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.

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Submissions from 2002

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Networks, trust, and innovation in Tanzania's manufacturing sector, James T. Murphy

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Statistical methods to partition effects of quantity and location during comparison of categorical maps at multiple resolutions, R. Gil Pontius

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A comparison of methods for monitoring multitemporal vegetation change using thematic mapper imagery, John Rogan, Janet Franklin, and Dar A. Roberts

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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

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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

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Structural foundations for e-commerce adoption: A comparative organization of retail trade between japan and the united states, Yuko Aoyama

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Globalized Andes? Livelihoods, landscapes and development, A. Bebbington

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Transnational livelihoods and landscapes: Political ecologies of globalization, A. J. Bebbington and S. P.J. Batterbury

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Development alternatives: Practice, dilemmas and theory, A. J. Bebbington and D. H. Bebbington

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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

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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

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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

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Making the energy transition in rural East Africa: Is leapfrogging an alternative?, James T. Murphy

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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

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Land-cover change model validation by an ROC method for the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA, R. Gil Pontius and Laura C. Schneider

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Mapping burn severity in southern California using spectral mixture analysis, John Rogan and Janet Franklin

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Mapping wildfire burn severity in Southern California forests and shrublands using enhanced thematic mapper imagery, John Rogan and Janet Franklin

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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

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Mapping fire-induced vegetation depletion in the Peloncillo Mountains Arizona and New Mexico, J. Rogan and S. R. YooL

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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

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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

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Networks, keiretsu, and locations of the Japanese electronics industry in Asia, Yuko Aoyama

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Reencountering development: Livelihood transitions and place transformations in the Andes, A. Bebbington

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Peasant federations and rural development policies in the andes, T. F. Carroll and A. J. Bebbington

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“Placing” Interviews: Location and Scales of Power in Qualitative Research, Sarah A. Elwood and Deborah G. Martin

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Constructing place: Cultural hegemonies and media images of an inner-city neighborhood, Deborah G. Martin

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Quantification error versus location error in comparison of categorical maps, R. Gil Pontius

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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

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Cities and telecommunications at the Millennium's end: Exclusion and empowerment for real and virtual communities, Yuko Aoyama

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Policy Interventions for Industrial Network Formation: Contrasting Historical Underpinnings of the Small Business Policy in Japan and the United States, Yuko Aoyama

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Environmental histories, access to resources and landscape change: An introduction, S. P.J. Batterbury and A. J. Bebbington

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Capitals and capabilities: A framework for analyzing peasant viability, rural livelihoods and poverty, Anthony Bebbington

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Social capital, development, and access to resources in highland Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington and Thomas Perreault

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Transcending the fixity of jurisdictional scale, Deborah G. Martin

Submissions from 1998

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Networking and rural development through sustainable forest management: frameworks for pluralistic approaches, A. Bebbington and A. Kopp

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Seeking Common Ground in Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington

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Sustaining the Andes? Social capital and policies for rural regeneration in Bolivia, Anthony Bebbington

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Demand-led and poverty-oriented ... or just subcontracted and efficient? Learning from (semi-) privatized technology transfer programmes in Chile, Anthony Bebbington and Octavio Sotomayor

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Introduction (Special issue: Nature and capital in the American West), James McCarthy and Julie Guthman

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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

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New states, new NGOs? Crises and transitions among rural development NGOs in the Andean region, Anthony Bebbington

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Social capital and rural intensification: Local organizations and islands of sustainability in the rural Andes, Anthony Bebbington

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Reinventing NGOs and rethinking alternatives in the Andes, Anthony J. Bebbington

Submissions from 1996

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Local economic revitalization or national industrial growth? A comparative overview of small business policy in Japan and the US, Y. Aoyama

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Organizations and intensifications: Campesino federations, rural livelihoods and agricultural technology in the Andes and Amazonia, Anthony Bebbington

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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

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The direct funding of Southern NGOs by donors: New agendas and old problems, Anthony Bebbington and Roger Riddell

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Interactions between NGOs, governments and international funding agencies in renewable natural resources management, J. Farrington and A. Bebbington

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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

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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

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Modernization from below: an alternative indigenous development?, A. Bebbington

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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

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Sustainable Livelihood Development in the Andes: Local Institutions and Regional Resource Use in Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington

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Governments, Ngos and Agricultural Development: Perspectives on Changing Inter-Organisational Relationships, Anthony Bebbington and John Farrington

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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

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Cultivating knowledge: genetic diversity, farmer experimentation and crop research, W. De Boef, K. Amanor, K. Wellard, and A. Bebbington

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Reluctant partners? Non-governmental organizations, the state and sustainable agricultural development, J. Farrington, A. Bebbington, K. Wellard, and D. J. Lewis

Submissions from 1992

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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

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Grassroots perspectives on ‘indigenous’ agricultural development: Indian organisations and NGOs in the Central Andes of Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington

Submissions from 1991

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Sharecropping agricultural development: the potential for GSO- government cooperation, A. Bebbington

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Indigenous agricultural knowledge systems, human interests, and critical analysis: Reflections on farmer organization in Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington

Submissions from 1990

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Farmer knowledge, institutional resources and sustainable agricultural strategies: a case study from the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andes, A. Bebbington

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Indigenous technological knowledge and its role in establishing a theory on the technological development of Andean agriculture, A. Bebbington

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Geography in the International Agricultural Research Centers: Theoretical and Practical Concerns, Anthony Bebbington and Judith Carney

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Mixing it up: Variations in Andean farmers' rationales for intercropping of potatoes, R. E. Rhoades and A. J. Bebbington