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2026

● Brazil has protected much of the Amazon. It now has to pay for it
● Prof. Silva's work on funding deficits in Brazil's protected areas

 

2025

● Prof. Silva on Brazil's conservation laws compliance
● Prof. Silva on modeling sustainable development pathways
● Prof. Wang on coastal climate adaptation infrastructure
● Prof. Silva on decentralization of protected areas worldwide
● Prof. Silva on projected species loss in the Brazilian tropical dry forest
● Prof. Silva on calculating a sustainable future

 

2024

● Prof. Wang on climate adaptation knowledge variance between socioeconomic groups
● Using technology to analyze green space
● Prof. Silva published a paper on the evolution of birds in the Cerrado, the world's largest tropical savanna region
● Prof. Silva on ‘ Sustainable territories are option for deforestation to be set at zero in the Amazon‘
● Prof. Stoler on water as ‘a pillar of modern society‘
● Profs. Grant & Sen Roy report PortMiami is strong; its network shows climate vulnerabilities
● Prof. Wang published a paper in Political Geography that examines the relationship between party affiliation and the legacy of Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) redlining maps in Miami

 

2023

● Prof. Grant's new book titled "The Urban Question in Africa: Uneven Geographies of Transition"
● Profs. Grant & Sen Roy published on climate adaptation and resilience indices in the Caribbean region
● Prof. Silva suggests in the journal Nature that the Cerrado region should not suffer any further habitat loss
● Prof. Wang researchs the decision-making process behind household lawncare
● Prof. Stoler published on water insecurity in Cartagena, Colombia
● Prof. Moise published on disparities in violent crime during the COVID-19 lockdown
● Prof. Moulioukova in article Shaken by uprising, Putin tightens grip
● Chan Li, graduate of our Master of Public Sustainability and Resilience program, published a paper with Profs. Grant and Sen Roy on Belize City
● Prof. Silva and colleagues explore the nexus of business, biodiversity and innovation in Brazil
● Prof. Stoler studies new approaches to evaluating water interventions around the globe
● Prof. Sheskin honored with the prestigious 2023 Marshall Sklare Award
● Prof. Harold Wanless and Prof. Emmett Evanoff have published a new book

 

2022

● Prof. Sheskin's 2021 report on US Jewish Population Estimates by Geographic Areas
● What’s really driving ‘climate gentrification’ in Miami? It isn’t fear of sea-level rise
● Prof. Silva on Conservation: How much will it cost us to save the Amazon? (In German)
● Prof. Silva proposes a new method to assess the sustainability of the development pathways
● Prof. Li and Prof. Grant published a paper on climate gentrification in Miami
● Prof. Grant with colleagues in Ghana and Denmark launched a new research project on Sustainable Water Systems in Ghana
● Prof. Sen Roy published on real estate investment through geospatial analysis
● Prof. Silva published on resilience in drylands
● Scientists warn South Florida coastal cities will be affected by sea level rise
● Prof. Haoluan Wang joins the Department of Geography and Sustainable Development
● The cost to preserve the Amazon
● Medical, scientific advances help boost world population to 8 billion
● Protecting Brazil’s Amazon could be a bargain — if the government were willing to pay
● The impact of COVID-19 on service delivery systems: evidence from a survey of United States refugee resettlement agencies

 

2021

● Prof. Sheskin's 2020 report on US Jewish Population Estimates by Geographic Areas
● Prof. Sen Roy received an award from the American Institute of Indian Studies
● Prof. Grant published a new article on urban governance, urban planning, and food
● Professor devotes his career to chronicling U.S. Jewish communities
● The Brazilian private sector can boost global conservation by converting their conservation lands into privately protected areas
● Prof. Imelda Moise was awarded tenure
● MPS graduate students presented research at UM's Symposium on Sub-Tropical and Tropical Coastal Resilience
● Prof. Grant contributed to a publication on storm surge flooding assessment in Miami-Dade
● Prof. Sen Roy published on air quality in Dehli during Covid
● Prof. Grant published on formalising E-waste in Ghana

 

2020

● The ecological intensity of human well-being at the local level
● Youth and weapons: Patterns, individual and neighborhood correlates of violent crime arrests in Miami-Dade County, Florida
● A green transition in South Africa? Sociotechnical experimentation in the Atlantis Special Economic Zone
● An environmental leader in the making
● What’s in a Name? Undergraduate Student Perceptions of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability Key Words and Program Names
● Conservation and Development
● Funding gaps in Brazilian Protected Areas
● A sustainable agricultural landscape model for tropical drylands
● Cerrado and Caatinga: Two threatened South American regions
● Beyond handwashing: Water insecurity undermines COVID-19 response in developing areas
● Holocaust Exposure and Emotional Attachment to Israel
● Cemeteries in Miami-Dade, FL are important areas to be targeted in mosquito management and control efforts
● Protected Areas do not constrain local economic growth in the Brazilian Amazon
● Prof. Grant awarded the Kwado Konadu-Agyemang Distinguished Scholar in African Geography
● Spatial inequality of housing value changes since the financial crisis
● Devoted to Biodiversity Conservation

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