From debsinha@gmail.com Wed Dec 3 01:53:00 2008 From: debsinha@gmail.com (Deb Ranjan Sinha (Gmail)) Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2008 20:53:00 -0500 Subject: [SAM] Subscribe to Human Geography: A New Radical Journal (Hg) Message-ID: apologies for x-posting.... Subscribe to Human Geography: A New Radical Journal (Hg) Human Geography is broadly conceived to cover topics ranging from geopolitics, through cultural and economic issues, to political ecology. The first issue came out in May, 2008, and the second has just appeared (contents listed below). It is printed as a paper version for the moment, followed soon by a web site with multi-media content. The only way to get it, is to physically subscribe. It will not be available for free on the web! Email Address: insthugeog@gmail.com To subscribe send a check made out to "Institute for Human Geography" to IHG, P.O. Box 307, Bolton, Massachusetts, 01740-0307, USA. For individuals the cost is $40 a year. 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K Herman * Strategies for Teaching with Mitchell's A Critical Introduction by Matt McCourt * An Undergraduate Perspective by Kevin Surprise * Response by Don Mitchell Book Reviews * Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets reviewed by Marion Traub-Werner * Work, Locality, and Rhythms of Capital reviewed by Michal Kohout * An Atlas of Radical Cartography reviewed by Lize Model and Alexis Bhagat * The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism reviewed by Richard Peet * Sisyphus Final (Visual by Clayton Rosati) From dparker3@gmu.edu Sun Dec 21 17:25:19 2008 From: dparker3@gmu.edu (Dawn Parker) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:25:19 -0500 Subject: [SAM] Graduate Research Assistantship in Agent-based Land Market Modeling Message-ID: Apologies for cross-postings. Please forward this announcement to interested potential students. Please note that the position will be at the University of Waterloo, where I will be relocating next year. Graduate Research Assistantship in Agent-based Land Market Modeling available with Dr. Dawn Parker at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada A graduate assistantship (minimum of three years of funding) is available for a highly qualified student interesting in developing agent-based models of ex-urban residential land markets. The research assistant will be part of SLUCE II project (Spatial Land Use Change and Ecological Effects), funded through the US National Science Foundation’s Coupled Natural and Human Systems program. This is a collaborative, multi-institution, interdisciplinary research project involving six faculty members in the area of coupled human- natural systems. The project links agent-based modeling of human behaviors driving land use / land cover change (LULCC), preferences for vegetation cover and vegetation management, land market modeling, field work, remote sensing, and ecosystem modeling of landscape carbon balance in low-density human-dominated landscapes (suburban and exurban residential landscapes). The project uses 13 townships in southeastern Michigan as a model system and seeks to explore thresholds in land use / land cover change and landscape carbon balance that could potentially be altered with policy levers. The ideal applicant will have or be able to develop skills in agent- based computational modeling, spatial econometrics, the economics of land markets, and geographic information science. The student will work under the supervision of Dr. Dawn Parker, with the expectation that the student will complete a thesis based on participation in the research. PhD level applicants are preferred, but highly qualified applications at the master’s level will also be considered. Interested students should first contact Dr. Parker via e-mail with a short description of background and interest in the position, a CV, and an electronic copy of an unofficial transcript from the last relevant academic degree. The applicant would also need to apply and be admitted to a relevant graduate program either in the School of Planning or the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo. Full applications must be received by Jan. 31, 2009. Contact information for both programs is provided below. Additional information on Dr. Parker’s current research, an electronic link to this ad, and links to related publications, are available on Dr. Parker’s home page (http://mason.gmu.edu/~dparker3/). http://www.environment.uwaterloo.ca/planning/index.html http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwgeog/wlgpig/wlgpigmain.htm http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/geography/index.html Additional information about the new project and other members of the project team is available at http://www.cscs.umich.edu/research/ projects/sluce/. The student will interact closely with collaborators from the University of Michigan, including interactions with two new PhD student positions there, one working with Prof. Dan Brown and the other with Assoc. Prof. Bill Currie. These students will work in the broad areas of geographic information science, land use / land cover change, coupled human-natural systems, modeling, and landscape carbon balance. The student working closely with Dr. Brown will focus more directly on understanding and modeling patterns and drivers of LULCC, especially with agent-based modeling, while the student working closely with Dr. Currie will focus more directly on measuring and modeling vegetation management and landscape carbon balance. Related publications and presentations: Filatova, T., D. Parker, and A. van der Veen. In Press. Agent-Based Urban Land Markets: Agent’s Pricing Behavior, Land Prices and Urban Land Use Change. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. Parker, D., and T. Filatova. 2008. A theoretical design for a bilateral agent-based land market with heterogeneous economic agents. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems 32 (6): 454–463. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2008.09.012. Filatova, T., A. van der Veen, and D. Parker. 2008. Introducing Preference Heterogeneity into a Monocentric Urban Model: an Agent- Based Land Market Model. Pre-proceedings of the Second World Congress on Social Simulation, July 14-18, Fairfax, VA. Polhill, J. G., D. C. Parker, and N. Gotts. 2008. "Effects of land markets on competition between innovators and imitators in land use: results from FEARLUS-ELMM" Pages 81-97 in C. Hernandez, K. Troitzsch and B. Edmonds, eds, Social Simulation Technologies: Advances and New Discoveries, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA. Parker, D. 2008. Linking land-use change, land manager behaviour, and ecological change through agent-based land market models. Pages 15-16. Newsletter of the Global Land Project International Project Office. http://www.globallandproject.org/Newsletters/GLP2008_04.pdf. Parker, D. C. (2008) “Can Agent-Based Models of Land Use Bridge the Gap between Process and Pattern Based Models?” Presented at the Global Land Project workshop, “The design of integrative models of natural and social systems in land-use change”, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, Scotland on March 1, 2008 (http://glp.macaulay.ac.uk/ documents/Parker.pdf; http://glp.macaulay.ac.uk/videos/parker.php; Dawn Cassandra Parker Assistant Professor, Department of Computational Social Science, Kransnow Institute for Advanced Study; Affiliate, Departments of Environmental Science and Policy, Geography, and Geoinformation and Earth Systems Science George Mason University 374 Research 1 4400 University Drive, MS 6B2 Fairfax, VA, USA 22030 +1-703-993-4640 (phone) +1-703-993-9290 (fax) dparker3 at gmu dot edu http://mason.gmu.edu/~dparker3 *As of July 1, 2009* School of Planning University of Waterloo