Books and Reports

Committee on the Earth System Science for Decisions About Human Welfare: Contributions of Remote Sensing, G.S.C., National Research Council (2007) Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health: Workshop Report. National Academies Press, Washington DC.

http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11759

DeFries, R., Pagiola, S., Adamowicz, W.L., Akcakaya, H.R., Arcenas, A., Babu, S., Balk, D., Confalonieri, U., Cramer, W., Falconi, F., Fritz, S., Green, R., Gutierrez-Espeleta, E., Hamilton, K., Kane, R., Latham, J., Matthews, E., Ricketts, T. and Yue, T.X. (2005) Analytical Approaches for Assessing Ecosystem Condition and Human Well-being. Chapter 2 in: Hassan, R., Scholes, R., Ash, N. (eds) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends, Volume 1. pp. 37-71. Island Press, Washington, Covelo, London.

http://www.maweb.org/documents/document.271.aspx.pdf

Faurès, J.-M. and Santini, G. (2008) Water and the Rural Poor: Interventions for improving livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. p. 94. FAO Land and Water Division, Rome.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/i0132e/i0132e00.htm

Journal Articles

Carr, E.R., Kettle, N.P. and Hoskins, A. (2009) Evaluating poverty-environment dynamics. International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 16(2): 87 - 93.

de Sherbinin, A. (2008) Is poverty more acute near parks? An assessment of infant mortality rates around protected areas in developing countries. Oryx, 42(1): 26-35.

Elvidge, C.D., Sutton, P.C., Ghosh, T., Tuttle, B.T., Baugh, K.E., Bhaduri, B. and Bright, E. (2009) A global poverty map derived from satellite data. Computers & Geosciences, 35(8): 1652-1660.

Erenstein, O., Hellin, J. and Chandna, P. (2010) Poverty mapping based on livelihood assets: A meso-level application in the Indo-Gangetic Plains, India. Applied Geography, 30(1): 112-125.

Feldacker, C., Ennett, S. T. and Speizer, I. (2011) It's not just who you are but where you live: An exploration of community influences on individual HIV status in rural Malawi. Social Science & Medicine, 72(5): 717-725.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.01.003

Feyrer, J. (2009) Trade and income - exploiting time series in geography. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series, 14910: 37pp.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w14910

Fujii, T. (2008) How well can we target aid with rapidly collected data? Empirical results for poverty mapping from Cambodia. World Development, 36(10): 1830-1842.

Gamble, M.V., Liu, X., Slavkovich, V., Pilsner, J.R., Ilievski, V., Factor-Litvak, P., Levy, D., Alam, S., Islam, M., Parvez, F., Ahsan, H. and Graziano, J.H. (2007) Folic acid supplementation lowers blood arsenic. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 86(4): 1202-1209.

Hall, O., Duit, A. and Caballero, L. N. C. (2008) World poverty, environmental vulnerability and population at risk for natural hazards. Journal of Maps, 2008: 151-160.
http://dx.doi.org/10.4113/jom.2008.95

Hodson, D.P. and White, J.W. (2007) Use of spatial analyses for global characterization of wheat-based production systems. The Journal of Agricultural Science, 145(2): 115-125.

Hyman, G., Fujisaka, S., Jones, P., Wood, S., de Vicente, M.C. and Dixon, J. (2008) Strategic approaches to targeting technology generation: Assessing the coincidence of poverty and drought-prone crop production. Agricultural Systems, 98(1): 50-61.

Jones, P.G. and Thornton, P.K. (2009) Croppers to livestock keepers: livelihood transitions to 2050 in Africa due to climate change. Environmental Science & Policy, 12(4): 427-437.

Liu, J., Fritz, S., van Wesenbeeck, C. F. A., Fuchs, M., You, L., Obersteiner, M. and Yang, H. (2008) A spatially explicit assessment of current and future hotspots of hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of global change. Global and Planetary Change, 64(3-4): 222-235.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2008.09.007

Lodha, S., Gunawardane, P., Middleton, E. and Crow, B. (2009) Understanding relationships between global health indicators via visualisation and statistical analysis. Journal of International Development, 21(8): 1152-1166.

Mittelman, J. (2008) Beyond impoverished anti-poverty paradigms. Third World Quarterly, 29(8): 1639-1652.

Owen, K. K., Obregón, E. J. and Jacobsen, K. H. (2010) A geographic analysis of access to health services in rural Guatemala. International Health, 2(2): 143-149.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inhe.2010.03.002

Parshall, L., Pillai, D., Mohan, S., Sanoh, A. and Modi, V. (2009) National electricity planning in settings with low pre-existing grid coverage: Development of a spatial model and case study of Kenya. Energy Policy, 37(6): 2395-2410.

Pilsner, J.R., Liu, X., Ahsan, H., Ilievski, V., Slavkovich, V., Levy, D., Factor-Litvak, P., Graziano, J.H. and Gamble, M.V. (2009) Folate deficiency, hyperhomocysteinemia, low urinary creatinine, and hypomethylation of leukocyte DNA are risk factors for arsenic-Induced skin lesions. Environmental Health Perspectives, 117(2): 254-260.

Rarieya, M. and Fortun, K. (2010) Food security and seasonal climate information: Kenyan challenges. Sustainability Science, 5(1): 99-114.

Redford, K.H., Levy, M.A., Sanderson, E.W. and de Sherbinin, A. (2008) What is the role for conservation organizations in poverty alleviation in the world's wild places? Oryx, 13pp.

Storeygard, A., Balk, D., Levy, M.A. and Deane, G. (2008) The global distribution of infant mortality: a subnational spatial view. Population, Space and Place, 14(3): 209-229.

Tallis, H. and Polasky, S. (2009) Mapping and valuing ecosystem services as an approach for conservation and natural-resource management. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1162 (The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology 2009): 265-283.

Last Update:  26 May 2011