Biography
Research Interests
- Political Ecology
- Human-environment Interactions
- Land Change Science
- Food Systems
- Livelihoods and Development
Educational Background
- Ph.D. Geography, Arizona State University, 2015
- M.A. Geographic Information Science, Clark University, 2007
- B.A. Geography, Clark University, 2006
Awards & Honors
- 2014 – National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
- 2014 – Borlaug Fellowship in Global Food Security
- 2014 – Boren Fellowship
- 2014 – Graduate Excellence Award, Arizona State University
Selected Publications
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Eakin, Hallie, John P. Connors, and Christopher Wharton. 2017. Toward Precepts of Food System Sustainability: Emerging Themes and Consensus. Agriculture and Human Values.
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Connors, John P, Corrie Griffith, Bolanie Walab, Frank Mugagga, and Camille Nolasco. 2016. Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture: Cultivating Urban Climate Resilience. In Griffith et al. (eds.), Handbook on Urbanization and Global Environmental Change.
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Simonit, Silvio, John P. Connors, James Yoo, Ann Kinzig, and Charles Perrings. 2015. The impact of forest thinning on the reliability of water supply in Central Arizona. PLOS One 10(4).
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Lwasa, Shuaib, Frank Mugagga, Bolanle Wahab, David Simon, John P. Connors, and Corrie Griffith. 2015. A meta-analysis of Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry in mediating climate change in East and West African cities. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 13: 68-73.
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Kane, Kevin, John P. Connors, Christopher Galletti. 2014. Beyond Fragmentation at the Fringe: a path-dependent, high resolution analysis of urban land cover in Phoenix, Arizona. Applied Geography 52, 123-134.
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Yoo, James, Silvio Simonit, John P. Connors, Ann P Kinzig, Charles Perrings. 2014. The valuation of off-site ecosystem service flows: Deforestation, erosion and the amenity value of lakes in Prescott, Arizona. Ecological Economics 97, 74-83.
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Lwasa, Shuaib, Frank Mugagga, Bolanle Wahab, David Simon, Corrie Griffith, John Connors. 2014. Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry: transcending poverty alleviation to mediating climate change. Urban Climate 7, 92-106.
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Yoo, James, Silvio Simonit, John P. Connors, Ann P. Kinzig, Charles Perrings. 2013. The value of agricultural water rights in agricultural properties in the path of development. Ecological Economics 91, 57-68.
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Connors, John, Christopher Galletti, and Winston Chow. 2013. Landscape configuration and urban heat island effects: assessing landscape characteristics and land surface temperature in Phoenix, Arizona. Landscape Ecology. 28(2).
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Connors, John, Maggi Kelly, Shufei Lei. 2012. Citizen science in the age of neogeography: utilizing volunteered geographic information for environmental monitoring. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102(2).
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Pontius, Jr. Robert Gilmore and John Connors. 2009. Range of categorical associations for comparison of maps with mixed pixels. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.
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