Book Chapters

Boone, R., S. BurnSilver, and R. Kruska (2008) Comparing Landscape and Infrastructural Heterogeneity within and between Ecosystems. In: Fragmentation in Semi-Arid and Arid Landscapes: Consequences for Human and Natural Systems. K. Galvin, R.S. Reid, R.H. Behnke Jr., and N.T. Hobbs, Eds.,Springer, pp. 341-367.

Brown, M.E. (2008) Population Datasets. In:  Brown, M.E. (Ed.) Famine Early Warning Systems and Remote Sensing Data.  Springer-Verlag, pp. 189-202.

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

Montgomery, M.R. (2008) The Demography of the Urban Transition: What We Know and Don't Know. In: The New Global Frontier: Urbanization, Poverty and Environment in the 21st Century, G. Martine, G. McGranahan, M.R. Montgomery, and R. Fernandez-Castilla, Eds., EarthScan, pp. 17-36.

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 dvide 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

Akbari, H., Menon, S., Rosenfeld, A. (2009) Global cooling: increasing world-wide urban albedos to offset CO2. Climatic Change, 94(3): 275-286.

Bai, Z., Dent, D. (2009) Recent land degradation and improvement in China. Ambio, 38(3): 150-156.

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.

Denis, E., Moriconi-Ebrard, F. (2009) La croissance urbaine en Afrique de l'Ouest. La Chronique du CEPED, 57: 1-5.

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.

Gilbert, M., Xiao, X., Pfeiffer, D.U., Epprecht, M., Boles, S., Czarnecki, C., Chaitaweesub, P., Kalpravidh, W., Minh, P.Q., Otte, M.J., Martin, V., Slingenbergh, J. (2008) Mapping H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza risk in Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(12): 4769-4774.

http://www.pnas.org/content/105/12/4769.abstract

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.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.0050038

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.

Hastings, J.T. (2008) Automated conflation of digital gazetteer data. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 22(10): 1109 - 1127.

Hay, S.I., Guerra, C.A., Gething, P.W., Patil, A.P., Tatem, A.J., Noor, A.M., Kabaria, C.W., Manh, B.H., Elyazar, I.R.F., Brooker, S., Smith, D.L., Moyeed, R.A., Snow, R.W. (2009) A world malaria nap: Plasmodium falciparum endemicity in 2007. PLoS Med, 6(3): e1000048.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000048

Hay, S.I., Guerra, C.A., Tatem, A.J., Atkinson, P.M., Snow, R.W. (2005) Tropical infectious diseases: Urbanization, malaria transmission and disease burden in Africa. Nature Reviews: Microbiology, 3(1): 81-90.

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.

Hazell, P., Wood, S. (2008) Drivers of change in global agriculture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 363(1491): 495-515.

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.

Koch, J., Schaldach, R., Köchy, M. (2008) Modeling the impacts of grazing land management on land-use change for the Jordan River region. Global and Planetary Change, 64(3-4): 177-187.

Marshall, J.D. (2007) Urban land area and population growth: A new scaling relationship for metropolitan expansion. Urban Studies, 44(10): 1889-1904.

McDonald, R.I., Kareiva, P., Forman, R.T.T. (2008) The implications of current and future urbanization for global protected areas and biodiversity conservation. Biological Conservation, 141(6), 1695-1703.

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.

Nabuurs, G.J., Thürig, E., Heidema, N., Armolaitis, K., Biber, P., Cienciala, E., Kaufmann, E., Mäkipää, R., Nilsen, P., Petritsch, R., Pristova, T., Rock, J., Schelhaas, M.J., Sievanen, R., Somogyi, Z., Vallet, P. (2008) Hotspots of the European forests carbon cycle. Forest Ecology and Management, 256(3), 194-200.

Nghiem, S.V., Balk, D., Rodriguez, E., Neumann, G., Sorichetta, A., Small, C., Elvidge, C.D. (2009) Observations of urban and suburban environments with global satellite scatterometer data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 64(4): 367-380.

Noor, A.M., Alegana, V.A., Gething, P.W., Tatem, A.J., Snow, R.W. (2008) Using remotely sensed night-time light as a proxy for poverty in Africa. Population Health Metrics, 6(5): 13.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2577623&rendertype=abstract

Noor, A.M., Mutheu, J.J., Tatem, A.J., Hay, S.I., Snow, R.W. (2009) Insecticide-treated net coverage in Africa: mapping progress in 2000-07. The Lancet, 373(9657): 58-67.

Potere, D., Schneider, A. (2007) A critical look at representations of urban sreas in hlobal 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.

Ray, N., Ebener, S. (2008) AccessMod 3.0: computing geographic coverage and accessibility to health care services using anisotropic movement of patients. International Journal of Health Geographics, 7(1): 63.

http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/7/1/63

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 rreliminary 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.

San José, R., Pérez, J., Morant, J., González Barras, R. (2009) The use of modern third-generation air quality models (MM5-EMIMO-CMAQ) for Real-Time operational air quality impact assessment of industrial plants. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution: Focus, 9(1): 27-37.

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

Snow, R.W., Guerra, C.A., Mutheu, J.J., Hay, S.I. (2008) International funding for malaria control in relation to populations at risk of stable Plasmodium falciparum transmission. PLoS Med, 5(7): e142.

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.0050142

Tatem, A.J., Guerra, C.A., Kabaria, C.W., Noor, A.M., Hay, S.I. (2008) Human population, urban settlement patterns and their impact on Plasmodium falciparum malaria endemicity. Malaria Journal, 7: 17pp.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2586635

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.

van Geen, A. (2008) Environmental science: Arsenic meets dense populations. Nature Geosci, 1(8), 494-496.

Yang, X., Huang, Y., Dong, P., Jiang, D., Liu, H. (2009) An updating system for the gridded population database of China based on remote sensing, GIS and spatial database technologies. Sensors, 9(2): 1128-1140.

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.

Zapata-Caldas, E., Hyman, G., Pachón, H., Montserrate, F.A., Varela, L.V. (2009) Identifying candidate sites for crop biofortification in Latin America: case studies in Colombia, Nicaragua and Bolivia. International Journal of Health Geographics, 8(29).

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=2689862&rendertype=abstract

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

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