Daniel Brown

Funded Research:

Addressing Disclosure Risk of Contextualized Microdata in Survey Design (OBSSR)

LCLUC SYNTHESIS: Forested Land Cover and Land Use Change in the Far East of the Northern Eurasia Under the Combined Drivers of Climate and Socio-Economic Transformation (NASA)

Extreme events impacts of water quality in the Great Lakes: Prediction and Management of nutrient loading in a changing climate (NSF)

NCRN-MN: Linking Surveys to the World: Administrative Data, the Web, and Beyond. Michigan Node of the NSF-Census Research Network (NSF)

A Spatial Agent-Based Model of Walking Behavior in Cities (NHLBI)

Explaining Protected Areas (PA) Outcomes in the Andes-Amazon Region (Moore, Gordon and Betty, Foundation)

WSC-Category 2: Extreme events impacts on water quality in the Great Lakes: Prediction and management of nutrient loading in a changing climate (NSF)

Collaborative Research: Coupled Observation Of The Water Environment: A National Survey Program (NSF)

From Vulnerability to Sustainability: Vulnerability and Sustainability Development in the Context Climatic and Institutional Changes in Rural China (NASA)

Land Use Adaptation in Agro-Pastoral Communities on the Mongolian Plateau (Freedman)

Grassland Ecosystems and Societal Adaptations Under Changing Grazing Intensity and Climate on the Mongolian Plateau. (NASA)

Neighborhoods and CVD Risk in a Multiethnic Cohort (NHLBI)

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and birth outcomes in Mexico City (NIEHS)

Collaborative Research: Spatial Land-Use Change and Ecological Effects (SLUCE) (NSF)

Development of Functional Limitations in the Built Environment of Mid-Aged Women (NIA)

Land Use/Land Cover Response to Demographic Change in the Northern Region (Department of Agriculture)

Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains (NICHD)

Collaborative Research HSD DHB: Program for Research on Human and Environmental Interactions (NSF)

Alcoa Foundations Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship Program: Enabling Technology for a Sustainable Energy Future Through Interdisciplinary Research and Training (ALCOA)

Michigan Interdisciplinary Center on Social Inequality, Mind and Body (NICHD)

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Brown's research focuses on linking observable landscape patterns -- obtained through remote sensing, ecological mapping, and digital terrain analysis -- with ecological and social processes.

Recent Publications

Books

Bierbaum, R., Daniel Brown, and J. McAlpine. 2008. Coping with climate change: National Summit Proceedings. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Journal Articles

Agrawal, A., Daniel Brown, G. Rao, R. Riolo, D. Robinson, and M. Bommarito. 2013. "Interactions between organizations and networks in common-pool resource governance." Environmental Science & Policy, 25: 138-146. DOI. Abstract.

Hunter, M., and Daniel Brown. 2012. "Spatial contagion: Gardening along the street in residential neighborhoods." Landscape and Urban Planning, 105(4): 407-416. DOI. Abstract.

Wang, Zheng, J. Nassauer, R. Marans, and Daniel Brown. 2012. "Different Types of Open Spaces and Their Importance to Exurban Homeowners." Society & Natural Resources, 25(4): 368-383. DOI. Abstract.

Zhao, T., Daniel Brown, H. Fang, D. Theobald, T. Liu, and T. Zhang. 2012. "Vegetation productivity consequences of human settlement growth in the eastern United States." Landscape Ecology, 27(8): 1149-1165. DOI. Abstract.

Yang, Y., Ana Diez Roux, A. Auchincloss, D. Rodriguez, and Daniel Brown. 2012. "Exploring walking differences by socioeconomic status using a spatial agent-based model." Health & Place, 18(1): 96-99. PMCID: PMC3345574. DOI. Abstract.

Bell, A.R., R.L. Riolo, J.M. Doremus, Daniel Brown, T.P. Lyon, J. Vandermeer, and A. Agrawal. 2012. "Fragmenting forests: the double edge of effective forest monitoring." Environmental Science & Policy, 16: 20-30. Abstract.

Zhang, K., E.M. Oswald, Daniel Brown, S.J. Brines, C.J. Gronlund, J.L. White-Newsome, R.B. Rood, and M.S. O'Neill. 2011. "Geostatistical exploration of spatial variation of summertime temperatures in the Detroit metropolitan region." Environmental Research, 111(8): 1046-1053. DOI. Abstract.

Bush, K.F., G. Luber, S.R. Kotha, R.S. Dhaliwal, V. Kapil, M. Pascual, Daniel Brown, H. Frumkin, R.C. Dhiman, J. Hess, M.L. Wilson, K. Balakrishnan, J. Eisenberg, T. Kaur, R. Rood, S. Batterman, A. Joseph, C.J. Gronlund, A. Agrawal, and Howard Hu. 2011. "Impacts of Climate Change on Public Health in India: Future Research Directions." Environmental Health Perspectives, 119(6): 765-770. DOI. Abstract.

Smajgl, Alex, Daniel Brown, Diego Valbuena, and Marco Huigen. 2011. "Empirical characterisation of agent behaviours in socio-ecological systems." Environmental Modelling and Software, 26(7): 837-844. DOI. Abstract.

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