Receding mountain glaciers affect the hydrology of downslope ecosystems with
consequences for drinking water, agriculture, and hydropower production. Here we …

In light of the rapid urbanization of the world's population over the past decades, there is a
growing concern about the environmental impacts of urban population growth. Rural–urban …

Medical expenditures represent a major financial burden that can hinder families' ability to
acquire other goods and services. How patterns of out-of-pocket medical expenditures vary …

The built environment that serves as the literal foundation for social life involves not just the
material development of local landscapes but ongoing damage from natural hazards …

Drawing from human ecology, the present study sheds light on the ways in which
urbanization drives changes in forest cover at the local level across the continental United …

Abstract The Great Lakes region contains productive agricultural and forest lands, but it is
also highly urbanized, with 32 of its 52 million residents living in nine large metropolitan …

While the Massachusetts cranberry industry is in many ways a quintessential “agricultural
treadmill,” recent decades have seen a shift in the industry toward adopting environmental …

Urbanization results in increasing impervious surfaces with the potential to threaten fragile
environments and heighten flood risks. In the United States, research on the social …

Theoretical frameworks in environmental inequality suggest that affluent, white, and
educated communities have a greater ability to control local environmental change. With a …

Perspectives in human ecology and political economy present local growth as a syndrome
of interdependent changes happening over time within municipalities. This quantitative …