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Billie Turner
Researcher at Arizona State University
Publications - 167
Citations - 29584
Billie Turner is an academic researcher from Arizona State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Land use & Land cover. The author has an hindex of 68, co-authored 166 publications receiving 26941 citations. Previous affiliations of Billie Turner include Colorado State University & University of Oxford.
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A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science
Billie Turner,Roger E. Kasperson,Roger E. Kasperson,Pamela A. Matson,James J. McCarthy,Robert W. Corell,Lindsey Christensen,Noelle Eckley,Jeanne X. Kasperson,Jeanne X. Kasperson,Amy Luers,Marybeth L. Martello,Colin Polsky,Colin Polsky,Alexander Pulsipher,Andrew Schiller +15 more
TL;DR: A vulnerability framework for the assessment of coupled human–environment systems is presented and it is shown that vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone but also resides in the sensitivity and resilience of the system experiencing such hazards.
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The causes of land-use and land-cover change: moving beyond the myths
Eric F. Lambin,Billie Turner,Helmut Geist,Samuel Babatunde Agbola,Arild Angelsen,John W. Bruce,Oliver T. Coomes,Rodolfo Dirzo,Günther Fischer,Carl Folke,P.S. George,Katherine Homewood,Jacques Imbernon,Rik Leemans,Xiubin Li,Emilio F. Moran,Michael Mortimore,P. S. Ramakrishnan,John F. Richards,Helle Skånes,Will Steffen,Glenn Davis Stone,Uno Svedin,Tom A. Veldkamp,Coleen Vogel,Jianchu Xu +25 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors track some of the major myths on driving forces of land cover change and propose alternative pathways of change that are better supported by case study evidence, concluding that neither population nor poverty alone constitute the sole and major underlying causes of land-cover change worldwide.
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Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development
James F. Reynolds,D. Mark Stafford Smith,Eric F. Lambin,Billie Turner,Michael Mortimore,Simon Batterbury,Thomas E. Downing,Hadi Dowlatabadi,Roberto Fernández,Jeffrey E. Herrick,Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald,Hong Jiang,Rik Leemans,Tim Lynam,Fernando T. Maestre,Miguel A. Ayarza,Brian Walker +16 more
TL;DR: The DDP, supported by a growing and well-documented set of tools for policy and management action, helps navigate the inherent complexity of desertification and dryland development, identifying and synthesizing those factors important to research, management, and policy communities.
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The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability
TL;DR: The six articles of the special feature are introduced and situated within these components of study of land change: observation and monitoring; understanding the coupled system—causes, impacts, and consequences; modeling; and synthesis issues.