BiographyVivek Shandas is an associate professor in the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning, a research associate in the Center for Urban Studies, and a fellow in the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University. He is the director of the newly established Sustaining Urban Places Research Lab, where his team focuses on examining feedbacks between environmental change and human behavior; developing community-based indicators for measuring urban ecosystems; and characterizing the relationship between urban development patterns and environmental quality.