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1618866717307665
17. Pearsall, H., S. Gachuz, M. Rodríguez Sosa, B. Schmook, H. van der Wal, A. Gracia. 2017. Urban community garden agrodiversity and cultural identity in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Geographical Review. 107(3): 476-495. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2016.12202.x/full
18. Pearsall, H. 2017. Staying cool in the compact city: Vacant land and urban heating in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Applied Geography. 79: 84-92. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014362281630827X
19. Pearsall, H. and I. Anguelovski. 2016. Contesting and resisting environmental gentrification: Responses to new paradoxes and challenges for urban environmental justice. Sociological Research Online. 21(3): 6. http://www.socresonline.org.uk/21/3/6.html
20. Rogan, J., T.M. Wright, J. Cardille, H. Pearsall, Y. Ogneva-Himmelberger, R. Riemann, K. Ritters and K. Partington. 2016. Forest fragmentation in Massachusetts, USA: A town-level assessment using Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis and Affinity Propagation. GIScience & Remote Sensing. 53(4): 506-519. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15481603.2016.1141448
21. Christman, Z., H. Pearsall, B. Schmook, S. Mardero. 2015. Diversification and adaptive capacity across scales in an emerging post-frontier landscape of the Usumacinta Valley, Chiapas, Mexico. International Forestry Review. 17(1): 1-13. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/cfa/ifr/2015/00000017/A00101s1/art00008?crawler=true
22. Pearsall, H., T. Hawthorne, D. Block, B. L. E. Walker, and M. Masucci. 2015. Exploring youth socio-spatial perceptions of higher education landscapes through sketch maps. Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 39(1): 111-130. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03098265.2014.1002079
23. Edmunds, K., H. Pearsall, and L. Porterfield. 2015. Narrowing pathways? Exploring the spatial dynamics of postsecondary STEM preparation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Urban Review. 47(1): 1-25. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11256-014-0285-6
24. Pearsall, H., S. Lucas, and J. Lenhardt. 2014. The contested nature of vacant land in Philadelphia and approaches for resolving competing objectives for redevelopment. Cities. 40: Part B. 163-174.
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275113000498
25. Pearsall, H. 2013. Superfund Me: A study of resistance to gentrification in New York City. Urban Studies 50 (11): 2293-2310. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0042098013478236
26. Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y., R. Rakshit, and H. Pearsall. 2013. Examining the impact of environmental factors on quality of life across Massachusetts. Professional Geographer 56 (2): 187-204.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00330124.2011.639631
27. Pearsall, H. and Z. Christman. 2012. Tree-lined lanes or vacant lots?  Evaluating non-stationarity between urban greenness and socio-economic conditions in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA at multiple scales. Applied Geography 35 (1-2): 257-264. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622812000793
28. Pearsall, H. 2012. Moving out or moving in? Resilience to Gentrification in New York City. Local Environment 17 (9) 1013-1026.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13549839.2012.714762
29. Pearsall, H. 2010. From brown to green? Assessing social vulnerability to environmental gentrification in New York City. Environment and Planning C 28 (5): 872-886.
    http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1068/c08126
30. Pearsall, H. and J. Pierce. 2010. Urban sustainability and environmental justice: Evaluating the linkages in public planning/policy discourse. Local Environment 15 (6):569-580.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13549839.2010.487528
31. Pearsall, H. 2009. Linking the stressors and stressing the linkages: Human-environment vulnerability and brownfield redevelopment in New York City. Environmental Hazards 8 (2): 117-132.
    http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3763/ehaz.2009.0012
32. Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y., H. Pearsall, and R. Rakshit. 2009. Concrete evidence & geographically weighted regression: A regional analysis of wealth and the land cover in Massachusetts. Applied Geography 24 (4): 478-487.
    http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0143622809000253

Books:

1. Rosan, C. and H. Pearsall. 2018. Growing a Sustainable City? The Question of Urban Agriculture. University of Toronto Press. https://utorontopress.com/us/growing-a-sustainable-city-2

Guest Editor for Special Issues:

1. Whither Rio +20?: Demanding a Politics and Practice of Socially Just Sustainability, special issue published in Local Environment Volume 17, Issue 9, 2012.
   Guest editors: Hamil Pearsall (Temple University), Joseph Pierce (Florida State University), Robert Krueger (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
2. Vacant Land: The New Urban Green, special issue published in Cities Volume 40 Part B, 2014
   Guest editors: Hamil Pearsall (Temple University) and Susan Lucas (Independent Scholar)

Editorials and Commentaries:

1. Pearsall, H. and J. Pierce. 2017. Commentary: A spoiled well (of data): addressing the procedural injustice of contemporary environmental justice research through collaborative qualitative data gathering. Local Environment 22(3): 388-392.
   http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13549839.2016.1196349?journalCode=cloe20
2. Pearsall, H., and S. Lucas. 2014. Editorial: Vacant land: The new urban green? Cities. 40: Part B: 121-123.
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264275113001558
3. Pearsall, H., J. Pierce, and R. Krueger. 2012. Editorial: Whither Rio +20?: Demanding a Politics and Practice of Socially Just Sustainability. Local Environment 17 (9) 935-941.
   http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13549839.2012.724899?journalCode=cloe20

Book Chapters

1. Pearsall, H. 2018. The contested future of Philadelphia’s Reading Viaduct: Blight, neighborhood amenity, or global attraction? In Just Green Enough: Urban Development and Environmental Gentrification.  Eds. Winifred Curran and Trina Hamilton. Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series. London, UK: Routledge. Pp. 197-208.
2. Pearsall, H. 2018. New Directions in Urban Environmental/Green Gentrification Research. In The Handbook of Gentrification Studies. Eds. Loretta Lees and Martin Phillips. Edward Elgar. Pp 329-345.