Ken Tamminga

portrait Prof. Ken Tamminga

Department of Landscape Architecture
The Pennsylvania State University
121 Stuckeman Family Building
University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802-1912
United States of America


Phone: +1 (814) 863-2377
Fax: +1 (814) 863-8137
E-mail: krt1(at)psu.edu
Personal URL: link


Additional functions:
The Mountain Project, Dolce Lab
Penn State University

NSF ALCCAR project, AESEDA, Penn State University


Key Publications of Ken Tamminga (up to ten) :
Tschakert, P., K. Dietrich, K. Tamminga, E. Prins, J. Shaffer, E. Liwenga, and A. Asiedu. 2014. Learning and envisioning under climatic uncertainty: An African experience. Environment and Planning A 46(5): 1049-1067. (ALCCAR project, Ghana and Tanzania)

Honwad, S., O. Sypher, C. Hoadley, A. Lewis, K. Tamminga, and R. Honey. 2014. Education for sustainability and resilience in a changing climate. Learning and Becoming in Practice: The International Conference of the Learning Sciences, vol. 3: 1466-1473. (The Mountain Project and other complementary projects.)

Schlee, M., K. Tamminga, and V. Tangari. 2012. A method for gauging landscape change as a prelude to urban watershed regeneration: The case of the Carioca River, Rio de Janeiro. Sustainability 4(9): 2054-2098.

Das, P. and K. Tamminga. 2012. The Ganges and the GAP: An assessment of efforts to clean a sacred river. Sustainability 4(8): 1647-1668.

Tamminga, K. and D. De Ciantis. 2012. Resilience, conviviality, and the engaged studio. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement 16(3): 115-151.

Tamminga, K., R. Stehouwer, and P. Drohan. 2010. Exploring the excited skin: Gigapixel imaging of soil profiles and landscape contexts. Proceedings of the Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University, vol. 1: 7 pp.

Hoadley, C., S. Honwad, and K. Tamminga. 2010. Technology- supported cross-cultural collaborative learning in the developing world. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intercultural Collaboration. Copenhagen, Denmark: ACM Digital Library, 3: 131-140.

Tamminga, K. 2008. Restoring biodiversity in the urbanizing region. Reader in Canadian Planning: Linking Theory and Practice. J. Grant, editor, Toronto: Thomson Nelson, pp. 243-251.

Honwad, S., C. Hoadley and K. Tamminga. 2006. Building a learning community for Himalayan sustainability. Global Change in Mountain Regions. M. Price, ed., Sapiens Publishing, pp. 326-328.

Tamminga, K., L. Mozingo, D. Erickson, and J. Harrington. 2002. Interweaving ecology in planning and design curricula. in Ecology and Design: Frameworks for Learning. B. Johnson and K. Hill, editors, Washington, DC: Island Press, pp. 357-395.




Specialties of Ken Tamminga:
Ecological restoration and planning; adaptive learning with climate change; regeneration of degraded ecosystems; community participation and engagement

Last update: 11/11/19
Source of data: ProClim- Research InfoSystem (1993-2024)
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