Nels Nelson

Greater Boston Area United States

Urban Planner and Designer

Design

I'm a planner and designer working with urban health and resilience. I did a MSc in Urban Environmental Management at Wageningen University and Delft Technical University in the Netherlands. In Rotterdam, I consulted with sustainability and design firms on municipal and national projects. We applied industrial ecology and material flow analysis to real-world innovative urban metabolic systems. As a Fulbright fellow and consultant in Addis Ababa, I managed Ethiopia’s first large-scale UNFCCC carbon financing project registration. I accounted for greenhouse gas emissions, supervised technical system development, and prepared the project design document. Currently in Boston, I’m developing ...