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 2009
Contesting environmental transformation: political ecologies and environmentalisms in Latin America and the Caribbean, Anthony J. Bebbington
Latin America: Contesting extraction, producing geographies, Anthony J. Bebbington
"Please Mr Bebbington, don't come here and tell us what to do", Anthony J. Bebbington
Institutional challenges for mining and sustainability in Peru, Anthony J. Bebbington and Jeffrey T. Bury
Temporal and among-site variability of inherent water use efficiency at the ecosystem level, C. Beer, P. Ciais, M. Reichstein, D. Baldocchi, B. E. Law, D. Papale, J. F. Soussana, C. Ammann, N. Buchmann, D. Frank, D. Gianelle, I. A. Janssens, A. Knohl, B. Köstner, E. Moors, O. Roupsard, H. Verbeeck, T. Vesala, C. A. Williams, and G. Wohlfahrt
Seasonal trend analysis of image time series, J. Ronald Eastman, Florencia Sangermano, Bardan Ghimire, Honglei Zhu, Hao Chen, Neeti Neeti, Yongming Cai, Elia A. Machado, and Stefano C. Crema
Impacts of permafrost degradation on arctic river biogeochemistry, Karen E. Frey and James W. McClelland
Landsat mapping of local landscape change: The satellite-era context, Rachel M.K. Headley, Robert Gilmore Pontius, John Harrington, and Cynthia Sorrensen
A field course in the Siberian arctic: 30 Days, 20 people, 3 continents, 1 barge, R. Max Holmes, Karen E. Frey, and Sergey Zimov
Limits to FDI-driven growth in Ireland: A newspaper content analysis for investment, upgrading and divestment, Rory Horner and Yuko Aoyama
Range of categorical associations for comparison of maps with mixed pixels, Robert Gilmore Pontius and John Connors
Fundamentals for using geographic information science to measure the effectiveness of land conservation projects, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Shaily Menon, Joseph Duncan, and Shalini Gupta
The World Development Report 2009 'reshapes economic geography': Geographical reflections, Jonathan Rigg, Anthony J. Bebbington, Katherine V. Gough, Deborah F. Bryceson, Jytte Agergaard, Niels Fold, and Cecilia Tacoli
A hard slog, not a leap frog: Globalization and sustainability transitions in developing Asia, Michael Rock, James T. Murphy, Rajah Rasiah, Paul van Seters, and Shunsuke Managi
Identifying trends in land use/land cover changes in the context of post-socialist transformation in Central Europe: A case study of the greater Olomouc region, Czech Republic, Toáš Václavík and John Rogan
Complexity in water and carbon dioxide fluxes following rain pulses in an African savanna, Christopher A. Williams, Niall Hanan, Robert J. Scholes, and Werner Kutsch
Characterizing boreal forest wildfire with multi-temporal Landsat and LIDAR data, M. A. Wulder, J. C. White, F. Alvarez, T. Han, J. Rogan, and B. Hawkes
Entrepreneurship and regional culture: The case of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, Japan, Aoyama Yuko
Submissions from 2008
Identifying systematic land-cover transitions using remote sensing and GIS: The fate of forests inside and outside protected areas of Southwestern Ghana, Clement Aga Alo and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Social capital and development studies III: Social capital and the state (seen from Peru), Anthony Bebbington
Mining and Social Movements: Struggles Over Livelihood and Rural Territorial Development in the Andes, Anthony Bebbington, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, Jeffrey Bury, Jeannet Lingan, Juan Pablo Muñoz, and Martin Scurrah
Landscapes of Possibility? Livelihood and Intervention in the Production of Andean Landscapes, Anthony J. Bebbington
Social Movements and the Dynamics of Rural Territorial Development in Latin America, Anthony J. Bebbington, Ricardo Abramovay, and Manuel Chiriboga
Contention and ambiguity: Mining and the possibilities of development, Anthony J. Bebbington, Leonith Hinojosa, Denise Bebbington, Maria Luisa Burneo, and Ximena Warnaars
Water and mining conflicts in Peru, Anthony J. Bebbington and Mark Williams
Habitat selection by a rare forest antelope: A multi-scale approach combining field data and imagery from three sensors, Lyndon Estes, G. S. Okin, A. G. Mwangi, and H. H. Shugart
Abundance of immature Anopheles and culicines (Diptera: Culicidae) in different water body types in the urban environment of Malindi, Kenya, Daniel E. Impoinvil, Joseph Keating, Charles M. Mbogo, Matthew D. Potts, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, and John C. Beier
Whitewash: White privilege and racialized landscapes at the University of Georgia, Joshua F.J. Inwood and Deborah G. Martin
Response of carbon fluxes to water relations in a savanna ecosystem in South Africa, W. L. Kutsch, N. Hanan, B. Scholes, I. McHugh, W. Kubheka, H. Eckhardt, and Christopher A. Williams
Importance of matrix construction for multiple-resolution categorical map comparison, Kristopher Kuzera and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Mapping selective logging in mixed deciduous forest: A comparison of machine learning algorithms, Christopher D. Lippitt, John Rogan, Zhe Li, J. Ronald Eastman, and Trevor G. Jones
Incorporating anthropogenic variables into a species distribution model to map gypsy moth risk, Christopher D. Lippitt, John Rogan, James Toledano, Florencia Sangermano, J. Ronald Eastman, Victor Mastro, and Alan Sawyer
Comparing the input, output, and validation maps for several models of land change, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Wideke Boersma, Jean Christophe Castella, Keith Clarke, Ton Nijs, Charles Dietzel, Zengqiang Duan, Eric Fotsing, Noah Goldstein, Kasper Kok, Eric Koomen, Christopher D. Lippitt, William McConnell, Alias Mohd Sood, Bryan Pijanowski, Snehal Pithadia, Sean Sweeney, Tran Ngoc Trung, A. Tom Veldkamp, and Peter H. Verburg
Components of information for multiple resolution comparison between maps that share a real variable, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Olufunmilayo Thontteh, and Hao Chen
Locating backup facilities to enhance supply chain disaster resilience, Samuel Ratick, Brian Meacham, and Yuko Aoyama
Mapping land-cover modifications over large areas: A comparison of machine learning algorithms, John Rogan, Janet Franklin, Doug Stow, Jennifer Miller, Curtis Woodcock, and Dar Roberts
Interannual variability of photosynthesis across Africa and its attribution, Christopher A. Williams, Niall P. Hanan, Ian Baker, G. James Collatz, Joseph Berry, and A. Scott Denning
Submissions from 2007
Oligopoly and the structural paradox of retail TNCs: An assessment of Carrefour and Wal-Mart in Japan, Yuko Aoyama
The role of consumption and globalization in a cultural industry: The case of flamenco, Yuko Aoyama
Inter-firm relations in the age of instant access: Case of the U.S. logistics industry, Yuko Aoyama and Samuel J. Ratick
Trust, transactions, and information technologies in the U.S. logistics industry, Yuko Aoyama and Samuel J. Ratick
Past, present, and future: A science program for the Arctic Ocean linking ancient and contemporary observations of change through modeling, Bernard Coakley, Henrietta N. Edmonds, Karen Frey, Jean Claude Gascard, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Heidemarie Kassens, Jorn Thiede, and Carolyn Wegner
Impacts of climate warming and permafrost thaw on the riverine transport of nitrogen and phosphorus to the Kara Sea, Karen E. Frey, James W. McClelland, Robert M. Holmes, and Laurence G. Smith
The association between distance to water pipes and water bodies positive for anopheline mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) in the urban community of Malindi, Kenya, Daniel E. Impoinvil, Joseph Keating, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Robert Duncan, Gabriel Cardenas, Sajjad Ahmad, Charles M. Mbogo, John I. Githure, and John C. Beier
Bureacratizing ethics: Institutional review boards and participatory research, Deborah Martin
The Challenge of Upgrading in African Industries: Socio-Spatial Factors and the Urban Environment in Mwanza, Tanzania, James T. Murphy
Accuracy assessment for a simulation model of Amazonian deforestation, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Robert Walker, Robert Yao-kumah, Eugenio Arima, Stephen Aldrich, Marcellus Caldas, and Dante Vergara
Household land management and biodiversity: Secondary succession in a forest-agriculture mosaic in southern Mexico, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Mapping burn severity of Mediterranean-type vegetation using satellite multispectral data, Douglas Stow, Anna Petersen, John Rogan, and Janet Franklin
Land change in the southern Yucatán and Calakmul biosphere reserve: Effects on habitat and biodiversity, Henricus F.M. Vester, Deborah Lawrence, J. Ronald Eastman, B. L. Turner, Sophie Calmé, Rebecca Dickson, Carmen Pozo, and Florencia Sangermano
Africa and the global carbon cycle, Christopher A. Williams, Niall P. Hanan, Jason C. Neff, Robert J. Scholes, Joseph A. Berry, A. Scott Denning, and David F. Baker
Submissions from 2006
Organizational dynamics of the U.S. logistics industry: An economic geography perspective, Yuko Aoyama, Samuel Ratick, and Guido Schwarz
Reconciling agency and structure in empirical analysis: Smallholder land use in the Southern Yucatán, Mexico, Roy Rinku Chowdhury and B. L. Turner
Charter schools and urban regimes in neoliberal context: Making workers and new spaces in metropolitan Atlanta, Katherine B. Hankins and Deborah G. Martin
Industry evolution and cross-sectoral skill transfers: A comparative analysis of the video game industry in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom, Hiro Izushi and Yuko Aoyama
Building trust in economic space, James T. Murphy
Representing the economic geographies of 'others': Reconsidering the Global South, James T. Murphy
The sociospatial dynamics of creativity and production in Tanzanian industry: Urban furniture manufacturers in a liberalizing economy, James T. Murphy
Land cover and land use change detection and analyses in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, between 1986 and 2000, Boriana Pangelova and John Rogan
From software services to R and D services: Local entrepreneurship in the software industry in Bangalore, India, Balaji Parthasarathy and Yuko Aoyama
Expanding the conceptual, mathematical and practical methods for map comparison, Gilmore Robert Pontius and John Connors
A generalized cross-tabulation matrix to compare soft-classified maps at multiple resolutions, R. G. Pontius and M. L. Cheuk
Can error explain map differences over time?, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Christopher D. Lippitt
Visualizing certainty of extrapolations from models of land change, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Anna J. Versluis, and Nicholas R. Malizia
Submissions from 2005
Modeling the impact of business-to-business electronic commerce on the organization of the logistics industry, Yuko Aoyama, Samuel J. Ratick, and Guido Schwarz
Monitoring vegetation regeneration and deforestation using change vector analysis: Mt. St. Helens study area, Kristopher Kuzera, John Rogan, and J. Ronald Eastman
Rescaling autonomy? reflections on unmaking goliath, Deborah G. Martin
Organizing diversity: Scales of demographic change and neighborhood organizing in St Paul, MN, Deborah G. Martin and Steven R. Holloway
Lawyering landscapes: Lawyers as constituents of landscape, Deborah G. Martin and Alexander Scherr
Using imperfect data to validate a model of land change, Silvia Petrova and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Comparison of the structure and accuracy of two land change models, Gil R. Pontius and Jeffrey Malanson
Multiple scale pattern recognition and the foundation of observation-free statistics, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Hao Chen, and Olufunmilayo Thontteh
Erratum: Comparison of the structure and accuracy of two land change models (International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2005) Vol. 19 (6) (745-748)), Robert Gilmore Pontius and Jeffrey Malanson
Uncertainty in extrapolations of predictive land-change models, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Joseph Spencer
Evaluating image thresholding techniques for land cover modification mapping, Joseph Prah, John Rogan, and Jennifer Miller
Submissions from 2004
Creative resources of the Japanese video game industry, Yuko Aoyama and Hiro Izushi
From mail order to e-commerce: Competition, regulation, and politics of nonstore retailing in germany, Yuko Aoyama and Guido Schwarz
Nonprofit foundations and grassroots organizing: Reshaping urban governance, Deborah G. Martin
Useful techniques of validation for spatially explicit land-change models, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Diana Huffaker, and Kevin Denman
Effect of category aggregation on map comparison, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Nicholas R. Malizia
Calibration and validation of a model of forest disturbance in the Western Ghats, India 1920-1990, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Pablo Pacheco
Detecting important categorical land changes while accounting for persistence, Robert G. Pontius, Emily Shusas, and Menzie McEachern
Remote sensing technology for mapping and monitoring land-cover and land-use change, John Rogan and Dong Mei Chen
Remote sensing for mapping and monitoring land-cover and land-use change-an introduction, Paul Treitz and John Rogan
Submissions from 2003
Sociospatial dimensions of technology adoption: Recent M-commerce and E-commerce developments, Yuko Aoyama
Hardware gimmick or cultural innovation? Technological, cultural, and social foundations of the Japanese video game industry, Yuko Aoyama and Hiro Izushi
Building a database of historic land cover to detect landscape change., M. T. Holden, C. Lippitt, R. G. Pontius, and C. Williams
Using the relative operating characteristics to quantify certainty in prediction of location of land cover change in India, R. Gil Pontius and Kiran Batchu
Estimating the uncertainty of land-cover extrapolations while constructing a raster map from tabular data, Robert Gilmore Pontius, Aditya Agrawal, and Diana Huffaker
Submissions from 2002
An empirical assessment of the informational society: Employment and occupational structures of G-7 countries, 1920-2000, Yuko Aoyama and Manuel Castells
Geographies of development in Latin America?, Anthony Bebbington
Statistical methods to partition effects of quantity and location during comparison of categorical maps at multiple resolutions, R. Gil Pontius
Submissions from 2001
Modeling tropical deforestation in the southern Yucatán peninsular region: Comparing survey and satellite data, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Sergio Cortina Villar, Peter Klepeis, Pedro Mac Ario Mendoza, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, B. L. Turner, and Colin Vance
Identifying conservation-priority areas in the tropics: A land-use change modeling approach, Shaily Menon, R. Gil Pontius, Joseph Rose, M. L. Khan, and Kamaljit S. Bawa
Modeling the spatial pattern of land-use change with GEOMOD2: Application and validation for Costa Rica, R. Gil Pontius, Joseph D. Cornell, and Charles A.S. Hall
Land-cover change model validation by an ROC method for the Ipswich watershed, Massachusetts, USA, R. Gil Pontius and Laura C. Schneider
Deforestation in the southern Yucatán peninsular region: An integrative approach, B. L. Turner, Sergio Cortina Villar, David Foster, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Eric Keys, Peter Klepeis, Deborah Lawrence, Pedro Macario Mendoza, Steven Manson, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Audrey B. Plotkin, Diego Pérez Salicrup, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Basil Savitsky, Laura Schneider, Birgit Schmook, and Colin Vance
Submissions from 2000
Quantification error versus location error in comparison of categorical maps, R. Gil Pontius
