B.L. Turner II

Milton P. and Alice C. Higgins Professor of Environment and Society
Graduate School of Geography & George Perkins Marsh Institute
Clark University

Jefferson Academic Center Room 201A
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
508-793-8881 (voice)
508-793-7325 (fax)
bturner@clarku.edu

Further Information: http://www.clarku.edu/departments/marsh/faculty/turner.shtml

EDUCATION

1974 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin at Madison

APPOINTMENTS

1983-1988
1997-1998 Clark University, Director of the Graduate School of Geography
1991-1997 Clark University, Director of the George Perkins Marsh Institute

AWARDS AND HONORS

Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences
Distinguished Scholarship Award-Conference of Latin Americanists Geographers
Centennial Medal (Research)-Royal Scottish Geographical Society
National Academy of Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

CURRENT RESEARCH

LCLUC-SYPR Project
Land-cover and land-use change in the southern Yucatán peninsular region-spatially explicit probability approaches for modeling and projecting deforestation and land cover linked to remotely sensed imagery: a project in cooperation with Harvard Forest and ECOSUR-Unidad Chetumal (Mexico).

Sustainability systems-a joint project with Harvard University, Stanford University, Stockholm
Environmental Institute and others that seeks to develop a framework for the next decadal phase of global change research, moving from a largely earth systems focus towards one on a transition towards sustainability; Clark's role centers on advancing "vulnerability" science; funded by Washington agencies through the NSF.

HERO (Human-Environment Regional Observatories)
a joint project of Penn. State University, University of Arizona, and Kansas State University that seeks to develop data protocols for long-term monitoring and assessments of land and environmental change; Clark's emphasis is central MA urban sprawl and brownfields; data used to examine the dynamics of land change and urban-suburban development.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Cultural & Political Ecology/Nature-Society Issues

Turner, B. L. II. 1989. "The Specialist-Synthesis Approach to the Revival of Geography: The Case of Cultural Ecology". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 79: 88-100.

Turner, B. L. II. 1996. "Spirals, Bridges, and Tunnels: Engaging Human Environment Perpsectives in Geography?" Ecumene Vol. 4: 196-217.

Turner, B. L. II. 1997. "The Sustainability Principle in Global Agendas: Justifications for Understanding Land Use/Cover Change". Geographical Journal 163: 133-140.

Turner, B. L. 2002 Contested Identities: Human-Environment Geography and Disciplinary Implications in a Restructuring Academy. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92: 52-74.

Smallholder Agriculture and Change/Tropics

Turner, B. L. II and S.B. Brush, eds. 1987. Comparative Farming Systems (New York: Guilford Press).

Turner, B. L. II, G. Hyden and R.W. Kates, eds. 1993. Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa Carter Lecture Series, Center for African Studies, University of Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida).

Turner, B. L. II and A. M. S. Ali. 1995. "Induced Intensification: Agricultural Change in Bangladesh with Implications for Malthus and Boserup." Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences 93: 14984-14991.

Global Environmental Change/Land Use and Cover

Turner, B. L. II, W. C. Clark, R. W. Kates, J. F. Richards, J. T. Mathews, and W. B. Meyer, eds. 1990. The Earth as Transformed by Human Action: Global and Regional Changes in the Biosphere over the Past 300 Years (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Meyer, W. B. and B. L. Turner II, eds. 1994. Changes in Land Use and Land Cover: A Global Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Kasperson, J. X. R. E. Kasperson, and B. L. Turner II, eds. 1995. Regions at Risk: Comparisons of Threatened Environments (Tokyo: United Nations University).

Turner, B. L., II, et al. 2001. Deforestation and Agricultural Change in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region: Integrative Land Change for Global Change Studies. Forestry, Ecosystems, and Management 154(3): 343-370.

Turner, B. L. II, J. Geoghegen, and D.R. Foster, eds. 2003. Integrated Land Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in Southern Yucatan: Final Frontiers. (Oxford: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press), forthcoming.

Steffen, W., A. Sanderson, P. Tyson, J. Jäger, P. Matson, B. Moore III, F. Oldfield, K. Richardson, H-J. Schellnhuber, B. L. Turner II, and R. Wasson2004. Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet under Pressure. W. IGBP Global Change Series. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelburg New York.

Gutman, G., A. Janetos, C. Justice, E. Moran, J. Mustard, R. Rindfuss, D. Skole and B. L. Turner II, eds.2004. Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic Publ.

Human-Environment Relationships/Latin America and Maya

Turner, B. L. II. 1994. "Prehistoric Intensive Agriculture in the Mayan Lowlands". Science Vol. 185: 118-124.

Harrison, P. D. and B. L. Turner II, eds. 1978. Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press).

Turner, B. L. II and P. D. Harrison. 1981. "Prehistoric Raised-Field Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands", with P.D. Harrison. Science Vol. 213: 399-405.

Turner, B. L. II. 1983. "Once Beneath the Forest: Prehistoric Terracing in the Rio Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands". Dellplain Latin American Studies, No. 13 (Boulder: Westview Press).

Turner, B. L. II and P.D. Harrison, eds. 1983. Pulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize (Austin: University of Texas Press).

Turner, B. L. II and C. H. Miksicek. 1984. "Economic Plant Species Associated with Prehistoric Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands". Economic Botany 38 179-193.

Turner, B. L. II and K. W. Butzer. 1992. "The Columbian Encounter and Land-Use Change". Environment 43: 16-20.

Whitmore, T. M. and B. L. Turner II. 2001. Cultivated Landscapes of Native Middle America on the Eve of Conquest. Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press.