Selected
Publications & PDFs + Past & Present Ph.D.
Advisees with Pictures & Commentary Gilbert F. White
Professor of Environment & Society School of
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Selected Publications [pdfs
for non-books] Listings: Geographical & Human-Environment History, Ideas &
Commentary Land Change, Sustainability & Vulnerability Ancient Maya & MesoAmerica Geographical &
Human-Environment History, Ideas & Commentary 1989 The Specialist-Synthesis Approach to the Revival
of Geography: The Case of Cultural Ecology. 1997 Spirals, Bridges, and Tunnels: Engaging
Human-Environment Perspectives in Geography. 2003 Contested Identities: Human-Environment
Geography and Disciplinary Implications in a Restructuring Academy. 2005 Geography’s Profile in Public Debate
Inside-the-Beltway and the National Academies. Land Change Science,
Sustainability &Vulnerability 1990
Two Types of Global Environmental Change:
Definitional and Spatial-Scale Issues in their Human Dimensions. 1990 The
Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the
Biosphere over the Past 300 Years. 1992 Human Population Growth and Global
Land-Use/Cover Change. William B. Meyer and
1994 The Human Causes of Deforestation in
Southeast Asia. David Kummer and 1994 Changes
in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective. 1995 Global
Land-Use Change: A Perspective from the Columbian Encounter. 1995 Regions
at Risk: Comparisons of Threatened Environments.. J.X. Kasperson, R.
E. Kasperson and 1997 The Sustainability Principle in Global
Agendas: Implications for Understanding Land-Use/Cover Change. 1998 Imaginable
Surprise in Global Change Science. Stephen Schneider, 2001 The Causes of Land-Use and Land-Cover
Change—Moving Beyond the Myths. E.F. Lambin, 2001 Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Advances in
1.5 Decades of Sustained International Research. 2003 Framework for Vulnerability Analysis in Sustainability Science.
2003 Illustrating the Coupled Human-Environment System
for Vulnerability Analysis: Three Case Studies. 2004 Abrupt Changes: The Achilles Heel of the
Earth System. W. Steffan, M. O. Andreae, B. Bolin, P. J. Crutzen,
P. Cox, U. Cubasch, H. Held, N. Nakicenovic,
R. Scholes, L. Talaue-McManus, and 2004 Developing a Science of Land Change:
Challenges and Methodological Issues. Ronald R. Rindfuss, Stephen
J. Walsh, 2004 Integrated Land-Change
Science and Tropical Deforestation in the 2004 Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding
Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface. Garik Gutman, 2004 Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet
under Pressure.
William Steffen, A.
Sanderson, 2007 Land Change in the Southern Yucatán
and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve: Implications for Habitat and Biodiversity. H. F. M. Vester, D. Lawrence, J. R. Eastman, 2009 Agricultural Intensification and Changes in Cultivated Areas, 1970-2005 T. Rudel, L. C. Schneider , M. Uriarte , B. Turner, R. DeFries, D. Lawrence , J. Geoghegan , S. Hecht , A. Ickowitz , E. Lambin, T. Birkenholtz , S. Baptista , R. Grau. Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 106, No. 49, 20675-20680. 2009 Sustainability and Forest Transitions in
the Southern Yucatán: The Land Architecture Approach.
2010 Vulnerability and Resilience: Coalescing or Paralleling Approaches for Sustainability Science?
2001
Modeling Tropical Deforestation in the
Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region: Comparing Survey and Satellite
Data. Jacqueline Geoghegan, Sergio Cortina Villar,
2001
Deforestation in the Southern
Yucatán Peninsular Region: An Integrative Approach. 2004 Integrated Land-Change
Science and Tropical Deforestation in the 2006 Reconciling Agency and Structure in
Empirical Analysis: Smallholder Land Use in Southern Yucatán, Mexico. Rinku Roy Chowdhury and 2007 Land Change in the Southern Yucatán
and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve: Implications for Habitat and Biodiversity. H. F. M. Vester, D. Lawrence, J. R. Eastman, 2009 Sustainability and Forest Transitions in
the Southern Yucatán: The Land Architecture Approach. Land
Use Policy Vol. 27, No. 2: 170-180.
Cultural & Political Ecology 1977 Population Pressure and Agricultural
Intensity. 1987 Comparative
Farming Systems. 1993 Population
Growth and Agricultural Change in 1996 Induced Intensification: Agricultural
Change in Bangladesh with Implications for Malthus and Boserup.
1997 The Sustainability Principle in Global
Agendas: Implications for Understanding Land-Use/Cover Change. 2006 Reconciling Agency and Structure in
Empirical Analysis: Smallholder Land Use in Southern Yucatán, Mexico. Rinku Roy Chowdhury and 2008 Land
Change Science and Political Ecology: Similarities, Differences, and
Implications for Sustainability Science, 2007 Global Desertification: Building a Science
for Dryland Development, J. F. Reynolds,
D. Mark Stafford Smith, E. F. Lambin, 2007 The Emergence of Land Change Science for
Global Environmental Change and Sustainability, 2008 Land Change Science and Political Ecology:
Similarities, Differences, and Implications for Sustainability Science,
2009 Sustainability and Forest Transitions in
the Southern Yucatán: The Land Architecture Approach. Land
Use Policy doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.03.006. Ancient Maya & Mesoamerica 1974 Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the
Mayan Lowlands. 1979 A Maya Dam in the Copan Valley, Honduras.
1978 Pre-Hispanic
Maya Agriculture. P.D. Harrison and 1981 Prehistoric Raised-Field Agriculture in the
Maya Lowlands. 1983 Once Beneath the Forest:
Prehistoric Terracing in the Rio Bec Region of the
Maya 1983 1984 Economic Plant Species Associated with
Prehistoric Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands. 1992 Landscapes of Cultivation in Mesoamerica on
the Eve of the Conquest. 2001 Cultivated Landscapes of
Native 2010 2010 Unlocking the Ancient Maya ad their Environment: Paleo-Evidence and Dating Resolution.
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Doctoral Advisees [information &
comments] * Co-advisee Name (country of
origin if not US; pre-PhD degrees & program if other than Geog.,
institution), date PhD completed & title dissertation (fellowships &
grants), current post;
1. William E. DOOLITTLE III (BA,TCU; MA, U. No one persevered under the
difficult conditions that Bill did and he has sustained that work ethic
throughout his career.
Shajaat was the
first student to come to 3. Arnold was the first Clark student
to work with me, opening the doors to many others.
Tom holds one of the most
analytically rigorous minds I have encountered and is my only advisee to use
Stella in his dissertation.
Some students really don’t need advisees but advisor need
them; Tony is one.
I have lost David somewhere in
southern
Brad knows what he wants in his
professional life and will not be enticed in other directions.
I
discovered Yelena, a Russian fluent in Spanish, on a trip to
Oh those
Peter said
from day one he wanted to return to Colgate and by golly he did.
Got her thanks to Fulbright; when I
once asked Emma how many awards won needed to get a dissertation she
responded, “I want them all.”
Bill could thrive in the NGO, US
Agency, or academic world; and he does.
Irony. Dmitry bemoaned the capitalist systems
upon his arrival here; then he became a quasi-capitalist.
One the sharpest minds I have ever
encountered, Pat knows what makes her happy and lives it.
Oh those
Paul is one of the most meticulous
researchers I have encountered, and his fire-woodland & savanna work is outstainding.
Few people can match Eric in the
field with smallholder; I wish I had his talent.
Steve is another student who needed
little advising but the advisor needed him. 19. *Davison
GUMBO ( At the height of tensions in
I could have never completed field
work under the stress and trauma that Laura encountered; and the work was
excellent.
Claudia may have surpassed Susan
Hanson in her quantitative study of women’s groups in the field, all
the while being robbed twice and wrecking her car.
One of the
easiest going students I ever encountered; no matter how hard I tried, I
could not rile him.
One of only two Clarkies to undertake a Latin American, cultural-historical dissertation, but in the Clark tradition of problem framing.
Surely
the muddy boots award goes to Jackie—arrested, placed in an institution
for holding, wrecked in n0-where-land, and weakened by malaria, she
persevered deep in the rubbertappers forests of
One the
most talented students I have encountered; Ximena
will be a great academic catch when she decides to return to the U.S.
True to his aim, Mohan returned to
Hard to do household survey work
with Birgit, not because of the machete, but because she can illicit too much
information and keep the informant talking.
What can one say of student
who takes off to the far-reaches of
They are holding a university post
in
Kirsten ask for and required
so little and accomplished so much; completing a tropical savanna
dissertation, she switched to boreal forests without batting an eye.
Oh this NSF Fellows; say one thing
in the proposal, do another.
Jake’s research is set to move him forward handsomely.
Oh those NASA Fellows; say one thing in the
proposal, do another. How Rebecca
“did it” with her other responsibilities, I do not know.
Susannah has loads of talent; which
way will they take her.
Simply the nicest graduate student I
have ever encountered; he can admonish me and it takes me two days to realize
that is what he did. 37. *Lily
RAY (BS, Geology, Another
talent, Lily leaped in one direction and landed in another—in the case
Always questioning the vulnerability concept, Elia development a disease vector twist on the theme that proves most interesting.
A “spatial” talent mastering human-environment
issues, Marco is a pleasure.
Dominique is only student who completed her orals and dissertation
proposal defense while I was absent, but on the phone.
Karina my first student at ASU; not sure I ever worked as hard to
entice someone to come work with me. I can hardly wait for this talent to
arrive.
44. John CONNERS (BA, MA-GIS, Clark U.)
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