Research Area: Population Dynamics:
Population and the Environment
Recent Publications
Books
Galea, Sandro. 2007. Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health. New York: Springer.
Frey, William H., Amy Anspach, John DeWitt, and SSDAN Staff. 2007. Allyn & Bacon Social Atlas of the United States. Boston : Pearson/Allyn & Bacon.
Bengtsson, Tommy, Cameron D. Campbell, and James Z. Lee. 2004. Life under Pressure : Mortality and Living Standards in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900. Boston, Mass : MIT Press.
Journal Articles
2009
Zellner, M.L., Page, S.E., W. Rand, Daniel Brown, D.T. Robinson, J. Nassauer, and Bobbi Low. 2009. "The emergence of zoning policy games in exurban jurisdictions: Informing collective action theory." Land Use Policy, 26(2): 356-367.
2008
Rindfuss, R.R., B. Entwisle, S.J. Walsh, L. An, N. Badenoch, Daniel Brown, P. Deadman, T.P. Evans, J. Fox, J. Geoghegan, Myron Gutmann, M. Kelly, M. Linderman, Jianguo Liu, G.P. Malanson, C.F. Mena, J.P. Messina, E.F. Moran, D.C. Parker, W. Parton, P. Prasartkul, D.T. Robinson, Y. Sawangdee, L.K. Vanwey, and P.H. Verburg. 2008. "Land use change: complexity and comparisons." Journal of Land Use Science, 3: 1-10.
Clarke, Philippa J., Ailshire, Jennifer, Michael Bader, Jeffrey Morenoff, and James S. House. 2008. "Mobility disability and the urban built environment." American Journal of Epidemiology, 168(5): 506-513.
Alter, George C., and Michel Oris. 2008. "Effects of Inheritance and Environment on the Heights of Brothers in Nineteenth-century Belgium." Human Nature, 19(1): 44-55.
2007
Sylvester, Kenneth M. 2007. "Ecological frontiers on the grasslands of Kansas: Changes in farm scale and crop diversity." Journal of Economic History, 67(2): 516-516.
Taylor, J.J., Brown, Daniel, and L. Larsen. 2007. "Preserving natural features: A GIS-based evaluation of a local open-space ordinance." Landscape and Urban Planning, 82(1-2): 1-16.
Ghimire, Dirgha, and Lynette Hoelter. 2007. "Land use and first birth timing in an agricultural setting." Population & Environment, 28(6): 289-320.
Anderson, Barbara, John H. Romani, Heston Phillips, Marie Wentzel, and Kholadi Tlabela. 2007. "Exploring environmental perceptions, behaviors and awareness: water and water pollution in South Africa." Population & Environment, 28: 133-161.
2006
Sylvester, Kenneth M., Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, and Myron Gutmann. 2006. "Demography and Environment in Grassland Settlement: Using Linked Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data to Explore Household/Agricultural Systems." History and Computing, 14(1&2): 31-60.
Ghimire, Dirgha, and Paul Mohai. 2006. "Environmentalism and Contraceptive Use: How People in Less Developed Settings Approach Environmental Issues." Population and Environment, 27(1), 29-61.
Brown, Daniel, Richard Aspinall, and David A. Bennett. 2006. "Landscape models and explanation in landscape ecology- A space for generative landscape science?" Professional Geographer, 58(4): 369-382.
Brown, Daniel, and Derek T. Robinson. 2006. "Effects of heterogeneity in residential preferences on an agent-based model of urban sprawl." Ecology and Society, 11 (1).
2005
Low, Bobbi. 2005. "Women's lives there, here, then, now: a review of women's ecological and demographic constraints." Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(1): 64-87.
Parton, W.J., Myron Gutmann, S.A. Williams, M. Easter, and D. Ojima. 2005. "The Ecological Impact of Historical Land Use Patterns in the Great Plains: A Methodological Assessment." Ecological Applications, 15(6), 1915-1928.
Biddlecom, Ann E., William Axinn, and Jennifer S. Barber. 2005. "Environmental effects on family size preferences and subsequent reproductive behavior in Nepal." Population and Environment, 26(3): 183-206.
Brown, Daniel, R. Riolo, D.T. Robinson, M. North, and W. Rand. 2005. "Spatial Process and Data Models: Toward Integration of Agent-Based Models and GIS." Journal of Geographical Systems, 7(1): 1-23.
Brown, Daniel, S.E. Page, R.L. Riolo, M. Zellner, and W. Rand. 2005. "Path Dependence and the Validation of Agent-Based Spatial Models of Land-Use." International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 19(2): 153-174.
Liu, Jianguo, and J. Diamond. 2005. "China's environment in a globalizing world." Nature, 435(7046): 1179-1186.
Beemer, Jeffrey K., Susan Hautaniemi Leonard, and Douglas L. Anderson. 2005. "Sewers in the city: a case study of individual-level mortality and public health initiatives in Northampton, Massachusetts at the turn of the century." Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences, 28(1): 42-72.
Hembree, C., Sandro Galea, J. Ahern, M. Tracy, T.M. Piper, J. Miller, D. Viahov, and K.J. Tardiff. 2005. "The Urban Built Environment and Overdose Mortality in New York City Neighborhoods." Health & Place, 11(2): 147-156.
Gutmann, Myron, G.D. Deane, N. Lauster, and A. Peri. 2005. "Two population-environment regimes in the Great Plains of the United States, 1930-1990." Population and Environment, 27(2): 191-225.
Brown, Daniel, Kenneth M. Johnson, Thomas R. Loveland, and David M. Theobald. 2005. "Rural Land Use Trends in the Conterminous United States, 1950-2000." Ecological Applications, 15(6), 1851-1863.
Fernandez, L.E., Daniel Brown, R.W. Marans, and J.I. Nassauer. 2005. "Characterizing location preferences in an exurban population: Implications for agent based modeling." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 32(6) 799–820.
2004
Anderton, D.L., and Susan Hautaniemi Leonard. 2004. "Grammars of Death - an Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Literal Causes of Death From the Age of Miasmas to Germ Theory." Social Science History, 28(1): 111-143.
Low, Bobbi. 2004. "Editor's Introduction: Unforeseen Consequences of Policy Decisions." Population and Environment, 25(4): 277-280.
Lepczyk, C.A., A.G. Mertig, and Jianguo Liu. 2004. "Landowners and cat predation across rural-to-urban landscapes." Biological Conservation, 115(2): 191-201.
Brown, Daniel, S.E. Page, R.L. Riolo, and W. Rand. 2004. "Agent Based and Analytical Modeling to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Greenbelts." Environmental Modelling and Software, 19(12): 1097-1109.
Cifaldi, R., J.D. Allan, J.D. Duh, and Daniel Brown. 2004. "Spatial Patterns in Land Cover of Exurbanizing Watersheds in Southeastern Michigan." Landscape and Urban Planning, 66(2): 107-123.
Zhao, G.X., Ge Lin, and T. Warner. 2004. "Using Thematic Mapper data for change detection and sustainable use of cultivated land: a case study in the Yellow River delta, China." International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25(13): 2509-2522.
2003
Barber, Jennifer S., Ann E. Biddlecom, and William Axinn. 2003. "Neighborhood Social Change and Perceptions of Environmental Degradation." Population and Environment, 25(2): 77-108.
Deane, G., and Myron Gutmann. 2003. "Blowin' Down the Road: Investigating Bilateral Causality Between Dust Storms and Population in the Great Plains." Population Research and Policy Review, 22(4): 297-331.
Liu, Jianguo, G.C. Daily, P.R. Ehrlich, and G.W. Luck. 2003. "Effects of Household Dynamics on Resource Consumption and Biodiversity." Nature, 421(6922): 530-533.
Liu, Jianguo, Z.Y. Ouyang, S.L. Pimm, P.H. Raven, X.K. Wang, H. Miao, and N.Y. Han. 2003. "Protecting China's biodiversity." Science, 300(5623): 1240-1241.
Parton, W.J., Myron Gutmann, and W.R. Travis. 2003. "Historical Land Use Change in Eastern Colorado." Great Plains Research, 13: 97-125.
Brown, Daniel. 2003. "Land Use and Forest Cover in Private Parcels in the Upper Midwest USA, 1970-1990." Landscape Ecology, 18(8): 777-790.
2002
Martin, S.A., D.P. Sandler, Sioban D. Harlow, D.L. Shore, A.S. Rowland, and MCR Alavanja. 2002. "Pesticide Use and Pesticide-Related Symptoms among Black Farmers in the Agricultural Health Study." American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 41: 202-209.
Anderson, Barbara, John H. Romani, Heston E. Phillips, and Johan A. van Zyl. 2002. "Environment, Access to Health Care, and Other Factors Affecting Infant and Child Survival Among the African and Coloured Populations of South Africa, 1989-94." Population and Environment, 23(4): 349-364. Reprint No. 591.
Lu, Jiehua, Guangzhou Wang, and Jianxin Li. 2002. "Impact of Population Changes on Aquatic Food Consumption Since Economic Reform in PRC." Economic Problems, 4.
Pijanowski, B.C., Daniel Brown, B.A. Shellito, and G.A. Manik. 2002. "Using Neural Nets and GIS to Forecast Land Use Changes: A Land Transformation Model." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 26(6): 553-575.
Sastry, Narayan. 2002. "Forest Fires, Air Pollution, and Mortality in Southeast Asia." Demography, 39(1)1-23.
Chapters
Gutmann, Myron, W.J. Parton, G. Cunfer, and I.C. Burke. 2005. "Population and Environment in the U.S. Great Plains." In Population, Land Use, and Environment : Research Directions edited by Paul Stern and Barbara Entwisle. Washington: National Academy Press.
Low, Bobbi, Carl P. Simon, and D. Finkbeiner. 2004. "Favored Places in the Selfish Herd: Positional Costs and Benefits in Fish Schools." In Perspectives on Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems edited by L. Bookner, S. Forrest, M. Mitchell and R. Riolo. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gutmann, Myron, S. Pullum, S.G. Baker, and I.C. Burke. 2004. "German-Origin Settlement and Agricultural Land Use in the Twentieth Century Great Plains." In German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective edited by W. Kamphoefner and W. Helbich. 136-168. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Brown, Daniel, R. Walker, S. Manson, and K. Seto. 2004. "Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Change." In Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface edited by G. Gutman, A. C. Janetos, C. O. Justice, E. F. Moran, J. F. Mustard, R. R. Rindfuss, D. L. Skole, B. L. Turner, and M. A. Cochrane. Ch. 23. New York: Springer.
Brown, Daniel, E.A. Addink, J.D. Duh, and M.A. Bowersox. 2004. "Assessing Uncertainty in Spatial Landscape Metrics Derived from Remote Sensing Data." In Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment edited by R, Lunetta and J. G. Lyon. Pp. 22-232. Boca Ranton, FL: CRC Press.
Axinn, William, and Jennifer S. Barber. 2003. "Linking People and Land Use: A Sociological Perspective." In People and the Environment edited by J. Fox, RR Rindfuss, S Walsh, V Mishra. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Low, Bobbi, E. Ostrom, Carl P. Simon, and J. Wilson. 2003. "Redundancy and Diversity: Do They Influence Optimal Management?" In Navigating Nature's Dynamics edited by J. Colding and C. Folke. Pp. 83-114. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Leonard, Susan Hautaniemi, and Deborah I. Rotman. 2003. "To the hogs? or to the house?: municipal water and gender relations." In Shared Spaces and Divided Places: Material Dimensions of Gender Relations and the American Historical Landscape edited by Deborah L. Rotman and Ellen-Rose Savulis. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press.
Drzyzga, S.A., and Daniel Brown. 2002. "Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Owndership Parcels and Forest Cover in Three Counties of Northern Lower Michigan USA, ca. 1970 to 1990." In Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach edited by S. J. Walsh and K. A. CrewsMeyer. Pp. 155-185. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
PSC Reports
Axinn, William, Jennifer S. Barber, and Ann E. Biddlecom. 2007. "Social Organization and the Transition from Direct to Indirect Consumption." PSC Research Report No. 07-618. February 2007.
Axinn, William, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2007. "Social Organization, Population, and Land Use." PSC Research Report No. 07-617. February 2007.
Massey, Douglas S., William Axinn, and Dirgha Ghimire. 2007. "Environmental Change and Out-Migration: Evidence from Nepal." PSC Research Report No. 07-615. January 2007.
Xie, Yu, Yang Jiang, and Emily Greenman. 2006. "Did Send-Down Experience Benefit Youth? A Reevaluation of the Social Consequences of Forced Urban-Rural Migration during China’s Cultural Revolution." PSC Research Report No. 06-603. August 2006.
Anderson, Barbara, John Romani, Heston E. Phillips, Marie Wentzel, and Kholadi Tlabela. 2006. "Exploring Perceptions, Behaviors and Awareness: Water and Water Pollution in South Africa." PSC Research Report No. 06-596. April 2006.
Romani, John H., and Barbara Anderson. 2002. "Development, Health and the Environment: Factors Influencing Infant and Child Survival in South Africa." PSC Research Report No. 02-525. August 2002.
Other Reports
Anderson, Barbara, and John H. Romani. 2002. "Environmental Views in Estonia on the Eve of Independence: Perceptions of the Seriousness of Ecological Pollution as a Social Problem." Proceedings of the National Research Center, Rome .
