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 2015
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
Moisture status during a strong El Niño explains a tropical montane cloud forest's upper limit, Shelley D. Crausbay, Abby G. Frazier, Thomas W. Giambelluca, Ryan J. Longman, and Sara C. Hotchkiss
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
Extractive industries, livelihoods and natural resource competition: Mapping overlapping claims in Peru and Ghana, Nicholas Cuba, Anthony J. Bebbington, John Rogan, and Marco Millones
Modelling tropical dry forest deciduousness using spatially downscaled TRMM data, Nicholas Cuba and John Rogan
Occupations, mediations, subjectifications: Fabricating politics, Mark Davidson and Kurt Iveson
Picking up the pieces': Austerity urbanism, California and fiscal crisis, Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward
Mapping licit and illicit mining activity in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, Arthur Elmes, Josué Gabriel Yarlequé Ipanaqué, John Rogan, Nicholas Cuba, and Anthony J. Bebbington
Monitoring geomorphic and hydrologic change at mine sites using satellite imagery: The Geita Gold Mine in Tanzania, Jody Emel, Joshua Plisinski, and John Rogan
Changing water availability during the African maize-growing season, 1979-2010, Lyndon Estes, Nathaniel W. Chaney, Julio Herrera-Estrada, Justin Sheffield, Kelly K. Caylor, and Eric F. Wood
Using changes in agricultural utility to quantify future climate-induced risk to conservation, Lyndon D. Estes, Lydie Line Paroz, Bethany A. Bradley, Jonathan M.H. Green, David G. Hole, Stephen Holness, Guy Ziv, Michael G. Oppenheimer, and David S. Wilcove
Reprint of "The production of urban vacant land: Relational placemaking in Boston, MA neighborhoods", Katherine Foo, Deborah Martin, Clara Wool, and Colin Polsky
Conflict translates environmental and social risk into business costs, Daniel M. Franks, Rachel Davis, Anthony J. Bebbington, Saleem H. Ali, Deanna Kemp, and Martin Scurrah
Recent variability in sea ice cover, age, and thickness in the pacific arctic region, Karen E. Frey, James A. Maslanik, Jaclyn Clement Kinney, and Wieslaw Maslowski
Changes in land-use governance in an urban era, Bradford S. Gentry, Thomas Sikor, Graeme Auld, Anthony J. Bebbington, Tor A. Benjaminsen, Carol A. Hunsberger, Anne Marie Izac, Matias E. Margulis, Tobias Plieninger, Heike Schroeder, and Caroline Upton
Global albedo change and radiative cooling from anthropogenic land cover change, 1700 to 2005 based on MODIS, land use harmonization, radiative kernels, and reanalysis, Bardan Ghimire, Christopher A. Williams, Jeffrey Masek, Feng Gao, Zhuosen Wang, Crystal Schaaf, and Tao He
Ecological homogenization of urban USA, Peter M. Groffman, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Neil D. Bettez, J. Morgan Grove, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen Nelson, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Laura Ogden, Diane E. Pataki, Colin Polsky, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Meredith K. Steele
Drought induces spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) outbreaks across northwestern Colorado., Sarah J. Hart, Thomas T. Veblen, Karen S. Eisenhart, Daniel Jarvis, and Dominik Kulakowski
Do tree and stand-level attributes determine susceptibility of spruce-fir forests to spruce beetle outbreaks in the early 21st century?, Sarah J. Hart, Thomas T. Veblen, and Dominik Kulakowski
The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts, Lawrence N. Hudson, Tim Newbold, Sara Contu, Samantha L.L. Hill, Igor Lysenko, Adriana De Palma, Helen R.P. Phillips, Rebecca A. Senior, Dominic J. Bennett, Hollie Booth, Argyrios Choimes, David L.P. Correia, Julie Day, Susy Echeverría-Londoño, Morgan Garon, Michelle L.K. Harrison, Daniel J. Ingram, Martin Jung, Victoria Kemp, Lucinda Kirkpatrick, Callum D. Martin, Yuan Pan, Hannah J. White, Job Aben, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Gilbert B. Adum, Virginia Aguilar-Barquero, Marcelo A. Aizen, Marc Ancrenaz, Enrique Arbeláez-Cortés, Inge Armbrecht, Badrul Azhar, and Christopher A. Williams
On the causes of rising gross ecosystem productivity in a regenerating clearcut environment: Leaf area vs. species composition, Myroslava Khomik, Christopher A. Williams, Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Richard G. Maclean, and Sophie Y. Dillen
InSAR detects increase in surface subsidence caused by an Arctic tundra fire, Lin Liu, Elchin E. Jafarov, Kevin M. Schaefer, Benjamin M. Jones, Howard A. Zebker, Christopher A. Williams, John Rogan, and Tingjun Zhang
Spatially-explicit simulation of urban growth through self-adaptive genetic algorithm and cellular automata modelling, Yan Liu, Yongjiu Feng, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Precipitation variability and adaptation strategies in the southern yucatán peninsula, Mexico: Integrating local knowledge with quantitative analysis, Sofía Márdero, Birgit Schmook, Zachary Christman, Elsa Nickl, Laura Schneider, John Rogan, and Deborah Lawrence
Foreword, James McCarthy
Socio-cultural dimensions of climate change: charting the terrain, James McCarthy, Chery Chen, David López-Carr, and Barbara Louise Endemaño Walker
The research journey: Travels across the idiomatic and axiomatic toward a better understanding of complexity, Katharine A. McGowan, Frances Westley, Evan D.G. Fraser, Philip A. Loring, Kathleen C. Weathers, Flor Avelino, Jan Sendzimir, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Michele Lee Moore
Industrial transformation or business as usual? Information and communication technologies and Africa's place in the global information economy, James T. Murphy, Pádraig Carmody, and Björn Surborg
Does zoning matter? A comparative analysis of landscape change in Redland, Florida using cellular automata, Jeffrey A. Onsted and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Vulnerability and adaptive capacity in response to the Asian Longhorned Beetle infestation in Worcester, Massachusetts, Shannon Palmer, Deborah Martin, Verna Delauer, and John Rogan
Application and evaluation of a snowmelt runoff model in the Tamor River basin, Eastern Himalaya using a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) data assimilation approach, Prajjwal K. Panday, Christopher A. Williams, Karen E. Frey, and Molly E. Brown
Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care, Colin Polsky, J. Morgan Grove, Chris Knudson, Peter M. Groffman, Neil Bettez, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Sharon J. Hall, James B. Heffernan, Sarah E. Hobbie, Kelli L. Larson, Jennifer L. Morse, Christopher Neill, Kristen C. Nelson, Laura A. Ogden, Jarlath O'Neil-Dunne, Diane E. Pataki, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and Meredith K. Steele
Recommendations for using the relative operating characteristic (ROC), Robert Gilmore Pontius and Benoit Parmentier
Quantity, exchange, and shift components of difference in a square contingency table, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Alí Santacruz
The total operating characteristic to measure diagnostic ability for multiple thresholds, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Kangping Si
Convergent surface water distributions in U.S. cities, M. K. Steele, J. B. Heffernan, N. Bettez, J. Cavender-Bares, P. M. Groffman, J. M. Grove, S. Hall, S. E. Hobbie, K. Larson, J. L. Morse, C. Neill, K. C. Nelson, J. O'Neil-Dunne, L. Ogden, D. E. Pataki, C. Polsky, and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Are density reduction treatments effective at managing for resistance or resilience to spruce beetle disturbance in the southern Rocky Mountains?, Christian Temperli, Sarah J. Hart, Thomas T. Veblen, Dominik Kulakowski, Julia J. Hicks, and Robert Andrus
A full greenhouse gases budget of africa: Synthesis, uncertainties, and vulnerabilities, R. Valentini, A. Arneth, A. Bombelli, S. Castaldi, R. Cazzolla Gatti, F. Chevallier, P. Ciais, E. Grieco, J. Hartmann, M. Henry, R. A. Houghton, M. Jung, W. L. Kutsch, Y. Malhi, E. Mayorga, L. Merbold, G. Murray-Tortarolo, D. Papale, P. Peylin, B. Poulter, P. A. Raymond, M. Santini, S. Sitch, G. Vaglio Laurin, G. R. Van Der Werf, Christopher A. Williams, and R. J. Scholes
Albedo-induced radiative forcing from mountain pine beetle outbreaks in forests, south-central Rocky Mountains: Magnitude, persistence, and relation to outbreak severity, M. Vanderhoof, C. A. Williams, Y. Shuai, D. Jarvis, Dominik Kulakowski, and J. Masek
Agroforest's growing role in reducing carbon losses from Jambi (Sumatra), Indonesia, Grace B. Villamor, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Meine van Noordwijk
Negotiable differences? Conflicts over mining and development in South East Ecuador, Ximena S. Warnaars and Anthony Bebbington
Nature as artifice, nature as artefact: Development, environment and modernity in the late twentieth century, Michael J. Watts and James Mccarthy
Heat and drought extremes likely to stress ecosystem productivity equally or more in a warmer, CO2rich future, Christopher A. Williams
Impacts of disturbance history on forest carbon stocks and fluxes: Merging satellite disturbance mapping with forest inventory data in a carbon cycle model framework, Christopher A. Williams, G. James Collatz, Jeffrey Masek, Chengquan Huang, and Samuel N. Goward
Post-clearcut dynamics of carbon, water and energy exchanges in a midlatitude temperate, deciduous broadleaf forest environment, Christopher A. Williams, Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Myroslava Khomik, and Bardan Ghimire
Land classification and change intensity analysis in a coastal watershed of Southeast China, Pei Zhou, Jinliang Huang, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Huasheng Hong
Submissions from 2013
Map errors that could account for deviations from a uniform intensity of land change, Safaa Zakaria Aldwaik and Robert Gilmore Pontius
The IT industry in Japan: Entrepreneurship and servicization, Yuko Aoyama
Innovation, industry evolution and cross-sectoral skill transfer in the video game industry: A three-country study, Yuko Aoyama and Hiro Izushi
Bark beetle outbreaks, wildfires and defensible space: How much area do we need to treat to protect homes and communities?, Glen Aronson and Dominik Kulakowski
Anatomies of conflict: Social mobilization and new political ecologies of the andes, Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Leonith Hinojosa, María Luisa Burneo, and Jeffrey T. Bury
Political Economies of Extractive Industry: From Documenting Complexity to Informing Current Debates: Introduction to Development and Change Virtual Issue 2 A. Bebbington, T. Bornschlegl and A. Johnson Political Economies of Extractive Industry, Anthony Bebbington, Teresa Bornschlegl, and Adrienne Johnson
Conclusions, Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey T. Bury
Political ecologies of the subsoil, Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey T. Bury
Preface and acknowledgments, Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey T. Bury
Subterranean struggles: New dynamics of mining, oil, and gas in Latin America, Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey T. Bury
NGO-government interaction in agricultural technology development, Anthony J. Bebbington and John Farrington
Hydrocarbon conflicts and indigenous peoples in the Peruvian Amazon: Mobilization and negotiation along the Río Corrientes, Anthony Bebbington and Martin Scurrah
Do bark beetle outbreaks increase wildfire risks in the central U.S. rocky mountains? Implications from recent research, Scott H. Black, Dominik Kulakowski, Barry R. Noon, and Dominick A. Dellasala
Human-environment research: Past trends, current challenges, and future directions, Eduardo S. Brondízio and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Opportunities to improve impact, integration, and evaluation of land change models, Daniel G. Brown, Peter H. Verburg, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Mark D. Lange
New geographies of extractive industries in Latin America, Jeffrey T. Bury and Anthony Bebbington
Evaluating MODIS active fire products in subtropical yucatán forest, D. Cheng, J. Rogan, L. Schneider, and M. Cochrane
Ice sheet record of recent sea-ice behavior and polynya variability in the Amundsen Sea, West Antarctica, Alison S. Criscitiello, Sarah B. Das, Matthew J. Evans, Karen E. Frey, Howard Conway, Ian Joughin, Brooke Medley, and Eric J. Steig
Modelling dry season deciduousness in Mexican Yucatán forest using MODIS EVI data (2000-2011), Nicholas Cuba, John Rogan, Zachary Christman, Christopher A. Williams, Laura C. Schneider, Deborah Lawrence, and Marco Millones