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 2018
Place-based or place-positioned?: Framing and making the spaces of urban politics, Deborah G. Martin
Middle-range theories of land system change, P. Meyfroidt, R. Roy Chowdhury, A. de Bremond, E. C. Ellis, K. H. Erb, T. Filatova, R. D. Garrett, J. M. Grove, A. Heinimann, T. Kuemmerle, C. A. Kull, E. F. Lambin, Y. Landon, Y. le Polain de Waroux, P. Messerli, D. Müller, J. Nielsen, G. D. Peterson, V. Rodriguez García, M. Schlüter, B. L. Turner, and P. H. Verburg
Pre-outbreak forest conditions mediate the effects of spruce beetle outbreaks on fuels in subalpine forests of Colorado, Nathan Mietkiewicz, Dominik Kulakowski, and Thomas T. Veblen
Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions, Camilo Mora, Daniele Spirandelli, Erik C. Franklin, John Lynham, Michael B. Kantar, Wendy Miles, Charlotte Z. Smith, Kelle Freel, Jade Moy, Leo V. Louis, Evan W. Barba, Keith Bettinger, Abby G. Frazier, John F. Colburn IX, Naota Hanasaki, Ed Hawkins, Yukiko Hirabayashi, Wolfgang Knorr, Christopher M. Little, Kerry Emanuel, Justin Sheffield, Jonathan A. Patz, and Cynthia L. Hunter
The relational turn in economic geography, James T. Murphy
The impact of China on African cities: Potentials for development, James T. Murphy, Pádraig Carmody, Richard Grant, and Francis Owusu
Unraveling Phytoplankton Community Dynamics in the Northern Chukchi Sea Under Sea-Ice-Covered and Sea-Ice-Free Conditions, A. R. Neeley, L. A. Harris, and K. E. Frey
Mining and climate change: A review and framework for analysis, Scott D. Odell, Anthony Bebbington, and Karen E. Frey
Homogenization of plant diversity, composition, and structure in North American urban yards:, William D. Pearse, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Sarah E. Hobbie, Meghan L. Avolio, Neil Bettez, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Lindsay E. Darling, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Jennifer Learned, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Diane E. Pataki, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Meredith K. Steele, and Tara L.E. Trammell
Criteria to confirm models that simulate deforestation and carbon disturbance, Robert Gilmore Pontius
Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns concerning land change in Changsha, China, Bin Quan, Hongge Ren, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Peilin Liu
Large-scale disturbance legacies and the climate sensitivity of primary Picea abies forests, Jonathan S. Schurman, Volodymyr Trotsiuk, Radek Bače, Vojtěch Čada, Shawn Fraver, Pavel Janda, Dominik Kulakowski, Jana Labusova, Martin Mikoláš, Thomas A. Nagel, Rupert Seidl, Michal Synek, Kristýna Svobodová, Oleh Chaskovskyy, Marius Teodosiu, and Miroslav Svoboda
(Un)frozen Spaces: Exploring the Role of Sea Ice in the Marine Socio-legal Spaces of the Bering and Beaufort Seas, Kristen L. Shake, Karen E. Frey, Deborah G. Martin, and Philip E. Steinberg
Policy effects of resistance against mega-projects in Latin America: An introduction, Eduardo Silva, Maria Akchurin, and Anthony Bebbington
Patterns and drivers of recent disturbances across the temperate forest biome, Andreas Sommerfeld, Cornelius Senf, Brian Buma, Anthony W. D’Amato, Tiphaine Després, Ignacio Díaz-Hormazábal, Shawn Fraver, Lee E. Frelich, Álvaro G. Gutiérrez, Sarah J. Hart, Brian J. Harvey, Hong S. He, Tomáš Hlásny, Andrés Holz, Thomas Kitzberger, Dominik Kulakowski, David Lindenmayer, Akira S. Mori, Jörg Müller, Juan Paritsis, George L.W. Perry, Scott L. Stephens, Miroslav Svoboda, Monica G. Turner, Thomas T. Veblen, and Rupert Seidl
Measurements and observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): Innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle, Flavia Tauro, John Selker, Nick Van De Giesen, Tommaso Abrate, Remko Uijlenhoet, Maurizio Porfiri, Salvatore Manfreda, Kelly Caylor, Tommaso Moramarco, Jerome Benveniste, Giuseppe Ciraolo, Lyndon Estes, Alessio Domeneghetti, Matthew T. Perks, Chiara Corbari, Ehsan Rabiei, Giovanni Ravazzani, Heye Bogena, Antoine Harfouche, Luca Broccai, Antonino Maltese, Andy Wickert, Angelica Tarpanelli, Stephen Good, Jose Manuel Lopez Alcala, Andrea Petroselli, Christophe Cudennec, Theresa Blume, Rolf Hut, and Salvatore Grimaldia
Place-framing against automobility in Montreal, Sophie L. Van Neste and Deborah G. Martin
Analysing transition pathways in developing cities: The case of Nairobi's splintered sanitation regime, Mara J. van Welie, Pauline C. Cherunya, Bernhard Truffer, and James T. Murphy
Capture and crush: Gas companies in the fracking dispute and deliberative depoliticization, C. E. Wilson, T. H. Morrison, J. A. Everingham, and J. McCarthy
A review of accuracy assessment for object-based image analysis: From per-pixel to per-polygon approaches, Su Ye, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Rahul Rakshit
Monitoring rubber plantation expansion using Landsat data time series and a Shapelet-based approach, Su Ye, John Rogan, and Florencia Sangermano
Tracing social capital: How stakeholder group interactions shape agricultural water quality restoration in the Florida Everglades, Landon Yoder and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Highland cropland expansion and forest loss in Southeast Asia in the twenty-first century, Zhenzhong Zeng, Lyndon Estes, Alan D. Ziegler, Anping Chen, Timothy Searchinger, Fangyuan Hua, Kaiyu Guan, Attachai Jintrawet, and Eric F. Wood
Comparing empirical and survey-based yield forecasts in a dryland agro-ecosystem, Yi Zhao, Noemi Vergopolan, Kathy Baylis, Jordan Blekking, Kelly Caylor, Tom Evans, Stacey Giroux, Justin Sheffield, and Lyndon Estes
Submissions from 2017
Land change dynamics: insights from Intensity Analysis applied to an African emerging city, Felicia O. Akinyemi, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Ademola K. Braimoh
Collaborative social innovation in the hybrid domain organization and rationality, Yuko Aoyama and Balaji Parthasarathy
Modernization from below: An alternative indigenous development?, Anthony Bebbington
Explaining diverse national responses to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative in the Andes: What sort of politics matters?, Anthony Bebbington, Elisa Arond, and Juan Luis Dammert
Changes of forest cover and disturbance regimes in the mountain forests of the Alps, P. Bebi, R. Seidl, R. Motta, M. Fuhr, D. Firm, F. Krumm, M. Conedera, C. Ginzler, T. Wohlgemuth, and D. Kulakowski
The Impact of China and South Africa in urban Africa, Pádraig Carmody and James T. Murphy
Anthropogenic drivers of mangrove loss: Geographic patterns and implications for livelihoods, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Emi Uchida, Luzhen Chen, Victor Osorio, and Landon Yoder
Presupposing democracy: Placing politics in the urban, Mark Davidson and Kurt Iveson
Effects of urban tree canopy loss on land surface temperature magnitude and timing, Arthur Elmes, John Rogan, Christopher Williams, Samuel Ratick, David Nowak, and Deborah Martin
Spatial trend analysis of Hawaiian rainfall from 1920 to 2012, Abby G. Frazier and Thomas W. Giambelluca
Is initial post-disturbance regeneration indicative of longer-term trajectories?, Nathan S. Gill, Daniel Jarvis, Thomas T. Veblen, Steward T.A. Pickett, and Dominik Kulakowski
Populus tremuloides seedling establishment: An underexplored vector for forest type conversion after multiple disturbances, Nathan S. Gill, Florencia Sangermano, Brian Buma, and Dominik Kulakowski
Ecological homogenization of residential macrosystems, Peter M. Groffman, Meghan Avolio, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Neil D. Bettez, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Susannah B. Lerman, Dexter H. Locke, James B. Heffernan, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, DIane E. Pataki, Colin Polsky, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Tara L.E. Trammell
Can deep groundwater influx be detected from the geochemistry of thermokarst lakes in arctic Alaska?, Kenneth M. Hinkel, Christopher D. Arp, Amy Townsend-Small, and Karen E. Frey
Beyond the subterranean energy regime? Fuel, land use and the production of space, Matthew T. Huber and James McCarthy
Mapping of the Asian longhorned beetle’s time to maturity and risk to invasion at contiguous United States extent, Alexander P. Kappel, R. Talbot Trotter, Melody A. Keena, John Rogan, and Christopher A. Williams
Biodiversity at risk under future cropland expansion and intensification, Laura Kehoe, Alfredo Romero-Muñoz, Ester Polaina, Lyndon Estes, Holger Kreft, and Tobias Kuemmerle
A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems, Dominik Kulakowski, Rupert Seidl, Jan Holeksa, Timo Kuuluvainen, Thomas A. Nagel, Momchil Panayotov, Miroslav Svoboda, Simon Thorn, Giorgio Vacchiano, Cathy Whitlock, Thomas Wohlgemuth, and Peter Bebi
The central role of disturbances in mountain forests of Europe, Dominik Kulakowski, Miroslav Svoboda, and Peter Bebi
Long-term change in sub-alpine forest cover, tree line and species composition in the Swiss Alps, Nathan Mietkiewicz, Dominik Kulakowski, John Rogan, and Peter Bebi
Fire data as proxy for anthropogenic landscape change in the Yucatán, Marco Millones, John Rogan, B. L. Turner, Benoit Parmentier, Robert Clary Harris, and Daniel A. Griffith
Transforming innovation and development practice in the global south?: Myths, realities and the prospects for base-of-the-pyramid approaches, James T. Murphy
Abiotic disturbances in Bulgarian mountain coniferous forests – An overview, Momchil Panayotov, Georgi Gogushev, Evgeni Tsavkov, Pepa Vasileva, Nickolay Tsvetanov, Dominik Kulakowski, and Peter Bebi
The law is not enough: Seeking the theoretical ‘frontier of urban justice’ via legal tools, Joseph Pierce and Deborah Martin
Rules to write mathematics to clarify metrics such as the land use dynamic degrees, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jinliang Huang, Wenle Jiang, Sam Khallaghi, Youtao Lin, Jiyuan Liu, Bin Quan, and Su Ye
Methods to summarize change among land categories across time intervals, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Roopa Krithivasan, Laura Sauls, Yan Yan, and Yujia Zhang
Amplifying environmental politics: ocean noise, Max Ritts
Environmentalists abide: Listening to whale music – 1965–1985, Max Ritts
Wind effects and regeneration in broadleaf and pine stands after hurricane Felix (2007) in Northern Nicaragua, E. Rossi, I. Granzow-de la Cerda, C. D. Oliver, and D. Kulakowski
Continental-scale homogenization of residential lawn plant communities, Megan M. Wheeler, Christopher Neill, Peter M. Groffman, Meghan Avolio, Neil Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Lindsay Darling, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Kristen C. Nelson, Laura A. Ogden, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane E. Pataki, Colin Polsky, Meredith Steele, and Tara L.E. Trammell
Steering social outcomes in America’s energy heartland: state and private meta-governance in the Marcellus Shale, Pennsylvania, C. E. Wilson, T. H. Morrison, J. A. Everingham, and J. McCarthy
Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades, Zhenzhong Zeng, Shilong Piao, Laurent Z.X. Li, Liming Zhou, Philippe Ciais, Tao Wang, Yue Li, Xu Lian, Eric F. Wood, Pierre Friedlingstein, Jiafu Mao, Lyndon D. Estes, Ranga B. Myneni, Shushi Peng, Xiaoying Shi, Sonia I. Seneviratne, and Yingping Wang
Submissions from 2016
Micropolitics in the Marcellus Shale, Eleanor Andrews and James McCarthy
Business in the public domain: The rise of social enterprises and implications for economic development planning, Yuko Aoyama
Reorienting the drivers of development: alternative paradigms, Yuko Aoyama
The Rise of the Hybrid Domain: Collaborative Governance for Social Innovation, Yuko Aoyama and Balaji Parthasarathy
The relative importance of tree and stand properties in susceptibility to spruce beetle outbreak in the mid-20th century, Felicia Bakaj, Nathan Mietkiewicz, Thomas T. Veblen, and Dominik Kulakowski
Conceptualising corporate community development, Glenn Banks, Regina Scheyvens, Sharon McLennan, and Anthony Bebbington
Environment and sustainable development scholarship: A celebration, David Benson, Harriet Bulkeley, David Demeritt, Andy Jordan, Jim Murphy, and Henrik Selin
Environment and sustainable development scholarship: A celebration, David Benson, Harriet Bulkeley, David Demeritt, Andy Jordan, Jim Murphy, and Henrik Selin
The way they blow the horn: Caribbean dollar cabs and subaltern mobilities, Asha Best
SimiVal, a multi-criteria map comparison tool for land-change model projections, Andrew V. Bradley, Isabel M.D. Rosa, Robert G. Pontius, Sadia E. Ahmed, Miguel B. Araújo, Daniel G. Brown, Amintas Brandão, Gilberto Câmara, Tiago G.S. Carnerio, Andrew J. Hartley, Matthew J. Smith, and Robert M. Ewers
Decadal Bering Sea seascape change: Consequences for Pacifi c walruses and indigenous hunters, G. Carleton Ray, Gary L. Hufford, James E. Overland, Igor Krupnik, Jerry McCormick-Ray, Karen Frey, and Elizabeth Labunski
Distinguishing land change from natural variability and uncertainty in central Mexico with MODIS EVI, TRMM precipitation, and MODIS LST data, Zachary Christman, John Rogan, J. Ronald Eastman, and B. L. Turner
Variations in the proportions of melted sea ice and runoff in surface waters of the Chukchi Sea: A retrospective analysis, 1990–2012, and analysis of the implications of melted sea ice in an under-ice bloom, Lee W. Cooper, Karen E. Frey, Christie Logvinova, Dana M. Biasatti, and Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
Planning for planet or city?, Mark Davidson
A generalized computer vision approach to mapping crop fields in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes, Stephanie R. Debats, Dee Luo, Lyndon D. Estes, Thomas J. Fuchs, and Kelly K. Caylor
Area development and policy: an agenda for the 21st century, Michael Dunford, Yuko Aoyama, Clélio Campolina Diniz, Amitabh Kundu, Leonid Limonov, George Lin, Weidong Liu, Sam Ock Park, and Ivan Turok
A platform for crowdsourcing the creation of representative, accurate landcover maps, L. D. Estes, D. McRitchie, J. Choi, S. Debats, T. Evans, W. Guthe, D. Luo, G. Ragazzo, R. Zempleni, and K. K. Caylor
Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier, L. D. Estes, T. Searchinger, M. Spiegel, D. Tian, S. Sichinga, M. Mwale, L. Kehoe, T. Kuemmerle, A. Berven, N. Chaney, J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, and K. K. Caylor
Comparison of geostatistical approaches to spatially interpolate month-year rainfall for the Hawaiian Islands, Abby G. Frazier, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Henry F. Diaz, and Heidi L. Needham
Optical properties and bioavailability of dissolved organic matter along a flow-path continuum from soil pore waters to the Kolyma River mainstem, East Siberia, Karen E. Frey, William V. Sobczak, Paul J. Mann, and Robert M. Holmes
Africanized honeybee habitat suitability: a comparison between models for southern Utah and southern California, Nathan S. Gill and Florencia Sangermano
Satisfaction, water and fertilizer use in the American residential macrosystem, Peter M. Groffman, J. Morgan Grove, Colin Polsky, Neil D. Bettez, Jennifer L. Morse, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Christopher Neill, Kristen Nelson, Laura Ogden, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane Pataki, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Dexter H. Locke
Convergence of microclimate in residential landscapes across diverse cities in the United States, Sharon J. Hall, J. Learned, B. Ruddell, K. L. Larson, J. Cavender-Bares, N. Bettez, P. M. Groffman, J. M. Grove, J. B. Heffernan, S. E. Hobbie, J. L. Morse, C. Neill, K. C. Nelson, J. P.M. O’Neil-Dunne, L. Ogden, D. E. Pataki, W. D. Pearse, C. Polsky, R. Roy Chowdhury, M. K. Steele, and T. L.E. Trammell
A ‘Bedford Falls’ kind of place: Neighbourhood branding and commercial revitalisation in processes of gentrification in Toronto, Ontario, Brenna Keatinge and Deborah G. Martin
Not only climate: Interacting drivers of treeline change in Europe, Dominik Kulakowski, Ignacio Barbeito, Alejandro Casteller, Ryszard J. Kaczka, and Peter Bebi
Fire severity controlled susceptibility to a 1940s spruce beetle outbreak in Colorado, USA, Dominik Kulakowski, Thomas T. Veblen, and Peter Beb
Ecosystem services in managing residential landscapes: priorities, value dimensions, and cross-regional patterns, K. L. Larson, K. C. Nelson, S. R. Samples, S. J. Hall, N. Bettez, J. Cavender-Bares, P. M. Groffman, M. Grove, J. B. Heffernan, S. E. Hobbie, J. Learned, J. L. Morse, C. Neill, L. A. Ogden, J. O’Neil-Dunne, D. E. Pataki, C. Polsky, R. Roy Chowdhury, M. Steele, and T. L.E. Trammell
What's scale got to do with it? Models for urban tree Canopy, Dexter H. Locke, Shawn M. Landry, J. Morgan Grove, and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
The potential role of sea ice melt in the distribution of chromophoric dissolved organic matter in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, Christie L. Logvinova, Karen E. Frey, and Lee W. Cooper
Place frames: Analysing practice and production of place in contentious politics, Deborah G. Martin
Relative importance of climate and mountain pine beetle outbreaks on the occurrence of large wildfires in the western USA, Nathan Mietkiewicz and Dominik Kulakowski
Using food flow data to assess sustainability: Land use displacement and regional decoupling in Quintana Roo, Mexico, Marco Millones, Benoit Parmentier, John Rogan, and Birgit Schmook
Welcome to economic geography volume 92, Jim Murphy
100 key research questions for the post-2015 development agenda, Johan A. Oldekop, Lorenza B. Fontana, Jean Grugel, Nicole Roughton, Emmanuel A. Adu-Ampong, Gemma K. Bird, Alex Dorgan, Marcia A. Vera Espinoza, Sara Wallin, Daniel Hammett, Esther Agbarakwe, Arun Agrawal, Nurgul Asylbekova, Clarissa Azkoul, Craig Bardsley, Anthony J. Bebbington, Savio Carvalho, Deepta Chopra, Stamatios Christopoulos, Emma Crewe, Marie Claude Dop, Joern Fischer, Daan Gerretsen, Jonathan Glennie, William Gois, Mtinkheni Gondwe, Lizz A. Harrison, Katja Hujo, Mark Keen, Roberto Laserna, Luca Miggiano, and Sarah Mistry
Surrogate species protection in Bolivia under climate and land cover change scenarios, Liudmila Osipova and Florencia Sangermano
Climate extremes during high competition contribute to mortality in unmanaged self-thinning Norway spruce stands in Bulgaria, Momchil Panayotov, Dominik Kulakowski, Nickolay Tsvetanov, Frank Krumm, Ignacio Berbeito, and Peter Bebi
Beyond ICTs and developmental domains: The historical specificity of ICTD, Balaji Parthasarathy and Yuko Aoyama
Evaluating conflict surrounding mineral extraction in Ghana: Assessing the spatial interactions of large and small-scale mining, Kayla Patel, John Rogan, Nicholas Cuba, and Anthony Bebbington
Rights in places: An analytical extension of the right to the city, Joseph Pierce, Olivia R. Williams, and Deborah G. Martin
Dissolved and particulate phosphorus distributions and elemental stoichiometry throughout the Chukchi Sea, Meryssa M. Piper, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson, Karen E. Frey, Matthew M. Mills, and Sharmila Pal
Collaborative research praxis to establish baseline ecoacoustics conditions in Gitga'at Territory, Max Ritts, Stuart H. Gage, Chris R. Picard, Ethan Dundas, and Steven Dundas
Forest fragmentation in Massachusetts, USA: a town-level assessment using Morphological spatial pattern analysis and affinity propagation, J. Rogan, T. M. Wright, J. Cardille, H. Pearsall, Y. Ogneva-Himmelberger, R. Riemann, K. Riitters, and K. Partington
Variation in summer nitrogen and phosphorus uptake among Siberian headwater streams, John D. Schade, Erin C. Seybold, Travis Drake, Seth Spawn, William V. Sobczak, Karen E. Frey, Robert M. Holmes, and Nikita Zimov
Modeling the risk of spread and establishment for Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in Massachusetts from 2008-2009, Andrew J. Shatz, John Rogan, Florencia Sangermano, Jennifer Miller, and Arthur Elmes