Bio

Hello! Καλησπέρα! Welcome to my WordPress site.

I’m an applied economist (and, more widely, an interdisciplinary social scientist) working broadly on issues of urbanization, land use and the environment. For the 2012-13 academic year I will be visiting the Department of Economics at Boise State University! Go Broncos! Between November of 2006 and August of 2012, I served as the Executive Officer of the Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) – an IHDP Core Project, hosted by the Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University. From September 2003 to September 2006, I was a Postdoctoral scholar at the Center for Environmental Science and Policy (CESP), then housed at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. CESP is now part of the university’s Woods Institute for the Environment.

I hold a Ph.D. in Economics (May 2004) from Clark University. I research issues of urban land use change, urban growth modeling, urban spatial structure dynamics and the environment. I try to follow developments in the fields of economic geography, urban/environmental economics, land change science, applied econometrics, institutional economics, and urban political economy.

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Papers in review

• Heinrichs, D., Krellenberg, K., Fragkias, M. Urban responses to climate change: theories and governance practice in cities of the Global South, revised and resubmitted, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
• Seto, K.C., Fragkias, M., Guneralp, B., What drives urban form? A canonical correlation analysis using remote sensing and socioeconomic data, submitted to Landscape and Urban Planning

Papers published in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters

• Seto, K.C., Reenberg, A., Boone, C.G, Fragkias, M., Haase, D., Langanke, T., Marcotullio, P., Munroe, D.K., Olah, B., Simon, D., (2012) Urban land teleconnections and sustainability, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Rogers, D., Duraiappah, A., Antons, D.C., Munoz, P., Bai, X., Fragkias, M., Gutscher, H., (2012), A vision for human well-being: transition to social sustainability, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4, 61-73
• Seto, K.C., Fragkias, M., Guneralp, B., and M.K. Reilly, (2011) A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion, PLoS one(available August 18, 2011)
• Heinrichs D., R. Aggarwal, J. Barton, E. Bharucha, C. Butsch, M. Fragkias, P. Johnston, F. Kraas, K. Krellenberg, J. Vogel, A. Lampis, G. L. Ooi, (2011), Adapting Cities to Climate Change: Opportunities and Constraints, In Cities and Climate Change: Responding to an Urgent Agenda. Publication from the Fifth Urban Research Symposium, D. Hoornweg, M. Freire, M. J. Lee, P. Bhada-Tata, B. Yuen (Eds), World Bank.
• Seto, K.C., Sanchez-Rodriguez, R. and M. Fragkias (2010), The new geography of contemporary urbanization and the environment, Annual Reviews of Environment and Resources, 35: 167–194
• Fragkias, M. and Geoghegan, J. (2010) Commercial and industrial land use change, job decentralization and growth controls: a spatially-explicit analysis, Journal of Land Use Science, 5 (1), 45-66
• Fragkias, M. and Seto, K. C. (2009), Evolving rank-size distributions for intra-metropolitan urban clusters in South China, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Volume 33, Issue 3, Pages 189-199 [DOI Link]
• Fragkias, M. and Seto, K.C., (2008) Urban land-use change, models, uncertainty and policymaking in rapidly growing developing-world cities: evidence from China, In: Richard J. Aspinall and Michael J. Hill (Editors). Land use change: science, policy and management. CRC Press, New York. pp. 139-160
• Seto, K.C. and Fragkias, M., (2007) Mangrove Conversion and Aquaculture Development in Vietnam: A Remote Sensing-Based Approach for Evaluating the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Global Environmental Change, Volume 17, Issues 3-4, (August-October), Pages 486-500 [DOI Link]
• Fragkias, M. and Seto, K.C., (2007) Modeling urban growth in data-sparse environments: a new approach, Environment and Planning B, Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 858 – 883 [DOI Link]
• Seto, K. C., Fragkias, M., and Schneider, A., (2007) 20 Years After Reforms: Challenges to Planning and Development in China’s City-Regions and Opportunities for Remote Sensing, in Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability, Redman, C., Stefanov, W., and Netzband, M., eds. Springer-Verlag.
• Seto, K.C. and Fragkias, M. (2005) Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of urban land-use change in four cities of China with time series landscape metrics, Landscape Ecology, Volume 20, Issue 7, 871-888 [DOI Link]

Books

• Boone, C. and M. Fragkias (Eds), (in prep.), Linking urban ecology, environmental justice, and global environmental change: a framework for urban sustainability, Springer

Papers in preparation

• Fragkias, M., A political economy of urbanization and global environmental change
• Fragkias, M. and Seto, K.C., Determinants of early spatial patterns of FDI in the Pearl River Delta of Southeast China
• Schwarz, K., Zhou, W., Fragkias, M., McHale, M., Grove, J.M., J. O’Neil-Dunne, C.G. Boone, and M.L. Cadenasso, Urban tree canopy cover and environmental justice: linking science, practice, and data through a comparison of six US metropolitan areas
• Fragkias, M., Lobo, J., Seto, K.C., Zhang, Q., Scaling of nighttime lights in US metropolitan statistical areas

Conference proceedings and other publications

• Fragkias, M. and K.C. Seto (2012) The rise and rise of urban expansion, Global Change, Vol. 78
• Fragkias, M. (2010) Towards a science of urban adaptation to climate change, UGEC Viewpoints, Issue 4
• Heinrichs, D. et al. (2009) Adapting cities to climate change: opportunities and constraints (findings from eight cities), 5th Urban Research Symposium, Marseilles, France, June 2009
• Simon, D. and Fragkias, M. (2008) The dynamic relationship between cities and global environmental change, Urban Researchers’ Roundtable on Cities and Climate Change, Fourth World Urban Forum (WUF4), Nanjing, China, 5 November 2008
• Fragkias, M., (2008) Connecting global environmental change to environmental justice: The critical role of cities and good urban governance, Re-public: re-imagining democracy, http://www.re-public.gr/en
• Seto, K.C. and Fragkias, M. (2008) Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, The Earth Observer (NASA), 20 (1), January – February 2008, 7-15
• Fragkias, M., (2007) Institutional responses of cities to global environmental change, UGEC International Working Paper Series, October 2007, WP07-04 [ISSN: 1935-9160]
• Fragkias, M., (2007) Interactions and responses to Global Environmental Change (GEC) and their implications for human security in urbanized coastal zones – a synthesis, IHDP UPDATE Newsletter, Focus: “The Implications of Global Environmental Change for Human Security in Coastal Urban Areas”, Issue 2, October 2007, [ISSN 1727-155X]
• Fragkias, M., (2006) Urban modeling, global environmental change, and policymaking in developing-world cities, IHDP UPDATE Newsletter, Focus: Urbanization and Global Environmental Change, Issue 2, February 2006, [ISSN 1727-155X]
• Fragkias, M. and Seto, K.C. (2005) Modeling urban growth in data-sparse environments: a new approach, presented at CUPUM05, June 2005
• Seto, K.C. and Fragkias, M. (2005) Modeling urban land-use change in rapidly developing regions: what’s the policy relevance?, presented at the 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community (IHDP-GEC), University of Bonn, October 2005.

I also love personal bibliometrics: my publication and citation statistics can be found at ResearcherID (a service provided by Thomson Reuters, based on peer reviewed papers in journals indexed in ISI Web of Knowledge / Web of Science). Some additional publication and citation stats can be found at Google Scholar. I have discovered that ResearcherID under-reports peer-reviewed journal citation counts while Google Scholar over-reports citations by including working papers and other non-peer reviewed publications. According to my count, as of January of 2012, my peer-reviewed publications have cumulatively more than 80 citations and my h-index (excluding self-citations) is equal to 5.