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Geography
Programs
The Graduate School of Geography offers a major, minor and electives for undergraduates and a Ph.D. program. Qualified Clark undergraduates can take advantage of an accelerated fifth year program that leads to a B.A./M.A. in Geographic Information Science. An M.A. in Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment is available through a shared program with the Department of International Development, Community and Environment.

Graduate Student Publications

2010

Kolden, C. A.  and T.J. Brown (Accepted, Jan. 2010) Beyond Wildfire: Perspectives of Climate, Managed Fire and Policy in the U.S.A., International Journal of Wildland Fire.

2009

City, C, "Legal Geography, Water and the Environment" in Forest, P (ed.), Géographie du Droit: Épistémologie, Développement et Perspectives, Les Presses de l’Université Laval (2009).

Ghimire, B, J. Rogan and J. Miller, In Press, Contextual land-cover random forests and the Getis Statistic, International Journal of Remote Sensing (accepted).

Hawkins, R and J. Seager In Press Gender and Water In Mongolia. The Professional Geographer.

Huber, M.T. and Emel, Jody 2009 Fixed minerals, scalar politics: The weight of scale in conflicts over the '1872 Mining Act' in the United States, Environment and Planning A 41 (2): 371-388.

Huber, M.T. Energizing historical materialism: Fossil fuels, space and the capitalist mode of production, Geoforum 40(1): 105-115

Huber, M.T. The use of gasoline: Value, oil and the "American way of life", Antipode 41(3): 465-486.

Jones, B, C.A. Kolden, R. Jandt, J.T. Abatzoglou, F URban and C. Arp. 2009, Fire behavior, weather and burn severity of the 2007 Anaktuvuk River tundra fire, North Slope, Alaska., Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 41(3): 309-316.

Goebel, A, R Fincham, T Hill and M Lawhon. In Press Transdisciplinarity in urban South Africa. Futures

R. G. Pontius, Jr and N Neeti In Press Uncertainty in the difference between maps of future land change scenarios. Sustainability Science

Kiran Asher and Diana Ojeda (equal contribution), 2009, "Producing nature and making the state: Ordenamiento territorial in the Pacific lowlands of Colombia, Geoforum, themed issue: Gramscian Political ecologies, Vol. 40, No. 3: 292-302.

Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y., H. Pearsall, Rakshit, R., 2009, "Concrete evidence & geographically weighted regression: A regional analysis of wealth and the land cover in Massachusetts." Applied Geography.

Pearsall, Hamil In Press Linking the Stressors and Stressing the Linkages: Human-Environment Vulnerability and Brownfield Redevelopment in New York City Environmental Hazards

Horner, Rory and Yuko Aoyama. "Limits to FDI-driven growth in Ireland: A newspaper content analysis for investment, upgrading and divestment." Irish Geography 42 No. 2 (July): 187-207

Rakshit, R. and Y. Ogneva-Himmelberger, 2009. "Teaching and Learning Guide for: Application of Virtual Globes in Education." Geography Compass. Volume 3 Issue 4, pages 1579-1595, Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Eastman, J.R., Sangermano F, Ghimire B, Zhu H, Chen H, Neeti N, Cai Y, Machado E.A. and Crema S.C. 2009 Seasonal Trend Analysis of Image Time Series.  International Journal of Remote Sensing 30(10): 2721-2726.

2008

Hayes-Conroy, Allison 2008. Taking Back Taste: Feminism, food, and visceral politics. Gender, Place, and Culture Vol. 15, Issue 5: 461-473.

Huber, M.T. From lifeblood to addiction: Oil, space adn the wage-relation in petro-capitalist USA, Human Geography 1(2): 42-45.

283 Collective (Ojeda, D.), "What's Just? Afterthoughts on the Summer Institute in the Geographies of Justice 2007", Antipode, Vol. 40, No. 5: 736-750.

Rakshit, R. and Ogneva Y., 2008, "Application of virtual globes in education.", 2008, Geography Compass, VL: 2, NO: 6, PG: 1995-2010. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Chapin III F.S., Trainor S., Huntington O., Lovecraft A., Zavaleta E., Natcher D., McGuire A.D., Nelson J., Ray L., Calef M., Fresco N., Huntington H., Rupp T.S., DeWilde L. and Naylor R. (2008).  Increasing wildfire in Alaska's Boreal Forest: Pathways to Potential Solutions of a Wicked Problem. BioScience 58(6): 531-540.

Radel, C. and Schmook, B. 2008 forthcoming. Mexican Male Transnational Migration and its Linkages to Land Use Change in a Southern Campeche Ejido. Journal of Latin American Geography 7(2).

B. Schmook and C. Radel. nd. forthcoming. International Labor Migration from a Tropical Development Frontier: Globalizing Households and Incipient Forest Transition The Southern Yucatán Case.  Human Ecology

Lippit, C.D., Rogan J., Toledano J., Sangermano, F., Mastro V. and Sawyer A. (2008). Incorporating Human Interaction Variables in a Non-paramteric Decision Support System to Predict Gypsy Moth Outbreak. Ecological Modeling 210 (3): 339-350.

Emel J. and Huber MT, 2008 "A Risky Business: Mining, Rent and the Neoliberalization of 'Risk'" Geoforum 39 (3): 1393-1407.

Amy Lind and Jill Williams. 2008. Afrianzando los derechos de las mujeres: militarizacion fronteriza, seguridad nacional y violencia contra las mujeres en la fontera Mexico-Estados Unidos. Mujeres y Escenarios Ciudadanos. Mercedes Prieto, editor, Quito: FLACSO-Ecuador

2007

Angel, D. P., Hamilton, T. and Huber, M.T. Global Environmental standards for industry, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 32: 295-316.

Kolden, C.A. and P.W. Weisberg. 2007. Assessing accuracy of manually-mapped wildfire perimeters in topographically dissected areas.  Fire Ecology 3 (1) : 22-31.

Kolden, C.A. and T. Weigel. 2007. Fire risk in San Diego County, California: A weighted Bayesian model approach.  The California Geographer 47 : 1-17.

Brown, T.J. and C.A. Kolden. 2007. The science of fire: new technologies at the Desert Research Institute make a difference in wildland fire management.  Wildland Firefighter, September 2007

J. Tupac Otero, Susan Aragon, and James D. Ackerman. 2007.  Site Variation in Spatial Aggregation and Phorophyte Preference in Psychilis monensis (Orchidaceae).  Biotropica 39(2): 227-231.

Pontius Jr., Robert Gilmore, Olufunmilayo Thontteh and Hao Chen.  in press.  Components of information for multiple resolution comparison between maps that share a real variable.  Environmental and Ecological Statistics.

H. F. M. Vester, D. Lawrence, J. R. Eastman, B. L. Turner II, S. Calme, R. Dickson, C. Pozo, F. Sangermano.  2007.  Land Change in the Southern Yucatán and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve:  Implications for Habitat and Biodiversity.  Ecological Applications  74 (4):989-1003.

Deborah G. Martin, Susan Hanson, and Danielle Fontaine. 2007 What Counts as Activism?  The Role of Individuals in Creating Change: Women's Studies Quarterly. 35 (3/4): 78-94.

Funke, Jayson J.  forthcoming.  Stock, Restricted and Unrestricted.  In The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.  2nd Ed.  Farmington Hills, MI:  Thomson/Gale.

Funke, Jayson J.  forthcoming.  Stock Options.  In The International Encyclopedia of Social Sciences, 2nd Ed.  Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson/Gale.

Hayes-Conroy, Allison.  2007.  Reconnecting Lives to the Land:  An Agenda for Critical Dialogue.  Associated University Presses:  Cranbury, NJ.

Huber, M.T. and Currie, T.M. 2007 The urbanization of an idea: Imagining nature through urban growth boundary policy in Portland, Oregon, USA. Urban Geography 28(8): 705-731.

Griffith, D.A., Millones, M., Vincent, M.  2007.  Impacts of positional error on spatial regression analysis:  A case study of address locations in Syracuse, NY. Transactions in GIS  11(5) (accepted for November issue).

A. González Abraham, Birgit Schmook, and S. Calmé. 2007.  Distribucíon espacio-temporal del lad actividades extractivas en los bisquest del ejido Caoba, Quintana Roo.  Investigationes Geográficas (Bolentín del Instituto de Geografía) UNAM.  Núm. 62:  79-86.

2006

Mary Lawhon and Rob Fincham. 2006. Environmental Issues in the South African Media: A Case Study for the Natal Witness.  Southern African Journal of Environmental Education 23: 107-120

Hanson, S. and Fontaine, D. 2006. Does Instant Access Promote Sedentary Behavior? Putting Physical Activity on the Instant-Access-in-Cities Agenda. In Societies and Cities in an Age of Instant Access. Harvey Miller (ed). pp. 87-101. Springer-Verlag.

Li, Z., and Eastman, J. R., 2006, The nature of and classification of unlabelled neurons in the use of Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Map (SOM) for supervised classification. Transactions in GIS 10(4): 599-613.

Schwarz, G. 2006. Enabling Global Trade Above the Clouds: Restructuring Processes and Information Technology in the Transatlantic Air Cargo Industry. Environment and Planning A 38(8): 1463-1485

Aoyama, Y, Schwarz, G. 2006. The Myth of Wal-Martization: Retail Globalization and Local Competition in Japan and Germany. Chapter 16 in Brunn, S. (ed.) Wal-Mart World. The World's Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy. Routledge: London/New York

Aoyama, Y, Ratick, S, Schwarz, G.  2006. Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Logistics Industry: An Economic Geography Perspective. Professional Geographer 58(3): 235-365

Schwarz, G.  2006.  E-Commerce in der Luftfrachtbranche (E-Commerce in the Air Cargo Industry). Geographische Rundschau 7-8: 20-26

Pontius Jr., R. G., A. J. Versluis, and N. R. Malizia. 2006. Visualizing certainty of extrapolations from models of land change. Landscape Ecology  21(7): 1151-1166.

2005

Hayes-Conroy, Allison. 2005. South Jersey under the Stars: Essays on culture, agriculture, and place. Associated University Presses: Cranbury, NJ.

Johnson, D.L., Hager, J., Hunt, A., Griffith, D.A., Blount, S., Ellsworth, S. Hintz, J., Lucci, R., Mittiga, A., Prokhorova, D., Tidd, L., Millones, M., Vincent,M.  2005.  Initial results for urban metal distributions in house dusts of Syracuse, New York, USA.  Science in China Ser. C. Life Sciences  Vol. 48(1):  192-199.

Neo, H. and Pow, C.P.  2005.  Whither development? Questioning post-crisis Southeast Asia, in V.R. Savage and M. Tan-Mullins (eds.) The Naga Challenged: Southeast Asia in the winds of change, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Academic.

Mauricio Nieto, Paola Castaño, Diana Ojeda. 2005. Enlightenment and social order: the population problem in the Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada (1808-1810)”, Revista de Indias, 65 (235), 2005, pp. 683-708.

Mauricio Nieto, Paola Castaño, Diana Ojeda. 2005. Politics, science and geography in the Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada. Revista Nómadas 22: 114-124.

Mauricio Nieto, Paola Castaño, Diana Ojeda.  2005.  The influx of climate on organized beings and the Enlightened rhetoric in the Semanario del Nuevo Reyno de Granada. Historia Crítica 30: 91-114.

Aoyama, Y, Ratick, S, Schwarz, G.  2005.  Modeling the Impact of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce on the Organization of the Logistics Industry. Geographical Analysis 37: 46-68

2004

Funke, Jayson J.  2004.  Kenneth Clark.  In Affirmative Action, An Encyclopedia.  James A. Beckman (ed).  Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press.

Funke, Jayson J.  2004.  The President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity.  Affirmative Action, An Encyclopedia.  James A. Beckman (ed).  Westport, Connecticut:  Greenwood Press.

McCauley, Stephen and Scott Geotz. 2004. Mapping Residential Density Patterns Using Multi-temporal Landsat Data and a Decision-tree Classifier. International Journal of Remote Sensing 25(6):1077-1094.

Aoyama, Y, Schwarz, G. 2004.  From Mail Order to E-Commerce: Competition, Regulation, and Politics of Nonstore Retailing in Germany. Urban Geography 25(6): 503-527

2002

Manzi, M. and O.T. Coomes. 2002. Cormorant Fishing in Southwestern China: A Traditional Fishery under Siege. Geographical Review 92 (4): 597-603.

2000

City, C.  2000.  Duty and Disaster: Holding Local Governments Liable for Permitting Uses in High Hazard Areas (Note).  North Carolina Law Review 78(5): 1535-1572.

Funke, Jayson J.  2000.  World History Center. Migration in Modern World History, 1500-2000 CD-ROM. Patrick Manning (director). Wadworth/Thomson.

Schwarz, G.  2000.  Zwischen Suburban Sprawl und New Urbanism: Aktuelle          Standortentscheidungen des Einzelhandels in US-amerikanischen Verdichtungsräumen (Between suburban sprawl and new urbanism: Current locational decision of retailers in US metropolitan areas). Würzburger Geographische Manuskripte 53.

Waithanji, E.M. 2000.  Rangeland Livestock Diseases. In Rangeland Resources. Denise Herlocker, ed. 2000. GTZ, Nairobi, Kenya.

Odhiambo, J. O. A. , Kiniiya, H. S. N., Waithanji, E. M. , Shamshudin, K., Mbogori, K. 2000.  The KVA veterinarians want. The Kenya Veterinarian 20: 71-73

Book Reviews

Hawkins, R In Press Book Review "Gender and Natural Resource Management: Livelihoods, Mobility and Interventions" Gender, Place and Culture.

Ojeda, D. forthcoming Book Review, "Counting the Dead: The Culture of Politics of Human Rights Activism in Colombia", Revista de Estudios Colombianos.

Huber, M.T. 2009 Book Review "Our daily bread: wages, Workers and the Political Economy of the American West", Geoff Mann, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press" Antipode 41(2): 395-399.

Huber, M.T. 2008 Book Review "The World System and the Earth System: Global Socioenvironmental Change and Sustainability since the Neolithic, edited by Alf Hornborg and Carole Crumley, Left Coast Press, 2007" Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 19(2): 126-129.

Ojeda, D., 2008 Book Review "Challenging Situatedness: Gender, Culture and the Production of Knowledge" Gender, Space and Culture Vol. 15, No. 5: 547-548.

Ojeda, D., 2008 Book Review "Disposable Woman and Other Myths of Global Capitalism", Antipode, Vol. 40, No. 4: 713-716.

Ojeda, Diana. 2006. Book Review.  Challenging Situatedness: Gender, Culture and the Production of Knowledge. Gender, Place and Culture 13(6).

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