Geography
From the Arctic to Antarctica, and from Africa to the Americas, our faculty pursue research wherever there are issues to understand and problems to solve. Our program has seen five faculty elected to the National Academy of Sciences and four to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. We are the only program of Geography to carry this distinction.
Submissions from 2002
First world political ecology: Lessons from the Wise Use movement, James McCarthy
Networks, trust, and innovation in Tanzania's manufacturing sector, James T. Murphy
Statistical methods to partition effects of quantity and location during comparison of categorical maps at multiple resolutions, R. Gil Pontius
A comparison of methods for monitoring multitemporal vegetation change using thematic mapper imagery, John Rogan, Janet Franklin, and Dar A. Roberts
Determining land surface fractional cover from NDVI and rainfall time series for a savanna ecosystem, Todd M. Scanlon, John D. Albertson, Kelly K. Caylor, and Chris A. Williams
A high temporal resolution data set of ERS scatterometer radar backscatter for research in Arctic and sub-Arctic regions, Yongwei Sheng, Laurence C. Smith, Karen E. Frey, and Douglas E. Alsdorf
Submissions from 2001
Globalized Andes? Livelihoods, landscapes and development, A. Bebbington
Transnational livelihoods and landscapes: Political ecologies of globalization, A. J. Bebbington and S. P.J. Batterbury
Development alternatives: Practice, dilemmas and theory, A. J. Bebbington and D. H. Bebbington
Evaluating errors in a digital vegetation map with forest inventory data and accuracy assessment using fuzzy sets, J. Franklin, D. Beardsley, H. Gordon, D. K. Simons, and J. M. Rogan
Modeling tropical deforestation in the southern Yucatán peninsular region: Comparing survey and satellite data, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Sergio Cortina Villar, Peter Klepeis, Pedro Mac Ario Mendoza, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, B. L. Turner, and Colin Vance
Identifying conservation-priority areas in the tropics: A land-use change modeling approach, Shaily Menon, R. Gil Pontius, Joseph Rose, M. L. Khan, and Kamaljit S. Bawa
Making the energy transition in rural East Africa: Is leapfrogging an alternative?, James T. Murphy
Modeling the spatial pattern of land-use change with GEOMOD2: Application and validation for Costa Rica, R. Gil Pontius, Joseph D. Cornell, and Charles A.S. Hall
Land-cover change model validation by an ROC method for the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA, R. Gil Pontius and Laura C. Schneider
Mapping burn severity in southern California using spectral mixture analysis, John Rogan and Janet Franklin
Mapping wildfire burn severity in Southern California forests and shrublands using enhanced thematic mapper imagery, John Rogan and Janet Franklin
Toward operational monitoring of forest cover change in California using multitemporal remote sensing data, John Rogan, Janet Franklin, Doug Stow, Lisa Levien, and Chris Fischer
Mapping fire-induced vegetation depletion in the Peloncillo Mountains Arizona and New Mexico, J. Rogan and S. R. YooL
Deforestation in the southern Yucatán peninsular region: An integrative approach, B. L. Turner, Sergio Cortina Villar, David Foster, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Eric Keys, Peter Klepeis, Deborah Lawrence, Pedro Macario Mendoza, Steven Manson, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Audrey B. Plotkin, Diego Pérez Salicrup, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Basil Savitsky, Laura Schneider, Birgit Schmook, and Colin Vance
Subalpine forest damage from a severe windstorm in northern Colorado, Thomas T. Veblen, Dominik Kulakowski, Karen S. Eisenhart, and William L. Baker
Submissions from 2000
Networks, keiretsu, and locations of the Japanese electronics industry in Asia, Yuko Aoyama
Reencountering development: Livelihood transitions and place transformations in the Andes, A. Bebbington
Peasant federations and rural development policies in the andes, T. F. Carroll and A. J. Bebbington
“Placing” Interviews: Location and Scales of Power in Qualitative Research, Sarah A. Elwood and Deborah G. Martin
Constructing place: Cultural hegemonies and media images of an inner-city neighborhood, Deborah G. Martin
Quantification error versus location error in comparison of categorical maps, R. Gil Pontius
U.S.-Russia venture probes Siberian Peatlands' sensitivity to climate, Laurence C. Smith, Glen A. MacDonald, Karen E. Frey, Andrei Velichko, Konstantine Kremenetski, Olga Borisoua, Petr Dubinin, and Richard R. Forster
Submissions from 1999
Cities and telecommunications at the Millennium's end: Exclusion and empowerment for real and virtual communities, Yuko Aoyama
Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change: An introduction, S. P.J. Batterbury and A. J. Bebbington
Capitals and capabilities: A framework for analyzing peasant viability, rural livelihoods and poverty, Anthony Bebbington
Social capital, development, and access to resources in highland Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington and Thomas Perreault
Transcending the fixity of jurisdictional scale, Deborah G. Martin
Submissions from 1998
Networking and rural development through sustainable forest management: frameworks for pluralistic approaches, A. Bebbington and A. Kopp
Seeking Common Ground in Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington
Sustaining the Andes? Social capital and policies for rural regeneration in Bolivia, Anthony Bebbington
Demand-led and poverty-oriented ... or just subcontracted and efficient? Learning from (semi-) privatized technology transfer programmes in Chile, Anthony Bebbington and Octavio Sotomayor
Introduction (Special issue: Nature and capital in the American West), James McCarthy and Julie Guthman
Indigenous irrigation organizations and the formation of social capital in northern Highland Ecuador, T. A. Perreault, A. J. Bebbington, and T. F. Carroll
Submissions from 1997
New states, new NGOs? Crises and transitions among rural development NGOs in the Andean region, Anthony Bebbington
Social capital and rural intensification: Local organizations and islands of sustainability in the rural Andes, Anthony Bebbington
Reinventing NGOs and rethinking alternatives in the Andes, Anthony J. Bebbington
Submissions from 1996
Organizations and intensifications: Campesino federations, rural livelihoods and agricultural technology in the Andes and Amazonia, Anthony Bebbington
Technology and rural development strategies in a small farmer organization: Lessons from Bolivia for rural policy and practice, Anthony Bebbington, Javier Quisbert, and German Trujillo
Submissions from 1995
The direct funding of Southern NGOs by donors: New agendas and old problems, Anthony Bebbington and Roger Riddell
Interactions between NGOs, governments and international funding agencies in renewable natural resources management, J. Farrington and A. Bebbington
Modelling spatial and temporal patterns of tropical land use change, C. A.S. Hall, H. Tian, Y. Qi, G. Pontius, and J. Cornell
Submissions from 1994
A special section for correspondence and controversy - The environmental consequences of having a baby in the United States, Charles A.S. Hall, R. Gil Pontius, Lisa Coleman, and Jae Young Ko
Submissions from 1993
Modernization from below: an alternative indigenous development?, A. Bebbington
Fragile lands, fragile organizations: Indian organizations and the politics of sustainability in Ecuador, A. J. Bebbington, H. Carrasco, L. Peralbo, G. Ramon, J. Trujillo, and V. Torres
Sustainable Livelihood Development in the Andes: Local Institutions and Regional Resource Use in Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington
Governments, Ngos and Agricultural Development: Perspectives on Changing Inter-Organisational Relationships, Anthony Bebbington and John Farrington
Non-governmental organizations and the state in Latin America: rethinking roles in sustainable agricultural development, A. Bebbington, G. Thiele, P. Davies, M. Prager, and H. Riveros
Cultivating knowledge: genetic diversity, farmer experimentation and crop research, W. De Boef, K. Amanor, K. Wellard, and A. Bebbington
Reluctant partners? Non-governmental organizations, the state and sustainable agricultural development, J. Farrington, A. Bebbington, K. Wellard, and D. J. Lewis
Submissions from 1992
From protest to productivity: the evolution of indigenous federations in Ecuador, A. Bebbington, H. Carrasco, L. Peralbo, G. Ramon, V. H. Torres, and J. Trujillo
Grassroots perspectives on ‘indigenous’ agricultural development: Indian organisations and NGOs in the Central Andes of Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington
Submissions from 1991
Sharecropping agricultural development: the potential for GSO- government cooperation, A. Bebbington
Indigenous agricultural knowledge systems, human interests, and critical analysis: Reflections on farmer organization in Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington
Submissions from 1990
Indigenous technological knowledge and its role in establishing a theory on the technological development of Andean agriculture, A. Bebbington
Geography in the International Agricultural Research Centers: Theoretical and Practical Concerns, Anthony Bebbington and Judith Carney
Mixing it up: Variations in Andean farmers' rationales for intercropping of potatoes, R. E. Rhoades and A. J. Bebbington
