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 2019
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
The influence of ENSO, PDO and PNA on secular rainfall variations in Hawai‘i, Abby G. Frazier, Oliver Elison Timm, Thomas W. Giambelluca, and Henry F. Diaz
Trends in benthic macrofaunal populations, seasonal sea ice persistence, and bottom water temperatures in the bering strait region, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Karen E. Frey, Lee W. Cooper, and Monika Kędra
Quantifying CDOM and DOC in major Arctic rivers during ice-free conditions using Landsat TM and ETM+ data, C. G. Griffin, J. W. McClelland, K. E. Frey, G. Fiske, and R. M. Holmes
Quantifying shoreline change in Funafuti Atoll, Tuvalu using a time series of Quickbird, Worldview and Landsat data, Michino Hisabayashi, John Rogan, and Arthur Elmes
South–North and South–South production networks: diverging socio-spatial practices of Indian pharmaceutical firms, Rory Horner and James T. Murphy
Globalisation, uneven development and the North-South 'big switch', Rory Horner, Seth Schindler, Daniel Haberly, and Yuko Aoyama
Comparison of Intensity Analysis and the land use dynamic degrees to measure land changes outside versus inside the coastal zone of Longhai, China, Boqiang Huang, Jinliang Huang, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Zhenshun Tu
Disability studies and development geography: Empirical connections, theoretical resonances, and future directions, Catherine Jampel and Anthony Bebbington
The terrestrial carbon sink, T. F. Keenan and C. A. Williams
Towards physiologically meaningful water-use efficiency estimates from eddy covariance data, Jürgen Knauer, Sönke Zaehle, Belinda E. Medlyn, Markus Reichstein, Christopher A. Williams, Mirco Migliavacca, Martin G. De Kauwe, Christiane Werner, Claudia Keitel, Pasi Kolari, Jean Marc Limousin, and Maj Lena Linderson
NGOs, the state, and the development process: The dilemmas of institutionalization, David Lehmann and Anthony Bebbington
A multi-city comparison of front and backyard differences in plant species diversity and nitrogen cycling in residential landscapes, Dexter H. Locke, Meghan Avolio, Tara Trammel, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, J. Morgan Grove, John Rogan, Deborah G. Martin, Neil Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Peter M. Groffman, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Laura A. Ogden, Jarlath P.M. O'Neil-Dunne, Diane Pataki, William D. Pearse, Colin Polsky, and Megan M. Wheeler
Social norms, yard care, and the difference between Front and Back Yard Management: Examining the Landscape Mullets concept on urban residential lands, Dexter H. Locke, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, J. Morgan Grove, Deborah G. Martin, Eli Goldman, John Rogan, and Peter Groffman
Data Descriptor: Compilation of climate data from heterogeneous networks across the Hawaiian Islands, Ryan J. Longman, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Michael A. Nullet, Abby G. Frazier, Kevin Kodama, Shelley D. Crausbay, Paul D. Krushelnycky, Susan Cordell, Martyn P. Clark, Andy J. Newman, and Jeffrey R. Arnold
On the use of unmanned aerial systems for environmental monitoring, Salvatore Manfreda, Matthew F. McCabe, Pauline E. Miller, Richard Lucas, Victor Pajuelo Madrigal, Giorgos Mallinis, Eyal Ben Dor, David Helman, Lyndon Estes, Giuseppe Ciraolo, Jana Müllerová, Flavia Tauro, M. Isabel de Lima, João L.M.P. de Lima, Antonino Maltese, Felix Frances, Kelly Caylor, Marko Kohv, Matthew Perks, Guiomar Ruiz-Pérez, Zhongbo Su, Giulia Vico, and Brigitta Toth
Evaluating wildlife vulnerability to mercury pollution from artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Madre de Dios, Peru, K. E. Markham and Florencia Sangermano
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, Rinku 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
Upside-down fluxes Down Under: CO2 net sink in winter and net source in summer in a temperate evergreen broadleaf forest, Alexandre A. Renchon, Anne Griebel, Daniel Metzen, Christopher A. Williams, Belinda Medlyn, Remko A. Duursma, Craig V.M. Barton, Chelsea Maier, Matthias M. Boer, Peter Isaac, David Tissue, Victor Resco De DIos, and Elise Pendall
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 J. 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 Dominik 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
Ideas and perspectives: How coupled is the vegetation to the boundary layer?, Martin G. De Kauwe, Belinda E. Medlyn, Jürgen Knauer, and Christopher A. Williams
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
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project, Lawrence N. Hudson, Tim Newbold, Sara Contu, Samantha L.L. Hill, Igor Lysenko, Adriana De Palma, Helen R.P. Phillips, Tamera I. Alhusseini, Felicity E. Bedford, Dominic J. Bennett, Hollie Booth, Victoria J. Burton, Charlotte W.T. Chng, Argyrios Choimes, David L.P. Correia, Julie Day, Susy Echeverría-Londoño, Susan R. Emerson, Di Gao, Morgan Garon, Michelle L.K. Harrison, Daniel J. Ingram, Martin Jung, Victoria Kemp, Lucinda Kirkpatrick, Callum D. Martin, Yuan Pan, Gwilym D. Pask-Hale, Edwin L. Pynegar, Alexandra N. Robinson, Katia Sanchez-Ortiz, Rebecca A. Senior, and Christopher A. Williams