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 2020
Governing intensification: the influence of state institutions on smallholder farming strategies in Calakmul, Mexico, Carlos Dobler-Morales, R. Roy Chowdhury, and B. Schmook
Mapping spatiotemporal variability of the urban heat island across an urban gradient in Worcester, Massachusetts using in-situ Thermochrons and Landsat-8 Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) data, A. Elmes, M. Healy, N. Geron, M. M. Andrews, J. Rogan, D. G. Martin, F. Sangermano, C. A. Williams, and B. Weil
Accounting for training data error in machine learning applied to earth observations, Arthur Elmes, Hamed Alemohammad, Ryan Avery, Kelly Caylor, J. Ronald Eastman, Lewis Fishgold, Mark A. Friedl, Meha Jain, Divyani Kohli, Juan Carlos Laso Bayas, Dalton Lunga, Jessica L. McCarty, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Andrew B. Reinmann, John Rogan, Lei Song, Hristiana Stoynova, Su Ye, Zhuang Fang Yi, and Lyndon Estes
How the nonhuman world influences homeowner yard management in the American residential macrosystem, Jesse M. Engebretson, Kristen C. Nelson, Laura A. Ogden, Kelli L. Larson, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, Dexter H. Locke, Diane E. Pataki, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Tara L.E. Trammell, and Peter M. Groffman
Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change, Adrien C. Finzi, Marc André Giasson, Audrey A. Barker Plotkin, John D. Aber, Emery R. Boose, Eric A. Davidson, Michael C. Dietze, Aaron M. Ellison, Serita D. Frey, Evan Goldman, Trevor F. Keenan, Jerry M. Melillo, J. William Munger, Knute J. Nadelhoffer, Scott V. Ollinger, David A. Orwig, Neil Pederson, Andrew D. Richardson, Kathleen Savage, Jianwu Tang, Jonathan R. Thompson, Christopher A. Williams, Steven C. Wofsy, Zaixing Zhou, and David R. Foster
Current changes in alpine ecosystems of Pacific Islands, Abby G. Frazier and Laura Brewington
Nano and micro unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): a new grand challenge for precision agriculture?, Jorge Gago, Joan Estrany, Lyndon Estes, Alisdair R. Fernie, Bartomeu Alorda, Yariv Brotman, Jaume Flexas, José Mariano Escalona, and Hipólito Medrano
Disturbance history modulates how litter and herbaceous cover influence conifer regeneration after fire, Nathan S. Gill, Daniel Jarvis, John Rogan, and Dominik Kulakowski
A green transition in South Africa? Sociotechnical experimentation in the Atlantis Special Economic Zone, Richard Grant, Pádraig Carmody, and James T. Murphy
Forests in the Anthropocene, Jaclyn Guz and Dominik Kulakowski
A Relational theory of risk: a case study of the Asian Longhorned Beetle infestation in Worcester, MA, Joey Hersh, Deborah G. Martin, Nicholas a.B. Geron, and John Rogan
Drought impacts on Australian vegetation during the millennium drought measured with multisource spaceborne remote sensing, Tong Jiao, Christopher A. Williams, John Rogan, Martin G. De Kauwe, and Belinda E. Medlyn
Ice algae resource utilization by benthic macro- And megafaunal communities on the Pacific Arctic shelf determined through lipid biomarker analysis, Chelsea Wegner Koch, Lee W. Cooper, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Karen Frey, and Thomas A. Brown
Seasonal and latitudinal variations in sea ice algae deposition in the Northern Bering and Chukchi seas determined by algal biomarkers, Chelsea Wegner Koch, Lee W. Cooper, Catherine Lalande, Thomas A. Brown, Karen E. Frey, and Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
The ecology of forest disturbances, Dominik Kulakowski, Brian Buma, Jaclyn Guz, and Katherine Hayes
Municipal regulation of residential landscapes across US cities: Patterns and implications for landscape sustainability, Kelli L. Larson, Riley Andrade, Kristen C. Nelson, Megan M. Wheeler, Jesse M. Engebreston, Sharon J. Hall, Meghan L. Avolio, Peter M. Groffman, Morgan Grove, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Susannah B. Lerman, Dexter H. Locke, Christopher Neill, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Tara L.E. Trammell
High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015, Xiaoping Liu, Yinghuai Huang, Xiaocong Xu, Xuecao Li, Xia Li, Philippe Ciais, Peirong Lin, Kai Gong, Alan D. Ziegler, Anping Chen, Peng Gong, Jun Chen, Guohua Hu, Yimin Chen, Shaojian Wang, Qiusheng Wu, Kangning Huang, Lyndon Estes, and Zhenzhong Zeng
Place as human-environment network: Tree planting and place-making in Massachusetts, USA, Deborah Martin
The Production of Community in Community Land Trusts, Deborah Martin, James DeFilippis, Olivia Williams, Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani, and Joseph Pierce
Working with Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in large-scale ecological assessments: Reviewing the experience of the IPBES Global Assessment, Pamela McElwee, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Yildiz Aumeeruddy-Thomas, Dániel Babai, Peter Bates, Kathleen Galvin, Maximilien Guèze, Jianguo Liu, Zsolt Molnár, Hien T. Ngo, Victoria Reyes-García, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Aibek Samakov, Uttam Babu Shrestha, Sandra Díaz, and Eduardo S. Brondízio
A blended census and multiscale remote sensing approach to probabilistic cropland mapping in complex landscapes, Issamaldin Mohammed, Michael Marshall, Kees de Bie, Lyndon Estes, and Andy Nelson
The commodity effects of decommodification: community land trusts and neighborhood property values, Katharine Nelson, James DeFilippis, Richard Kruger, Olivia Williams, Joseph Pierce, Deborah Martin, and Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani
COVID-19 and the case for global development, Johan A. Oldekop, Rory Horner, David Hulme, Roshan Adhikari, Bina Agarwal, Matthew Alford, Oliver Bakewell, Nicola Banks, Stephanie Barrientos, Tanja Bastia, Anthony J. Bebbington, Upasak Das, Ralitza Dimova, Richard Duncombe, Charis Enns, David Fielding, Christopher Foster, Timothy Foster, Tomas Frederiksen, Ping Gao, Tom Gillespie, Richard Heeks, Sam Hickey, Martin Hess, Nicholas Jepson, Ambarish Karamchedu, Uma Kothari, Aarti Krishnan, Tom Lavers, Aminu Mamman, Diana Mitlin, and Negar Monazam Tabrizi
Forest-linked livelihoods in a globalized world, Johan A. Oldekop, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Arun Agrawal, Anthony J. Bebbington, Patrick Meyfroidt, David N. Bengston, Allen Blackman, Stephen Brooks, Iain Davidson-Hunt, Penny Davies, Stanley C. Dinsi, Lorenza B. Fontana, Tatiana Gumucio, Chetan Kumar, Kundan Kumar, Dominic Moran, Tuyeni H. Mwampamba, Robert Nasi, Margareta Nilsson, Miguel A. Pinedo-Vasquez, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, William J. Sutherland, Cristy Watkins, and Sarah J. Wilson
Envisioning African futures: Perspectives from economic geography, Stefan Ouma, Alex Hughes, James T. Murphy, and Maggie Opondo
Intensity Analysis to communicate land change during three time intervals in two regions of Quanzhou City, China, Bin Quan, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Hui Song
Experimental approaches in development and poverty alleviation, Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, Anthony J. Bebbington, Catherine Boone, Jampel Dell'Angelo, Jean Philippe Platteau, and Arun Agrawal
A global view of aspen: Conservation science for widespread keystone systems, Paul C. Rogers, Bradley D. Pinno, Jan Šebesta, Benedicte R. Albrectsen, Guoqing Li, Natalya Ivanova, Antonín Kusbach, Timo Kuuluvainen, Simon M. Landhäusser, Hongyan Liu, Tor Myking, Pertti Pulkkinen, Zhongming Wen, and Dominik Kulakowski
Understanding social and environmental determinants of piecework labor in smallholder agricultural systems, Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, Kurt Waldman, Lyndon Estes, and Tom Evans
Land ownership impacts post-wildfire forest regeneration in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests, Connor W. Stephens, Brandon M. Collins, and John Rogan
Political ecologies of the post-mining landscape: Activism, resistance, and legal struggles over Kalimantan's coal mines, Tessa Toumbourou, Muhamad Muhdar, Tim Werner, and Anthony Bebbington
Framing the search for a theory of land use, B. L. Turner, Patrick Meyfroidt, Tobias Kuemmerle, Daniel Müller, and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Effects of category aggregation on land change simulation based on corine land cover data, Orsolya Gyöngyi Varga, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Zsuzsanna Szabó, and Szilárd Szabó
Enhanced intensity analysis to quantify categorical change and to identify suspicious land transitions: A case study of Nanchang, China, Zheyu Xie, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jinliang Huang, and Vilas Nitivattananon
Watershed restoration in the Florida Everglades: Agricultural water management and long-term trends in nutrient outcomes in the Everglades Agricultural Area, Landon Yoder, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Carson Hauck
Change points detected in decadal and seasonal trends of outlet glacier terminus positions across west greenland, Ashley V. York, Karen E. Frey, Sadegh Jamali, and Sarah B. Das
Changes at the edge: Trends in sea ice, ocean temperature and ocean color at the Northwest Atlantic/Southern Arctic interface, Ashley V. York, Karen E. Frey, and Luisa N.C. Young
A Multiyear gridded data ensemble of surface biogenic carbon fluxes for North America: Evaluation and analysis of results, Yu Zhou, Christopher A. Williams, Thomas Lauvaux, Kenneth J. Davis, Sha Feng, Ian Baker, Scott Denning, and Yaxing Wei
Submissions from 2019
NGOs as innovators in extractive industry governance. Insights from the EITI process in Colombia and Peru, Elisa Arond, Anthony J. Bebbington, and Juan Luis Dammert
Socio-environmental conflict, political settlements, and mining governance: a cross-border comparison, El Salvador and Honduras, Anthony Bebbington, Benjamin Fash, and John Rogan
Urban tree survival and stewardship in a state-managed planting initiative: A case study in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Benjamin S. Breger, Theodore S. Eisenman, Madison E. Kremer, Lara A. Roman, Deborah G. Martin, and John Rogan
Assessing regional drought impacts on vegetation and evapotranspiration: a case study in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Savannah S. Cooley, Christopher A. Williams, Joshua B. Fisher, Gregory H. Halverson, Johan Perret, and Christine M. Lee
Subglacial roughness of the Greenland Ice Sheet: Relationship with contemporary ice velocity and geology, Michael A. Cooper, Thomas M. Jordan, Dustin M. Schroeder, Martin J. Siegert, Christopher N. Williams, and Jonathan L. Bamber
Measuring and categorizing the water-related downstream risks associated with mineral extraction in Honduras: How severe, and how distributed?, Nicholas Cuba, Benjamin Fash, John Rogan, Anam Khan, José Luis Palma Herrera, Rafael Enrique Corrales Andino, Claudia Nataly Mondragón Rivera, Sara Martinez, and Scott Sellwood
Social sustainability: Politics and democracy in a time of crisis, Mark Davidson
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change, Sandra Díaz, Josef Settele, Eduardo S. Brondízio, Hien T. Ngo, John Agard, Almut Arneth, Patricia Balvanera, Kate A. Brauman, Stuart H.M. Butchart, Kai M.A. Chan, A. G. Lucas, Kazuhito Ichii, Jianguo Liu, Suneetha M. Subramanian, Guy F. Midgley, Patricia Miloslavich, Zsolt Molnár, David Obura, Alexander Pfaff, Stephen Polasky, Andy Purvis, Jona Razzaque, Belinda Reyers, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Yunne Jai Shin, Ingrid Visseren-Hamakers, Katherine J. Willis, and Cynthia N. Zayas
Remote sensing and geospatial technologies in support of a normative land system science: status and prospects, Jinwei Dong, Graciela Metternicht, Patrick Hostert, Rasmus Fensholt, and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Modeling the potential dispersal of Asian Longhorned Beetle using circuit theory, Arthur Elmes, John Rogan, Christopher Williams, Samuel Ratick, and David Nowak
Seasonal characteristics of model uncertainties from biogenic fluxes, transport, and large-scale boundary inflow in atmospheric CO2 simulations over North America, Sha Feng, Thomas Lauvaux, Kenneth J. Davis, Klaus Keller, Yu Zhou, Christopher Williams, Andrew E. Schuh, Junjie Liu, and Ian Baker
A high-frequency mobile phone data collection approach for research in social-environmental systems: Applications in climate variability and food security in sub-Saharan Africa, Stacey A. Giroux, Inna Kouper, Lyndon Estes, Jacob Schumacher, Kurt Waldman, Joel T. Greenshields, Stephanie L. Dickinson, Kelly K. Caylor, and Tom P. Evans
The Distributed Biological Observatory: A change detection array in the Pacific Arctic – An introduction, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Sue E. Moore, Lee W. Cooper, and Karen E. Frey
The Carbon balance of the Southeastern U.S. forest sector as driven by recent disturbance trends, Huan Gu, Christopher A. Williams, Natalia Hasler, and Yu Zhou
Contextualizing neighbourhood activism: Spatial solidarity in the city, Katherine B. Hankins and Deborah G. Martin
Integrated approaches to understanding and reducing drought impact on food security across scales, Xiaogang He, Lyndon Estes, Megan Konar, Di Tian, Daniela Anghileri, Kathy Baylis, Tom P. Evans, and Justin Sheffield
Probabilistic global maps of crop-specific areas from 1961 to 2014, Nicole D. Jackson, Megan Konar, Peter Debaere, and Lyndon Estes
Residential household yard care practices along urban-exurban gradients in six climatically-diverse U.S. Metropolitan areas, Dexter H. Locke, Colin Polsky, J. Morgan Grove, Peter M. Groffman, Kristen C. Nelson, Kelli L. Larson, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, James B. Heffernan, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Sarah E. Hobbie, Neil D. Bettez, Sharon J. Hall, Christopher Neill, Laura Ogden, and Jarlath O’Neil-Dunne
Meanings of limited equity homeownership in community land trusts., Deborah Martin, Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani, Olivia R. Williams, Richard Kruger, Joseph Pierce, and James DeFilippis
On the Transformative Potential of Community Land Trusts in the United States, Deborah Martin, Rich Kruger, Azadeh Hadizadeh Esfahani, Olivia R. Williams, Joseph Pierce, and James DeFilippis
Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Environment: Comparative Experiences, Insights, and Perspectives, James McCarthy
Visualizing new political ecologies: A critical data studies analysis of the World Bank's renewable energy resource mapping initiative, James McCarthy and Jim Thatcher
Unbundling property in Boston’s urban food commons, Oona Morrow and Deborah Martin
Global production network dis/articulations in Zanzibar: Practices and conjunctures of exclusionary development in the tourism industry, James T. Murphy
Generative urbanization in Africa? A sociotechnical systems view of Tanzania’s urban transition, James T. Murphy and Pádraig R. Carmody
Toward a normative land systems science, Jonas Nielsen, Ariane de Bremond, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Cecilie Friis, Graciela Metternicht, Patrick Meyfroidt, Darla Munroe, Unai Pascual, and Allison Thomson
Component intensities to relate difference by category with difference overall, Robert Gilmore Pontius
Editorial overview: Seeking solutions to land challenges of the Anthropocene: a land systems science perspective, R. Roy Chowdhury, Darla K. Munroe, and Ariane de Bremond
The parallel trajectories and increasing integration of landscape ecology and land system science, R. Roy Chowdhury and B. L. Turner
GlobeLand30 maps show four times larger gross than net land change from 2000 to 2010 in Asia, Hossein Shafizadeh-Moghadam, Masoud Minaei, Yongjiu Feng, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Snowmelt detection from QuikSCAT and ASCAT satellite radar scatterometer data across the Alaskan North Slope, Emily J. Sturdivant, Karen E. Frey, and Frank E. Urban
Climate and lawn management interact to control C4 plant distribution in residential lawns across seven U.S. cities, Tara L.E. Trammell, Diane E. Pataki, Christopher J. Still, James R. Ehleringer, Meghan L. Avolio, Neil Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Peter M. Groffman, Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, William D. Pearse, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Meredith Steele, and Megan M. Wheeler
Intensity Analysis and the Figure of Merit's components for assessment of a Cellular Automata – Markov simulation model, Orsolya Gyöngyi Varga, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Sudhir Kumar Singh, and Szilárd Szabó
Cognitive biases about climate variability in smallholder farming systems in Zambia, Kurt B. Waldman, Noemi Vergopolan, Shahzeen Z. Attari, Justin Sheffield, Lyndon Estes, Kelly K. Caylor, and Tom P. Evans
Assessing impacts of mining: Recent contributions from GIS and remote sensing, T. T. Werner, Anthony Bebbington, and Gillian Gregory
Spatiotemporal transition of institutional and socioeconomic impacts on vegetation productivity in Central Asia over last three decades, Yu Zhou, Li Zhang, Jingfeng Xiao, Christopher A. Williams, Irina Vitkovskaya, and Anming Bao
Submissions from 2018
Industrial network formation and regulation: The case of Japan's SME Policy, Yuko Aoyama
When both the state and market fail: inclusive development and social innovation in India, Yuko Aoyama and Balaji Parthasarathy
Smart Earth: A meta-review and implications for environmental governance, Karen Bakker and Max Ritts
Rural social movements: Conflicts over the countryside, Anthony Bebbington
Governing extractive industries: Politics, histories, ideas, Anthony Bebbington, Abdul Gafaru Abdulai, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Marja Hinfelaar, and Cynthia A. Sanborn
Mining, movements and sustainable development: Concepts for a framework, Anthony Bebbington and Denise Humphreys Bebbington
Resource extraction and infrastructure threaten forest cover and community rights, Anthony J. Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Laura Aileen Sauls, John Rogan, Sumali Agrawal, César Gamboa, Aviva Imhof, Kimberly Johnson, Herman Rosa, Antoinette Royo, Tessa Toumbourou, and Ricardo Verdum
Conflicts over extractivist policy and the forest frontier in Central America, Anthony J. Bebbington, Laura Aileen Sauls, Herman Rosa, Benjamin Fash, and Denise Bebbington
The infrastructure-extractives-resource governance complex in the Pan-Amazon: Roll backs and contestations, Denise Bebbington, Ricardo Verdum, Cesar Gamboa, and Anthony J. Bebbington
Fragmented authorities, institutional misalignments, and challenges to renewable energy transition: A case study of wind power curtailment in China, Yifan Cai and Yuko Aoyama
Assessing the interaction between mountain forests and snow avalanches at Nevados de Chillán, Chile and its implications for ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction, Alejandro Casteller, Thomas Häfelfinger, Erika Cortés Donoso, Karen Podvin, Dominik Kulakowski, and Peter Bebi
Local variability in the timing and intensity of tropical dry forest deciduousness is explained by differences in forest stand age, Nicholas Cuba, Deborah Lawrence, John Rogan, and Christopher A. Williams
Cross-scale correlation between in situ measurements of canopy gap fraction and landsat-derived vegetation indices with implications for monitoring the seasonal phenology in tropical forests using MODIS data, Nicholas Cuba, John Rogan, Deborah Lawrence, and Christopher A. Williams
Editorial: Private is profit and the public is dead?, Mark Davidson
Editorial: why not anti-urban?, Mark Davidson
New-build gentrification, Mark Davidson
Participatory budgeting, austerity and institutions of democracy: The case of Vallejo, California, Mark Davidson
Cities under austerity: restructuring the US metropolis, Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward
Conclusion, Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward
Introduction, Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward
Modelling the distribution of the vector Aedes aegypti in a central Argentine city, E. L. Estallo, F. Sangermano, M. Grech, F. Ludueña-Almeida, M. Frías-Cespedes, M. Ainete, W. Almirón, and T. Livdahl
A large-area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses, Lyndon Estes, Peng Chen, Stephanie Debats, Tom Evans, Stefanus Ferreira, Tobias Kuemmerle, Gabrielle Ragazzo, Justin Sheffield, Adam Wolf, Eric Wood, and Kelly Caylor
The spatial and temporal domains of modern ecology, Lyndon Estes, Paul R. Elsen, Timothy Treuer, Labeeb Ahmed, Kelly Caylor, Jason Chang, Jonathan J. Choi, and Erle C. Ellis
Simultaneous comparison and assessment of eight remotely sensed maps of Philippine forests, Ronald C. Estoque, Robert G. Pontius, Yuji Murayama, Hao Hou, Rajesh B. Thapa, Rodel D. Lasco, and Merlito A. Villar
Natural climate solutions for the United States, Joseph E. Fargione, Steven Bassett, Timothy Boucher, Scott D. Bridgham, Richard T. Conant, Susan C. Cook-Patton, Peter W. Ellis, Alessandra Falcucci, James W. Fourqurean, Trisha Gopalakrishna, Huan Gu, Benjamin Henderson, Matthew D. Hurteau, Kevin D. Kroeger, Timm Kroeger, Tyler J. Lark, Sara M. Leavitt, Guy Lomax, Robert I. McDonald, J. Patrick Megonigal, Daniela A. Miteva, Curtis J. Richardson, Jonathan Sanderman, David Shoch, Seth A. Spawn, Joseph W. Veldman, Christopher A. Williams, Peter B. Woodbury, Chris Zganjar, Marci Baranski, Patricia Elias, and Richard A. Houghton
Activating landscape ecology: a governance framework for design-in-science, Katherine Foo, James McCarthy, and Anthony Bebbington
