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 2006
Carbon dioxide exchange and early old-field succession, Ryan E. Emanuel, John D. Albertson, Howard E. Epstein, and Christopher A. Williams
Monitoring and modelling tropical deforestation: Introduction to the special issue, Douglas O. Fuller and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
A major ecosystem shift in the northern Bering sea, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, James E. Overland, Sue E. Moore, Ed V. Farley, Eddy C. Carmack, Lee W. Cooper, Karen E. Frey, John H. Helle, Fiona A. McLaughlin, and S. Lyn McNutt
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
Cash crops, smallholder decision-making and institutional interactions in a closing-frontier: Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico, Eric Keys and Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Changes in forest structure and in the relative importance of climatic stress as a result of suppression of avalanche disturbances, Dominik Kulakowski, Christian Rixen, and Peter Bebi
The effect of fires on susceptibility of subalpine forests to a 19th century spruce beetle outbreak in western Colorado, Dominik Kulakowski and Thomas T. Veblen
Influences of infrequent fire, elevation and pre-fire vegetation on the persistence of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) in the Flat Tops area, Colorado, USA, Dominik Kulakowski, Thomas T. Veblen, and Brian P. Kurzel
Neoliberalism and the politics of alternatives: Community forestry in British Columbia and the United States, James McCarthy
Rural geography: Alternative rural economies - The search for alterity in forests, fisheries, food, and fair trade, James McCarthy
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
Landscape change in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico: Modeling the driving forces of smallholder deforestation in land parcels, Rinku Roy Chowdhury
Observed timescales of evapotranspiration response to soil moisture, A. J. Teuling, S. I. Seneviratne, C. Williams, and P. A. Troch
Dynamical effects of the statistical structure of annual rainfall on dryland vegetation, Christopher A. Williams and John D. Albertson
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
Donor-NGO relations and representations of livelihood in nongovernmental aid ahains, Anthony Bebbington
Multiple disturbance interactions and drought influence fire severity in rocky mountain subalpine forests, Christof Bigler, Dominik Kulakowski, and Thomas T. Veblen
Hurricane Katrina and abandoned being, Bruce Braun and James McCarthy
Foreword, William Clark, Nancy Dickson, Jill Jäger, Sheila Jasanoff, and James J. McCarthy
New-build 'gentrification' and London's riverside renaissance, Mark Davidson and Loretta Lees
Amplified carbon release from vast West Siberian peatlands by 2100, Karen E. Frey and Laurence C. Smith
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
Commons as counterhegemonic projects, James McCarthy
Devolution in the woods: Community forestry as hybrid neoliberalism, James McCarthy
Environmentalism, wise use and the nature of accumulation in the rural west, James McCarthy
First World political ecology: Directions and challenges, James McCarthy
Rural geography: Multifunctional rural geographies - Reactionary or radical?, James McCarthy
Scale, sovereignty, and strategy in environmental governance, James McCarthy
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
Contrasting short- and long-timescale effects of vegetation dynamics on water and carbon fluxes in water-limited ecosystems, Christopher A. Williams and John D. Albertson
Mechanisms of riparian cottonwood decline along regulated rivers, Christopher A. Williams and David J. Cooper
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
MOVEMENTS AND MODERNIZATIONS, MARKETS AND MUNICIPALITIES: Indigenous federations in rural Ecuador, Anthony Bebbington
NGOs and uneven development: Geographies of development intervention, Anthony Bebbington
Social capital and development studies 1: Critique, debate, progress?, Anthony Bebbington
Village politics, culture and community-driven development: Insights from Indonesia, Anthony Bebbington, Leni Dharmawan, Erwin Fahmi, and Scott Guggenheim
Exploring social capital debates at the World Bank, Anthony Bebbington, Scott Guggenheim, Elizabeth Olson, and Michael Woolcock
Nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in forest streams of the United States, Dan Binkley, George G. Ice, Jason Kaye, and Christopher A. Williams
The persistence of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) in the Grand Mesa area, Colorado, Dominik Kulakowski, Thomas T. Veblen, and Sarah Drinkwater
Nonprofit foundations and grassroots organizing: Reshaping urban governance, Deborah G. Martin
Reconstructing urban politics: Neighborhood activism in land-use change, Deborah G. Martin
Privatizing conditions of production: Trade agreements as neoliberal environmental governance, James McCarthy
Race, nation, and nature: The cultural politics of "Celtic" identification in the american west, James McCarthy and Euan Hague
Neoliberal nature and the nature of neoliberalism, James McCarthy and Scott Prudham
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
A high-resolution GIS-based inventory of the west Siberian peat carbon pool, Yongwei Sheng, Laurence C. Smith, Glen M. MacDonald, Konstantine V. Kremenetski, Karen E. Frey, Andrei A. Velichko, Mary Lee, David W. Beilman, and Peter Dubinin
Siberian Peatlands a Net Carbon Sink and Global Methane Source since the Early Holocene, L. C. Smith, G. M. MacDonald, A. A. Velichko, D. W. Beilman, O. K. Borisova, K. E. Frey, K. V. Kremenetski, and Y. Sheng
Remote sensing for mapping and monitoring land-cover and land-use change-an introduction, Paul Treitz and John Rogan
Soil moisture controls on canopy-scale water and carbon fluxes in an African savanna, Christopher A. Williams and John D. Albertson
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
Global networks and local developments: Agendas for development geography, Anthony Bebbington
Interactions between fire and spruce beetles in a subalpine rocky mountain forest landscape, Peter Bebi, Dominik Kulakowski, and Thomas T. Veblen
Recent temperature and precipitation increases in West Siberia and their association with the Arctic Oscillation, Karen E. Frey and Laurence C. Smith
Controls on Eurasian coastal sea ice formation, melt onset and decay from ERS scatterometry: Regional contrasts and effects of river influx, K. E. Frey, L. C. Smith, and D. E. Alsdorf
Building a database of historic land cover to detect landscape change., M. T. Holden, C. Lippitt, R. G. Pontius, and C. Williams
Peatlands of the Western Siberian lowlands: Current knowledge on zonation, carbon content and Late Quaternary history, K. V. Kremenetski, A. A. Velichko, O. K. Borisova, G. M. MacDonald, L. C. Smith, K. E. Frey, and L. A. Orlova
Subalpine forest development following a blowdown in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness, Colorado, Dominik Kulakowski and Thomas T. Veblen
Effects of fire and spruce beetle outbreak legacies on the disturbance regime of a subalpine forest in Colorado, Dominik Kulakowski, Thomas T. Veblen, and Peter Bebi
Practice, power and meaning: Frameworks for studying organizational culture in multi-agency rural development projects, David Lewis, Anthony J. Bebbington, Simon P.J. Batterbury, Alpa Shah, Elizabeth Olson, M. Shameem Siddiqi, and Sandra Duvall
Enacting neighborhood1, Deborah G. Martin
Observing metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia: Using an urban field study to enhance student experiences and instructor knowledge in urban geography, Deborah G. Martin
"Place-framing" as place-making: Constituting a neighborhood for organizing and activism, Deborah G. Martin
Space, scale, governance, and representation: Contemporary geographical perspectives on urban politics and policy, Deborah Martin, Eugene McCann, and Mark Purcell
Reflections on current developments in contemporary urban geography, Susan Moore, James Faulconbridge, Clare Blake, David Westhead, Tom Slater, Gavin Brown, Mark Davidson, Margo Huxley, and Eddie Huijbens
Social space and industrial development in East Africa: Deconstructing the logics of industry networks in Mwanza, Tanzania, James T. Murphy
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
Measuring the physical composition of urban morphology using multiple endmember spectral mixture models, Tarek Rashed, John R. Weeks, Dar Roberts, John Rogan, and Rebecca Powell
Land-cover change monitoring with classification trees using Landsat TM and ancillary data, John Rogan, Jennifer Miller, Doug Stow, Janet Franklin, Lisa Levien, and Chris Fischer
Melting of small Arctic ice caps observed from ERS scatterometer time series, Laurence C. Smith, Yongwei Sheng, Richard R. Forster, Konrad Steffen, Karen E. Frey, and Douglas E. Alsdorf
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
Effect of vegetation on the impact of a severe blowdown in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA, William L. Baker, Patrick H. Flaherty, Jeremiah D. Lindemann, Thomas T. Veblen, Karen S. Eisenhart, and Dominik W. Kulakowski
Geographies of development in Latin America?, Anthony Bebbington
Sharp knives and blunt instruments: Social capital in development studies, Anthony Bebbington
Influences of fire history and topography on the pattern of a severe wind blowdown in a Colorado subalpine forest, Dominik Kulakowski and Thomas T. Veblen
Constructing the 'neighborhood sphere': Gender and community organizing [1], Deborah G. Martin
Class and Its Others (Book Review), James McCarthy
