Publications
The Institute for the Environment and our research centers often release research reports commissioned by various funders and written for a variety of audiences. Below are some of our most recent publications.
2013
Berke, Philip, Danielle Spurlock, George Hess, and Larry Band. 2013. Local Comprehensive Plan Quality and Regional Ecosystem Protection: The Case of the Jordan Lake Watershed, North Carolina, U.S.A., Land Use Policy
Lyles, Ward, Philip Berke and Gavin Smith. Forthcoming. Do Planners Matter? Examining Factors Driving the Incorporation of Land Use Approaches into Hazard Mitigation Plans. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.
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Smith, Gavin, Ward Lyles and Philip Berke. Forthcoming. "The Role of Hazard Mitigation Planning in Building Local Capacity and Commitment: A Tale of Six States" International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.
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2012
Berke, Philip and Ward Lyles. 2012 "Public Risks and the Challenges to Climate Adaptation: a Proposed Framework for Planning in the Age of Uncertainty" Working Paper submitted for peer review.
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Berke, Philip, Ward Lyles and Gavin Smith. 2012. "Impacts of Federal and State Hazard Mitigation Policies on Local Land Use Policy." Working Paper Submitted for Peer Review.
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Downtown Robbinsville Redevelopment Plan.
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Duan, S., S. S. Kaushal, P. M. Groffman, L. E. Band, and K. T. Belt 2012. J. Geophys. Res. , 117, G01025, doi:10.1029/2011JG001782.
Hwang, T., L.E. Band, J.M. Vose, C. Tague 2012. Ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: Hydrologic vegetation gradient as an indicator for hydrologic connectivity of headwater catchments. Water Resources Research,v. 48, W06514, 16 PP., 2012(doi:10.1029/2011WR011301.
Lyles, Ward, Philip Berke, and Gavin Smith. 2012. Evaluation of Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Quality.
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Lyles, Ward. 2012. "Social Network Analysis of Incorporation of Land Use Approaches in Hazard Mitigation Planning."
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Lyles, Ward. Philip Berke and Gavin Smith. "State Influences on Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Quality." Working paper submitted for peer review.
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T. Mittman, L.E. Band, T. Hwang, M.L. Smith 2012. Distributed hydrologic modeling in the suburban landscape: Assessing parameter transferability from gauged reference catchments. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 1-12. DOI: 10.1111 j.1752-1688.2011.00636.x
2011
Anenberg, S. C., Talgo, K., Arunachalam, S., Dolwick, P., Jang, C., and West, J. J. 2011. Impacts of global, regional, and sectoral black carbon emission reductions on surface air quality and human mortality, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 11, 10653-10691, doi:10.5194/acpd-11-10653-2011.
Arunachalam, S., Wang, B., Davis, N., Baek, B.H., Levy, J.I. 2011. Effect of Chemistry-Transport Model Scale and Resolution on Population Exposure to PM2.5 from Aircraft Emissions during Landing and Takeoff, Atmospheric Environment, 45(19):3294-3300, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.03.029
Band, L.E., T. Hwang, T.C. Hales, 2011. Ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: Mapping and modelling ecohydrological controls of landslides. Geomorphology, doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.06.025.
Berke, Philip, Smith, Gavin, Salvesen, David, Lyles, Ward, Sandler, Dylan. An Evaluation of Floodplain Management Planning Under the Community Rating System. December, 2011.
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Hwang, T., C. Song, J.M. Vose, L.E. Band 2011. Topography-mediated controls on local vegetation phenology estimated from MODIS vegetation index. Landscape Ecology, DOI 10.1007/s10980-011-9580-8.
Hwang, T., C. Song, P.V. Bolstad and L.E. Band 2011. Downscaling real-time vegetation dynamics by fusing multi-temporal MODIS and Landsat NDVI in topographically complex terrain. Remote Sensing of Environment, doi:10.1016/j/rse.2011.05.010.
Kaushal, S., Groffman, P. Band, L, Elliott, E., Shields, C., Kendall, C., 2011. Tracking nonpoint source nitrogen pollution in human-impacted watersheds, Environmental Science and Technology, 45 (19), pp 82258232.
Woody, M., Baek, B.H., Adelman, Z., Omary, M., Lam, Y-F., West, J.J., Arunachalam, S. 2011. An Assessment of Aviation's Contribution to Current and Future Fine Particulate Matter in the United States, Atmospheric Environment, 45(20):3424-3433, doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.03.041
2010
Ackland, Len. 2010. Are the Risks Worth the Rewards? Natural Hazards Observer. Vol. 35 (1): 1-29.
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Arunachalam, S., B.H. Baek, H.-H. Hsu, B. Wang, N. Davis, and J.I. Levy (2010). The Influence of Chemistry Transport Model Scale and Resolution on Population Exposure due to Aircraft Emissions from Three Airports in the United States, Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XX , D.G. Steyn; Rao, S. T. (Eds.) 2010, XLVII, 592 p., ISBN 978-90-481-3811-1, Springer.
Center for Sustainable Community Design. 2008. Emergency Preparedness Demonstration Project: Hertford County Case Study Chapel Hill, NC: MDC and Institute for the Environment.
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Kaushal, S.S., M.L. Pace, P.M. Groffman, L.E. Band, K.T. Belt, P.M. Mayer, and C. Welty. 2010. Land use and climate variability amplify contaminant pulses. EOS 91(25), 221222.
Kihslinger, Rebecca, David Salvesen, Tessa Lee. 2010. Combining Habitat Conservation and Natural Hazards: Issues and Opportunities. National Wetlands Newsletter. Vol. 32 (3): 12-15, 27.
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Mackay, D.S. and L.E. Band 2010. Integrated ecohydrologic research and hydroinformatics. Journal of contemporary water research & education, Issue 142, p. 1-8.
Proposed Strategies for Building a Sustainable Future in Eastern North Carolina
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Safe Schools: Identifying Potential Threats to the Health and Safety of Schoolchildren in North Carolina
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Smith, M., M. Cadenasso, W. Zhou, M. Grove, L.E. Band 2010. Evaulation of the NLCD for hydrologic applications in urban and suburban Baltimore, Maryland. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 1-14. DOI: 10.1111 D j.1752-1688. 2009.00412.x.
Stevens, Mark, Philip Berke, and Yan Song. 2010. Public Participation in Local Government Review of Development Proposals in Hazardous Locations: Does it Matter, and What Do Local Government Planners Have to Do With it?, Environmental Management Vol. 45(2): 320-335.
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Stevens, Mark, Philip Berke, and Yan Song. 2010. Toward Disaster-Resilient Design: Do New Urbanist Developments Incorporate More Hazard Mitigation Techniques Than Conventional Developments? Landscape and Urban Planning Vol.94 (2): 105-115.
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Stevens, Mark, Yan Song , and Philip Berke. 2010. New Urbanist developments in flood-prone areas: safe development, or safe development paradox? Natural Hazards. Vol. 53 (3): 605-629.
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de Nazelle, A., S. Arunachalam, and M.L. Serre (2010). Bayesian Maximum Entropy Integration of Ozone Observations and Model Predictions: An Application for Attainment Demonstration in North Carolina, Environ. Sci. Technol. , 44 (15), pp 5707-5713, doi: 10.1021/es100228w
2009
Berke, P. and D. Godschalk. 2009. Searching for the Good Plan: A Meta-Analysis of Plan Quality Studies, Journal of Planning Literature, Vol. 23 (3): 227-240.
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Berke, Philip and Gavin Smith. 2009. "Hazard Mitigation, Planning, and Disaster Resiliency: Challenges and Strategic Choices for the 21st Century," In Sustainable Development and Disaster Resiliency, Ed. Urbano Fra: Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS (in press).
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Berke, Philip, Gavin Smith and Ward Lyles. August 2009. "State Hazard Mitigation Plan Evaluation and Model Practices." Report to Department of Homeland Security.
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Berke, Philip, Yan Song, and Mark Stevens. 2009. Integrating Hazard Mitigation into New Urban and Conventional Developments, Journal of Planning Education and Research Vol. 28 (4): 441-455.
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Berke, Philip. 2009. Integrating Bio-conservation and Land Use Planning: A Grand Challenge for the Twentieth First Century, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law Vol. 10, No. 3: 407-434.
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Building Local Government Capacity to Manage Growth in Eastern North Carolina
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Center for Sustainable Community Design. 2008. Disaster Plans: Challenges and Choices to Build the Resiliency of Vulnerable Populations. Chapel Hill, NC: MDC and Institute for the Environment.
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Ching, J. S., M. Brown, S. Burian, F. Chen, R. Cionco, A. Hanna,T. Hultgren, T. McPherson, D. Sailor, H. Taha, and D. Williams,2009. National Urban Database and Access Portal Tool, Bull. Amer. Met. Soc., 90, 1157-1168.
Claessens, L., C. Tague, L. Band, P. Groffman and S. Kenworthy. 2009. Hydro-ecological linkages in urbanizing watersheds: An empirical assessment of in-stream nitrate loss and evidence of saturation kinetics. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. Res., 114, G04016, doi:10.1029/2009JG001017.
Evenson KR, Aytur SA, Rodriguez DA, and Salvesen D. 2009. Involvement of park and recreation professionals in pedestrian plans. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 27(3):132-142.
Hales, T. C., C. R. Ford, T. Hwang, J. M. Vose, and L. E. Band (2009), Topographic and ecologic controls on root reinforcement, J. Geophys. Res., 114, F03013, doi:10.1029/2008JF001168.
Hwang, T., L. Band, and T. C. Hales (2009), Ecosystem processes at the watershed scale: Extending optimality theory from plot to catchment, Water Resour. Res., 45, W11425, doi:10.1029/2009WR007775.
Kasprzyk, J. R., Reed, P. M., Kirsch, B. R. and G. W. Characklis (2009). "Managing Population and Drought Risk Using Many-objective Water Portfolio Planning Under Uncertainty," Water Resources Research, 45, W12401.
Kirsch, B. R., Characklis, G. W., Dillard, K. E. M. and C. T. Kelley (2009). "More Efficient Optimization of Long-term Water Supply Portfolios," Water Resources Research, 45, W03414.
Palmer, R. N. and G. W. Characklis (2009). “Reducing the Costs of Meeting Regional Water Demand through Risk-based Transfer Agreements,” Journal of Environmental Management, 90, pp. 1703-1714.
Salvesen, David and Peter Zambito. 2009. Environmental Threats to Children Attending Public Schools in NC: A Case Study," in School Siting and Healthy Communities: Why Where We Invest in School Facilities Matters. East lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press (forthcoming).
Song, C., G. Katul, R. Oren, L. E. Band, C. L. Tague, P. C. Stoy, and H. R. McCarthy (2009), Energy, water, and carbon fluxes in a loblolly pine stand: Results from uniform and gappy canopy models with comparisons to eddy flux data, J. Geophys. Res. , 114,G04021, doi:10.1029/2009JG000951.
Song, Yan, Philip Berke, and Mark Stevens. 2009. Smart Developments in Dangerous Locations? A Reality Check of a Existing New Urbanism Developments. International Emergencies and Mass Disasters Vol. 27 (1): 1-25.
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2008
Arunachalam, S., B.H. Baek, A. Holland, Z. Adelman, F.S. Binkowski,A. Hanna, T. Thrasher, and P. Soucacos, An improved method to represent aviation emissions in air Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 13th conference on quality modeling systems, . 88th American aviation, range and aerospace meteorology, New Orleans, LA, January 20-24, 2008.
Berke, P (editor). 2008. Federal Hazard Mitigation Policy Reforms, white paper, submitted upon request to the President Obama Transition Team, November, 9 pp.
Berke, Philip, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Kungwan Juntarashote, Stephanie Chang. 2008. Human-Ecological Dimensions of Disaster Resiliency in Thailand: Social Capital and Aid Delivery, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Vol. 51 (2): 303-317.
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Berke, Philip. 2008. The Evolution of Green Community Planning, Scholarship and Practice: An Introduction to the Special Issue on Green Communities, Journal of the American Planning Association, Vol. 74, No. 4: 393-407.
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Berke. P. 2008. Social Disparities and the Impacts of Disasters: Closing the Gap, white paper, submitted upon request to the President Obama Transition Team, November 2008, 4 pp.
Camden County Green Industrial Park Feasibility Study
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Center for Sustainable Community Design. 2008. Promoting Disaster Resiliency through Community-based Participatory Research: An Assessment of Six Disadvantaged Communities. Chapel Hill, NC: MDC and Institute for the Environment.
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Emily S. Bernhardt, Lawrence E. Band, Christopher J. Walsh, and Philip E. Berke, 2008. Understanding, managing, and minimizing urban impacts on surface water nitrogen loading. Annals of the New York Academy of Science, v. 1134, 61-96.
Fuhrman, C.M., C.E. Konrad, L.E. Band 2008. Climatological perspectives on the rainfall characteristics associated with landslides in western North Carolina. Physical Geography, 29(4), p.289-305.
Groffman, P.M., C.O. Williams, R.V. Pouyat, L.E. Band, I.D. Yesilonis, 2009. Nitrate leaching and nitrous oxide flux in urban forests and grasslands. Journal of Environmental Quality, 38(5), 1846-1860.
Hanna, A .F., J. Pinto, Q. Meng, A Xiu, P. Robinson, K. Yeatts, and Z Zhu, Analysis of weather patterns associated with air quality degradation and potential health impacts. 88th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, New Orleans, LA, January 20-24, 2008.
Hanna, A .F., K. Alapaty, R. Mathur, S. Arunachalam, A Xiu, and U. Shankar, Application of a variable grid air quality model to simulate onshore/offshore emissions near coastal areas 88th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, New Orleans, LA, January 20-24, 2008.
Hwang T, Kang S, Kim J, Kim Y, Lee D, Band L (2008) Evaluating drought effect on MODIS Gross Primary Production (GPP) with an eco-hydrological model in the mountainous forest, East Asia. Global Change Biology, 14, 1037-1056.
Mary L. Cadenasso, S.T.A.Pickett, L.E. Band, G.S. Brush, M.F. Galvin, P.M. Groffman, J.M. Grove, G. Hagar, V. Marshall, B. McGrath, J. ONeil-Dunne, B. Stack, and A. Troy, 2008. Exchanges across land-water-scape boundaries in urban systems: Strategies for reducing nitrate pollution, Annals of the New York Academy of Science, v. 1134, 213-232.
National Research Council, Committee on Integrated Observations for Hydrologic and Related Sciences, Water Science Technology Board 2008. Integrating multiscale observations of U.S. waters. National Academies Press, 181p.
National Research Council, Committee on Reducing Stormwater Discharge Contributions to Water Pollution, Water Science Technology Board 2008. Urban Stormwater Management in the United States National Academies Press, 513p.
Pickett, S.T.A., M.L. Cadenasso, J.M. Grove, P.M. Groffman, L.E. Band, C.G. Boone, W.R. Burch Jr., C.S.B. Grimmond, J.Hom, J.C. Jenkins, N.L. Law, C.H. Nilon, R.V. Pouyat, K. Szlavecz, P.S. Warren, M.A. Wilson, 2008. Beyond Urban Legends: An Emerging Framework of Urban Ecology, as Illustrated by the Baltimore Ecosystem Study. Bioscience, v.58. p.139-150.
S.S. Kaushal, P.M. Groffman, L.E. Band, C.A. Shields, R.P. Morgan, M.A. Palmer, K.N. Eshleman, K.T. Belt, C.M. Swan, S.E.G. Findlay, G.T. Fisher, 2008. Interaction between urbanization and climate variability amplifies watershed nitrate export in Maryland, USA. Env. Sci. & Tech., 10.1021.
Salvesen. 2009. "Safe Schools: Identifying Environmental Threats to Children Attending Public Schools in NC." Center for Sustainable Community Design, UNC Institute for the Environment.
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Shields, C., L.E. Band, N. Law, P. Groffman, S. Kaushal, K. Savvas, G. Fisher, K. Belt, 2008. Streamflow Distribution of Non-Point Source Nitrogen Export from Urban-Rural Catchments in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Water Resources Research, 44, W09416, doi:10.1029/2007WR006360.
Stevens, Mark, Philip Berke, and Yan Song 2008. Protecting People and Property: The Influence of Land Use Planners on Flood Hazard Mitigation, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Vol. 51 (6): 737-757.
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