Dan Brown

About

Dan Brown is an adjunct professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington. He serves as the director of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, where he plays a vital role in guiding the school's academic growth, developing new initiatives, and providing leadership and management of its programs, centers, and research grants. His responsibilities also include allocating revenues to support the school's mission and enhancing its endowment. Dan Brown sits on the Natural Resources Board of Washington State, which oversees the management of state lands. His recent academic experience includes serving as interim dean for the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, where he was also a professor in conservation ecology and environmental informatics. His research interests focus on land use change and its effects on ecosystems and human vulnerability. His work connects computer-based simulation of land-use-change processes with GIS and remote sensing data on historical landscape change and social surveys.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Political Science
• Geography
• Ecology
• Economics
• Geology
• Biology
• Sociology
• Social Science
• Environmental science

Selected publications

• Integrating Equity Considerations into Agent-Based Modeling: A Conceptual Framework and Practical Guidance

  Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation · 2022 · 50 citations

  Advancing equity is a multi-dimensional challenge for society, science, and policy. Agent-based models are increasingly used as scientific tools to advance system understanding, inform decision-making, and share knowledge. Yet, equity has not received due attention within the agent-based modeling (ABM) literature. In this work, we develop a conceptual framework and provide guidance for integrating equity considerations into ABM research and good modeling practice. The framework describes ABM as…

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• Resilience and equity: Quantifying the distributional effects of resilience-enhancing strategies in a smallholder agricultural system

  Agricultural Systems · 2020 · 48 citations

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• Carbon emissions from the global land rush and potential mitigation

  Nature Food · 2021 · 47 citations

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• Linking model design and application for transdisciplinary approaches in social-ecological systems

  Global Environmental Change · 2020 · 39 citations

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• Large-scale land acquisitions exacerbate local farmland inequalities in Tanzania

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023-07-31 · 18 citations

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  Land inequality stalls economic development, entrenches poverty, and is associated with environmental degradation. Yet, rigorous assessments of land-use interventions attend to inequality only rarely. A land inequality lens is especially important to understand how recent large-scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) affect smallholder and indigenous communities across as much as 100 million hectares around the world. This paper studies inequalities in land assets, specifically landholdings and farm siz…

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Recent grants

• Project SLUCE: Spatial Land-Use Change and Ecological Effects at the Rural-Urban Interface: Agent-Based Modeling and Evaluation of Alternative Policies and Interventions

  NSF · $1.4M · 2001–2008

• CNH: Collaborative Research: Spatial Land-Use Change and Ecological Effects (SLUCE): Interactions of Exurban Land Management and Carbon Dynamics

  NSF · $1.5M · 2008–2014

Frequent coauthors

• Arun Agrawal

  29 shared

• Derek T. Robinson

  28 shared

• Rick Riolo

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  21 shared

• Joan Iverson Nassauer

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  16 shared

• Kathleen M. Bergen

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  15 shared

• Ana V. Diez Roux

  Drexel University

  15 shared

• Stephen J. Walsh

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  14 shared

• Jiquan Chen

  Michigan State University

  13 shared

Labs

• Our Advancement TeamPI

Education

• PhD, Geography

  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  1992

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