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
Geomorphic change analysis using ASTER and SRTM digital elevation models in central Massachusetts, USA, Samuel Blanchard, John Rogan, and Deborah Woodcock
Diagnostic tools to evaluate a spatial land change projection along a gradient of an explanatory variable, Hao Chen and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Differentiation and concordance in smallholder land use strategies in southern Mexico's conservation frontier, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Raster data transformation for land change analyses: Combined impacts of reprojecting and rescaling categorical maps on landscape composition and configuration, Zachary Christman and John Rogan
Hacking away at sustainability: Science, ideology and cynical blockage, Mark Davidson
Love thy neighbour? social mixing in London's gentrification frontiers, Mark Davidson
Social sustainability and the city, Mark Davidson
Sustainability as ideological praxis: The acting out of planning's master-signifier, Mark Davidson
New-build gentrification: Its histories, trajectories, and critical geographies, Mark Davidson and Loretta Lees
Remote sensing of structural complexity indices for habitat and species distribution modeling, L. D. Estes, P. R. Reillo, A. G. Mwangi, G. S. Okin, and H. H. Shugart
Establishing priorities for interdisciplinary arctic ocean science, Karen E. Frey, Jeremy T. Mathis, and Carolyn Wegner
Contextual land-cover classification: Incorporating spatial dependence in land-cover classification models using random forests and the Getis statistic, B. Ghimire, J. Rogan, and J. Miller
Biological response to recent pacific arctic sea ice retreats, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Sue E. Moore, James E. Overland, Karen E. Frey, and Rolf Gradinger
Functional convergence in ecosystem carbon exchange in adjacent Savanna vegetation types of the Kruger National Park, South Africa, Niall P. Hanan, Nicolas Boulain, Christopher A. Williams, Robert J. Scholes, and Sally Archibald
Mobilising bodies: Visceral identification in the Slow Food movement, Allison Hayes-Conroy and Deborah G. Martin
Practice and economic geography, Andrew Jones and James T. Murphy
Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply, Martin Jung, Markus Reichstein, Philippe Ciais, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Justin Sheffield, Michael L. Goulden, Gordon Bonan, Alessandro Cescatti, Jiquan Chen, Richard De Jeu, A. Johannes Dolman, Werner Eugster, Dieter Gerten, Damiano Gianelle, Nadine Gobron, Jens Heinke, John Kimball, Beverly E. Law, Leonardo Montagnani, Qiaozhen Mu, Brigitte Mueller, Keith Oleson, Dario Papale, Andrew D. Richardson, Olivier Roupsard, Steve Running, Enrico Tomelleri, Nicolas Viovy, Ulrich Weber, Christopher Williams, Eric Wood, and Sönke Zaehle
Analysis of twenty years of categorical land transitions in the Lower Hunter of New South Wales, Australia, Ramita Manandhar, Inakwu O.A. Odeh, and Robert Gilmore Pontius
Reflections on teaching qualitative methods in geography, Deborah G. Martin
Making law, making place: Lawyers and the production of space, Deborah G. Martin, Alexander W. Scherr, and Christopher City
Understanding the lessons and limitations of conservation and development, Johan A. Oldekop, Anthony J. Bebbington, Dan Brockington, and Richard F. Preziosi
Land transition estimates from erroneous maps, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Xiaoxiao Li
Uncertainty in the difference between maps of future land change scenarios, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Neeti Neeti
Assessing a predictive model of land change using uncertain data, Robert Gilmore Pontius and Silvia H. Petrova
Agricultural livelihood transition in the southern Yucatán region: Diverging paths and their accompanying land changes, Claudia Radel, Birgit Schmook, and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Improving forest type discrimination with mixed lifeform classes using fuzzy classification thresholds informed by field observations, J. Rogan, N. Bumbarger, D. Kulakowski, Z. J. Christman, D. M. Runfola, and S. Blanchard
Similarity weighted instance-based learning for the Generation of transition potentials in land use change modeling, Florencia Sangermano, J. Ronald Eastman, and Honglei Zhu
A model-data intercomparison of CO2 exchange across North America: Results from the North American Carbon Program site synthesis, Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Ryan Anderson, M. Altaf Arain, Ian Baker, Alan Barr, T. Andrew Black, Guangsheng Chen, Jing Ming Chen, Philippe Ciais, Kenneth J. Davis, Ankur Desai, Michael Dietze, Danilo Dragoni, Marc L. Fischer, Lawrence B. Flanagan, Robert Grant, Lianhong Gu, David Hollinger, R. Csar Izaurralde, Chris Kucharik, Peter Lafleur, Beverly E. Law, Longhui Li, Zhengpeng Li, Shuguang Liu, Erandathie Lokupitiya, Yiqi Luo, Siyan Ma, Hank Margolis, and Roser Matamala
Assimilation exceeds respiration sensitivity to drought: A FLUXNET synthesis, Christopher R. Schwalm, Christopher A. Williams, Kevin Schaefer, Almut Arneth, Damien Bonal, Nina Buchmann, Jiquan Chen, Beverlye Law, Anders Lindroth, Sebastiaan Luyssaert, Markus Reichstein, and Andrew D. Richardson
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
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
