A5010910686- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Forest Management and Policy
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Mosquito-borne diseases and control
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
Adamas University
2023
Clark University
2001-2022
Birds Canada
2021
Indiana University Bloomington
2010-2019
Indiana University
2013-2017
Loyola Marymount University
2011
University of Miami
2006-2008
John Radcliffe Hospital
2007
Island Press
2007
New York University Press
2007
Land systems are the result of human interactions with natural environment. Understanding drivers, state, trends and impacts different land on social processes helps to reveal how changes in system affect functioning socio-ecological as a whole tradeoff these may represent. The Global Project has led advances by synthesizing research across scales providing concepts further understand feedbacks between social-and environmental systems, urban rural environments distant world regions. science...
Land use is central to addressing sustainability issues, including biodiversity conservation, climate change, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable energy. In this paper, we synthesize knowledge accumulated in land system science, the integrated study of terrestrial social-ecological systems, into 10 hard truths that have strong, general, empirical support. These facts help explain challenges achieving thus also point toward solutions. The are as follows: 1) Meanings values...
Changes in land use, cover, and management present some of the greatest potential global environmental challenges 21st century. Urbanization, one principal drivers these transformations, is commonly thought to be generating changes that are increasingly similar. An implication this multiscale homogenization hypothesis ecosystem structure function human behaviors associated with urbanization should more similar certain kinds urbanized locations across biogeophysical gradients than places...
Urban residential expansion increasingly drives land use, cover and ecological changes worldwide, yet social science theories explaining such change remain under-developed.Existing often focus on processes occurring at one scale, while ignoring other scales.Emerging evidence from four linked U.S. research sites suggests it is essential to examine multiple scales simultaneously when the evolution of urban landscapes.Additionally, focusing urbanization dynamics across with a shared design may...
Abstract There have been calls for greater inclusion of Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) in applied ecosystems research ecological assessments. The Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment (GA) is the first global scale assessment to systematically engage with ILK issues concern peoples communities (IPLC). In this paper, we review reflect how GA worked lessons learned. engaged critical evaluation synthesis existing evidence...
Residential lawns are highly managed ecosystems that occur in urbanized landscapes across the United States. Because they ubiquitous, good systems which to study potential homogenizing effects of urban land use and management together with continental-scale climate on ecosystem structure functioning. We hypothesized similar homeowner preferences residential areas States would lead low plant species diversity relatively homogeneous vegetation broad geographical regions. also lawn richness...
Abstract Urban ecosystems are widely hypothesized to be more ecologically homogeneous than natural ecosystems. We argue that urban plant communities assemble from a complex mix of horticultural and regional species pools, evaluate the homogenization hypothesis by comparing cultivated spontaneously occurring vegetation area across seven major U.S. cities. There was limited support for diversity , as spontaneous yard flora had greater numbers areas, phylogenetic also greater. However, yards...
The agent-structure binary in human-environment relations has historically ascribed primacy to either decision-making agents or political-economic structures as the anthropogenic force driving landscape change. This has, part, separated cultural and political ecology, despite important research weaving structure agency each of these related subfields. implications approaching explanations land use using this are illustrated systematically, drawing from empirical on smallholder southern...
Land system science and affiliated research linked to sustainability require improved understanding theorization of land its change as a social-ecological (SES). The absence general land-use theory, anchored in the social subsystem but with explicit links environmental subsystem, hampers this effort. Drawing on explanations, meta-analyses, associated frameworks, we advance broad framework structure eight elements – aggregations explanatory variables biophysical for systematic comparisons...