A5048220573- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Rural development and sustainability
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Media Studies and Communication
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Urbanization and City Planning
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
Boston University
2019-2024
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2016-2019
University of Amsterdam
2013
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...
People living in increasingly urbanised areas are seeking restorative environments for recreation. Consequently, the need arises to identify and map such tranquil spaces. However, collecting situ data across large about where people experience tranquillity is usually cost-prohibitive. In this study, we use social media from photosharing platform Flickr explore of Scotland. We developed a novel methodology that combines metadata photographs (location textual tags) content experienced within...
Abstract Context Livestock grazing throughout Europe has resulted in high diversity of semi-natural areas past centuries. Currently, most low intensity relying on vegetation is found primarily marginal lands. These still host a high-level biodiversity but are subject to abandonment and agricultural intensification. Objectives Spatial information where grazed, how contextual geographic conditions encourage or limit missing, hindering their protection. We present an interdisciplinary approach...
Abstract The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has recently made national and international headlines as a major environmental catastrophe, impacting the public health wellbeing of residents. Here we focus on Jackson’s most prevalent vulnerable population, its children, by assessing how boil alerts (BWAs) disrupt student learning. Using data BWAs collected from City Water/Sewer Business Administration Office between 2015 2021, daily school attendance Public School District...
Organic farming has been proposed as a feasible way to reduce the environmental impacts of agriculture, provide better products consumers, and improve farmers' income. How organic farmers are distributed worldwide, however, remains unknown. Using publicly accessible registries crop we mapped their distribution globally related it local socio-economic, climatic, soil characteristics. We show that mostly present in areas with favorable socio-economic climatic conditions, both but also within...
Abstract Background Associations between community-level risk factors and COVID-19 incidence have been used to identify vulnerable subpopulations target interventions, but the variability of these associations over time remains largely unknown. We evaluated in predictors case 351 cities towns Massachusetts from March October 2020. Methods Using publicly available sociodemographic, occupational, environmental, mobility datasets, we developed mixed-effect, adjusted Poisson regression models...
Abstract Occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2 varies by profession, but “essential workers” are often considered in aggregate COVID-19 models. This aggregation complicates efforts understand risks specific types of workers or industries and target interventions, specifically towards non-healthcare workers. We used census tract-resolution American Community Survey data develop novel essential worker categories among the occupations designated as Essential Services Massachusetts. Census cases...
Hedgerows are typical landscape features of high environmental and cultural value that often have been sacrificed for agricultural intensification scale enlargement. We studied the dynamics hedgerow quality over time in a case study area renowned its landscapes: South West Devon (UK) answering following research questions: (1) how does imperative enlargement affect quality? (2) to what extent can degradation be countered by targeted policies? applied an agent-based modeling approach,...
The impacts of extreme heat events are amplified in cities due to unique urban thermal properties. Urban greenspace mitigates high temperatures through evapotranspiration and shading; however, quantification vegetative cooling potential is often limited simple remote sensing greenness indices or sparse, situ measurements. Here, we develop a spatially explicit, high-resolution model latent flux from vegetation. iterates three core equations that consider climatological physiological...
Policymakers have actively pursued urban renewal and dispersal programs to deconcentrate poverty in neighborhoods. Relocation strategies lead new housing opportunities may encourage employment for relocated residents if resourceful contacts job information become more easily available after the move. This study provides an innovative evaluation of early impacts involuntary relocation Netherlands on careers, earnings rates forced relocatees. It establishes a quasi-experimental design by...
Over the past decade, urban restructuring of segregated neighbourhoods has transformed many districts, in Netherlands and elsewhere; middle class households have entered which were previously inhabited by lower class. Some argue that this influx happened at expense displaced original population. We investigated process (forced) relocation from restructured neighbourhoods. In contrast with earlier studies, individual level data been provided directly one Amsterdam housing associations...
Abstract Infectious disease surveillance frequently lacks complete information on race and ethnicity, making it difficult to identify health inequities. Greater awareness of this issue has occurred due the COVID-19 pandemic, during which inequities in cases, hospitalizations, deaths were reported but with evidence substantial missing demographic details. Although problem ethnicity data cases been well documented, neither its spatiotemporal variation nor particular drivers have characterized....
Abstract Background The COVID‐19 pandemic has highlighted the need for targeted local interventions given substantial heterogeneity within cities and counties. Publicly available case data are typically aggregated to city or county level protect patient privacy, but more granular necessary identify act upon community‐level risk factors that can change over time. Methods Individual mortality from Massachusetts were geocoded residential addresses into two time periods: “Phase 1” (March–June...
Abstract Background: Associations between community-level risk factors and COVID-19 incidence are used to identify vulnerable subpopulations target interventions, but the variability of these associations over time remains largely unknown. We evaluated in predictors case 351 cities towns Massachusetts from March October 2020. Methods : Using publicly available sociodemographic, occupational, environmental, mobility datasets, we developed mixed-effect, adjusted Poisson regression models...
When studying health risks across a large geographic region such as state or province, researchers often assume that finer-resolution data on outcomes and risk factors will improve inferences by avoiding ecological bias other issues associated with aggregation. However, coarser-resolution (e.g., at the town county-level) are more commonly publicly available packaged for easier access, allowing rapid analyses. The advantages limitations of using data, which may precision cost time spent...