Julie A. Silva: Publications

Refereed articles

Forthcoming. Alexander, Steven M., Kristal Jones, Nathan J. Bennett, Amber Budden, Michael Cox, Mercè Crosas, Edward T. Game, Janis Geary, R. Dean Hardy, Jay T. Johnson, Sebastian Karcher, Nicole Motzer, Jeremy Pittman, Heather Randell, Julie A. Silva, Patricia Pinto da Silva, Carly Strasser, Colleen Strawhacker, Andrew Stuhl, and Nic Weber. Qualitative Data Sharing and Synthesis for Sustainability Science. Nature Sustainability.

2019. Cooper, Matthew W., Molly E Brown, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Georg Pflug, Ian McCallum, Steffen Fritz, Julie A. Silva, and Alexander Zvoleff. Mapping the Effects of Drought on Child Stunting. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116(35), 17219-17224. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1905228116.

2019. Silva, Julie A. Barriers to Decolonizing Economic Geography: The Inconvenient Case of Rhino Horns in Rural African Futures. Geoforum. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.05.024.

2019. Silva, Julie A., Fernando Sedano, Steve Flanagan, Zacarias A. Ombe, Rene Machoco, Cardoso H. Meque, Almeida Sitoe, Natasha Ribeiro, Kelly Anderson, and Susana Baule. Charcoal-related Forest Degradation Dynamics in Dry African Woodlands: Evidence from Mozambique. Applied Geography 107, 72-81. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2019.04.006.

2019. Teodoro, Jose Daniel, Donal S. O'Leary III, Siobhan E. Kerr, Eva Peskin, and Julie A. Silva. The Relevance of Case Studies in Climate Change Research: A Review of Policy Recommendations. SN Applied Sciences 1, 1197. doi: 10.1007/s42452-019-1221-x.

2018. Silva, Julie A., Tatiana Loboda, and Michael Strong. Examining Aspiration's Imprint on the Landscape: Lessons from Mozambique's Limpopo National Park. Global Environmental Change 51: 43-53. doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.04.013.

2016. Sedano, Fernando, Julie A. Silva, Rene Machoco, Cardoso H. Meque, Almeida Sitoe, Natasha Ribeiro, Kelly Anderson, Zacarias A. Ombe, Susana Baule, and Compton J. Tucker. The Impact of Charcoal Production on Forest Degradation: A Case Study in Tete, Mozambique. Environmental Research Letters 11: 094020. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094020.

2016. Dodson, Zan, Jan Dempewolf, and Julie A. Silva. Does prolonged illness contribute to land use change among subsistence agricultural households in rural Mozambique? Applied Geography 67(February): 109-118. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.12.007.

2015. Bounoua, Lahouari, Ping Zhang, Georgy Mostovoy, Kurtis Thome, Jeffery Masek, Marck Imhoff, Marshall Sheppard, Dale Quattrochi, Joseph Santanello, Julie Silva, Robert Wolfe, and Ally Mounirou Toure. Impact of Urbanization on US Surface Climate. Environmental Research Letters 10(8): 084010. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/8/084010.

2015. Silva, Julie A., Corene J. Matyas, and Benedito Cunguara. Regional Inequality and Polarization in the Context of Concurrent Extreme Weather and Economic Shocks. Applied Geography. doi: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.01.015.

2015. Silva, Julie A. and Nicole Motzer. Hybrid Uptakes of Neoliberal Conservation in Namibia: Examining Aspirations and Discontent in Nature-based Tourism Development. Development and Change 46(1): 48-71. doi: 10.1111/dech.12139.

2015. Khatiwada, Lila K. and Julie A. Silva. Mitigating Gender Inequality in Rural Regions: The Effects of Tourism Employment in Namibia. International Journal for Tourism Research 17(5):442-50. doi: 10.1002/jtr.2010

2015. Mosimane, Alfons W. and Julie A. Silva. Local Governance Institutions, CBNRM, and Benefit-sharing Systems in Namibian Conservancies. Journal of Sustainable Development 8(2): 99-111. doi: 10.5539/jsd.v8n2p99.

2014. Silva, Julie A. and Lila K. Khatiwada. Transforming Conservation into Cash? Nature Tourism in Southern Africa. Africa Today 61: 16-45. In a special issue organized by the Smithsonian Institution. doi: 10.1353/at.2014.0033.

2014. Leichenko, Robin and Julie A. Silva. Climate Change and Poverty: Vulnerability, Impacts, and Alleviation Strategies. WIREs Climate Change 5:539-556. doi: 10.1002/wcc.287.

2014. Silva, Julie A. and Alfons W. Mosimane. ‘How Could I Live Here and Not Be A Member?’ Social Motives for Participating in Namibian Conservation Programs. Human Ecology 42:183-197. doi: 10.1007/s10745-014-9645-9.

2014. Silva, Julie A. and Corene J. Matyas. Relating Rainfall Patterns to Agricultural Income: Implications for Rural Development in Mozambique. Weather, Climate, and Society 6:218-236. doi: 10.1175/WCAS-D-13-00012.1.

2013. Silva, Julie A. Relating Local Experiences to National Shifts in Rural Income Inequality in Mozambique. Review of Regional Studies 34:23-50. online.

2013. McKune, Sarah and Julie A. Silva. Pastoralists under Pressure: Double Exposure to Economic and Environmental Change in Niger. Journal of Development Studies 49:1711-1727. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2013.822067.

2013. Mandl, Daniel, Stuart Frye, Pat Cappelaere, Matthew Handy, Fritz Policelli, McCloud Katjizeu, Guido Van Langenhove, Guy Aube, Jean-Francois Saulnier, Rob Sohlberg, Julie Silva, Natalia Kussul, Sergii Skakun, Stephen Ungar, Robert Grossman, and Joerg Szarynski. Use of the Earth Observing One (EO-1) Satellite for the Namibia SensorWeb Flood Early Warning Pilot. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2013.2255861.

2013. Silva, Julie A. and Alfons W. Mosimane. Conservation-based Development in Namibia: A Mixed Methods Assessment of Economic Benefits. Journal of Environment & Development 22:25-50. doi: 10.1177/1070496512469193.

2013. Matyas, Corene J. and Julie A. Silva. Extreme Weather and Economic Well-being in Rural Mozambique. Natural Hazards 66:31-49. doi: 10.1007/s11069-011-0064-6.

2011. Silva, Julie A. Economics, Morality, and Method. Geography Compass 5:825-837. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2011.00456.x.

2010. Silva, Julie A., Siri Eriksen, and Zacarias A. Ombe. Double Exposure in Mozambique's Limpopo River Basin. The Geographical Journal 176: 6-24. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4959.2009.00343.x.

2009. Eriksen, Siri and Julie A. Silva. The Vulnerability Context of a Savanna Area in Mozambique: Household Drought Coping Strategies and Responses to Economic Change. Environmental Science & Policy 12: 33-52. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2008.10.007.

2008. Silva, Julie A. International Trade and the Changing Demand for Skilled Workers in High-tech Manufacturing. Growth and Change 39: 225-251. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-2257.2008.00418.x.

2008. Silva, Julie A. A Multi-level Analysis of Agricultural Trade and Socio-economic Inequality in Rural Mozambique. The Professional Geographer 60: 174-189. doi: 10.1080/00330120701876283.

2007. Silva, Julie A. Trade and Income Inequality in a Less Developed Country: The Case of Mozambique. Economic Geography 83: 111-136. doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2007.tb00339.x.

2004. Silva, Julie A. and Robin M. Leichenko. Regional Income Inequality and International Trade. Economic Geography 80: 261-286. doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2004.tb00235.x.

2004. Leichenko, Robin M. and Julie A. Silva. International Trade, Employment, and Earnings: Evidence from U.S. Rural Counties. Regional Studies 38: 353-372. doi: 10.1080/03434002000213897.

2001. Silva, Julie A. Assimilation or Isolation? Community-Based Organizations and their Strategies for Redevelopment in Manhattan's Chinatown. Middle States Geographer: Journal of the Middle States Division Association of American Geographers 34: 73-81. PDF

2001. Silva, Julie A. and Elvin K. Wyly. Between Africa and the Abyss: Globalization, Media, and the Invisibility of a Continent. The Geographical Bulletin 43: 36-46. PDF

Book chapters

2014. Mosimane, Alfons W. and Julie A. Silva. Boundary-making in Conservancies: The Namibian Experience, in M. Ramutsindela (ed.) Cartographies of Nature: How Nature Conservation Animates Borders (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars' Publishing).

Non-refereed articles

2002. Eriksen, Siri, Ane Schjolden and Julie Silva. Coping with Climatic and Economic Change. Tiempo 43, 36-46. HTML

2002. Silva, Julie A., Jon Saul and David Kim. Let Maps Tell The Story: PPGIS in the Evaluation of Community Based Initiatives. URISA Final Program and Conference Proceedings of the 1st Annual Public Participation in GIS (PPGIS) Conference, 216-222. PDF.

Encyclopedia entries

2017. Silva, Julie A. Human Capital. In D. Richardson, N. Castree, M.F. Goodchild, A.L. Kobayashi, W. Liu, and R. Marston (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/9781118786352.

Working papers

2018. P. F. Biehl, S. Crate, M. Gardezi, L. Hamilton, S.L. Harlan, C. Hritz, B. Hubbell, T. A. Kohler, N. Peterson, J. Silva. Innovative tools, methods, and analysis: Social science perspectives on climate change, part 3. Washington, DC: USGCRP Social Science Coordinating Committee. https://www.globalchange.gov/content/social-science-perspectives-climate-change-workshop.

2018. Jones, K., Alexander, S.M., Bennet, N., Bishop, L., Budden, A., Cox, M., Crosas, M., Game, E., Geary, J., Hahn, C., Hardy, D., Johnson, J., Karcher, S., LaFevor, M., Motzer, N., Pinto da Silva, P., Pittman, J., Randall, H., Silva, J., Smith, J., Smorul, M., Strsser, C., Strawhacker, C., Stuhl, A., Weber, N., and Winslow, D. Qualitative data sharing and re-use for socio-environmental systems research: A synthesis of opportunities, challenges, resources and approaches. SESYNC White Paper. doi: 10.13016/M2WH2DG59.

2016. Silva, Julie A. The Effects of Changes in Rainfall Patterns, Water Availability, and Desertification on Multidimensional Inequality. Background paper for The United Nations' World Economic and Social Survey 2016: Climate Change Resilience – An Opportunity for Reducing Inequalities. United Nations, Washington, DC. Available at https://wess.un.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/WESS-2016-BP_Silva_Mar2016_2.pdf.

2014. Silva, Julie A. , Corene J. Matyas, and Benedito Cunguara. Regional Inequality and Polarization in the Context of Concurrent Extreme Weather and Economic Shocks. Working paper 77E. Republic of Mozambique, Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate of Economics.

2007. Julie A. Silva. International Trade and the Changing Demand for Skilled Workers in High-Tech Manufacturing. Discussion Paper CES-WP-07-22. U.S. Department of Commerce, Center for Economic Studies. PDF

2003. Leichenko, Robin M. and Julie A. Silva. International Trade, Employment, and Earnings: Evidence from U.S. Rural Counties. Discussion Paper CES-WP-03-12. U.S. Department of Commerce, Center for Economic Studies. PDF

2003. Silva, Julie A. and Robin M. Leichenko. Regional Income Inequality and International Trade. Discussion Paper CES-WP-03-15. U.S. Department of Commerce, Center for Economic Studies. PDF

Book Reviews

2010. Review of Economic Geography: The Integration of Regions and Nations. Combes, P-P., T. Mayer, and J-F Thisse. Economic Geography 86:223-224. doi: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2010.01070.x.

2007. Review of Methodology and Epistemology of Multilevel Analysis: Approaches from Different Social Sciences. Courgeau, D, ed. Regional Studies 41:713-718. doi: 10.1080/00343400701493825.

2006. Review of The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution: Evaluation Techniques and Tools. Bourggnon, F. and P. da Silva, ed.. Regional Studies 40:429-430. doi: 10.1080/00343400600725301.