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Research
Interests
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Applied
GISc in the Land-use Planning Process
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Uneven
Regional Development
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Urban
Political Ecology
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Nature and
Society
Recent
Academic Publications
Hanham, R., Hoch, R. J, Spiker, J. S. 2008 (in press).
“The Spatially Varying Relationship between Local
Land-Use Policies and Urban Growth: A Geographically
Weighted Regression Analysis” in
Geotechnologies and the Environment: Socioeconomic and
Planning Applications.
Ed. Gatrell, J.
and Jensen, R. Springer-Verlag Heidelberg.
Recent
Technical Publications
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A
Watershed Atlas of Potential Environmental Impacts from
Extractive Industries in Greene and Washington Counties,
Pennsylvania
– 35 page atlas of 28 watersheds and 6 congressional
districts mapping and quantifying environmental
impacts. Center for Coalfield Justice. 2010.
·
Using
PAMAP LiDAR Derived Elevation Data for Local Zoning
Decisions –
Appendix to the Fayette County Mountain Area
Multi-municipal Comprehensive Plan. Mackin
Engineering. 2009.
[Plan winner of The
Excellence in Township Planning Award by the
Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors
(2010)].
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Rasler
Run Watershed Assessment and Analysis
– Prepared maps of
historic mining locations of various coal seams within
watershed. Prepared for the Pennsylvania Department of
Environmental Protection by Mountain Watershed
Association, Fayette County, PA. 2008.
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The
Sylvanian, Magazine of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the
Sierra Club –
Prepared map of coal-fired power plants and coal-fired
power plants that burn waste coal in Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and West Virginia. August – October, 2008
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The
Sylvanian, Magazine of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the
Sierra Club –
Prepared map of coal-fired power plants and coal-fired
power plants that burn waste coal in Pennsylvania.
April – June, 2008. | 
