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Gilbert F. White Professor of Environment and Society

COOR 5628

(480) 965-1535

Billie.L.Turner@asu.edu

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Additional Affiliation(s):	Distinguished Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability Teaching Faculty, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University Research Professor, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University
Education:	1974 - Ph.D. (Geography) University of Wisconsin-Madison 1969 - M.A. (Geography) University of Texas at Austin 1968 - B.S. (Geography) University of Texas at Austin
Research Interests:	Human-environment relationships, land change science, sustainability, tropical forests, ancient Maya
Research Activities:	Professor Turner is currently engaged in land change science focused on land change and ecosystem service change in xeric environments. Project Leader, Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region Project (SYPR)
Awards and Honors:	2009 - Sustainability Science Award, Ecological Society of America 2008 - Fellow, Massachusetts Academy of Science (inaugural class) 2002 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 2001 - National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences 2001 - Robert Mc. Netting Award (for distinguished scholarship linking geography and anthropology), Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group, AAG 1998 - American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1996 - Centenary Medal (for outstanding contributions to research), Royal Scottish Geographical Society 1995 - Distinguished Research Honors, Association of American Geographers 1995 - National Academy of Sciences 1994 - Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA 1987 - Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers 1981 - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Selected Publications:	Books Turner, B. L. II, J. Geoghegan, and D. R. Foster, eds. 2004. Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán: Final Frontiers. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. Gutman, G., A. Janetos, C. Justice, E. Moran, J. Mustard, R. Rindfuss, D. Skole and B. L. Turner II. 2004. Land Change Science: Observing, Monitoring, and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface. New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Steffen, W., A. Sanderson, P. Tyson, J. Jäger, P. Matson, B. Moore III, F. Oldfield, K. Richardson, H-J Schellnhuber, B. L. Turner II, and R. Wasson. 2004. Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet under Pressure. IGBP Global Change Series. Berlin Heidelburg New York: Springer-Verlag. Journal Articles Turner, B. L. II and J. A. Sabloff. Classic Period collapse of the Central Maya Lowlands: Insights about human–environment relationships for sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2012. doi:10.1073/pnas.1210106109. Kinzing, A. P., F. S. Chapin III, C. Perrings, S. Polasky, K. Smith, D. Tilman, B. L. Turner II. Paying for ecosystem services: promise and peril. 2011. Science 334: 603-604. Rudel, T., L. C. Schneider, M. Uriarte , B. L. Turner II, R. DeFries, D. Lawrence , J. Geoghegan , S. Hecht , A. Ickowitz , E. Lambin, T. Birkenholtz , S. Baptista , R. Grau. Agricultural Intensification and Changes in Cultivated Areas, 1970-2005. 2009. Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 106: 20675-20680. Turner, B. L. II and P. Robbins. 2008. Land Change Science and Political Ecology: Similarities, Differences, and Implications for Sustainability Science. Annual Reviews in Environment and Resources, 33: 6.1-6.22. Turner, B. L. II, E. Lambin, and A. Reenberg. 2007. The Emergence of Land Change Science for Global Environmental Change and Sustainability. Proceedings, National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104(52): 20666-20671. Reynolds, J. F., D. M. S. Smith, E. F. Lambin, B. L. Turner II, M. Mortimore, S. P. Batterbury, T. E. Downing, H. Dowlatabadi, R. J. Fernandez, J. E. Herrick, E. Huber-Sannvald, R. Leemans, T. Lynam, F. Mestre, M. Ayarza, and B. Walker, B. 2007. Global Desertification: Building a Science for Dryland Development. Science, 316:847-851. Chowdhury, R. R. and B. L. Turner II. 2006. Reconciling Agency and Structure in Empirical Analysis: Smallholder Land Use in Southern Yucatán, Mexico. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(2): 302-322.
Courses Taught:	Sustainability Science Society and Environment History of Contemporary Geography Human Ecologies
Outreach and Service:	Professor Turner has served on a large number of panels, committees and boards of the Association of American Geographers, National Research Council-National Academy of Sciences, Social Science Research Council, and International Council of Science. He helped to form the Global Land Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and International Human Dimensions Programme and currently serves on the Scientific Steering Committee of DIVERSITAS as well as a panel of America's Climate Choices, a congressionally mandated study of the National Academy of Sciences directed to outreach on global environmental change.