A5005857609- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Rural development and sustainability
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Forest Management and Policy
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Housing Market and Economics
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Social Media and Politics
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Data Analysis with R
University of Michigan
2019-2024
Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living
2024
Michigan United
2023
North Carolina State University
2016-2019
VA Office of Research and Development
2018
Environmental Protection Agency
2018
The Ohio State University
2013-2015
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2010-2012
Wageningen University & Research
2009
Significance In many landscapes across the globe, we are witnessing an ongoing functional shift away from managed for extractive activities (e.g., agriculture, mining, forestry) and toward recreation leisure activities. Understanding spatial configuration of this at regional continental scales will be crucial development effective landscape rural policies in coming decades. We present a rigorous comparison between three social media platforms’ suitability mapping quantifying values. also...
Landscapes are increasingly recognized for providing valuable cultural ecosystem services with numerous non-material benefits by serving as places of rest, relaxation, and inspiration that ultimately improve overall mental health physical well-being. Maintaining enhancing these through targeted management conservation measures requires understanding the spatial temporal determinants perceived landscape values. Content contributed mobile technologies web emerging globally, a promising data...
Expansion of urban settlements has caused observed declines in ecosystem services (ES) globally, further stressing the need for informed development and policies. Incorporating ES concepts into decision making process been shown to support resilient functional ecosystems. Coupling land change models allows insights impacts anticipated trade-offs specific policy decisions. The spatial configuration urbanization likely influences delivery production ES. When considering multiple...
Rapid technological development opens up new opportunities for assessing ecosystem services (ES), which may help to overcome current knowledge gaps and limitations in data availability. At the same time, emerging technologies, such as mobile devices, social media platforms, artificial intelligence, give rise a series of challenges limitations. This study provides comprehensive overview broad range technologies that are increasingly used collecting, analyzing, visualizing on ES, including...
While the merits of local participatory policy design are widely recognised, limited use is made model-based scenario results to inform such stakeholder involvement. In this paper we present findings a study using an agent based model help stakeholders consider, discuss and incorporate spatial temporal processes in backcasting exercise for rural development. The carried out Dutch region called Achterhoek. Region-specific scenarios were constructed on interviews with experts. simulated...
Population growth and unrestricted development policies are driving low-density urbanization fragmentation of peri-urban landscapes across North America. While private individuals own most undeveloped land, little is known about how their decision-making processes shape landscape-scale patterns over time. We introduce a hybrid agent-based modeling (ABM) – cellular automata (CA) approach, developed for analyzing dynamic feedbacks between landowners' decisions to sell land development,...
Using a socioecological systems perspective, we advance conceptual approach for characterizing trajectories of change in rural forest-based communities. We call attention to "communities the middle," communities positioned within forested regions representing neither unpopulated wilderness nor heavily urbanized or densely populated places on edge urban areas. In 2010, these middle accounted 27.3% continental United States landscape yet less than 5% human population. Common shocks, such as...
The mapping of field boundaries can provide important information for increasing food production and security in agricultural systems across the globe. Remote sensing a viable way to map large geographic extents, yet few studies have used satellite imagery where sizes are small, heterogeneous, irregularly shaped. Here we very-high-resolution WorldView-3 (0.5 m) mask region-based convolutional neural network (Mask R-CNN) delineate smallholder Northeast India. We found that our models had...
Urban residents are often unevenly vulnerable to extreme weather and climate events due socio-economic factors insufficient greenspace. This can be amplified if citizens not meaningfully consulted in the planning design decisions, with changes greenspace having detrimental impacts on local communities, e.g., through green gentrification. These deficiencies addressed inclusive landscape-level collaborative processes, where fully engaged co-creation of urban greenspaces. A promising way...