The socioeconomic dimensions of brownfield cleanup in the Detroit region
Abstract Although the goal of brownfield development is to clean up and redevelop abandoned or underutilized properties in distressed urban neighborhoods, the racial and socioeconomic disparities of...
View ArticleSpatial and temporal residential density patterns from 1940 to 2000 in and...
Abstract Over the past 60 years, housing growth has outpaced population growth in the United States. Conservationists are concerned about the far-reaching environmental impacts of housing development,...
View ArticleThe impacts of climate variability on household welfare in rural Mexico
Abstract In light of the expected increase in weather variability from climate change, we examine the impact of weather shocks, defined as rainfall or growing degree days more than a standard...
View ArticleMapping vulnerability to climate change-related hazards: children at risk in...
Abstract There are significant human impacts associated with climate change. This paper introduces a model for identifying small area risks associated with children’s vulnerability to climate...
View ArticleNatural disasters and local demographic change in the United States
Abstract Classic studies on local demographic consequences of natural disasters in the United States are now more than 30 years old, raising questions about how and to what extent relevant patterns...
View ArticleMigration and mobility on the Amazon frontier
Abstract Migration patterns within tropical forest frontiers are highly complex and multidirectional, with movements to, from, and within these regions likely driven by different macro and micro...
View ArticleThe future of hunting: an age-period-cohort analysis of deer hunter decline
Abstract This paper employs a cohort analysis to examine the recent decline in the number of deer hunters in the State of Wisconsin and considers the implications of hunter decline for wildlife...
View ArticleRainfall variations and child mortality in the Sahel: results from a...
Abstract Over the last 40 years, the Sahel has seen a long-term downward trend in rainfall. The importance of ecological variables as factors affecting child survival in rural subsistence societies...
View ArticleInter- and transdisciplinary approaches to population–environment research...
Abstract The causes and consequences of demographic changes for the environment, and the possible ways of influencing population dynamics to achieve ‘sustainability’, have been the subject of many...
View ArticleHumans and biodiversity: population and demographic trends in the hotspots
Abstract An analysis of human population trends from 2000 to 2010 shows that of the roughly one billion additional people on the planet today, a disproportionate number live in the biodiversity...
View ArticleRural–urban migration, agrarian change, and the environment in Kenya: a...
Abstract The nexus between migration dynamics and environmental change has drawn the attention of many researchers in the recent past. While the majority of studies focus on the impact of the...
View ArticleHigh-resolution mapping of rural poverty and famine vulnerability in the...
Abstract Conventional approaches to mapping poverty and vulnerability rely on statistical techniques for analyzing national census results in conjunction with much smaller auxiliary data sets. The...
View ArticleLinking long-term temperature variability to population density in Andorra...
Abstract Correlation of long-term temperature variability and population density was investigated in an isolated mountain environment case study for the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries period....
View ArticleSeasonal and weather-related behavioral effects among urban Aboriginal, urban...
Abstract The influence of seasonal change and weather on mood, social activity, weight, food consumption, and sleep length was compared across urban Aboriginals (n = 43), urban non-Aboriginals (n =...
View ArticleHispanic heterogeneity and environmental injustice: intra-ethnic patterns of...
Abstract To explore intra-ethnic diversity in patterns of environmental health injustice in Miami (Florida), we related modeled estimates of cancer risks from on-road pollutants from the 2005...
View ArticleCohort change and the diffusion of environmental concern: a cross-national...
Abstract This study explores value change across cohorts for a multinational population sample. Employing a diffusion-of-innovations approach, we combine competing theories predicting the relationship...
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