Selected Publications

1989      The Spacialist-Synthesis Approach to the Revival of Geography: The Case of Cultural Ecology. B. L. Turner II.

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 79, No. 1, pp. 88-100.

1997      Spirals, Bridges, and Tunnels: Engaging Human-Environment Perspectives in Geography. B. L. Turner Il.

Ecumene, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 196-217

2003      Contested Identities: Human-Environment Geography and Disciplinary Implications in a Restructuring Academy. B. L. Turner II. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 52-74.

2005      Geography's Profile in Public Debate Inside-the-Beltway and the National Academies. B. L. Turner II.

Professional Geographer, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 462-467.

2011      Book Review Forum: Andrew P. Vayda, Explaining Human Actions and Environmental Change. B. L. Turner II.

Dialogues in Human Geography, Vol.1, No. 3, pp. 382-385.

2019      The parallel trajectories and increasing integration of landscape ecology and land system science. Rinku Roy Chowdhury and B. L. Turner II. Journal of Land Use Science, Vol. 14 (2), pp. 135-154.

1990       Two Types of Global Environmental Change: Definitional and Spatial-Scale Issues in their Human Dimensions. B. L. Turner II et al. Global Environmental Change, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 14-22.

1990      Example Article Name: Example Subtitle. B. L. Turner II.

The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Last 300 Years. ed by B. L. Turner II et al. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

1992      Human Population Growth and Global Land Use/Cover Change. W. B. Meyer & B. L. Turner II. Annual Review in Ecology and Systematics, Vol. 23, pp. 39-61. (Reprinted 2006, Agriculture and Rural Connections in the Pacific. J Gerber and L Guang, eds. Hampshire: Ashgate.)

1994      The Human Causes of Deforestation in Southeast Asia. D. Kummer & B. L. Turner II. BioScience, Vol. 44, No. 5, pp. 323-328.

1999      Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective. ed by B. L. Turner II & W. B. Meyer. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

1995      Global Land-Use Change: A Perspective from the Columbian Encounter, ed by B. L. Turner II, et al. Madrid Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas.

1995      Regions at Risk: Comparisons of Threatened Environments. ed. by J. X. Kasperson et al. Tokyo: United Nations Press.

1997      The Sustaiability Principle in Global Agendas: Implications for Understanding Land-Use/Cover Change. B. L. Turner II.

Geographical Journal, Vol. 163, No. 2, pp. 133-140.

1998     Imaginable Surprise in Global Change Science. S. Schneider et al. Journal of Risk Research, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 165-185..

2001     The Causes of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change--Moving Beyond the Myths. E. F. Lambin et al.  

Global Environmental Change, Vol. 11, pp. 5-13.

2001      Land-Use and Land-Cover Change: Advances in 1.5 Decades of Sustained International Research. B. L. Turner II. 

Example Publication Name, Vol. 163, No. 2, pp. 133-140.

2001      Example Article Name: Example Subtitle. B. L. Turner II. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives in Science, Humanities, and Economics, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 269-272.

2003      Framework for Vulnerability Analysis in Sustainability Science. B. L. Turner II et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol. 100, No. 14, pp. 8074-8079

2003      Illustrating the Coupled Human-Environment System for Vulnerability Analysis:  Three Case Studies.  B. L. Turner II et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol. 100, No. 14, pp. 8074-8079.

2004      Abrupt Changes: The Achilles Heel of the Earth System. W. Steffen et al. 

Environment, Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 8-19.  (repreinted as IIASA Reprint Research Report, RR-04-006, June 2004.)

2004      Developing a Science of Land Change:  Challenges and Methodological Issues. R. R. Rindfuss et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol. 101, No. 39, pp. 13976-13981.

2004      Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in Southern Yucatan: Final Frontiers. ed. by B. L. Turner II et al. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2004      Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectorie of Changes on the Earth's Surface. ed by G. Gutman et al. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic Press..

2004     Global Change and The Earth System: A planet under Pressures. ed by W. Steffen et al. IGBP Global Change Series.  Berlin,: Springer-Verlag

2007      Land Change in the Southern Yucatan and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve:  Implications for Habitat and Biodiversity. H. F. M. Vester et al. 

Ecological Applications, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 989-1003.

2009      Agricultural Intensification and Changes in Cultivated Areas, 1970-2005.  T. Rudel et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol. 106, No. 49 pp. 20675-20680.

2009      Sustainability and Forest Transitions in the Southern Yucatan: The Land Architecture Approach. B. L. Turner II.  Land Use Policy, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 170-180.

2010      Vulnerbility and Resilience: Coalescing or Paralleling Approaches for Sustainability Science? B. L. Turner II. Global Environmental Change, Vol 20., pp. 570-576. 

2010      Complex Land Systems: The Need for Long Time Perspectives in Order to Assess their Future. J. A. Dearing et al. Ecology and Society, Vol. 15, No. 4, 21. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art21/

2010      Ester Boserup: An Interdisciplinary Visionary Relevant for Sustainability.  B. L. Turner II & M. Fischer-Kolwaski. 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, , Vol. 107, No. 51, pp. 21963-21965.

2011     Paying for Ecosystem Services: Promise and Peril. A. P. Kinzig et al.  Science Vol. 334, pp. 603-604.

2012      Planetary Opportunities: A Social Contract for Global Change Sciece to Contribute to a Sustainable Future.  R. DeFries et al. BioScience, Vol. 62, No. 6, pp. 603-606.Example Article Name: Example Subtitle. B. L. Turner II.

2013      Land System Architecture: Using Land Systems to Mitigated Global Environmental Change.  B. L. Turner II et al. Global Environmental Change, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 296-397. 

2013      Hell and High: Practice-Relevant Climate Adaptation Science.  R. A. Moss, et al. Science, Vol. 342, No. 6159, pp. 696-698. DOI:10.1126/science.1239569

2014     The Effect of Woody Plant Encroachment on Livestock Production: A Comparison of North and South America.  Jose D. Anadon, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol. 111, No. 35, pp. 12947-12953.

2015     Linking Ecosystem Services to Human Well-being: Three Challenges for designing Research for Sustainability.   E. Bennett, et al. Current Opinions in Environmental Conservation,  Vol. 14, pp. pp. 76-85.

2016       Impact of Homeowner Association (HOA) Landscaping Guidelines on Residential Water Use.  E. A. Wentz, et al. Water Resource Research, Vol.52, No. 5, pp. 3373-3378.  DOI: 10:1002/2015WR018238 

2016   Land System Architecture for Urban Sustainability: New Directions for Land System Science Illustrated by the Application to the Urban Heat Island Problem.  B. L Turner II. Journal of Land Use Science, Vol.11, No. 6, pp. 689-697.

2016       Land Changes and Their Drivers in the Cloud Forest and Coastal Zone of Dhafor, Oman between 1988 and 2013. C. Galletti, et al. Regional Environmental Change, Vol.16, No. 6, pp. 2141-2153.

2017      On the Association between Land System Architecture and Land Surface Temperature: Evidence from a Desert Metropolis. X. Li et al. Landscape and Urban Planning, Vol.163, pp. 107-120.  https://dx.doi.org/10/1016/j.landurbplan.2017.02.009

2017      Lots got Greening: Identification of Metropolitan Vacant Land and Its Potential Use for Cooling and Agriculture in Phoenix, AZ, USA.  J. P. Smith et al.  Applied Geography, Vol. 85, pp. 139-151.

2017     Optimizing Green Space Locations to Reduce Daytime and Nighttime Heat Island Effects in Phoenix, Arizona. Y. Zhang et al. Landscape and Urban Planning, Vol.165, pp. 162-171.

2017    Sustainability in an Urbanizing Planet. K. C. Seto, et al.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol.114, No. 4, pp. 8953-8938.

2017   On the Effects of Landscape Configuration on Summer Diurnal Temperatures in Residential Areas: Application in Phoenix, Arizona.  Y. Kamarianakis, et al. Frontiers in Earth Science, Vol.13, pp. 445-463.  https://doi.org/10/1007/s11707-0678-4

2017     From Basic Research to Applied Solutions: Are Two Approaches to Sustainability Science Emerging. E. Doran, et al. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Vol.29, pp. 138-144.  https://doi.org/10/1016/j/cosust.2018.01.013

*2018     Middle Range Theories of Land System Science. P. Meyfroidt et al. Global Environmental Change, Vol. 53, pp. 53-67.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937801830228

2019     The  Sustainability Publication Gap and Its Implications. O. E. Sala, et al. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability,, Vol. 39, pp. 39-43.  https://soi.org/10.1016/j.cosust. 2019.06.006

2020     Understanding the Role of Illicit Transactions in Land-Change Dynamics. E. Tellman et al. Nature Sustainability, Vol. 3, pp. 175-181.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0457-1

2020   Meeting Grand Challenges in Agent-Based Modeling (editorial). L. An, et al. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulations, Vol. 23, No. 1, 13. 175-181.  https://doi.10.18564/jasss.4012

2020   Environmental Outcomes of Urban Land System Change: Comparing Riparian Design Approaches in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.  M. Sthulmacher et al. . Land Use Policy, Vol. 99, 104615.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104615 

2020   Institutional Shifts and Landscape Change from the Republic of Cuba during Periodo Especial. M. Sthulmacher et al. . Journal of Land Use Science, Vol. 15, No.5, pp. 690-706.  https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2020.1829119

2020   Planning Gardens Strategically  through Multicriteria Decision Analysis. J. Smith, et al.  Urban Forestry and Urban Gardening, Vol. 58, 126897 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126897 

2021   From Land-Use/Land-Cover to Land System Science. B. L Turner II, et al.  Ambio, Vol. 50, 1292-1294. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01519-4

2021   The Challenges, Tasks, and Opportunities in Modeling Agent-Based Complex Systems. L. An et al.  Ecological Modeling, Vol. 457, 10685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109685

2021 Policy Challenges for Global Land Use. E. Lambin et al.  Global Environmental Change, Vol. 71, 102411. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloencha.2021.102411

2021  The Role of Institutional Entrepreneurs and Informal Land Transactions in Mexico's City Urban Expansion. E. Tellman et al. World Development, Vol. 140, 105374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105374.0305-750X

2022  Ten Facts about Land System Science for Sustainability. P. Meyfroidt et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol. 109, No. 7, e2109217118 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2109217118

2022  Identifying, Projecting and Evaluating Informal Urban Expansion Patterns. E Tellman et al. Journal of Land Use Sciences, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 100-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2021.2020919

2022  Are Global Cities Homogenizing? An Assessment of Urban Form and Urban Heat Island Implications. M. Sthulmacher et al. Cities, Vol. 126, 103705 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities. 2022.103705

2022  Optimizing Food Desert and Urban Heat Mitigation through Co-benefits of Community Garden Planning. Urban and Landscape Planning, Vol. 226, 104488 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.j.landurbanplan.2022.104488

2022  Reflections on a Vulnerability Framework for Sustainability Science. Jamba: Journal of Diaster Risk Studies, Vol. 15, No. 1, a1335. https://doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v15i1.1335 

1997      Example Article Name: Example Subtitle. B. L. Turner II.

Example Publication Name, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1-10.

1977      Population Pressure and Agricultural Intensity B. L. Turner II, et al.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 384- 396.

1996      Induced Intensification: Agricultural Change in Bangladesh with Implications for Malthus and Boserup.   B. L. Turner II and A. M. S. Ali. , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, Vol. 93, No. 25, pp. 14984-14991.  https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.93.25.1498

1997      The Sustainability Principle in Global Agendas :Implications for Understanding Land Use/Land Cover Change.  B. L. Turner II.  Geographical Journal, Vol. 63, No. 2, pp. 133.140.  

2001     Modeling Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region: Comparing Survey and Satellite Data. J. Geoghegan et al. Agroecosystems and Environment Vol. 85, No. 1-3, pp. 25-46.

2001     Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region: An Integrative Approach. B L. Turner II et al. Forest Ecology and Management Vol. 154, No. 3, pp. 343-370.

2001     Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region: An Integrative Approach. B L. Turner II et al. Forest Ecology and Management Vol. 154, No. 3, pp. 343-370.

2006    Reconciling Agency and Structure in Empirical Analysis: Smallholder Land Use in Southern Yucatan, Mexico. R. Roy Chowdhury and B L. Turner II. Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 96, No. 2, pp. 302-322.

2007    Land Change in the Southern Yucatan and Calakmul Biosphere Reserve: Implications for Habitat and Biodiversity. H. M. F. Vester. Ecological Applications Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 898-1003.

2009    Sustainability and Forest Transitions in Southern Yucatan: The Land Architecture Approach. B. L. Turner II. Land Use Policy, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 170-180.

2011    Mapping Seasonal Trends in Vegetation Using AVHRR-NDVI Time Series in Yucatan, Mexico.  N. Neeting et al. Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 443-442.

2011    Mapping Seasonal Trends in Vegetation Using AVHRR-NDVI Time Series in Yucatan, Mexico.  N. Neeting et al. Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 443-442.

2015   The Persistence of Provisioning among Andapa, Malagasy Smallholders. R. Laney and B. L. Turner II. Human Ecology, Vol. 43, No. 6,  pp. 811-826. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-015-9791-8

2016   Land System Science and the Socio-environmental System: The Case of the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region. B. L. Turner II, et al. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Vol. 19 , pp. 18-29.