Publications

Melissa A. Barton, Jennifer Rae Pierce, Isaac Thomas Brown, Bart R. Johnson, Patrick F. Mooney, Puay Yok Tan, Sohyun Park, Kelsey Jessup, Marina Alberti, Ryan J. Harrigan, Michael Yun. 2022. Operationalizing urban biodiversity: A guide for integrated action. The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003033530-21

We propose that biodiversity should be a central concern of urban design and planning and provide tips and examples of how this can be accomplished. First, we provide a rationale for prioritizing biodiversity in decision-making by summarizing the benefits of urban biodiversity planning for the well-being of local residents, justice, and rates of biodiversity loss at local, regional, and global scales. We define urban biodivers...

Melissa A. Barton, Melissa A. Barton, Xiaoqin Zhou, Prithvi Simha, Luis Fernando Perez-Mercado, Melissa A. Barton, Yaping Lyu, Shaoming Guo, Xiaoqin Nie, Fangni Wu, Zifu Li. 2022. China should focus beyond access to toilets to tap into the full potential of its Rural Toilet Revolution. Resources, Conservation and Recycling. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.106100

In China, over 47 million toilets in rural areas have been upgraded since the nationwide sanitation program, popularly referred to as the “toilet revolution”, was launched in 2015. However, little is known about the perceptions of rural households regarding these new toilets or the fate of human excreta collected using them. To investigate the other side of the toilet revolution, we surveyed 980 rural households from 22 provin...