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David Lopez-Carr

David Lopez-Carr
Geography
University of California, Santa Barbara
Broom Center Affiliation(s)

Area Director, Population-Environment Interactions Theme

David Lopez-Carr directs the Human-Environment Dynamics Lab (HED) at UCSB. His research focuses on links among population, health, rural development, agriculture, and marine and forest resource use and conservation, through ongoing projects in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This research has been supported by over two million dollars of awards through over 50 fellowships, grants, and awards from NASA, NSF, NIH, the Mellon and Fulbright Foundations.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Grant. Strengthening Land Degradation Neutrality data and decision-making through free and open access platforms. Executing Agency: Conservation International. Project PI: Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich. D. López-Carr, PI for component 2: Understanding the socio-environmental interactions between drought, land degradation, and poverty. $2 million USD ($397,700 in-kind).  Component 2 budget: $406,314. 9/5/2019 - 5/31/2022

UCSB ISBER Collaborative Research Initiative Grant program. “Integrating planetary health into households and communities in the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), Guatemala’’. 7/1/2022-6/30/2023. $7,975.UCSB Senate Faculty Research Grant. Women’s health, livelihoods, and empowerment lead to forest conservation? A before and after intervention design of households and communities in the Maya Biosphere, Guatemala. PI David Lopez-Carr. 2021-2022. $8,365

UCSB College of Letters & Science’s Council of Deans Support Grant: Audacious Ideas for a Healthy and Equitable World Conference. November 2018. PI David Lopez-Carr. $2,505

Convocatoria Extraordinaria de Colaboración Binacional frente al COVID-19, UNAM - Universidad de California (UC). The compounded impact of COVID-19 on agricultural workers in the presence of heat waves. Amando Sanchez and David Lopez-Carr, PIs. September 1, 2020 through March 1, 2021. $4,516

Binational Collaborative Projects Addressing COVID-19. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) through the Scientific Research Coordination (CIC), the Liaison and Technology Transfer Coordination (CVTT) and the University of California (UC) through Alianza UCMX in collaboration with the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs of Mexico. COVID-19 and Migrant Workers: Enhancing Health Resilience and Productivity. David Lopez-Carr and Armando Sanchez, PIs. September 1, 2020 through March 1, 2021. $5,000

National Science Foundation Long Term Ecological Research. 2012-2018. Santa Barbara Coastal LTER: Long-term dynamics of. D. R. Reed, S. Holbrook, J. Melack, and D. Siegal, (P.I.s). D. López-Carr et al. (co-Is) $4,200,000 (Renewal)

National Geographic Explorers Grant. 2016-2018. Does REDD+ increase carbon emissions by enabling migration? Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and out-migration from the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR), Guatemala. D. López-Carr PI $19,262. 

University of California, Office of the President. 2016-2019. Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI) Course Development Grant: "Global Population, Health, and Environment". PIs W. Smith and D. López-Carr. $220,000.00. 

University of California, Research Programs on Migration and Health (PIMSA). 2018-2020. Agricultural Productivity and Worker Health: The Hidden Costs of Extreme Heat. PIs David Lopez-Carr and Armando Sanchez Vargas. $24,948. 

University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS), UC MEXUS-CONACYT. 2018 - 2019. Collaborative Grant Extreme Heat and Migrant Workers: Enhancing Health Resilience and Productivity. PIs David Lopez-Carr and Armando Sanchez Vargas. $24,979. 

University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) Center of Expertise on Planetary Health. UC Counsel of Chancellors. 2016-2019. PIs D. López-Carr and W. Smith. $600,000.

University of California, Office of the President. Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI) 2016-2019. Course Development Grant: Global Population, Health, and Environment.  PIs W. Smith and D. López-Carr. $110,000.

Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) Grant. 2016-2018. Environmental levers for health: Advancing a priority agenda for Disease Ecology and “Planetary Health” in the 21st century. S.Sokolow and K. Lafferty (PIs). D. López-Carr (et al.) co-I.  $200,000.

National Science Foundation. 2012-2018. Long Term Ecological Research Santa Barbara Coastal LTER: PIs D.R.. Reed, S. Holbrook, J. Melack, D. Siegel; co-I D. López-Carr et al. $5,266,158.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Land Use/Cover Change Grant (LULCC). 2012-2015. “The Urban Transition in Ghana and Its Relation to Land Cover and Land Use Change Through Analysis of Multi-scale and Multi-temporal Satellite Image Data.” PI: Doug Stow; co-PIs: David López-Carr, John Weeks, Li An. $993,000.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 2011-2014. Climate Scene Investigators (CSI)-Transitions Program Grant: “A Global Standardized Precipitation Index Supporting the US Drought Portal and the Famine Early Warning System Network” PI: Chris Funk; co-PIs: Greg Husak, David López-Carr, Joel Michaelson, Michael Brewer (NESDIS/NCDC). $297,960. 

Three University of California, Santa Barbara Faculty Senate Travel Awards. 2005 - present.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth System Science Fellowship. 2014-2017. “Climate-induced Natural Hazards in the Central Himalaya: Evaluating Rain-on-Snow Flooding Events with Implications for Water Management.” PI: D.L. Carr. $90,000

National Science Foundation. 2013-2015. “Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems - Exploratory(CNH-Ex075746271): Quantifying linkages among land-use policies, agriculturalintensification, habitat fragmentation and social-ecological resilience in a tropical biological corridor.” PI: Lisette P Waits; co-PIs and co-Is: Nilsa A Bosque-Perez, Leontina Hormel, Lee Vierling; Collaborating Investigators: Bryan Finegan,Fabrice DeClerck, Fernando Casanoves, David López-Carr. $248,733.

National Science Foundation Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems (CNH). “Healthy Ecosystems, Healthy People: The Coupled Human Health and Environmental Dynamics of Schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa.” Co-P.I. $1,499,897.

carr@geog.ucsb.edu
805.456.2830
http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/david-lopez-carr.html
Biodemography and Evolution
Population Health and Environment
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

Publications

Goli, I., Kriaučiūnienė, Z., Zhang, R., Bijani, M., Koohi, P.K., Rostamkalaei, S.A., Lopez-Carr, D. and Azadi, H. 2024. 
"Contributions of Climate Smart Agriculture Toward Climate Change Adaptation and Food Security: The Case of Mazandaran Province, Iran. "
Trends in Food Science & Technology, p.104653.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Castillo, F., Lopez-Carr, D. and Sanchez, A. 2024. 
"Environmental and socio-economic drivers of migrant farmworkers' health. "
Frontiers in Public Health, 12, p.1440739. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Armendáriz-Arnez, C., Tamayo-Ortiz, M., Mora-Ardila, F., Rodríguez-Barrena, M.E., Barros-Sierra, D., Castillo, F., Sánchez-Vargas, A., Lopez-Carr, D., Deardorff, J., Eskenazi, B. and Mora, A.M., 2023. 
"Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in avocado farmworkers from Mexico. "
Frontiers in Public Health, 11, p.1252530
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
López-Carr, D., Pricope, N.G., Mwenda, K.M., Daldegan, G.A. and Zvoleff, A., 2023. 
"A Conceptual Approach towards Improving Monitoring of Living Conditions for Populations Affected by Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought. "
Sustainability, 15(12), p.9400.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Hadi Beygi Heidarlou, Abbas Banj Shafiei, Vahid Nasiri, Mihai Daniel Nita, Stelian Alexandru Borz, David Lopez-Carr. 2023. 
"Impact of Iran's Forest Nationalization Law on forest cover changes over six decades: A case ‎study of a Zagros sparse coppice oak forest. "
Sensors. 23(2), 871
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Huang, S., Ghazali, S., Azadi, H., Moghaddam, S. M., Viira, A. H., Janečková, K., ... & Kurban, A. 2023. 
"Contribution of agricultural land conversion to global GHG emissions: A meta-analysis"
Science of The Total Environment, 876, 162269.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Yongsheng Wang, David Lopez-Carr, Jianzhou Gong, Jinlong Gao eds. 2023. 
"Sustainable Cultivated Land Use and Management. "
Frontiers in Environmental Sciences.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Huang, Shansong, Samane Ghazali, Hossein Azadi, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam, Ants-Hannes Viira, Kristina Janečková, Petr Sklenička, David Lopez-Carr, Michael Köhl, and Alishir Kurban. 2023. 
"Contribution of agricultural land conversion to global GHG emissions: A meta-analysis. "
Science of The Total Environment. 876: 162269
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Javier Vazquez-Rubio, Hugo Loaiciga, David López-Carr. 2023. 
"Human-induced resource scarcity in the Colorado River basin and its implications for water supply and the environment in the Mexicali Valley transboundary aquifer. "
Annals of the American Association of Geographers. (0)0:1-18
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Rohr, J.R., Sack, A., Bakhoum, S., Barrett, C.B., Lopez-Carr, D., Chamberlin, A.J., Civitello, D.J., Diatta, C., Doruska, M.J., De Leo, G.A. and Haggerty, C.J. 2023. 
"A planetary health solution for disease, sustainability, food, water, and poverty challenges in West Africa. "
Nature, 1-6
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Sanchez-Vargas, A., Mendez-Astudillo, J., López-Vidal, Y., López-Carr, D., & Estrada, F. 2023. 
"Assessing the effect of the U.S. vaccination program on the Coronavirus positivity rate with a multivariate framework. "
GeoHealth, 7, e2022GH000771
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
David López-Carr, Narcisa G. Pricope, Kevin M. Mwenda, Gabriel Antunes Daldegan, Alex Zvoleff. 2023. 
"How to Achieve Complex Population-Environment UN Sustainable Development Goals? A Conceptual Approach Towards Improving Monitoring of Living Conditions for Populations Affected by Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought"
Sustainability. 15(12), 9400
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Haggerty, C.E., Delius, B.K., Jouanard, N., Ndao, P.D., De Leo, G.A., Lund, A.J., Lopez-Carr, D., Remais, J.V., Riveau, G., Sokolow, S.H. and Rohr, J.R. 2023. 
"Pyrethroid insecticides pose greater risk than organophosphate insecticides to biocontrol agents for human schistosomiasis. "
Environmental Pollution. (319)120952.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Yongsheng Wang, David Lopez-Carr, Jianzhou Gong, Jinlong Gao. 2023.
"Sustainable Cultivated Land Use and Management. "
Frontiers in Environmental Sciences. 11. 352
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Pazhuhan, Mousa, Hossein Azadi, David Lopez-Carr, Jelena Barbir, Irum Shahzadi, and Christine Fürst 2023. 
"Social sustainability of residential squares: Evidence from Narmak neighborhood, Tehran. "
Habitat International. 136: 102811.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Hammad Badar, Azhar Abbas, Khalid Mushtaq, Thomas Dogot, Philippe Lebailly, Yenny Katherine Parra-Acosta, Hossein Azadi, David López-Carr. 2023. 
"Unraveling Consumer Preferences and Segments: Implications for Pakistan’s Mandarin Industry Development through Market Relocation. "
Land. 12 (5), 953
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
López-Carr, David, Sadie J. Ryan, and Matthew L. Clark. 2022. 
"Global Economic and Diet Transitions Drive Latin American and Caribbean Forest Change during the First Decade of the Century: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Environmental Drivers of Local Forest Cover Change. "
Land 11.3: 326.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
López-Carr, D., Ryan, S. J., & Clark, M. L. 2022. 
"Global Economic and Diet Transitions Drive Latin American and Caribbean Forest Change during the First Decade of the Century: A Multi-Scale Analysis of Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Environmental Drivers of Local Forest Cover Change. "
Land, 11(3), 326.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Wanting Peng, Zhiduo Zhang, Geng He, Xiuyu Liu, Wei Wang, Cai Yongli, David López-Carr. 2022. 
"Integrating potential land use conflict into ecological security pattern to response to land use/cover changes at a county scale in Yangtze River Delta, China. "
Frontiers in Earth Science. 10, 875433.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
López-Carr, D., Jennifer Vanos, Armando Sánchez-Vargas, Río Vargas, and Federico Castillo. 2022. 
"Extreme heat and COVID-19: a dual burden for farmworkers. "
Frontiers in public health 10.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Stoler, J., Pearson, A.L., Rosinger, A.Y., Lee, A.E., Bombardi, R., Brewis, A., Keough, S.B., López‐Carr, D., Shrader, C.H., Stauber, C.E. and Stevenson, E.G. 2022. 
"The role of water in environmental migration. "
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water: e1584.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Susanne Sokolow, UC Santa Barbara and Stanford University, Kris Murray, Imperial College, Giulio De Leo, Stanford University, Michele Barry, Stanford University, David Lopez-Carr, UC Santa Barbara eds. 2022. 
"Planetary Health Impacts of Pandemic Coronaviruses. "
Frontiers Research Topics. E-book. Pp. 123. ISBN 978-2-83250-006-4
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
David López-Carr, Greta Brablec, Kevin M. Mwenda, Narcisa G. Pricope, Ingrid Teich, Maria Angelica Fernandez, Monica Noon, Gabriel Daldegan, Alex Zvoleff. 2022. 
"A Review of Pilot Country Workshop sin Support of UNCCD Strategic Objectives (SO) 1, 2, and 3: A case study testing the usefulness of the datasets and approaches suggested to monitor progress. Tools4LDN Technical Report on Monitoring Progress Towards UNCC"
Strategic Objectives 1-3. GEF project number 10230. Pp. 28.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Hopkins, Skylar R., Kevin D. Lafferty, Chelsea L. Wood, Sarah H. Olson, Julia C. Buck, Giulio A. De Leo, Kathryn J. Fiorella, David Lopez-Carr, et al. 2022 
"Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win–win solutions for conservation and human infectious disease control. Hopkins, Skylar R., Kevin D. Lafferty, Chelsea L. Wood, Sarah H. Olson, Julia C. Buck, Giulio A. De Leo, Kathryn J. Fiorella, David Lopez-"
Lancet Planetary Health. 6: e694–705
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Sokolow, S. H., Nova, N., Jones, I. J., Wood, C. L., Lafferty, K. D., Garchitorena, A., D. López-Carr ... & De Leo, G. A. 2022. 
"Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens: a global analysis. "
Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens: a global analysis. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
David Lopez-Carr, UC Santa Barbara, Susanne Sokolow, UC Santa Barbara and Stanford University, Giulio De Leo, Kris Murray, Imperial College, Stanford University, Michele Barry, Stanford University. 2022. 
"Planetary Health Impacts of Pandemic Coronaviruses. "
Frontiers in Public Health. 10:987167.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Pricope, N. G., Daldegan, G. A., Zvoleff, A., Mwenda, K. M., Noon, M., & Lopez‐Carr, D. 2022. 
"Operationalizing an integrative socio‐ecological framework in support of global monitoring of land degradation. "
Land Degradation & Development. 34 (1), 109-124
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Azzadi, H. et al. 2021. 
"Rethinking Resilient Agriculture: From Climate-Smart Agriculture to Vulnerable-Smart Agriculture. "
Journal of Cleaner Production.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Pricope, N.G. Mapes, K., Mwenda, K., Sokolow, S. and Lopez-Carr, D. 2021. 
"A Review of Publicly Available Geospatial Datasets and Indicators in Support of Drought Monitoring. "
Tools4LDN Technical Report on Monitoring Progress Towards UNCCD Strategic Objective 3. GEF project number 10230. Pp. 94.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Lund, Andrea J., et al. 2021. 
"Agricultural Innovations to Reduce the Health Impacts of Dams. "
Sustainability 13.4 (2021): 1869.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Lopez-Carr, D,  K., Mwenda, Mapes, K., Sokolow, S, Linghai Liu, Pricope, N.G. 2021. 
"A Review of Publicly Available Geospatial Datasets and Indicators in Support of UNCCD Strategic Objective (SO): To Improve Living Conditions of Populations Affected by Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought. "
Tools4LDN Technical Report on Monitoring Progress Towards UNCCD Strategic Objective 2. GEF project number 10230. Pp. 76.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Stephen ES Crook, Arielle Levine, David Lopez-Carr. 2021. 
"Perceptions and application of the ecosystem services approach among Pacific Northwest National Forest managers. "
Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1259.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Lund, Andrea PhD MPH; David H. Rehkopf, ScD; Susanne H. Sokolow, PhD DVM; M. Moustapha Sam, MEd; Nicolas Jouanard, MS; Anne-Marie Schacht, MS; Simon Senghor; Assane Fall; Gilles Riveau, PhD; Giulio A. De Leo, PhD; David Lopez-Carr. 2021. 
"PhDLand use impacts on parasitic infection: a cross-sectional epidemiological study on the role of irrigated agriculture in schistosome infection in a dammed landscape. "
Infectious Diseases of Poverty 10:1: 1-10
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
David López-Carr. 2021.
"Small farmer land use and deforestation in tropical forest frontiers: Implications for conservation and sustainable livelihoods. "
Land 10(11), 1113
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Qi Wen, J.Li,, Kevin Mwenda, Daniel Ervin, Maya Chaterjee, David Lopez-Carr. 2021. 
"Coal exploitation and income inequality: Testing the resource curse with econometric analyses of household survey data from northwestern China. "
Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy 53 (1), 452-469.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Jones, Isabel J., et al. 2020. 
"Improving rural health care reduces illegal logging and conserves carbon in a tropical forest."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.45 (2020): 28515-28524.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Peng, Wanting, David López-Carr, Chengzhao Wu, Xin Wang, and Travis Longcore. 2020. 
"What factors influence the willingness of Protected Area communities to relocate? China's ecological relocation policy for Dashanbao Protected Area. "
Science of the Total Environment. 138364
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Quimby, Barbara, Stephen E. S. Crook, Karly Marie Miller, Jorge Ruiz, and David Lopez-Carr. 2020. 
"Identifying, defining and exploring angling as urban subsistence: Pier fishing in Santa Barbara, California. "
Marine Policy.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Toure, Sory, John Weeks, David Lopez-Carr, and Douglas Stow. 2020. 
"Evaluating links between dynamic urban landscapes and under-five child mortality in Accra, Ghana. "
Demographic Research  Demographic Research (42)589-614
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Elwell, T. L., López-Carr, D., Gelcich, S., & Gaines, S. D. 2020. 
"The importance of cultural ecosystem services in natural resource-dependent communities: Implications for management. "
Ecosystem Services, (44)101123–101136
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
D. Ervin, D. López-Carr,, F. Riosmena, S.J. Ryan. 2020. 
"Examining the relationship between migration and forest cover change in Mexico from 2001 to 2010."
Land Use Policy.  91: 104334
Research Themes:
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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Sory I. Touré, John R. Weeks, David Lopez-Carr, and Douglas Stow. 2020. 
"Evaluating links between dynamic urban landscapes and under-five child mortality in Accra, Ghana"
Demographic Research, Volume 42, Article 20, Pages 589-614.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
X Yu Hsin Tsai, Douglas A. Stow, David Lopez-Carr, John R. Weeks, Keith C. Clarke, and Foster Mensah, 2019. 
"Monitoring Forest Cover Change Within Different Reserve Types in Southern Ghana."
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Lopez-Carr, D., Kimbombo, R., Ondego, D., Asiimwe, W. 2018. 
"Health of the People and Environment in the Lake Victoria Basin."
(HOPE-LVB) Evaluation.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
In Press. Ervin D., Tuholske, C., and D. López-Carr. 2018.
"The Geography of Malnutrition."
Food and Place: A Critical Exploration, edited by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Elwell, T.L., Gelcich, S., Gaines, S.D., Lopez-Carr, D. 2018. 
"Using people's perceptions of ecosystem services to guide modeling and management efforts."
Volumes 637-638, Pages 1014-1025.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Sokolow, Susanne H., Isabel J. Jones, Merlijn Jocque, Diana La, Olivia Cords, Anika Knight, Jonathan Fisk, Andrea Lund, Chelsea L. Wood, Kevin D. Lafferty, Armand M. Kuris, Justin Remais, Chris Hoover, Phillip A. Collender, David Lopez-Carr, and Giulio A. De Leo. 2017.
"Nearly 400 million people are at higher risk of schistosomiasis because dams block the migration of snail-eating river prawns."
http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/royptb/372/1722/20160127
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Ervin, Daniel, Cascade Tuholske, and David López-Carr. 2017 in press.
"Hunger: poverty, inequality, and vulnerability."
Food and Place: A Critical Exploration, edited by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Ervin, Daniel, Erin Hamilton, and David López-Carr. In press.
"Vulnerability and Resilience: Health, Health Care, and Health Research of Migrants."
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
López-Carr, David, Aracely Martinez, Richard E. Bilsborrow and Thomas M. Whitmore. 2017.
"Geographical and individual determinants of rural out-migration to a tropical forest protected area: the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala."
European Journal of Geography. (8)2. http://www.eurogeographyjournal.eu/articles/5.Geographical%20and%20indiv
Research Themes:
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Ervin, D., Lopez-Carr, D. 2017. 
"Linkages among Population, Food Production, and the Environment at Multiple Scales."
Journal of International & Global Studies, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p1-17. 17p.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Tuholske, C., Tane, Z., López-Carr, D., Roberts, D., & Cassels, S. 2017.
"Thirty Years of Land Use/Cover Change in the Caribbean: Assessing the Relationship between Urbanization and Mangrove Loss in Roatán, Honduras"
Applied Geography, 88, 84-93.
Hamilton, Erin, Daniel Ervin, and David López-Carr, eds. In press.
"Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies."
Edited Volume.
Research Themes:
Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Aukema, Juliann, Narcisa G. Pricope Gregory Husak, and David López-Carr. 2017.
"Biodiversity areas under threat: overlap of climate change and population pressures on the world's biodiversity priorities."
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0170615 
Research Themes:
Biodemography and Evolution
Ervin D., Tuholske, C., and D. López-Carr. 2017. 
"Global Hunger."
Food and Place: A Critical Exploration, edited by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Lopez-Carr, David and Daniel Ervin. 2017 in press.   
"Population-Health-Environment (PHE) Synergies? Evidence from Africa and Asia."
The European Journal of Geography. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Ervin, Daniel and David López-Carr. In press.
"An evaluation of serious games and computer-based learning on student outcomes in university level geographic education."
European Journal of Geography. (8)3.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Sokolow, S.H., I.J. Jones, M. Jocque, D. La,, O. Cords, A. Knight, A. Lund, C.L. Wood, K.D. Lafferty, C.M. Hoover, and P.A. Collender, J. Remais, D. López-Carr, J. Fisk, M. Kuris, G. De Leo. 2017.
"Water, dams, and prawns: novel ecological solutions for the control and elimination of schistosomiasis."
http://thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)31132-7/f…  The Lancet, 389, p.S20.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Ervin, D., Hamilton, ER,. Lopez-Carr,. D. 2017. 
"Blessed be the Ties: Health and Healthcare for Migrant Families in the United States."
International Migration, 55(5), 5-7.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Pan, WK., & Lopez-Carr, D. 2016. 
"Land use as a mediating factor of the Proximate Determinants of Fertility in rural Amazonia."
Population and Environment. 1-26.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
López-Carr, D., Mwenda K.M.,  Pricope N.G., Kyriakidis P.C., Jankowska M.M., Weeks J., Funk C., Husak G., Michaelsen J. 2016. 
"Climate-Related Child Undernutrition in the Lake Victoria Basin: An Integrated Spatial Analysis of Health Surveys, NDVI, and Precipitation Data."
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. 9 (6):  2830 - 2835. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Tuholske C., López-Carr D., and D. Roberts. In press. 
"Anthropogenic impacts on Roatán, Honduras: 30 Years of Land-Cover and Land-Use Change."
Plurimondi. An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements: Special Issue: Proceedings of The XIX European Colloquium in Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG2015).
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Magdalena Benza, John R. Weeks, Douglas A. Stow, David López-Carr, Keith C. Clarke. 2016. 
"A pattern-based definition of urban context using remote sensing and GIS."
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 183: 250-264
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Parra, E., Ruiz-Linares, J.,Lopez-Carr, D. 2016 in press. 
"Una visión geográfica a los parques urbanos de Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia."
Perspectiva Geográfica. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Ervin, Daniel and David López-Carr. Forthcoming.
"Feeding the World: Population, Resources and Food"
in The International Handbook of Food and Environment: Towards Sustainable Food Systems, edited by Colin Sage. London:  Routledge.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Jaime Speed Rossiter, Giorgio Hadi Curti, Christopher M Moreno, David Lopéz-Carr. (2015) 
"Marine-space assemblages: Towards a different praxis of fisheries policy and management"
Applied Geography. Pergamon. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
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M. Benza, JR Weeks, DA Stow, KC Clarke, D, López-Carr (2015). 
"Fertility and Urban Context: A Case Study from West Africa Using Remotely Sensed Imagery and GIS."
Papers of the 2012 Population Association of America Annual Conference. May 3-5, San Diego, CA 
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Population Health and Environment
Link
Marcellus Caldus, Matthew Sanderson Jason Bergtold, David Haukos; Jessica Heier Stamm Martha Mather Melinda Daniels; Aleksey Sheshukov, David López-Carr (2015 - In Press). 
"Culture into Sustainability Science Research and Policy."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
K. Mwenda, P. Kyriakidis, D. López-Carr (2015).
"Exploring HIV prevalence estimates using fine-scale population estimates: Evidence from three Tanzanian districts."
Plurimondi. An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements. Vol 7, No 15: Special Issue: Proceedings of The XIX European Colloquium in Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG2015) (Article pre-print). Vol 7, No 15: 1-8. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
A. Lopez-Carr, D. López-Carr, L. Grant, J. Weeks (2015).
"Using Spatial, Hierarchical, and Econometric Models in Urban Data-poor Areas to Examine Food Security."
Plurimondi. An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements. Special Issue: Proceedings of The XIX European Colloquium in Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG2015) (Article pre-print). Vol 7, No 15: 1-8.  
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Arielle Sarah Levine, Laurie Richmond,David Lopez-Carr. (2015) 
"Marine resource management: Culture, livelihoods, and governance"
Applied Geography.Volume 59, Pages 56-59
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Shannon Gleeson, David López-Carr, (2015). 
"What are the determinants of immigrant health?: Introduction to Special Issue on Migration and Health."
Field Actions Science Reports. The journal of field actions. Issue 13, Pages 1-4.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Maryam Alaeddini, David López-Carr (2015). 
"Why Has Iran's Family Planning Policy Been So Successful? Political, Demographic, Socio-economic, and Cultural-Geographical Underpinnings of a Dramatic Fertility Transition."
Rural Studies.(2)38: 111-128.
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Population Health and Environment
S. Toure, D. Stow, L. Coulter, A. Sanborn, D. López-Carr (2015).
"Land Cover/Land Use Change analysis using multi-spatial resolution data and object-based image analysis."
Plurimondi. An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements. Vol 7, No 15: Special Issue: Proceedings of The XIX European Colloquium in Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG2015) (Article pre-print). Vol 7, No 15: 1-5.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
David López-Carr, Kevin M. Mwenda, Narcisa G. Pricope, Phaedon C. Kyriakidis, Marta M. Jankowska, John Weeks, Chris Funk, Gregory Husak, and Joel Michaelsen. 2015.  
"A spatial statistical analysis of climate-related child malnutrition in the lake victoria basin."
Proceedings of the 2015 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium(IGARSS) Conference. Milan, Italy. pp. 2564-25-67.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
López-Carr, D., & Marter-Kenyon, J. (2015). 
"Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement."
Nature, 517: 265-267.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Carla Guenther, David López-Carr, Hunter S Lenihan. (2015) 
"Differences in lobster fishing effort before and after MPA establishment"
Applied Geography. Volume 59, Pages 78-87. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
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Ervin, Daniel and David López-Carr.
"Agricultural Inputs, Outputs, and Population Density at the Country-Level in Latin America: Decadal Changes Augur Challenges for Sustained Food Production and Forest Conservation."
Interdisciplinary Environmental Review (IER) 16(1): 63-76. 2015.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Chen, Hai, D. López-Carr, et al. (2015). 
"China's Grain for Green Policy and Farm Dynamics: Simulating Household Land-use Responses."
Regional Environmental Change. (DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0826-x)
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
C. Tuholske, D. López-Carr, Dar Robers (2015). 
"Anthropomorphic impacts on Roatán, Honduras: 30 Years of Land-Cover and Land-Use Change."
Plurimondi. An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements. Vol 7, No 15: Special Issue: Proceedings of The XIX European Colloquium in Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG2015) (Article pre-print). Vol 7, No 15: 1-7. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Davis, J., Lopez-Carr D.
"Migration, remittances and smallholder decision-making: implications for land use and livelihood change in Central America."
Land Use Policy. 36: 319-329. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
López-Carr, D., N.G. Pricope, J. Aukema, C. Funk, M. Jankowska, G. Husak, and J. Michaelsen. 
"A spatial analysis of population dynamics and climate change in Africa: Potential vulnerability hot spots emerge where precipitation declines and demographic pressures coincide."
Population and Environment. 35 (3), 323-339.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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McCarthy, J., D. López-Carr, C. Chen, and B. Walker.2014.
"Socio-cultural dimensions of climate change: charting the terrain."
GeoJournal. April, 1-11.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
López-Carr, D. and D. Phillips. Forthcoming. 
"Place Utility"
in Encyclopedia of Migration, Ed. Michael White. Springer.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Yongjin Li, David López-Carr, Wenjiang Chen. (2014) 
"Factors Affecting Migration Intentions in Ecological Restoration Areas and Their Implications for the Sustainability of Ecological Migration Policy in Arid Northwest China"
Sustainability. Volume 6, Issue 12, Pages 8639-8660, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
Link
Chen, C., D. López-Carr, and B. Walker. 2014. 
"A framework to assess the vulnerability of California commercial sea urchin fishermen to the impact of MPAs under climate change."
GeoJournal. March, 1-19.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Bremer, L., K. A. Farley, D. López-Carr, and J. Romero. 2014. 
"Conservation and livelihood outcomes of payment for ecosystem services in the Ecuadorian Andes: What is the potential for 'win-win'?"
Ecosystem Services, Volume 8, June 2014, Pages 148-165, ISSN 2212-0416.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
López-Carr, D. and D. Ervin. Forthcoming. 
"Population, Poverty, and the Nutrition Transition"
in The International Handbook of Food and Environment: Towards sustainable food systems. Ed. Colin Sage.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Chen, C., & Lopez-Carr, D. (2014). 
"The importance of place: Unraveling the vulnerability of fisherman livelihoods to the impact of marine protected areas"
Applied Geography.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
López-Carr, A. and D. López-Carr. 2014. 
"Environment and Food or Population, Health, Environment, and Food?"
Sociologia Ruralis.54 (1), 101-104.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Link
Walker, B., D. López-Carr, C. Chen, and K. Currier. 2014. 
"Perceptions of environmental change in Moorea, French Polynesia: the importance of temporal, spatial, and scalar contexts."
GeoJournal. March, 1-15.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
de Sherbinin, A., D. López-Carr, S. Cassels, L. Jiang, A. Lopez-Carr, K.M. Miller. Mark McGinley, Editor-in-Chief. 2014. 
"Population Environment Theory and Contemporary Applications"
Encyclopedia of the Earth.  Washington, D.C., Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment. 24pp.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Zvoleff, A., S. Wandersee, L. An, D. López-Carr. 2014. 
"Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC)."
Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. New York: Oxford University Press.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
López-Carr, D. and J. Burgdorfer.
"Deforestation Drivers: Population, Migration, and Tropical Land Use."
Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. (55)1: 3-11. 2013.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Pricope, N., L. Pardo, D. López-Carr.
"Vulnerability to Climate Change."
 In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
A. López-Carr, D. López-Carr, L. Grant, and J. Weeks. 
"The spaces and places of food security: learning from spatial, hierarchical, and econometric models in urban data-poor areas."
Proceedings of the 2013 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 10.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Link
Suter, L.K. and D. López-Carr. 
"Land cover change and ownership turnover in the agricultural frontier: the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala."
Proceedings of the 2013 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 11.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Murtinho, F., H. Eakin, D. Lopez-Carr, and T. Hayes. 
"Does external funding help adaptation? Evidence from community-based water management in the Colombian Andes."
Environmental Management, 1-12. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Bremmer, L., K. Farley, and D. López-Carr. 2013.
"What factors influence participation in Payment for Ecosystem Services programs? An evaluation of Ecuador's SocioPáramo program."
Land Use Policy. 36:122-133.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Ervin, D. A. López-Carr, D. López-Carr.
"The Nutrition Transition"
Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 21. 2013.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Link
Aide, TM, M. Clark, R. Grau, D. López-Carr, D. Redo, M. Bonilla, M. Levy.
"The deforestation and reforestation of Latin America and the Caribbean (2001-2010)"
Biotropica. 45(2): 262-271. 2013.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
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Link
Bremner, J., D. López-Carr, A. Zvoleff, and N. Pricope. 
"Using new methods and data to assess and address population, fertility, and environment links in the Lake Victoria Basin."
Proceedings of the 2013 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 15. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
López-Carr, D. 
"Do Population-Health-Environment (PHE) initiatives work? Evidence from WWF-sponsored projects in Africa and Asia."
Proceedings of theInternational Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 6. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Pricope, N.G., G. Husak, C. Funk, D. López-Carr, and J. Michaelsen. 2013.
"The climate-population nexus in the East African Horn: emerging degradation trends in rangeland and pastoral livelihood zones."
Global Environmental Change 23 (6), 1525-1541.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Rossiter, J., D. López-Carr.
"Marine Conservation and Fisheries"
Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
López-Carr, D., Ervin, D., A. López-Carr (2013). 
"The effects of population and land cover change on food security in Latin America from 1961 -2011."
Proceedings of the 2013 International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 7. 
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Côrtes, J.C., L.K. Suter, A. D'Antona, and D. López-Carr. 
"Population mobility and land fragmentation: land use-cover change in Brazil and Guatemala."
Proceedings of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).Busan, Korea, August, 2013. Pp. 4.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Murtinho, F., C. Tague, B. de Bievre, H. Eakin, and D. López-Carr. 2013.
"Water Scarcity in the Andes: A Comparison of Local Perceptions and Observed Climate, Land Use and Socioeconomic Changes."
Human Ecology: 1-15.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Link
Cheon, So-Min, D. Brown, K. Kok, D. López-Carr
"Mixed Methods in Land Change Research: Towards Integration"
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. (37) 1:8-12. 2012.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
PDF
Ervin, D and D Lopez-Carr.
"A Geriatric Fountain of Youth in the Caucuses or Spurious Census Data: Spooning through the Yogurt Myth"
Journal of Rural Studies. (27): 135-149. 2012.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
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Coordinating lead authors: M. A. Levy and A. C. Morel; Lead authors: S. B. Adamo, J. Barr, C. P. McMullen, T. Dietz, D. Lopez-Carr and E. A. Rosa; Contributing authors: A. Crawford, E. R. Desombre, M. Gluschankoff, K. Goulias, J. Jabbour, Y. Kim, D. L. Debucquet, A. R. Moreno, S. Msangi, M. Paterson, B. Punsalmaa, R. Tomalty and C. Townsend.
"Drivers."
Fifth Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5). Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): 3-30. 2012.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Honzak, C., D. López-Carr.
"Conservation and Family Planning: What is the Value of Integrating Family Planning into Conservation Projects?"
Papers of the 2012 Population Association of America Annual Conference. May 3-5, San Francisco, CA.
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Clark, M., J. Davis, López-Carr, D., M. Jankowska, L. Grant, A.C. López-Carr, M. Clark
"Space versus Place in Complex Human-Natural Systems: Spatial and Multi-level Models of Tropical Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) in Guatemala"
Ecological Modeling. 2012
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
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Guenther, C, H. Lenihan, L. Grant, D. López-Carr, D. Reed
"Trophic Cascased Induces by Lobster Fishing Are Not Ubiquitous in Suothern California Kelp Forests."
Plos One, November 2012, Volume 7, Issue 11.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
PDF
Suter, L. and D. López-Carr.
"Beyond the middle of nowhere: out-migration from the agricultural frontier in the Sierra del Lacandón National Park, Guatemala."
Proceedings of the Latin American Studies 2012 International Congress. pp 1-25. 2012.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
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An, L., D. López-Carr.
"Modeling Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Research Directions."
Ecological Modeling. (229)1-4. 2012.
Research Themes:
Family Demography, Population Health and Environment
An, Li, Sarah M. Wandersee, David López-Carr, Yeqin Yang.
"Perception and Decisions in Modeling Coupled Human and Natural Systems: A Case Study from Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, China"
Ecological Modeling. (229) 37-49. 2012.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
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Coordinating lead authors: T. Evans, C. Hunsberger; Lead authors: T. M. Aide, J. Albaladejo Montoro, S. M. Borras Jr., H. F. del Valle, T. Devisscher, J. Jabbour, S. Kant, D. Lopez-Carr, H. Masundire, N. G. Pricope (GEO Fellow) and R. Sanchez-Rodriguez; Contributing authors: M. T. Abdelhamid, B. Alfthan, F. Ayache, A. A. Berhe, C. Chinweze, J. Frelichova, L. Hislop, W. K. Pan, B.Schulte-Herbruggen, J. Smith, C. Souza Jr.,T. L. Timmins (GEO Fellow) and L. C. Zulu.
"Part I: Assessment of the State and Trends of the Global Environment. Chapter 1: Land."
Fifth Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-5). Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP): 65-96. 2012.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
Jankowska, M., D. López-Carr.
"Climate Change and Human Health: Contextual and Compositional Effects of Climate, Livelihoods, and Population Change on Child Malnutrition in Mali, Africa."
Papers of the 2012 Population Association of America Annual Conference. May 3-5, San Francisco, CA. 2012.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Bremner, J., J. Davis, D.L. Carr.
"Population Growth, Ecology, and Poverty."
In Integrating Ecology and Poverty Reduction. J. C. Ingram, F. DeClerck and C. Rumbaitis del Rio eds., Springer: New York. Pp. 65-78. 2012.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
Dalal, Pamela, Ian Jones, David López-Carr.
"Responding to Rural Health Disparities in the United States: The Geography of Emergency Care And Telemedical Technology"
Netcom. Issue 25, 3-4: 273-290. 2011.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment
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Chafe, Zoë A, Marta M. Jankowska, David Lopez-Carr, Chris Funk, Gregory J Husak.
"Climate Change and Human Health: Spatial Modeling of Water Availability, Malnutrition, and Livelihoods in Mali, Africa"
Applied Geography. 33:4-15. 2011.
Research Themes:
Education and Health, Population Health and Environment, Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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Eakin, Hallie, Elisa Frank, David Lopez-Carr
"Social identity, perception and motivation in adaptation to climate risk in the coffee sector of Chiapas, Mexico"
Global Environmental Change (21)1 : 66-76. 2011.
Research Themes:
Population Health and Environment
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