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Michael A. Urban
Associate Professor

Expertise: Fluvial geomorphology, anthropogenic landscape change, application of environmental ethics in environmental management
Office: 15 Stewart Hall
Phone: 573-884-2658

Education

• Ph.D. Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
• M.A.  Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma. 1994
• B.S. Department of Geography and Environmental Planning/ Department of History, Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois, 1991

Major Research Interests

• Human-induced landscape change
• Historical patterns of environmental perception
• Stream responses to disturbance
• Theory and philosophy in Geomorphology
• Applying environmental ethics to policy debates
• Environmental restoration
• Environmental degradation in Chinese rivers

2006-2007 Fulbright Scholar Award

• Environmental Management of Large River Basins: People's Republic of China. Northeastern University, Shenyang.  August 2006 - July 2007.

Selected Publications

Chin, Anne., Melinda D. Daniels, Michael A. Urban, Herve Piegay, Kenneth J. Gregory, Wendy Bigler, Kathryn Boyer, Anya Butt, Judith Grable, Stanley V. Gregory, Martin LaFrenz, Laura R. Laurencio, and Ellen Wohl. 2008. Perceptions of Wood in Rivers and Challenges for Stream Restoration in the United States. Environmental Management. 41 (6): 893-903.

Rice, Glenn, and Michael A. Urban. 2006. Where is River City, USA? Measuring community attachment to the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Journal of Cultural Geography 24 (1): 1-35.

Urban, Michael A., Melinda Daniels and Martin Doyle. 2006. Editor, Geomorphology Special Issue - Linking Geomorphology and Ecology 77 (3-4).

Urban, Michael A., and Melinda Daniels. 2006. Exploring the links between Geomorphology and Ecology. Geomorphology Special Issue - Linking Geomorphology and Ecology, ed. M.A. Urban, M. Daniels, and M. Doyle. 77 (3-4): 203-206.

Urban, Michael A. 2005. An uninhabited waste: The transformation of environmental imagery and the Grand Prairie through agricultural drainage in nineteenth century Champaign County, Illinois. Journal of Historical Geography. 31 (4): 647-665.

Urban, Michael A. 2005. Values and ethical beliefs regarding agricultural drainage in central Illinois. Society and Natural Resources. 18 (2): 1-17.

Urban, Michael A. and Bruce L. Rhoads. 2003. Catastrophic human-induced change in stream channel planform and geometry in an agricultural watershed, Illinois, USA. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 93 (4): 783-796.

Wilson, David, Michael A. Urban, Marta Graves, and Dawn Morrison. 2003. Beyond the economic: Farmer practices and identities in central Illinois, USA. The Great Lakes Geographer. 10 (1): 21-33.

Urban, Michael A. 2002. Conceptualizing anthropogenic change in fluvial systems: Drainage development on the Upper Embarras River, Illinois. The Professional Geographer. 54 (2): 204-217.

Urban, Michael A. and Bruce L. Rhoads. 2003. Conceptions of Nature: Implications for an Integrated Geography, in Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography: From What to Why?, ed. S.T. Trudgill and A. Roy. 211-231. London: Edward Arnold.

Rhoads, Bruce L., David Wilson, Michael A. Urban, and Edwin E. Herricks. 1999. Interaction between scientists and nonscientists in community-based watershed management: Emergence of the concept of stream naturalization. Environmental Management. 24: 297-308.

Rhoads, Bruce L., and Michael A. Urban. 1997. Human-induced geomorphic change in low-energy agricultural streams: An example from east-central Illinois. In Management of landscapes disturbed by channel incision: Proceedings of the Conference on Management of Landscapes Disturbed by Channel Incision, Oxford, MS, May 19-23, 1997, edited by Sam S. Y. Wang, Eddy J. Langendoen, and F. Douglas Shields Jr., 968-76. Oxford, MS: The University of Mississippi.

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