Research
Environment Population
"Fertility and Urban Context: A Case Study from Ghana, West Africa, Using Remotely Sensed Imagery and GIS."
Population, Space and Place, DOI: 10.1002/psp.2062.
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"Why We Yearn for the Simple Life. "The Sexual Allure of Simplicity.""
Published online: http://www.sapiens.org/debate/sex-simplicity/
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"Global Hunger."
Food and Place: A Critical Exploration, edited by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield.
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"Development and field validation of a community-engaged particulate matter air quality monitoring network in Imperial, California, USA."
Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association,67(12).https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2017.1369471
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"Blessed be the Ties: Health and Healthcare for Migrant Families in the United States."
International Migration, 55(5), 5-7.
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"Regional analytics."
Annals of Regional Science 59, 1-13 (DOI: 10.1007/s00168-017-0825-6).
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"Population-Health-Environment (PHE) Synergies? Evidence from Africa and Asia."
The European Journal of Geography.
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"Blessed be the Ties: Health and Healthcare for Migrants and Migrant Families in the United States."
International Migration.
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"Tree shade coverage optimization in an urban residential environment."
Building and Environment 115, 269-280.
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"Location analysis: developments on the horizon."
Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2: Methodological Advance, Regional Systems Modeling and Open Science, edited by R. Jackson and P. Shaeffer, 193-208 (Springer).
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"An evaluation of serious games and computer-based learning on student outcomes in university level geographic education."
European Journal of Geography. (8)3.
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"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.
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"Improving health information systems in Guatemala using weighted correlation network analysis."
GHTC 2016 - IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference: Technology for the Benefit of Humanity, Conference Proceedings. http://doi.org/10.1109/GHTC.2016.7857353
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"Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program."
American Economic Review, Volume 107, Number 10, pp. 2958-89.
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"Traffic-Related Air Pollution and All-Cause Mortality during Tuberculosis Treatment in California."
Environmental Health Perspectives,125(9). https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1699
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"Linkages among Population, Food Production, and the Environment at Multiple Scales."
Journal of International & Global Studies, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p1-17. 17p.
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"Ethnographies of Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice."
Annual Review of Sociology.
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"Hunger: poverty, inequality, and vulnerability."
Food and Place: A Critical Exploration, edited by Pascale Joassart-Marcelli and Fernando Bosco. Washington, DC: Rowman and Littlefield.
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"An object-based temporal inversion approach to urban land use change analysis."
Remote Sensing Letters.
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"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).
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"Essential Air Service in the United States: exploring strategies to enhance spatial and operational efficiencies."
International Regional Science Review 39, 108-130.
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"Spatial uncertainty in cluster detection."
Spatial Information Research 24, 181-189.
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"Assessing raster GIS approximation for Euclidean shortest path routing."
Transactions in GIS 20, 570-584.
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"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.
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"Classification and assessment of land cover and land use change in southern Ghana using dense stacks of Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery."
Remote Sensing Environment.
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"Latent Trajectory Modeling of Spatiotemporal Relationships between Land Cover and Land Use, Socioeconomics, and Obesity in Ghana."
Spatial Demography.
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"A global systematic review of Chagas disease prevalence among migrants."
Acta Tropica.
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"Una visión geográfica a los parques urbanos de Tunja, Boyacá, Colombia."
Perspectiva Geográfica.
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"Public street lighting service standard assessment and achievement."
Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 53.
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"Comparative approaches for assessing access to alcohol outlets: exploring the utility of a gravity potential approach."
Population Health Metrics 14, 25 (DOI: 10.1186/s12963-016-0097-x).
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"Equity in regional access to renal dialysis in Brazil."
Regional Science Policy & Practice 8, 27-44.
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"A parallel algorithm for coverage optimization on multi-core architectures."
International Journal of Geographical Information Science 30, 432-450.
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"Children and Climate Change: Introducing the Issue (with J. Currie)."
Future of Children, Spring 2016, Volume 26, Number 1, pp. 3-9
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"The New Political Cultures of Opposition and Creation in the Global Youth Climate Justice Movement."
Ecological Resistance Movements in the 21st Century: The Continuing Global Struggle for Biocultural Survival and Multispecies Justice, edited by Bron Taylor, Ursula Münster, and Joseph Witt. *equal authorship
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"A pattern-based definition of urban context using remote sensing and GIS."
Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 183: 250-264
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"Inter-regional pattern of urbanization in southern Ghana in the first decade of the new millennium."
Journal of Applied Geography.
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"Determining the Type and Starting Time of Land Cover and Land Use Change in Ghana Based on Discrete Analysis of Dense Landsat Image Time Series."
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), .
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"Land use as a mediating factor of the Proximate Determinants of Fertility in rural Amazonia."
Population and Environment. 1-26.
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"Spatial uncertainty challenges in location modeling with dispersion requirements."
Spatial Analysis and Location Modeling in Urban and Regional Systems, edited by J.-C. Thill (New York: Springer).
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"Optimization model for the sustainable water resource management of river basins."
Water Resources Management 30, 3247-3264.
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"Obstacle-avoiding shortest path derivation in a multicore computing environment."
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 55, 1-10.
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"Demographics, Health Drivers & Impacts on Land Cover and Land Use Change in Ghana."
Stephen J. Walsh, editor, Comprehensive Remote Sensing, Volume 9, Remote Sensing Applications for Societal Benefits (Oxford: Elsevier).
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"Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century (with A. Barreca, K. Clay, M. Greenstone, and J. Shapiro)"
Journal of Political Economy, February 2016, Volume 124, Number 1, pp. 105-159
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"Tactics in the Grassroots of the Climate Justice Movement."
Universal Resistance, edited by Charles Derber. Routledge. (book title subject to change).
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"Spatiotemporal Variation in the Relationship Between Landscape Simplification and Insecticide Use."
Ecological Applications
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"Culture into Sustainability Science Research and Policy."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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"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.
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"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.
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"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.
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"The Effect of Pollution on Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Mexico City, with Rema Hanna"
Journal of Public Economics, 122: 65-79.
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"Agency, Access, and Anopheles: Neighborhood health perceptions and the implications for community health interventions in Accra, Ghana."
Global Health Action, 8(http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v8.26492).
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"Scholar Activism and Reciprocity: The Fight Against Fracking in Idaho."
Practicing Anthropology38(3):28-30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552-38.3.28
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"Decolonizing the White Space in Urban Ethnography."
City and Community.
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"Quantifying Spatial Uncertainty of Population Estimates: Evidence from three Tanzanian districts, Plurimondi."
An International Forum for Research and Debate on Human Settlements. 8(17): 215-221.
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"Marine-space assemblages: Towards a different praxis of fisheries policy and management"
Applied Geography. Pergamon.
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"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
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"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.
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"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.
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"Solidarity for Feminist Climate Justice"
The Feminist Wire, April 27
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"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.
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"Moving up the Energy Ladder: The Effect of an Increase in Economic Well-being on the Fuel Consumption Choices of the Poor in India, with Rema Hanna."
American Economic Review P&P, 105.5: 242-246.
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"The Train Has Left the Station: Latino Aging in the New South."
Chapter 4 in W.A. Vega, K.S. Markides, J.L. Angel, and F.M. Torres-Gil, F.M., editors, Challenges of Latino Aging in the Americas (Dordrecht: Springer).
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"Convergence in Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from High Temperatures and Mortality, 1900-2004 (with A. Barreca, K. Clay, M. Greenstone, and J. Shapiro)."
American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2015, Volume 105, Number 5, pp. 247-251
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"Land cover and landscape changes in Shaanxi Province during China's Green for Green Program (2000-2010)."
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment187(10): 1-14.
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"Marine resource management: Culture, livelihoods, and governance"
Applied Geography.Volume 59, Pages 56-59
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"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.
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"China's Grain for Green Policy and Farm Dynamics: Simulating Household Land-use Responses."
Regional Environmental Change. (DOI: 10.1007/s10113-015-0826-x)
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"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.
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"Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE."
Water Resour. Res.. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/2015WR017349.
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"Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortatity Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City, with Rema Hanna and Eva Arceo."
The Economic Journal.
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"Mapping slums using spatial features in Accra, Ghana."
Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2015: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JURSE.2015.7120494
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"Correlates of land use and livelihood change among maize farming households in Mexico."
World Development 70, 78-91.
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"Green Jobs."
In International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, edited by James D. Wright, 2015, pp. 372-378
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"COMMENT: Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement."
Nature. 517: 265-267 (15 January 2015) * co-first authors
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"Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement."
Nature, 517: 265-267.
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"Differences in lobster fishing effort before and after MPA establishment"
Applied Geography. Volume 59, Pages 78-87.
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"Population and Land Use"
In Erika Zavaleta and Harold Mooney, Eds. Ecosytems of California (Berkeley: University of California Press. [Population-Environment Interactions] 2014.
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"At the COP: Global Climate Justice Youth Speak Out."
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"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.
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"Socio-cultural dimensions of climate change: charting the terrain."
GeoJournal. April, 1-11.
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"Place Utility"
in Encyclopedia of Migration, Ed. Michael White. Springer.
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"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
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"The World Can't Support Its Current Population Without Inequality and Poverty."
World Geography: Understanding a Changing World (http://worldgeography2.abc-clio.com/).
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"Women Working on a Fair Flower Farm in Ecuador: An Ethnographic Study."
In SAGE Research Methods Cases. London, United Kingdom: SAGE Publications, Ltd. doi:
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"Examining the link between food price and food insecurity: A multi-level analysis of maize price and birthweight in Kenya."
Food Policy, 46: 56-65.
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"A framework to assess the vulnerability of California commercial sea urchin fishermen to the impact of MPAs under climate change."
GeoJournal. March, 1-19.
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"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.
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"Population, Poverty, and the Nutrition Transition"
in The International Handbook of Food and Environment: Towards sustainable food systems. Ed. Colin Sage.
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"The importance of place: Unraveling the vulnerability of fisherman livelihoods to the impact of marine protected areas"
Applied Geography.
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"Temperature, Human Health, and Adaptation."
A Review of the Empirical Literature, Energy Economics, November 2014, Volume 46, pp. 606-619
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"Migration, remittances and smallholder decision-making: implications for land use and livelihood change in Central America."
Land Use Policy. 36: 319-329.
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"Removing biases in forecasts of fisheries status."
Journal of Bioeconomics.
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"Environmental Regulations and Labor Markets"
IZA World of Labor.
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"Environment and Food or Population, Health, Environment, and Food?"
Sociologia Ruralis.54 (1), 101-104.
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"Perceptions of environmental change in Moorea, French Polynesia: the importance of temporal, spatial, and scalar contexts."
GeoJournal. March, 1-15.
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"Population Environment Theory and Contemporary Applications"
Encyclopedia of the Earth. Washington, D.C., Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment. 24pp.
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"Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC)."
Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. New York: Oxford University Press.
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"The political demography of U.S.-Cuba relations."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/12/18/the-polit….
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"Does external funding help adaptation? Evidence from community-based water management in the Colombian Andes."
Environmental Management, 1-12.
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"What factors influence participation in Payment for Ecosystem Services programs? An evaluation of Ecuador's SocioPáramo program."
Land Use Policy. 36:122-133.
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