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 2014
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
In the middle of a revolution... so where the hell is Stringer Bell?, Mark Davidson
The sustainable and entrepreneurial park? Contradictions and persistent antagonisms at Sydney's Olympic Park, Mark Davidson
Class analysis for whom? An alien-ated view of London, Mark Davidson and Elvin Wyly
Summer CO2 evasion from streams and rivers in the Kolyma river basin, north-east Siberia, Blaize A. Denfeld, Karen E. Frey, William V. Sobczak, Paul J. Mann, and Robert M. Holmes
Global trends in seasonality of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 1982-2011, J. Ronald Eastman, Florencia Sangermano, Elia A. Machado, John Rogan, and Assaf Anyamba
Comparing mechanistic and empirical model projections of crop suitability and productivity: Implications for ecological forecasting, L. D. Estes, B. A. Bradley, H. Beukes, D. G. Hole, M. Lau, M. G. Oppenheimer, R. Schulze, M. A. Tadross, and W. R. Turner
Projected climate impacts to South African maize and wheat production in 2055: A comparison of empirical and mechanistic modeling approaches, Lyndon D. Estes, Hein Beukes, Bethany A. Bradley, Stephanie R. Debats, Michael Oppenheimer, Alex C. Ruane, Roland Schulze, and Mark Tadross
The production of urban vacant land: Relational placemaking in Boston, MA neighborhoods, Katherine Foo, Deborah Martin, Clara Wool, and Colin Polsky
Understanding the social determinants of lawn landscapes: A fine-resolution spatial statistical analysis in suburban Boston, Massachusetts, USA, Nicholas M. Giner, Colin Polsky, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Daniel Miller Runfola
Beyond "lawn people": the role of emotions in suburban yard management practices, Edmund M. Harris, Deborah G. Martin, Colin Polsky, Lillian Denhardt, and Abigail Nehring
Spatiotemporal patterns and socioeconomic contexts of vegetative cover in Altamira City, Brazil, Scott Hetrick, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Eduardo Brondizio, and Emilio Moran
Characterizing tree canopy loss using multi-source gis data in central Massachusetts, USA, Andrew E. Hostetler, John Rogan, Deborah Martin, Verna Delauer, and Jarlath Oneil-Dunne
Detecting the dynamic linkage between landscape characteristics and water quality in a subtropical coastal watershed, southeast China, Jinliang Huang, Qingsheng Li, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Victor Klemas, and Huasheng Hong
Mapping wildfire burn severity in the arctic tundra from downsampled MODIS data, Crystal Kolden and John Rogan
Low-severity fires increase susceptibility of lodgepole pine to mountain pine beetle outbreaks in Colorado, Dominik Kulakowski and Daniel Jarvis
Long-term aspen cover change in the western US, Dominik Kulakowski, Margot W. Kaye, and Daniel M. Kashian
Compounded disturbances in sub-alpine forests in western Colorado favour future dominance by quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), Dominik Kulakowski, Carolyn Matthews, Daniel Jarvis, and Thomas T. Veblen
Negotiating particularity in neoliberalism studies: Tracing development strategies across neoliberal urban governance projects, John Lauermann and Mark Davidson
Improving operational land surface model canopy evapotranspiration in Africa using a direct remote sensing approach, M. Marshall, K. Tu, C. Funk, J. Michaelsen, P. Williams, Christopher A. Williams, J. Ardö, M. Boucher, B. Cappelaere, A. De Grandcourt, A. Nickless, Y. Nouvellon, R. Scholes, and W. Kutsch
Up against the law: Legal structuring of political opportunities in neighborhood opposition to group home siting in Massachusetts, Deborah G. Martin
Reconceptualizing Resistance: Residuals of the State and Democratic Radical Pluralism, Deborah G. Martin and Joseph Pierce
A suite of tools for ROC analysis of spatial models, Jean François Mas, Britaldo Soares Filho, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Michelle Farfán Gutiérrez, and Hermann Rodrigues
We Have Never been "post-political", James McCarthy
Smart growth and the scalar politics of land management in the Greater Boston region, USA, Stephen M. McCauley and James T. Murphy
Modeling forest species distributions in a human-dominated landscape in northeastern, USA, Stephen McCauley, John Rogan, and Jennifer Miller
Damage patterns after Hurricane Dean in the southern Yucatán: Has human activity resulted in more resilient forests?, Megan McGroddy, Deborah Lawrence, Laura Schneider, John Rogan, Irene Zager, and Birgit Schmook
Transforming small, medium, and microscale enterprises? Information-communication technologies (ICTs) and industrial change in Tanzania, James T. Murphy
Natural forest disturbances and the design of REDD+ initiatives, Pheakkdey Nguon and Dominik Kulakowski
Evaluating the effects of common-pool resource institutions and market forces on species richness and forest cover in Ecuadorian indigenous Kichwa communities, Johan A. Oldekop, Anthony J. Bebbington, Karl Hennermann, Julia Mcmorrow, David A. Springate, Bolier Torres, Nathan K. Truelove, Niklas Tysklind, Santiago Villamarín, and Richard F. Preziosi
Land change modelling: Moving beyond projections, Martin Paegelow, María Teresa Camacho Olmedo, Jean François Mas, Thomas Houet, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Design and interpretation of intensity analysis illustrated by land change in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Yan Gao, Nicholas M. Giner, Takashi Kohyama, Mitsuru Osaki, and Kazuyo Hirose
The impact of tree cover loss on land surface temperature: A case study of central Massachusetts using Landsat Thematic Mapper thermal data, John Rogan, Martha Ziemer, Deborah Martin, Samuel Ratick, Nicholas Cuba, and Verna DeLauer
Mapping forest damage in northern Nicaragua after Hurricane Felix (2007) using MODIS enhanced vegetation index data, Esteban Rossi, John Rogan, and Laura Schneider
Future suburban development and the environmental implications of lawns: A case study in New England, USA, Daniel Miller Runfola, Colin Polsky, Nick Giner, Robert Gilmore Pontius, and Craig Nicolson
A growing concern? Examining the influence of lawn size on residential water use in suburban Boston, MA, USA, Daniel Miller Runfola, Colin Polsky, Craig Nicolson, Nicholas M. Giner, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Joseph Krahe, and Albert Decatur
Measuring the temporal instability of land change using the Flow matrix, D. S.M. Runfola and Robert Gilmore Pontius
A comparison of support vector machines and manual change detection for land-cover map updating in Massachusetts, USA, B. Schwert, J. Rogan, N. M. Giner, Y. Ogneva-Himmelberger, S. D. Blanchard, and C. Woodcock
Characterizing the potential distribution of the invasive Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in Worcester County, Massachusetts, Andrew J. Shatz, John Rogan, Florencia Sangermano, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, and Hao Chen
