ELIZA C NOBLES: PORTFOLIO
ELIZA C NOBLES
Researcher in Biodiversity Ethics
& Urban Environments
I am a doctoral candidate in the Financial Ethics Research Group at the University of Gothenburg. My research focuses on the ethics of biodiversity conservation, the valuation of nature, and environmental justice. I hold two master's degrees in City Planning (MCP) and Environmental Studies (MES) from the University of Pennsylvania. I hold a self-directed bachelor's degree in Urban Ecology (BS) with a minor in STS from Drexel University.
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Nobles, E. C. (2025). The ethical foundations of biodiversity metrics. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 72, 101503. doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2024.101503
Nobles, E. C., Moore, K. (2024). Barriers to Equitable Greening in Urban Environmental Policies. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 1–14. doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2024.2364624
Kenner, A., Nobles, E., & Stalcup, S. (2022). Cultivating a Politics of Sight for Vacant Land Use in Cities. Anthropological Quarterly, 95(2), 387-415. doi.org/10.1353/anq.2022.0020
Kenner, A., Flaherty, T., Skula, A., Mankikar, D., Zimmermann, I., Nobles, E., Menzo, J., Zerbo, R. (2020). The Climate-Ready Home: Teaching Climate Change in the Context of Asthma Management. Environmental Justice, 13(4), 101-108.
External Presentations and Lectures
“From Species to Relationships: The Ethical Assumptions of Ecology,” Invited seminar lecture, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. 2026
“Barriers to Equitable Urban Greening,” Invited talk at the Human–Nature Relationships workshop, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden. 2026
“The Ethical Assumptions of Ecology,” Invited talk at the ClimBEco Fall Meeting, Halmstad, Sweden. 2026
“What values do biodiversity metrics commit us to?” Invited keynote for the thematic session: "Diversifying biodiversity monitoring: reconciling ethics, innovation, and regulations to measure impacts of human activities on the natural world." Joint Conference of the Nordic Society Oikos (NSO) and the Ecological Society of Germany, Austria and Switzerland (GfÖ) Conference, Odense, Denmark. 2026
“The Limits of Relational Values in Biodiversity Ethics,” World Biodiversity Forum, Davos, Switzerland. 2026
“The Limits of Relational Values in Biodiversity Ethics,” Swedish Congress of Philosophy, Stockholm, Sweden. 2026
“Measuring What Matters,” MISTRA Finance to Revive Biodiversity (FinBio) workshop, Stockholm, Sweden. 2025
“The Ethical Foundations of Biodiversity Metrics,” Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Center, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2024
“Unearthed Value: Biodiversity Finance Beyond Human Instrumentation,” Braga Meetings on Ethics and Political Philosophy, Braga, Portugal. 2024
“Analyzing Soil Health and Wood Reuse at the University of Pennsylvania,” Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. 2020
“The West Philadelphia Pollinator Corridor: Creating Equal Habitat for Wildlife and for People?” Drexel Week of Undergraduate Excellence, Philadelphia, USA. 2019
“Life Through the Cracks: Governing Green in Late Industrial Philadelphia” (co-author), American Ethnological Society 2019: Ethnographic Futures, St. Louis, USA. 2019
“STS Across Borders” (co-author), Digital Archive for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies, Sydney, Australia. 2018
Design and Public Projects
Reports & Public Scholarship
Davis et al. (2023). Reconnecting communities: Vine Street corridor [studio report]. University of Pennsylvania. Read it here
Adams, W. et al. (2022). St. Croix Resilience Plan [studio report]. University of Pennsylvania. Read it here
Ge, L. et al. (2021). Sustainable Community Design in Grays Ferry. Panorama, 29(1).
Nobles, E. (2021). Perceptions of Environmental Gentrification in Philadelphia. Panorama, 29(1).
Nobles, E. (2021). Energy Justice for New York City. Kleinman Center for Energy Policy: News and Insights. Read it here
Nobles, E. (2020). Analyzing Leaf Litter and Soil Health at the University of Pennsylvania. University of Pennsylvania. Read it here
Nobles, E. (2020). Tree Re-use at the University of Pennsylvania: Establishing a Re-utilization Program. University of Pennsylvania. Read it here
Nobles, E. (2020). Leaf Litter—Should We Leave the Leaves? Seasons, 49(3), 13. Read it here