James Gordon Nelson Author

James Gordon Nelson is a Canadian geographer with a long interest in landscape history, landscape change, and planning. He has focused on the links between research and policy and has undertaken field studies in Canada, the United States, the U.K., Central Europe, Indonesia, and many other parts of the world. He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his work, and is currently a member of the International Commission on National Parks of the World Conservation Union. Nelson holds the position of distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo. Patrick L. Lawrence is an environmental geographer with interests in water resources, watershed planning, landscapes, land use change, natural area planning, the Great Lakes, and natural hazards. He has been involved in numerous research projects and studies, including community decision-making for watershed planning, parks, and protected areas, human responses to flooding and erosion hazards, bioregional planning efforts, the use of remote sensing and GIS technologies for land-use planning, and landscape studies. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toledo.