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 2010
Climate change and the integrity of science, Jennifer Sills, P. H. Gleick, R. M. Adams, R. M. Amasino, E. Anders, D. J. Anderson, W. W. Anderson, L. E. Anselin, M. K. Arroyo, B. Asfaw, F. J. Ayala, A. Bax, A. J. Bebbington, G. Bell, M. V.L. Bennett, J. L. Bennetzen, M. R. Berenbaum, O. B. Berlin, P. J. Bjorkman, E. Blackburn, J. E. Blamont, M. R. Botchan, J. S. Boyer, E. A. Boyle, D. Branton, S. P. Briggs, W. R. Briggs, W. J. Brill, R. J. Britten, W. S. Broecker, J. H. Brown, and P. O. Brown
Climate change: Helping nature survive the human response, Will R. Turner, Bethany A. Bradley, Lyndon D. Estes, David G. Hole, Michael Oppenheimer, and David S. Wilcove
Mapping land-cover change in a haitian watershed using a combined spectral mixture analysis and classification tree procedure, Anna Versluis and John Rogan
Integration of remote sensing and modeling to understand carbon fluxes and climate Interactions in Africa, Christopher A. Williams
Transnational tense: Immigration and inequality in American housing markets, Elvin K. Wyly, Deborah G. Martin, Pablo Mendez, and Steven R. Holloway
Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents, Chuixiang Yi, Runze Li, John Wolbeck, Xiyan Xu, Mats Nilsson, Luis Aires, John D. Albertson, Christof Ammann, M. Altaf Arain, Alessandro C. De Araujo, Marc Aubinet, Mika Aurela, Zoltán Barcza, Alan Barr, Paul Berbigier, Jason Beringer, Christian Bernhofer, Andrew T. Black, Paul V. Bolstad, Fred C. Bosveld, Mark S.J. Broadmeadow, Nina Buchmann, Sean P. Burns, Pierre Cellier, Jingming Chen, Jiquan Chen, Philippe Ciais, Robert Clement, Bruce D. Cook, Peter S. Curtis, D. Bryan Dail, Ebba Dellwik, and Christopher A. Williams
Submissions from 2009
Artists, tourists, and the state: Cultural tourism and the flamenco industry in Andalusia, Spain, Yuko Aoyama
Introduction - Consumption-centered research for diverse urban economies, Yuko Aoyama
Drivers of inter-annual variability in Net Ecosystem Exchange in a semi-arid savanna ecosystem, South Africa, S. A. Archibald, A. Kirton, M. R. Van Der Merwe, R. J. Scholes, Christopher A. Williams, and N. Hanan
A case study of carbon fluxes from land change in the Southwest Brazilian Amazon, K. Barrett, J. Rogan, and J. R. Eastman
Social Capital, A. Bebbington
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
Snow avalanche disturbances in forest ecosystems-State of research and implications for management, Peter Bebi, Dominik Kulakowski, and Christian Rixen
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
Displacement, space and dwelling: Placing gentrification debate, Mark Davidson
Social sustainability: A potential for politics?, Mark Davidson
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
Commons, James McCarthy
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
London's Blue Ribbon Network: Riverside renaissance along the Thames, Mark Davidson
Spoiled mixture: Where does state-led 'positive' gentrification end?, Mark Davidson
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
Rural geography: Globalizing the countryside, James McCarthy
The annual meeting of the AAG is out of control, James McCarthy
The geographies of Global Shadows, James Mccarthy
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
Social capital and development studies II: Can Bourdieu travel to policy?, Anthony Bebbington
Social movements and the politicization of chronic poverty, Anthony Bebbington
Livelihoods and resource accessing in the andes: Desencuentros in theory and practice, Anthony Bebbington and Leonith Hinojosa-Valencia
Of texts and practices: Empowerment and organisational cultures in World Bank-funded rural development programmes, Anthony Bebbington, David Lewis, Simon Batterbury, Elizabeth Olson, and M. Shameem Siddiqi
Development success: Statecraft in the south, Anthony Bebbington and Willy McCourt
Explaining (and obtaining)development success, Anthony Bebbington and Willy McCourt
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
Gentrification as global habitat: A process of class formation or corporate creation?, Mark A. Davidson
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
Geochemistry of west Siberian streams and their potential response to permafrost degradation, Karen E. Frey, Donald I. Siegel, and Laurence C. Smith
How well do we know northern land cover? Comparison of four global vegetation and wetland products with a new ground-truth database for West Siberia, Karen E. Frey and Laurence C. Smith
Conclusion: Unnatural consequences, Nik Heynen, James McCarthy, Scott Prudham, and Paul Robbins
Introduction: False promises, Nik Heynen, James McCarthy, Scott Prudham, and Paul Robbins
Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences, Nik Heynen, James McCarthy, Scott Prudham, and Paul Robbins
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
Effect of prior disturbances on the extent and severity of wildfire in Colorado subalpine forests, Dominik Kulakowski and Thomas T. Veblen
A typology of stand structure and dynamics of Quaking aspen in northwestern Colorado, Brian P. Kurzel, Thomas T. Veblen, and Dominik Kulakowski
Bureacratizing ethics: Institutional review boards and participatory research, Deborah Martin
Privatizing conditions of production: Trade agreements as neoliberal environmental governance, James McCarthy
States of nature: Theorizing the state in environmental governance, James McCarthy
Introduction: A framework for understanding development success, Willy McCourt and Anthony Bebbington
Preface, Willy McCourt and Anthony Bebbington
Reclaiming Development? NGOs and the Challenge of Alternatives, Diana Mitlin, Sam Hickey, and Anthony Bebbington
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
Natural avalanche disturbance shapes plant diversity and species composition in subalpine forest belt, Christian Rixen, Susanne Haag, Dominik Kulakowski, and Peter Bebi
Household land management and biodiversity: Secondary succession in a forest-agriculture mosaic in southern Mexico, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Multidecadal climate variability and climate interactions affect subalpine fire occurrence, Western Colorado (USA), Tania Schoennagel, Thomas T. Veblen, Dominik Kulakowski, and Andrés Holz
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
Influence of surface heterogeneity on scalar dissimilarity in the roughness sublayer, Christopher A. Williams, Todd M. Scanlon, and John D. Albertson
Submissions from 2006
Soil moisture controls on water vapor and carbon fluxes in semi-arid regions, John D. Albertson, Christopher A. Williams, Todd M. Scanlon, and Nicola Montaldo
Organizational dynamics of the U.S. logistics industry: An economic geography perspective, Yuko Aoyama, Samuel Ratick, and Guido Schwarz
Michael Cernea (1934-)1, Anthony Bebbington
Local Capacity, Village Governance, and the Political Economy of Rural Development in Indonesia, Anthony Bebbington, Leni Dharmawan, Erwin Fahmi, and Scott Guggenheim
Transnational development networks, Anthony Bebbington and Uma Kothari
Driving forces of tropical deforestation: The role of remote sensing and spatial models, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Reconciling agency and structure in empirical analysis: Smallholder land use in the Southern Yucatán, Mexico, Roy Rinku Chowdhury and B. L. Turner
