Elisabeth Infield

Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania
Masters in Management and Finance, Northwestern University
B.A. in Business Administration, Cleveland State University

Elisabeth Infield is the Professor of Regional Planning.  She teaches and researches in land use planning, with a particular focus on planning for climate change adaptation and large-scale landscape planning.  Through studios and projects, she works with regional planning agencies and communities on master plans, special projects, and climate change planning.  She served as Department Chair from 2013-2017 and program director for the PhD in Regional Planning for over ten years prior to that.  Her most recent book is Planning for Climate Change:  A Reader in Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Design for Resilient Cities, co-edited with Yaser Abunnasr and Robert L. Ryan (2019, Routledge Press).   

Prior to coming UMass, Professor Infield taught at Iowa State University (1995 to 2001).  During her doctorate she worked in land use and energy consulting, and before her doctorate she worked in real estate consulting and development, providing financial and marketing analysis to major real estate developers across the United States.

The CV linked above provides more detail on awards, research funding, and publications; many of these can be downloaded or at least viewed at:  http://works.bepress.com/elisabeth_hamin/

Planning for Climate Change (undergraduate:  SustComm 297G; Masters and PhD level:  RegPlan 585)
Public Participation (RegPlan 630)
Research Issues in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning (RegPlan/LandArch 635)

UMass Professor of Regional Planning Elisabeth Infield publishes collaborative article on climate leadership

Elisabeth Infield, PhD, a UMass Professor of Regional Planning and Program Director of the Graduate Certificate in Climate Adaption Planning, just published a new collaborative article with several faculty from Cornell University, Texas A&M University, University of Washington, Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of California Los Angelos, California Polytechnic State University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, all of which are participating in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning’s Presidential Climate Action Task Force.