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 2016
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
Implications of using 2 m versus 30 m spatial resolution data for suburban residential land change modeling, S. D. Blanchard, R. G. Pontius, and K. M. Urban
Editors' introduction, Gavin Bridge, James McCarthy, and Tom Perreault
Estimating upper soil horizon carbon stocks in a permafrost watershed of Northeast Siberia by integrating field measurements with Landsat-5 TM and WorldView-2 satellite data, Dylan E. Broderick, Karen E. Frey, John Rogan, Heather D. Alexander, and Nikita S. Zimov
Comparison of simulation models in terms of quantity and allocation of land change, María Teresa Camacho Olmedo, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Martin Paegelow, and Jean François Mas
Training interdisciplinary “wicked problem” solvers: applying lessons from HERO in community-based research experiences for undergraduates, Alida Cantor, Verna DeLauer, Deborah Martin, and John Rogan
Quantifying uncertainty and confusion in land change analyses: A case study from central Mexico using MODIS data, Zachary Christman, John Rogan, J. Ronald Eastman, and B. L. Turner
Reviewing rescaling: Strengthening the case for environmental considerations, Alice Cohen and James McCarthy
Mapping land development through periods of economic bubble and bust in Massachusetts using Landsat time series data, Sean Cunningham, John Rogan, Deborah Martin, Verna DeLauer, Stephen McCauley, and Andrew Shatz
Comment on Loris Caruso/2: Inaudible politics and the crisis of democracy, Mark Davidson
Beyond city limits: A conceptual and political defense of ‘the city’ as an anchoring concept for critical urban theory, Mark Davidson and Kurt Iveson
Recovering the politics of the city: From the ‘post-political city’ to a ‘method of equality’ for critical urban geography, Mark Davidson and Kurt Iveson
Grassroots austerity: municipal bankruptcy from below in Vallejo, California, Mark Davidson and William Kutz
Same, but different: Within London’s ‘static’ class structure and the missing antagonism, Mark Davidson and Elvin Wyly
Influence of classification errors on Intensity Analysis of land changes in southern Nigeria, Glory O. Enaruvbe and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Sea-air CO2 exchange in the western Arctic coastal ocean, Wiley Evans, Jeremy T. Mathis, Jessica N. Cross, Nicholas R. Bates, Karen E. Frey, Brent G.T. Else, Tim N. Papkyriakou, Mike D. Degrandpre, Fakhrul Islam, Wei Jun Cai, Baoshan Chen, Michiyo Yamamoto-Kawai, Eddy Carmack, William J. Williams, and Taro Takahashi
Social well-being and environmental governance in urban neighbourhoods in Boston, MA, Katherine Foo, Deborah Martin, Colin Polsky, Clara Wool, and Martha Ziemer
Divergent patterns of recent sea ice cover across the Bering, Chukchi, and Beaufort seas of the Pacific Arctic Region, Karen E. Frey, G. W.K. Moore, Lee W. Cooper, and Jacqueline M. Grebmeier
New perspectives on an iconic landscape from comparative international long-term ecological research, Evelyn E. Gaiser, Elizabeth P. Anderson, Edward Castañeda-Moya, Ligia Collado-Vides, James W.F. Ourqurean, Michael R. Heithaus, Rudolf Jaffé, David Lagomasino, Nicholas J. Oehm, Rene M. Price, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Tiffany G. Troxler
Land change analysis from 2000 to 2004 in peatland of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia using GIS and an extended transition matrix, Yan Gao, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Nicholas M. Giner, Takashi S. Kohyama, Mitsuru Osaki, and Kazuyo Hirose
Large carbon release legacy from bark beetle outbreaks across Western United States, Bardan Ghimire, Christopher A. Williams, G. James Collatz, Melanie Vanderhoof, John Rogan, Dominik Kulakowski, and Jeffrey G. Masek
Ecosystem characteristics and processes facilitating persistent macrobenthic biomass hotspots and associated benthivory in the Pacific Arctic, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Bodil A. Bluhm, Lee W. Cooper, Seth L. Danielson, Kevin R. Arrigo, Arny L. Blanchard, Janet T. Clarke, Robert H. Day, Karen E. Frey, Rolf R. Gradinger, Monika Kedra, Brenda Konar, Kathy J. Kuletz, Sang H. Lee, James R. Lovvorn, Brenda L. Norcross, and Stephen R. Okkonen
Negative feedbacks on bark beetle outbreaks: Widespread and severe spruce beetle infestation restricts subsequent infestation, Sarah J. Hart, Thomas T. Veblen, Nathan Mietkiewicz, and Dominik Kulakowski
Gas and development: Rural territorial dynamics in Tarija, Bolivia, Leonith Hinojosa, Anthony J. Bebbington, Guido Cortez, Juan Pablo Chumacero, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, and Karl Hennermann
Geographically weighted regression to measure spatial variations in correlations between water pollution versus land use in a coastal watershed, Jinliang Huang, Yaling Huang, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Zhenyu Zhang
Long-term history and synchrony of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in lodgepole pine forests, Daniel S. Jarvis and Dominik Kulakowski
Bark Beetles and High-Severity Fires in Rocky Mountain Subalpine Forests, Dominik Kulakowski and Thomas T. Veblen
Assessing the potential impacts of declining Arctic sea ice cover on the photochemical degradation of dissolved organic matter in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, Christie L. Logvinova, Karen E. Frey, Paul J. Mann, Aron Stubbins, and Robert G.M. Spencer
Smallholders adaptations to droughts and climatic variability in southeastern Mexico, S. Mardero, B. Schmook, C. Radel, Z. Christman, D. Lawrence, M. Millones, E. Nickl, J. Rogan, and L. Schneider
A comparison of the spatial variability of denitrification and related soil properties in restored and natural depression wetlands in Indiana, USA, John M. Marton, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Christopher B. Craft
A socioecological fix to capitalist crisis and climate change? The possibilities and limits of renewable energy, James McCarthy
Editors' conclusion, James McCarthy, Tom Perreault, and Gavin Bridge
Modeling the sociospatial constraints on Land-Use change: The case of periurban sprawl in the greater boston region, Stephen M. McCauley, John Rogan, James T. Murphy, Billie L. Turner, and Samuel Ratick
Human geography and socio-technical transition studies: Promising intersections, James T. Murphy
Africa's information revolution: Technical regimes and production networks in South Africa and Tanzania, James T. Murphy and Pádraig Carmody
Extraterritorial investments, environmental crisis, and collective action in Latin America, Pablo Ospina Peralta, Anthony J. Bebbington, Patric Hollenstein, Ilana Nussbaum, and Eduardo Ramírez
The disturbance regime of Norway spruce forests in Bulgaria, Momchil Panayotov, Peter Bebi, Nickolay Tsvetanov, Neno Alexandrov, Lucinda Laranjeiro, and Dominik Kulakowski
Changing temperature and precipitation extremes in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region: An analysis of CMIP3 and CMIP5 simulations and projections, Prajjwal K. Panday, Jeanne Thibeault, and Karen E. Frey
The Routledge handbook of political ecology, Tom Perreault, Gavin Bridge, and James McCarthy
Placing Lefebvre, Joseph Pierce and Deborah G. Martin
Physical and morphological properties of sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas during the 2010 and 2011 NASA ICESCAPE missions, Chris Polashenski, Donald K. Perovich, Karen E. Frey, Lee W. Cooper, Christie I. Logvinova, Ruzica Dadic, Bonnie Light, Holly P. Kelly, Luke D. Trusel, and Melinda Webster
Spatial decision support systems, Robert G. Pontius and Kangping Si
Land cover change detection, John Rogan and Nathan Mietkiewicz
Forest baseline and deforestation map of the Dominican Republic through the analysis of time series of MODIS data, Florencia Sangermano, Leslie Bol, Pedro Galvis, Raymond E. Gullison, Jared Hardner, and Gail S. Ross
Habitat suitability and protection status of four species of amphibians in the Dominican Republic, Florencia Sangermano, Leslie Bol, Pedro Galvis, Raymond E. Gullison, Jared Hardner, and Gail S. Ross
High carbon and biodiversity costs from converting Africa's wet savannahs to cropland, Timothy D. Searchinger, Lyndon Estes, Philip K. Thornton, Tim Beringer, An Notenbaert, Daniel Rubenstein, Ralph Heimlich, Rachel Licker, and Mario Herrero
Historic forest change: New approaches to land use land cover, Charlotte E. Stancioff, Robert G. Pontius, Scott Madry, and Elizabeth Jones
Mapping cropland in smallholder-dominated savannas: Integrating remote sensing techniques and probabilistic modeling, Sean Sweeney, Tatyana Ruseva, Lyndon Estes, and Tom Evans
Interactions among spruce beetle disturbance, climate change and forest dynamics captured by a forest landscape model, Christian Temperli, Thomas T. Veblen, Sarah J. Hart, Dominik Kulakowski, and Alan J. Tepley
The geography of sustainability transitions: Contours of an emerging theme, Bernhard Truffer, James T. Murphy, and Rob Raven
Divergent trajectories of Antarctic surface melt under two twenty-first-century climate scenarios, Luke D. Trusel, Karen E. Frey, Sarah B. Das, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Peter Kuipers Munneke, Erik Van Meijgaard, and Michiel R. Van Den Broeke
Persistence of MODIS evapotranspiration impacts from mountain pine beetle outbreaks in lodgepole pine forests, south-central rocky mountains, Melanie K. Vanderhoof and Christopher A. Williams
Rainfall interception and the coupled surface water and energy balance, Albert I.J.M. Van Dijk, John H. Gash, Eva Van Gorsel, Peter D. Blanken, Alessandro Cescatti, Carmen Emmel, Bert Gielen, Ian N. Harman, Gerard Kiely, Lutz Merbold, Leonardo Montagnani, Eddy Moors, Matteo Sottocornola, Andrej Varlagin, Christopher A. Williams, and Georg Wohlfahrt
Land system science and sustainable development of the earth system: A global land project perspective, Peter H. Verburg, Neville Crossman, Erle C. Ellis, Andreas Heinimann, Patrick Hostert, Ole Mertz, Harini Nagendra, Thomas Sikor, Karl Heinz Erb, Nancy Golubiewski, Ricardo Grau, Morgan Grove, Souleymane Konaté, Patrick Meyfroidt, Dawn C. Parker, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Hideaki Shibata, Allison Thomson, and Lin Zhen
Submissions from 2014
Scale, shale, and the state: Political ecologies and legal geographies of shale gas development in Pennsylvania, Eleanor Andrews and James McCarthy
Phytoplankton blooms beneath the sea ice in the Chukchi sea, Kevin R. Arrigo, Donald K. Perovich, Robert S. Pickart, Zachary W. Brown, Gert L. van Dijken, Kate E. Lowry, Matthew M. Mills, Molly A. Palmer, William M. Balch, Nicholas R. Bates, Claudia R. Benitez-Nelson, Emily Brownlee, Karen E. Frey, Samuel R. Laney, Jeremy Mathis, Atsushi Matsuoka, B. Greg Mitchell, G. W.K. Moore, Rick A. Reynolds, Heidi M. Sosik, and James H. Swift
Decolonizing cascadia?, Wes Attewell, Dan Cohen, Juliane Collard, Rosemary Collard, Lisa Dumoulin, May Farrales, Alan Grove, Jessica Hallenbeck, Sarah Hunt, Samuel Johns, Kyle Loewen, Jonathan Luedee, Alan McConchie, Paige Patchin, Sage Ponder, Sarah Mathisen Przedpelska, Carolyn Prouse, Duncan Ranslem, Max Ritts, Emily Rosenman, Sam Walker, and Sophie Webber
Sea-ice melt CO2-carbonate chemistry in the western Arctic Ocean: Meltwater contributions to air-sea CO2 gas exchange, mixed-layer properties and rates of net community production under sea ice, N. R. Bates, R. Garley, K. E. Frey, K. L. Shake, and J. T. Mathis
Livelihood transitions, place transformations: Grounding globalization and modernity, Anthony Bebbington
The endogenous scholar: porous boundaries and travelling ideas in development, Anthony Bebbington
Socio-environmental conflict: An opportunity for mining companies, Anthony J. Bebbington
Visualizing competing claims on resources: Approaches from extractive industries research, Anthony J. Bebbington, Nicholas Cuba, and John Rogan
Implications of arctic sea ice decline for the earth system, Uma S. Bhatt, Donald A. Walker, John E. Walsh, Eddy C. Carmack, Karen E. Frey, Walter N. Meier, Sue E. Moore, Frans Jan W. Parmentier, Eric Post, Vladimir E. Romanovsky, and William R. Simpson
The intersection of independent lies: Land change science and political ecology, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Advancing Land Change Modeling, Committee on Needs and Research Requirements for Land Change Modeling, Geographical Sciences Committee, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Anthony J. Bebbington
Tropical pacific influence on the source and transport of marine aerosols to West antarctica, Alison S. Criscitiello, Sarah B. Das, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Matthew J. Evans, Karen E. Frey, Ian Joughin, Eric J. Steig, Joseph R. Mcconnell, and Brooke Medley
Annual sea-air CO2 fluxes in the Bering Sea: Insights from new autumn and winter observations of a seasonally ice-covered continental shelf, Jessica N. Cross, Jeremy T. Mathis, Karen E. Frey, Catherine E. Cosca, Seth L. Danielson, Nicholas R. Bates, Richard A. Feely, Taro Takahashi, and Wiley Evans
