Publications


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Recent Publications, Journal Articles


Cooper, Andrew M., Didra Felix, Fatima Alcantara, Ilya Zaslavsky, Amy Work, Paul L. Watson, Keith Pezzoli, Qi Yu, Dan Zhu, Alexander J. Scavo, Yasman Zarabi, and Julian I. Schroeder. 2020. "Monitoring and mitigation of toxic heavy metals and arsenic accumulation in food crops: A case study of an urban community garden." Plant Direct 4 (1). https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.198. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pld3.198.


Keith Pezzoli, Paul Watson, Leslie Lewis, William T. Oswald, Mirle Rabinowitz Bussell, Raphael Lagoc, and Thi Vo. 2025. "Organizational Capabilities for Community Engagement, Ocean View Growing Grounds: Turning a Reclaimed Brownfield into A Successful Project in Community Gardening." In Principles of Community Engagement.


---. 2023a. "Forward." In The Routledge companion to ecological design thinking : healthful ecotopian visions for architecture and urbanism, edited by Mitra Kanaani. New York: Routledge.


Pezzoli, K., Paul Watson, Haley Kawar, and Angelina Lopez. 2024. "Bioregional Planning and Design: An Urban-Rural Approach to Climate Change Resilience and Adaptation." In Bending the Curve, edited by Fonna Forman. La Jolla, CA.

Pezzoli, Keith. 2023b. "Book review: Reimagining Sustainable Cities: Strategies for Designing Greener, Healthier, More Equitable Communities." Urban Studies 60 (6): 1184-1188. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231165236. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00420980231165236.


Pezzoli, Keith, and Feiyang Sun. 2025. "Region: A Multidimensional Concept in Theory and Practice." In Key Terms in Environmental Studies, edited by Joni Adamson and William A. Gleason. (accepted)


Pezzoli, Keith, and William Oswald. 2022. Designing Community Engaged Research Locally and Bioregionally: An Illustrated Guide. San Diego, CA: Bioregional Center for Sustainablity Science, Planning and Design.


Rabinowitz Bussell, Mirle, Leslie R.Lewis, Kelsey Lindner, Keith Pezzoli, William T. Oswald and Paul Watson. 2021. "A Bridge to Civic Empowerment:  A Rooted University Approach to creating equitable university –community partnerships and just power relations." In Learning from Arnstein's ladder : from citizen participation to public engagement, edited by Mickey Lauria and Carissa Slotterback, 271-288. New York, NY: Routledge.


Stadnick, N. A., Cain, K., Oswald, W., Watson, P., Ibarra, M., Lagoc, R., Pezzoli, K., Laurent, L.C., Tukey, R., & Rabin, B. (2022). Engaging underserved communities in COVID-19 health equity implementation research: An analysis of community engagement resource needs and costs. Frontiers in Health Services. Advanced online publication. doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2022.850427. 2022. "Engaging underserved communities in COVID-19 health equity implementation research: An analysis of community engagement resource needs and costs."


Stadnick, Nicole A., Kelli L. Cain, William Oswald, Paul Watson, Marina Ibarra, Raphael Lagoc, Lawrence O. Ayers, Linda Salgin, Shelia L. Broyles, Louise C. Laurent, Keith Pezzoli, and Borsika Rabin. 2022. "Co-creating a Theory of Change to advance COVID-19 testing and vaccine uptake in underserved communities." Health Services Research n/a (n/a). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13910. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1475-6773.13910.


Stadnick, Nicole A., Kelli L. Cain, Paul Watson, William Oswald, Marina Ibarra, Raphael Lagoc, Keith Pezzoli, Louise C. Laurent, Robert Tukey, and Adrienn Borsika Rabin. 2022. "Engaging Underserved Communities in COVID-19 Health Equity Implementation Research: An Analysis of Community Engagement Resource Needs and Costs." Frontiers in Health Services 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/frhs.2022.850427. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/health-services/articles/10.3389/frhs.2022.850427.


Tiliouine, Oliver, and Keith Pezzoli. 2023. "Climate-Friendly Green Infrastructure Planning and Design: The Promises, Vulnerabilities, and Remediation Design Practices for Environmental Contaminants." In The Routledge companion to ecological design thinking : healthful ecotopian visions for architecture and urbanism, edited by Mitra Kanaani, Ch. 4.6. New York: Routledge. 


Other Research Products


Aaron, Adam, Pezzoli, K., et. al. 2020. Academic Senate Climate Task Force Report, UC San Diego. 

Pezzoli, Keith. 2019. "Local Solutions." In Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions, Chap. 19., edited by V. Ramanathan, Adam Millard-Ball; Michelle Niemann and Scott Friese. Regents of the University of California. Open Access Ebook available at https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6kr8p5rq

Pezzoli, K. 2017. “The bioregionalization of survival: Sustainability science and rooted community.” In H. Rangan, M. K. NG, L. Porter & J. Chase (Eds.), Insurgencies and Revolutions: Reflections on John Friedmann’s Contributions to Planning Theory and Practice. NY, NY: Routledge. 

Pezzoli, Keith. 2016. “Bioregionalism.” In J. Adamson, W. A. Gleason & D. N. Pellow (Eds.), Keywords for environmental studies (pp. 25-28). New York: New York University Press. 

Pezzoli, Keith, & Leiter Robert, Allen. 2016. “Creating healthy and just bioregions.” Reviews on Environmental Health, 31(1), 103-109. doi: 10.1515/reveh-2015-0050 

Pezzoli, K., Justine Kozo, Karen Ferran, Wilma Wooten, Gudelia Rangel, Wael Al-Delaimy. 2015. “One Bioregion/ One Health: An Integrative Framework for Civically Engaged Research, Education and Governance in the US-Mexico Border.” Global Society. 28 (4): 419-440)." 

Pezzoli, K., Shannon Bradley, Laura Castenada, 2009. “Los Laureles Canyon: Research in Action”. A 28-minute UCSD-TV documentary about human settlement along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Viewed over 100,000 times; translated into Spanish; on NSF’s Frontiers in Research Channel http://www.ucsd.tv/loslaureles/  

Pezzoli, K. and Farokh Afshar (guest co-Editors). 2001. “Globalization and Planning. A Special Issue.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. 20 (3) Spring. 

Pezzoli, K. 2000. "Environmental Management Systems and Regulatory Innovation." California Western Law Review, 36 (2): 335-366. 

Pezzoli, K. 2000.  Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City.Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.