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Higgins Professor of Environment and Society
Clark University, United States
Graduate School of Geography
950 Main St.
Worcester, MA 01610
United States of America
Tel: +1 508-793-7325/7779
Fax: +1 508-793-8881
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B. L. Turner II has constructed his research career around the subject of human-environment relationships as emphasized in the interdisciplinary subfield of cultural/human ecology with substantive interests focused on tropical land use and smallholder decision-making. He has engaged these interests in studies of ancient-historic and contemporary land change, primarily in Mexico-Central America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia. Central to these studies are the causes of and management rationale involved with land change and the environmental impacts thereof. More recently, he has begun to explore spatially explicit modeling of this change, attempting to merge field- and imagery-based approaches, as well as attempts to monitor environmental changes more broadly in central Massachusetts. Vulnerability analysis is one part of the response side to his research, anticipated in Regions at Risk (Kasperson, Kasperson and Turner, UNU Press 1995). This extension follows from intellectual interests and the increasing merger of cultural and political ecology (drivers) with risk-hazards and impacts (response) studies. His on-going research project dealing with deforestation in the southern Yucatán region and that of his students undertaking a large number of funded doctoral research in Africa and elsewhere link the drivers of and responses to land-change by way of merged field and remote sensing analysis, a central aim of which is to determine the vulnerability of place. As well, Turner works with the IGBP-IHDP program on Land-Use/Cover Change to establish a "vulnerability" focus, one that appreciates the range of approaches to be brought to bear on the subject, and is undertaking the same within the Committee on Geography (NRC).
This Network Member is involved with the following projects:
Research and Assessment Systems for Sustainability
Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change (CIS-HDGC)
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PUBLICATIONS
Grand Challenges in Sustainability Science Symposium Presentations (2007)
Organized by Pamela Matson, Robert Kates , and Vaughan Turekian; Moderated by William Clark; Presenters: Pam Matson, Robert Kates, John Schellnhuber, Ed Miles, Bill Turner, Elinor Ostrom, and John Holdren
Land Change Science Special Feature: The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability (2007)
B. L. Turner II, Eric F. Lambin, and Anette Reenberg
Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development (2007)
James F. Reynolds, D. Mark Stafford Smith, Eric F. Lambin, B. L. Turner, II, Michael Mortimore, Simon P. J. Batterbury, Thomas E. Downing, Hadi Dowlatabadi, Roberto J. Fernández, Jeffrey E. Herrick, Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald, Hong Jiang, Rik Leemans, Tim Lynam, Fernando T. Maestre, Miguel Ayarza, Brian Walker
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PROJECTS
Water Management, Livelihoods, and Landscapes in the... Comision Fulbright (Quito)Urban Policy Integration for Energy Related Environmental... Institute for Global Environmental Strategies... Using Culturally Sustainable Development as Spring Board... University of Helsinki, Finland EVENTS
Impacts of Climate Change on the.... June 2, 2008 2th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering.... June 24, 2008 13th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering.... June 23, 2009 MEMBERS
Richard Bissell, National Research Council (NRC), United States Lila Khatiwada, University of Missouri-Columbia, United States Harald Heinrichs, Universität Lüneburg, Germany PUBLICATIONS
Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: Biocomplexity as an Interdisciplinary Paradigm.
Bruce A. Wilcox and Rita R. Colwell
Research Partnerships for Sustainable Development: Report of an International Workshop.
International Institute for Environment and Development
Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems. Carl Folke, Thomas Hahn, Per
COMMENTARIES
The Biosphere, Health, and 'Sustainability'.
Tony McMichael,
Emergence, Connectionism, and Ecological Selfhood. Dan
Criteria and Indicators for Sustainability. Naim Hamdia
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