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
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
Global climate forcing from albedo change caused by large-scale deforestation and reforestation: Quantification and attribution of geographic variation, Tong Jiao, Christopher A. Williams, Bardan Ghimire, Jeffrey Masek, Feng Gao, and Crystal Schaaf
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 J. 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 Pacific 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 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, Lyndon 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, Lyndon 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
High-resolution mapping of time since disturbance and forest carbon flux from remote sensing and inventory data to assess harvest, fire, and beetle disturbance legacies in the Pacific Northwest, Huan Gu, Christopher A. Williams, Bardan Ghimire, Feng Zhao, and Chengquan Huang
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
Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake, Trevor F. Keenan, I. Colin Prentice, Josep G. Canadell, Christopher A. Williams, Han Wang, Michael Raupach, and G. James Collatz
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
The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes, Kimberly A. Novick, Darren L. Ficklin, Paul C. Stoy, Christopher A. Williams, Gil Bohrer, A. Christopher Oishi, Shirley A. Papuga, Peter D. Blanken, Asko Noormets, Benjamin N. Sulman, Russell L. Scott, Lixin Wang, and Richard P. Phillips
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
Lawn enforcement: How municipal policies and neighborhood norms influence homeowner residential landscape management, John M. Sisser, Kristen C. Nelson, Kelli L. Larson, Laura A. Ogden, Colin Polsky, and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Mass balance estimates of carbon export in different water masses of the Chukchi Sea shelf, Aaron L. Strong, Kate E. Lowry, Zachary W. Brown, Matthew M. Mills, Gert L. van Dijken, Robert S. Pickart, Lee W. Cooper, Karen E. Frey, Ron Benner, Cédric G. Fichot, Jeremy T. Mathis, Nicholas R. Bates, and Kevin R. Arrigo
Evidence for deviations from uniform changes in a Portuguese watershed illustrated by CORINE maps: An Intensity Analysis approach, Zara Teixeira, João C. Marques, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Socio-Environmental Systems (SES) Research: What have we learned and how can we use this information in future research programs, B. L. Turner, Karen J. Esler, Peter Bridgewater, Joshua Tewksbury, J. Nadia Sitas, Brent Abrahams, F. Stuart Chapin, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Patrick Christie, Sandra Diaz, Penny Firth, Corrine N. Knapp, Jonathan Kramer, Rik Leemans, Margaret Palmer, Diana Pietri, Jeremy Pittman, José Sarukhán, Ross Shackleton, Reinmar Seidler, Brian van Wilgen, and Harold Mooney
Land system science and the social-environmental system: The case of Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (SYPR) project, B. L. Turner, J. Geoghegan, D. Lawrence, C. Radel, B. Schmook, C. Vance, S. Manson, E. Keys, D. Foster, P. Klepeis, H. Vester, J. Rogan, R. Roy Chowdhury, L. Schneider, R. Dickson, and Y. Ogenva-Himmelberger
Rights for resilience: Food sovereignty, power, and resilience in development practice, Marygold Walsh-Dilley, Wendy Wolford, and James McCarthy
Negotiable differences? Conflicts over mining and development in south east ecuador, Ximena S. Warnaars and Anthony Bebbington
Disturbance and the carbon balance of US forests: A quantitative review of impacts from harvests, fires, insects, and droughts, Christopher A. Williams, Huan Gu, Richard MacLean, Jeffrey G. Masek, and G. James Collatz
New insight into the correlations between land use and water quality in a coastal watershed of China: Does point source pollution weaken it?, Pei Zhou, Jinliang Huang, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Huasheng Hong
Submissions from 2015
Behavior-based aggregation of land categories for temporal change analysis, Safaa Zakaria Aldwaik, Jeffrey A. Onsted, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Sir Peter Hall: From Kondratieff waves to the soul of the delta, Yuko Aoyama
Preface: Climate extremes and biogeochemical cycles in the terrestrial biosphere: Impacts and feedbacks across scales, M. Bahn, M. Reichstein, K. Guan, J. M. Moreno, and Christopher A. Williams
At the boundaries of La Política: Political ecology, policy networks and moments of government, Anthony Bebbington
Political ecologies of resource extraction: Agendas pendientes, Anthony J. Bebbington
Mining, risk and climate resilience in the 'other' Pacific: Latin American lessons for the South Pacific, Anthony J. Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury, Nicholas Cuba, and John Rogan
Conceptualizing spatial diversity in Latin American rural development: structures, institutions, and coalitions, Julio A. Berdegué, Anthony J. Bebbington, and Javier Escobal
Explaining spatial diversity in Latin American rural development: structures, institutions, and coalitions, Julio A. Berdegué, Javier Escobal, and Anthony J. Bebbington
