Books and Reports

Committee on the Earth System Science for Decisions About Human Welfare: Contributions of Remote Sensing, G.S.C., National Research Council (2007) Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health: Workshop Report. National Academies Press, Washington DC.

http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11759

DeFries, R., Pagiola, S., Adamowicz, W.L., Akcakaya, H.R., Arcenas, A., Babu, S., Balk, D., Confalonieri, U., Cramer, W., Falconi, F., Fritz, S., Green, R., Gutierrez-Espeleta, E., Hamilton, K., Kane, R., Latham, J., Matthews, E., Ricketts, T., Yue, T.X. (2005) Analytical Approaches for Assessing Ecosystem Condition and Human Well-being. Chapter 2 in: Hassan, R., Scholes, R., Ash, N. (eds) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, Volume 1. pp. 37-71. Island Press, Washington, Covelo, London.

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

Faurès, J.-M., Santini, G. (2008) Water and the Rural Poor: Interventions for improving livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. p. 94. FAO Land and Water Division, Rome.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0132e/i0132e00.htm

Journal Articles

de Sherbinin, A. (2008) Is poverty more acute near parks? An assessment of infant mortality rates around protected areas in developing countries. Oryx, 42(1): 26-35.

Feyrer, J. (2009) Trade and Income - Exploiting Time Series in Geography. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, 14910: 37pp.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w14910

Gamble, M.V., Liu, X., Slavkovich, V., Pilsner, J.R., Ilievski, V., Factor-Litvak, P., Levy, D., Alam, S., Islam, M., Parvez, F., Ahsan, H., Graziano, J.H. (2007) Folic acid supplementation lowers blood arsenic. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 86(4): 1202-1209.

Hodson, D.P., White, J.W. (2007) Use of spatial analyses for global characterization of wheat-based production systems. The Journal of Agricultural Science, 145(2): 115-125.

Hyman, G., Fujisaka, S., Jones, P., Wood, S., de Vicente, M.C., Dixon, J. (2008) Strategic approaches to targeting technology generation: Assessing the coincidence of poverty and drought-prone crop production. Agricultural Systems, 98(1): 50-61.

Jones, P.G., Thornton, P.K. (2009) Croppers to livestock keepers: livelihood transitions to 2050 in Africa due to climate change. Environmental Science & Policy, 12(4): 427-437.

Mittelman, J. (2008) Beyond impoverished anti-poverty paradigms. Third World Quarterly, 29(8): 1639-1652.

Parshall, L., Pillai, D., Mohan, S., Sanoh, A., Modi, V. (2009) National electricity planning in settings with low pre-existing grid coverage: Development of a spatial model and case study of Kenya. Energy Policy, 37(6): 2395-2410.

Pilsner, J.R., Liu, X., Ahsan, H., Ilievski, V., Slavkovich, V., Levy, D., Factor-Litvak, P., Graziano, J.H., Gamble, M.V. (2009) Folate deficiency, hyperhomocysteinemia, low urinary creatinine, and hypomethylation of leukocyte DNA are risk factors for arsenic-Induced skin lesions. Environmental Health Perspectives, 117(2): 254-260.

Redford, K.H., Levy, M.A., Sanderson, E.W., de Sherbinin, A. (2008) What is the role for conservation organizations in poverty alleviation in the world's wild places? Oryx, 13pp.

Storeygard, A., Balk, D., Levy, M.A., Deane, G. (2008) The global distribution of infant mortality: a subnational spatial view. Population, Space and Place, 14(3): 209-229.

Tallis, H., Polasky, S. (2009) Mapping and valuing ecosystem services as an approach for conservation and natural-resource management. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1162 (The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2009): 265-283.

Last Update:  29 July 2009