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9950
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6300
National Ranking
2274

Overview

Jefferson Fox is affiliated with the East-West Center in the United States, focusing on research primarily within Environmental Science. Their work spans several subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their research centers on topics such as Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology, Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity, and Remote Sensing in Agriculture.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Jefferson Fox include:

  • Mapping and Understanding Changes in Tree Cover in Nepal: 1992 to 2016, 2023, Journal of Forest and Livelihood
  • Community forest management led to rapid local forest gain in Nepal: A 29 year mixed methods retrospective case study, 2023, Land Use Policy
  • Rethinking agrarian transition in Southeast Asia through rice farming in Thailand, 2023, World Development
  • Forest, agriculture, and migration: contemplating the future of forestry and agriculture in the middle-hills of Nepal, 2021, The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Shedding New Light on Mountainous Forest Growth: A Cross-Scale Evaluation of the Effects of Topographic Illumination Correction on 25 Years of Forest Cover Change across Nepal, 2021, Remote Sensing

Publications involving Jefferson Fox have appeared in several academic venues including:

  • Science of Remote Sensing
  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Remote Sensing
  • Land Use Policy
  • World Development

Frequent collaborators include Alexander C. Smith, Jamon Van Den Hoek, Sumeet Saksena, Phanwin Yokying, and Kaspar Hurni. These coauthors have worked with Fox on multiple occasions, contributing to four or more joint publications in some cases.

Best Publications

  • Developing a science of land change: challenges and methodological issues.

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Stephen J. Walsh;B. L. Turner;Jefferson Fox

  • Trends, drivers and impacts of changes in swidden cultivation in tropical forest-agriculture frontiers: A global assessment

    Nathalie van Vliet;Ole Mertz;Andreas Heinimann;Tobias Langanke

  • The Rubber Juggernaut

    Alan D. Ziegler;Jefferson M. Fox;Jianchu Xu

  • Current trends of rubber plantation expansion may threaten biodiversity and livelihoods

    Antje Ahrends;Antje Ahrends;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Peter M. Hollingsworth;Alan D. Ziegler;Jefferson M. Fox

  • Swidden Change in Southeast Asia: Understanding Causes and Consequences

    Ole Mertz;Christine Padoch;Jefferson Fox;R. A. Cramb

  • Expansion of rubber (Hevea brasiliensis) in Mainland Southeast Asia: what are the prospects for smallholders?

    Jefferson Fox;Jean Christophe Castella

  • Policies, Political-Economy, and Swidden in Southeast Asia

    Jefferson Fox;Yayoi Fujita;Dimbab Ngidang;Nancy Peluso

  • Mapping rubber tree growth in mainland Southeast Asia using time-series MODIS 250 m NDVI and statistical data

    Zhe Li;Jefferson M. Fox

  • Shifting Cultivation: A New Old Paradigm for Managing Tropical Forests

    Jefferson Fox;Dao Minh Truong;A. Terry Rambo;Nghiem Phuong Tuyen

  • Land-Use and Land-Cover Change in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia

    Jefferson Fox;John B. Vogler

  • People and the environment : approaches for linking household and community surveys to remote sensing and GIS

    Jefferson Fox

  • Carbon outcomes of major land-cover transitions in SE Asia: great uncertainties and REDD+ policy implications

    Alan D. Ziegler;Jacob Phelps;Jia Qi Yuen;Edward L. Webb

  • The Demise of Swidden in Southeast Asia? Local Realities and Regional Ambiguities

    Christine Padoch;Kevin Coffey;Ole Mertz;Stephen J. Leisz

  • Hydrological consequences of landscape fragmentation in mountainous northern Vietnam: evidence of accelerated overland flow generation

    Alan D Ziegler;Alan D Ziegler;Thomas W Giambelluca;Liem T Tran;Thomas T Vana

  • Land-Use and Land-Cover Change and Farmer Vulnerability in Xishuangbanna Prefecture in Southwestern China

    Xu Jianchu;Jefferson Fox;John B. Vogler;Zhang Peifang Fu Yongshou

  • Swidden, rubber and carbon: Can REDD+ work for people and the environment in Montane Mainland Southeast Asia?

    Jefferson Fox;Jean-Christophe Castella;Alan D. Ziegler

  • Monitoring peri-urbanization in the greater Ho Chi Minh City metropolitan area

    Caitlin Kontgis;Annemarie Schneider;Jefferson Fox;Sumeet Saksena

  • How blaming 'slash and burn' farmers is deforesting mainland Southeast Asia

    Jefferson M. Fox

  • LAND USE AND LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS IN NORTHERN THAILAND: ASSESSING CHANGE IN THREE UPLAND WATERSHEDS SINCE 1954

    Jefferson Fox;John Krummel;Sanay Yarnasarn;Methi Ekasingh

  • Land use change: complexity and comparisons

    Ronald R. Rindfuss;Barbara Entwisle;Stephen J. Walsh;Li An

  • People and the Environment

    Jefferson Fox;Ronald R. Rindfuss;Stephen J. Walsh;Vinod Mishra

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan D. Ziegler
Alan D. Ziegler National University of Singapore
Thomas W. Giambelluca
Thomas W. Giambelluca University of Hawaii at Manoa
Jean-Christophe Castella
Jean-Christophe Castella Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Christopher A. Lepczyk
Christopher A. Lepczyk Auburn University
Ole Mertz
Ole Mertz University of Copenhagen
Christine Padoch
Christine Padoch New York Botanical Garden
Ronald R. Rindfuss
Ronald R. Rindfuss University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Maoyi Huang
Maoyi Huang Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Tom Evans
Tom Evans University of Arizona
Tomo'omi Kumagai
Tomo'omi Kumagai University of Tokyo

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