Expertise

Urban Sustainability, Environmental Justice, Urban Greening, GIS, Gentrification, Urban Public Spaces

Biography

I am an urban geographer with expertise in the environmental and social justice dimensions of urban processes and change. My research bridges several themes in human-environment and urban geography: the social dimension of sustainability; environmental justice and health; and community resilience to environmental and economic stressors. My recent work has focused on environmental gentrification, sustainable infrastructure, and the impact of environmental justice on urban sustainability planning. 

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Selected Publications

• Pearsall, Hamil, Elizabeth Riedman, Lara Roman, Amber Grant, Asha-Lé Davis, Dana Dentice, Tim Ifill, Mindy Maslin, Jehane Samaha. 2024. Barriers to resident participation in tree-planting initiatives across a metropolitan area. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. 95: 128326.
• Pearsall, Hamil, Joseph Pierce, Lindsay Campbell. 2024. Walking as sustainability science method: A wider epistemological gambit. Ambio. 53: 907-915.
• Mueller, Maya, Simi Hoque, Hamil Pearsall. 2024. Machine Learning to model gentrification: A synthesis of emerging forms. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. 111: 102119.
• 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.
• 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.
• Masucci, M., H. 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.
• Pearsall, H., J. 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.
• Anguelovski, I., J.J.T. Connolly, H. 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.
• 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.
• Pearsall, H. 2017. Staying cool in the compact city: Vacant land and urban heating in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Applied Geography. 79: 84-92.

Courses Taught

• ENST 3055: Environmental Hazards and Disasters
• ENST 3057: Sustainable Cities
• GUS/ENST 3000/5000: Urban Public Spaces