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D-Index
62
Citations
12177
World Ranking
1294
National Ranking
600

Overview

Greg Brown was affiliated with California Polytechnic State University in the United States. Their research spanned multiple areas related to environmental science and social sciences, focusing on how human interactions with the environment influence land use, ecosystem services, and urban systems.

Their most cited paper was "Mapping place values: 10 lessons from two decades of public participation GIS empirical research," published in 2020 in Applied Geography. This publication reflected their interest in participatory geographic information systems (GIS) and public engagement in spatial data. Other recent papers appearing between 2020 and 2022 were published in journals such as the International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, People and Nature, and the Journal of Environmental Management.

Research topics covered by their work included:

  • Land use and ecosystem services
  • Urban transport and accessibility
  • Geographic information systems studies
  • Human mobility and location-based analysis
  • Urban green space and health
  • Urban agriculture and sustainability
  • Species distribution and climate change

Main fields of study for Greg Brown were environmental science and social sciences. Within these, their subfields of focus included global and planetary change, transportation, geography, planning and development, ecology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

Frequent coauthors they collaborated with were Pat Reed, Christopher M. Raymond, Marketta Kyttä, Nora Fagerholm, and Anton Stahl Olafsson. These collaborations appeared across multiple interdisciplinary projects involving participatory mapping, urban ecosystem services, and spatial planning.

Frequent publication venues included:

  • Applied Geography
  • International Journal of Geographical Information Systems
  • Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
  • People and Nature
  • Journal of Environmental Management

Their research utilized a combination of methodologies to address complex interactions between human populations, urban environments, and natural ecosystems. This included participatory GIS approaches and spatial assessments that linked ecological, social, and economic values in land use planning.

Best Publications

  • Key issues and research priorities for public participation GIS (PPGIS): A synthesis based on empirical research

    Greg Brown;Marketta Kyttä

  • Empirical PPGIS/PGIS mapping of ecosystem services: A review and evaluation

    Greg Brown;Nora Fagerholm;Nora Fagerholm

  • Local government response to the impacts of climate change: An evaluation of local climate adaptation plans

    Ingrid Baker;Ann Peterson;Greg Brown;Clive McAlpine

  • Methods for identifying land use conflict potential using participatory mapping

    Greg Brown;Greg Brown;Christopher M. Raymond

  • Using participatory GIS to measure physical activity and urban park benefits

    Greg Brown;Greg Brown;Morgan Faith Schebella;Delene Weber

  • Public Participation GIS: A new method for national park planning

    Greg Brown;Greg Brown;Delene Weber

  • Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) for regional and environmental planning: reflections on a decade of empirical research

    Greg Brown

  • Mapping and measuring place attachment

    Greg Brown;Christopher M. Raymond;Christopher M. Raymond;Christopher M. Raymond;Jonathan Corcoran

  • Testing a place-based theory for environmental evaluation: an Alaska case study

    G.G. Brown;P. Reed;C.C. Harris

  • Public Participation GIS: A Method for Identifying Ecosystem Services

    Greg Brown;Jessica M. Montag;Katie Lyon

  • A system dynamics simulation model for sustainable water resources management and agricultural development in the Volta River Basin, Ghana

    Julius H. Kotir;Carl Smith;Greg Brown;Nadine Marshall

  • An analysis of the relationships between multiple values and physical landscapes at a regional scale using public participation GIS and landscape character classification

    Greg Brown;Lars Brabyn

  • A Review of Sampling Effects and Response Bias in Internet Participatory Mapping (PPGIS/PGIS/VGI)

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  • Key issues and priorities in participatory mapping: Toward integration or increased specialization?

    Greg Brown;Marketta Kyttä

  • Deficiency of the human mitochondrial transcription factor h-mtTFA in infantile mitochondrial myopathy is associated with mtDNA depletion

    J. Poulton;K. Morten;C. Freeman-Emmerson;C. Potter

  • An evaluation of the use of points versus polygons in public participation geographic information systems using quasi-experimental design and Monte Carlo simulation

    Greg G. Brown;David V. Pullar

  • Mapping place values: 10 lessons from two decades of public participation GIS empirical research

    Greg Brown;Greg Brown;Pat Reed;Christopher M. Raymond

  • The relationship between social values for ecosystem services and global land cover: An empirical analysis

    Greg Brown

  • An empirical evaluation of the spatial accuracy of public participation GIS (PPGIS) data

    Greg Brown

  • An evaluation of crowdsourced information for assessing the visitation and perceived importance of protected areas

    Noam Levin;Noam Levin;Alex Mark Lechner;Alex Mark Lechner;Greg Brown;Greg Brown

  • Abnormal recruitment of working memory updating networks during maintenance of trauma-neutral information in post-traumatic stress disorder

    Kathryn A. Moores;C. Richard Clark;Alexander C. McFarlane;Greg C. Brown

  • An evaluation of internet versus paper-based methods for Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS)

    Amy Pocewicz;Max Nielsen-Pincus;Greg Brown;Russ Schnitzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan A. Moore
Susan A. Moore Murdoch University
Christopher M. Raymond
Christopher M. Raymond University of Helsinki
Jane L. Mathias
Jane L. Mathias University of Adelaide
C. Richard Clark
C. Richard Clark Flinders University
Alex M. Lechner
Alex M. Lechner Monash University
Nadine Marshall
Nadine Marshall James Cook University
Aina Puce
Aina Puce Indiana University
Erin D. Bigler
Erin D. Bigler University of Utah
Kelly S. Fielding
Kelly S. Fielding University of Queensland
Russell G. Snell
Russell G. Snell University of Auckland

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