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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):	Affiliate Faculty, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University Research Professor, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University Project Leader, Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region Project (SYPR)
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.
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 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.