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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

• 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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