Book Chapters

DeFries, R., S. Pagiola, W. L. Adamowicz, H. R. Akcakaya, A. Arcenas, S. Babu, D. Balk, U. Confalonieri, W. Cramer, F. Falconi, S. Fritz, R. Green, E. Gutierrez-Espeleta, K. Hamilton, R. Kane, J. Latham, E. Matthews, T. Ricketts, and T. X. Yue, 2005: Analytical Approaches for Assessing Ecosystem Condition and Human Well-being. Chapter 2 in Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, Volume 1, R. Hassan, R. Scholes, and N. Ash, Eds., Island Press, pp37-71.

http://www.maweb.org/documents/document.271.aspx.pdf

Körner, C., M. Ohsawa, E. Spehn, E. Berge, H. Bugmann, B. Groombridge, L. Hamilton, T. Hofer, J. Ives, N. Jodha, B. Messerli, J. Pratt, M. Price, M. Reasoner, A. Rodgers, J. Thonell, and M. Yoshino, 2005: Mountain Systems. Chapter 24 in Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, R. Hassan, R. Scholes, and N. Ash, Eds., Island Press, pp681-716.

http://www.maweb.org/documents/document.293.aspx.pdf

McGranahan, G., P. Marcotullio, X. Bai, D. Balk, T. Braga, I. Douglas, T. Elmquist, W. Rees, D. Satterthwaite, J. Songsore, and H. Zlotnik, 2005: Urban Systems. Chapter 27 in Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, R. Hassan, R. Scholes, and N. Ash, Eds., Island Press, pp795-825,.
http://www.maweb.org/documents/document.296.aspx.pdf

Reid, R., Galvin, K., Kruska, R. (2008) Global Significance of Extensive Grazing Lands and Pastoral Societies: An Introduction. In:   Fragmentation in Semi-Arid and Arid Landscapes. K. A. Galvin, R. S. Reid, R. H. Behnke, Jr., and N. T. Hobbs, Eds., Springer, pp.1-24.

Woodroffe, C., Nicholls, R., Saito, Y., Chen, Z., Goodbred, S. (2006) Landscape Variability and the Response of Asian Megadeltas to Environmental Change. In: Global Change and Integrated Coastal Management.  N. Harvey, Ed., Springer, pp. 277-314.

Books & Reports

Bai, Z.G., Dent, D.L. (2006) Global Assessment of Land Degradation and Improvement: Pilot Study in Kenya. 2006/01, ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen, NL, 42pp.

http://www.isric.org/isric/webdocs/Docs/ISRIC_Report_2006_01.pdf

Buys, P., Dasgupta, S., Thomas, T., Wheeler, D. (2008) Determinants of a Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa : A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Cell Phone Coverage. World Bank Policy Research Working Papers. WPS4516, 26 pp.

http://go.worldbank.org/PNAIZDPXV0

Dasgupta, S., B. Laplante, et al. (2007). The Impact of Sea Level Rise on Developing Countries: A Comparative Analysis. World Bank, 51pp.

http://go.worldbank.org/BQMC8FEN30

McGranahan, G., and Tacoli, C. (2006).  Rural-urban Migration in China: Policy Options for Economic Growth, Environmental Sustainability and Equity. Working Paper Series on Rural-Urban Interactions and Livelihood Strategies No. 12, International Institute for Environment and Development, 67pp.

http://www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=10535IIED&n=2&l=13&s=RUWP

Snow, R.W., Hay, S.I., Marsh, K. (2006) Malaria in Africa: Sources, Risks, Drivers and the Disease Burden 2005-2030. Infectious Diseases: Preparing for the Future. 37pp. Foresight.

http://www.foresight.gov.uk/Previous_Projects/Detection_and_Identification_of_Infectious_Diseases/Reports_and_Publications/Final_Reports/T/t5_8.pdf

Journal Articles

Balk, D., Storeygard, A., Levy, M., Gaskell, J., Sharma, M., Flor, R. (2005) Child Hunger in the Developing World: An Analysis of Environmental and Social Correlates. Food Policy, 30(5-6): 584-611.

Barker, S., Robarts, R., Yamashiki, Y., Takeuchi, K., Yoshimura, C., Muguetti, A.C. (2007) UNEP-GEMS/Water Programme - Water Quality Data, GEMStat and Open Web Services - And Japanese Cooperation. Hydrological Processes, 21(9): 1132-1141.

Bengtsson, M., Shen, Y., Oki, T. (2006) A SRES-based Gridded Global Population Dataset for 1990–2100. Population and Environment, 28(2): 113-131.

Bhaduri, B., Bright, E., Coleman, P., Urban, M. (2007) LandScan USA: a High-resolution Geospatial and Temporal Modeling Approach for Population Distribution and Dynamics.  GeoJournal, 69(1): 103-117.

Bocquier, P. (2005) World Urbanization Prospects: An Alternative to the UN Model of Projection Compatible with the Mobility Transition Theory. Demographic Research, 12: 197-236.

Brooker, S., Clements, A. C. A., Hotez, P. J., Hay, S. I., Tatem, A. J., Bundy, D. A. P., and Snow, R. W. (2006).  The Co-distribution of Plasmodium falciparum and Hookworm Among African Schoolchildren. Malaria Journal, 5, 8pp.

Chuvieco, E., Giglio, L., Justice, C. (2008) Global Characterization of Fire Activity: Toward Defining fire Regimes from Earth Observation Data. Global Change Biology, 14: 1-15.

de Castro, M. (2007) Spatial Demography: An Opportunity to Improve Policy Making at Diverse Decision Levels. Population Research and Policy Review, 26(5-6): 477-509.

de Sherbinin, A., Schiller, A., Pulsipher, A. (2007) The Vulnerability of Global Cities to Climate Hazards. Environment and Urbanization, 19(1): 39-64.

Doocy, S., Gorokhovich, Y., Burnham, G., Balk, D., Robinson, C. (2007) Tsunami Mortality Estimates and Vulnerability Mapping in Aceh, Indonesia. American Journal of Public Health, 97(Supplement 1): S146-s151.

Douglas, E., Wood, S., Sebastian, K., Vörösmarty, C., Chomitz, K., Tomich, T. (2007) Policy Implications of a Pan-tropic Assessment of the Simultaneous Hydrological and Biodiversity Impacts of Deforestation. Water Resources Management, 21(1): 211-232.

Ellis, E.C., Wang, H., Xiao, H.S., Peng, K., Liu, X.P., Li, S.C., Ouyang, H., Cheng, X., and Yang, L.Z. (2006) Measuring Long-term Ecological Changes in Densely Populated Landscapes Using Current and Historical High Resolution Imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment, 100(4): 457-473.

Elvidge, C., Safran, J., Tuttle, B., Sutton, P., Cinzano, P., Pettit, D., Arvesen, J., Small, C. (2007) Potential for Global Mapping of Development via a Nightsat Mission. GeoJournal, 69(1): 45-53.

Engler, N.J., Hall, G.B. (2007) The Internet, Spatial Data Globalization, and Data Use: The Case of Tibet. Information Society, 23(5): 345-359.

Guerra, C.A., Gikandi, P.W., Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M., Smith, D.L., Hay, S.I., Snow, R.W. (2008) The Limits and Intensity of Plasmodium falciparum Transmission: Implications for Malaria Control and Elimination Worldwide. PLoS Medicine, 5(2): e38.

Guerra, C.A., Snow, R.W., Hay, S.I. (2006) Mapping the Global Extent of Malaria in 2005. Trends in Parasitology, 22(8): 353-358.

Hay, S.I. and Tatem, A.J. (2005) Remote Sensing of Malaria in Urban Areas: Two Scales, Two Problems. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 72(6): 655-656.

Herrero, M., Thornton, P.K., Kruska, R., Reid, R.S. (2008) Systems Dynamics and the Spatial Distribution of Methane Emissions from African Domestic Ruminants to 2030. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 126(1-2): 122-137.

Marshall, J.D. (2007) Urban Land Area and Population Growth: A New Scaling Relationship for Metropolitan Expansion. Urban Studies, 44(10): 1889-1904.

McGranahan, G., Balk, D., and Anderson, B. (2006) Low Coastal Zone Settlements. Tiempo, (59): 23-26.

http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/portal/archive/pdf/tiempo59low.pdf

McGranahan, G., Balk, D., Anderson, B. (2007) The Rising Tide: Assessing the Risks of Climate Change and Human Settlements in Low Elevation Coastal Zones. Environment and Urbanization, 19(1): 17-37.

http://eau.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/19/1/17

Mohr, M., Edwards, C., McCarthy, B. (2008) A Study of LBS Accuracy in the UK and a Novel Approach to Inferring the Positioning Technology Employed. Computer Communications, 31(6): 1148-1159.

Montgomery, M.R. (2008) The Urban Transformation of the Developing World. Science, 319(5864): 761-764.

Potere, D., Schneider, A. (2007) A Critical Look at Representations of Urban Areas in Global Maps. GeoJournal, 69(1): 55-80.

Ramankutty, N. (2004). Croplands in West Africa: A Geographically Explicit Dataset for Use in Models. Earth Interactions, 8(23), 1-22.

Reibel, M. (2007) Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Data Processing in Demography: a Review. Population Research and Policy Review, 26(5): 601-618.

Roman-Colon, M.O., Strahler, A.H. (2007) Land Observation from Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (LOGEO): Mission Concept and Preliminary Engineering Analysis. Acta Astronautica, 61(1-6): 101-114.

Sabesan, A., Abercrombie, K., Ganguly, A., Bhaduri, B., Bright, E., Coleman, P. (2007) Metrics for the Comparative Analysis of Geospatial Datasets with Applications to High-resolution Grid-based Population Data. GeoJournal, 69(1): 81-91.

Scholes, R.J. and Biggs, R. (2005) A Biodiversity Intactness Index. Nature, 434(7029): 45-49.

Siri, J.G., Lindblade, K.A., Rosen, D.H., Onyango, B., Vulule, J., Slutsker, L., Wilson, M.L. (2008) Quantitative Urban Classification for Malaria Epidemiology in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria Journal, 7(34): 9pp.

http://www.malariajournal.com/content/7/1/34

Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M., and Hay, S.I. (2005) Assessing the Accuracy of Satellite Derived Global and National Urban Maps in Kenya. Remote Sensing of Environment, 96(1): 87-97.

Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M., von Hagen, C., Di Gregorio, A., Hay, S.I. (2007) High Resolution Population Maps for Low Income Nations: Combining Land Cover and Census in East Africa. PLoS ONE, 2(12): e1298.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001298

Tatem, A. J., Snow, R. W., and Hay, S. I. (2006).  Mapping the Environmental Coverage of the INDEPTH Demographic Surveillance System Network in Rural Africa. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 11(8): 1318-1326.

Teklehaimanot, A., McCord, G.C., Sachs, J.D. (2007) Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 77(6_Suppl): 138-144.

You, L., Diao, X. (2007) Assessing the Potential Impact of Avian Influenza on Poultry in West Africa: A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 58(2): 348-367.

Popular Magazine & Newspaper Articles

Anonymous. (2005) Urban Expansion. Science, 307(5716): 1718.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/307/5716/1718d

de Sherbinin, A., Chen, R.S. (2006) Global Change: Revealing Humanity's Impact on Earth. Earth Imaging Journal, 3(3): 12-17.

Florida, R. (2005) The World is Spiky. The Atlantic Monthly 296(3): 48-51.

Schirber, M. (11 March 2005) Cities Cover More of Earth than Realized. LiveScience.

http://www.livescience.com/othernews/050311_urban_living.html

Last Update: 7 May 2008