Jessica Quinton
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Mail code: 4020Campus: Phoenix
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Jessica Quinton is an Assistant Professor of Parks and Recreation. Before joining in 2025, she was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University. Quinton's research focuses on urban forests and green spaces, including their intersections with housing (i.e., green gentrification) and cemeteries as urban green spaces. Her research uses both qualitative and quantitative approaches.
Ph.D., Forestry, 2024, University of British Columbia
Dissertation: Assessing the link(s) between urban greening and gentrification in Canadian cities.
Master of Environmental Studies, 2019, Dalhousie University
Thesis: The living amongst the dead: The role of Halifax cemeteries as greenspace and their potential for expansion of the urban forest.
B.Sc., Biology, 2017, Dalhousie University
Quinton, J., Nesbitt, L., Connolly, J.J.T., & Wyly, E. (2025). The relative importance of greening in attracting gentrifiers to urban Vancouver and suburban Calgary neighbourhoods. Urban Studies, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251344904
Pike, K., Nesbitt, L., Sax, D.L., Quinton, J., Konijnendijk, C., Day, S. D., Conway, T., Grant, A. (2025). Pathways towards equity: Solutions-focused workshops with urban greening professionals. Landscape & Urban Planning, 263, 105437. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105437
Quinton, J., Nesbitt., L., & Bock J. (2025). Enhancing the structure of feedback forms increases trustworthiness and usefulness of peer feedback. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, OnlineFirst. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2025.2468848
Quinton, J. & Nesbitt, L. (2024). Different names for the same thing? A systematic review of green, environmental, eco-, ecological, climate, carbon, and resilience gentrification. Cities, 151, 105107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.105107
Quinton, J., Nesbitt, L., Sax, D., Harris, L. (2024). Green gentrification in practice: Insights and engagements from urban planners and practitioners. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(4), 1893-1917. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486241236281
Nesbitt, L., Sax, D. L., Quinton, J., Harris, L. M., Ordóñez-Barona, C., & Konijnendijk, C. (2023). Greening practitioners worry about green gentrification but many don’t address it in their work. Ecology & Society, 28(4), 29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-14579-280429
Quinton, J., Nesbitt, L., Connolly J.J.T., & Wyly, E. (2023). How common is greening in gentrifying areas? Urban Geography, 45(6), 1029-1051. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2258687
Sax, D., Nesbitt, L. & Quinton, J. (2022) Improvement, not displacement: A framework for green gentrification research and practice. Environmental Science & Policy, 137, 373-383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2022.09.013
Quinton, J., Nesbitt, L. & Czekajlo, A. (2022). Wealthy, educated, and… non-millennial? Variable patterns of distributional inequity in 31 Canadian cities. Landscape and Urban Planning, 227, 104535. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104535.
Quinton, J., Nesbitt, L., Sax, D. (2022). How well do we know green gentrification?: A systematic review of the methods. Progress in Human Geography, 46(4), 960-987. https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325221104478
Quinton, J. M., Östberg, J., Duinker, P. N. (2020). The importance of multi-scale temporal and spatial management for cemetery trees in Malmö, Sweden. Forests, 11(1), 78. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11010078
Quinton, J.M., Östberg, J., Duinker, P. N. (2020). The influence of cemetery governance on tree management in urban cemeteries: A case study of Halifax, Canada and Malmö, Sweden. Landscape & Urban Planning, 194, 103699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103699
Quinton, J. M., Duinker, P. N., Steenberg, J. W. N., Charles, J. D. (2020). The living among the dead: Cemeteries as urban forests, now and in the future. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 48, 126564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126564
Quinton, J. M., Duinker, P. N., Gallant, K., Steenberg, J. W. N., Charles, J. D. (2019). To tree or not to tree: User and management perspectives of cemetery trees. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 43, 126385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126385
Quinton, J. M., & Duinker, P. N. (2019). Beyond burial: Researching and managing cemeteries as urban green space, with examples from Canada. Environmental Reviews, 27(2), 252-262. DOI: 10.1139/er-2018-0060
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRD 402 | Assess&Eval Community Services |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| CRD 402 | Assess&Eval Community Services |
| CRD 402 | Assess&Eval Community Services |