Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Environment & Climate
- GIS, Spatial Analysis & Modelling
- Physical Geography
- Policy & Planning
- Social & Political Geography
- Urban
Areas of Interest
Urban forests, urban nature, urban ecology, climate change, natural resources, environmental management, social-ecological systems
Biography
Camilo’s innovative research strives to understand the social-ecological dynamics of urban nature to help cities become more liveable and resilient, with a focus on urban forests and trees. His interdisciplinary research focuses on how people perceive and engage with urban forests; urban forests influences on people and wildlife; management and governance of urban forests; resilience to climate change in urban forests; engineered systems to support urban forests. He combines a wide range of natural- and social science methods. Camilo has held positions as lecturer at Dalhousie and Brock Universities, and as postdoctoral research fellow at Ryerson University, the University of Melbourne (Australia), and the University of Toronto (UofT). His collaborative research is based in Canada, Australia, Europe, and Latin America.
Recent Scientific Publications
Ordóñez, C., Kendal, D., Livesley, S.J., Conway, T.M. (2024) Measuring and modelling values, beliefs and attitudes about urban forests in Canada and Australia. Cities 155, 105406, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105406
Threlfall, C.G., Ordóñez, C., Livesley, S., Baumann, J., Callow, D., Davern, M., English, A., Fuller, R., Herzog, K., Hochuli, D., van der Ree, R., Kendal, D. (2024). Tree removals as socio-ecological experiments in cities. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 22(1), e2686, https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2686
Ordóñez, C., Threlfall, C., Kendal, D., Baumann, J., Sonkkila, C., Hochuli, D., van der Ree, R., Fuller, R., Davern, M., Herzog, K., English, A., Livesley, S. (2024) Quantifying the importance of urban trees to people and nature through tree removal experiment. People and Nature 5 (4), 1316-1335. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10509
Ordóñez, C., Kendal, D., Davern, M., Conway, T.M. (2024) Having a tree in front of one’s home is associated with greater subjective wellbeing in adult residents in Melbourne, Australia, and Toronto, Canada. Environmental Research 250(1), 118445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2024.118445
Ordóñez, C., St Denis, A., Jung, J., Bassett, C.G., Delagrange, S., Duinker, P., Conway, T.M. (2024) Changes in social-ecological objectives over time in Canadian urban forestry. Landscape and Urban Planning 251, 105154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2024.105154