Faculty Biography:

Kim Knowles-Yánez, Associate Professor, Ph.D. 1997, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urban and Regional Planning. Dr. Knowles-Yánez joined the department in 1999. Her continuing research interests address land use planning, geographic information systems and children's environmental issues.  She teaches courses on world regional geography and interdisciplinary social sciences.  Her most recent publications include:

Knowles-Yánez, K. 2005. Approaches to Children’s Participation in Land Use Planning Processes, Journal of Planning Literature. 20:1, pp. 3-14. 

Gallavan, Nancy, and Knowles- Yánez, K. 2004. Co-mingling Geographic Content with Social Studies Methods, Journal of Geography, 103:2, pp. 64-75. 

Hostetler, Mark, and Knowles- Yánez, K. 2003. Land Use, Scale, and Bird Distribution in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, Landscape and Urban Planning, 62:2, pp. 55-68.   

McIntyre, N.E., and Knowles-Yánez, K., Hope, D. 2000. Urban Ecology as an Interdisciplinary Field: Differences in the Use of ‘Urban’ between the Social and Natural Sciences. Urban Ecosystems, 4:1, pp. 5-24.