James Southworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 1089592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Southworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Southworth |
| SIGNATURE | SOUTHWORTH J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7246-7879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia
Foreign investment in agricultural land, often referred to as large-scale land acquisition (LSLA), presents a complex phenomenon with significant social-ecological trade-offs and synergies, leading to potential lasting ecological impacts. The assessment of these impacts is frequently hindered by limited transparency and insufficient data. Remote sensing offers a vital method for overcoming some of these data challenges by providing comprehensive …
Developing a model for AI Across the curriculum
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a ubiquitous concept and tool already found across society and an integral part of everyday life. As such, basic understanding and knowledge of AI should be a critical component of student education to foster successful global citizens. This position paper describes one possible path to address potential gaps in AI education and integrate AI across the curriculum at a traditional research university. The University…
Bridging critical thinking and transformative learning
Although the literature on critical thinking and transformative learning has remained relatively distinct, they have both emphasized the importance of working through and resolving states of doubt. There has been less focus, however, on how we can bring ourselves from a confirmed belief to a position of doubt. This is a foundational skill. Without it, the possibility for intellectual and personal growth is limited. In part one, I focus on critica…
A Perspective‐Taking Theory of Open‐Mindedness
Previous research on open‐mindedness, whether by critical thinking researchers, philosophers of education, or intellectual virtue theorists, has not sufficiently addressed the challenge posed by cognitive bias, particularly motivated reasoning. How can students develop their open‐mindedness when they are often motivated to preserve their prior beliefs? In this paper, James Southworth proposes a theory of open‐mindedness that attempts to confront …
How argumentative writing stifles open-mindedness
A longstanding assumption within higher education is that there is a clear link between argumentative writing and critical thinking. In this paper, I challenge this assumption. I argue that argumentative writing genres of persuasion, inquiry, and consensus fail to target students’ open-mindedness, which is an important aspect of critical thinking. In particular, argumentative writing genres do not challenge students to confront key cognitive bias…
Trade-offs among forest value components in community forests of southwestern Amazonia
Baraloto, C., P. Alverga, S. Baéz Quispe, G. Barnes, N. Bejar Chura, I. Brasil da Silva, W. Castro, H. Da Souza, I. De Souza Moll, J. Del Alcazar Chilo, H. Duenas Linares, J. Garate Quispe, D. Kenji, H. Medeiros, C. A. Rockwell, A. Shenkin, M. Silveira, J. Southworth, G. Vasquez, and S. Perz. 2014. Trade-offs among forest value components in community forests of southwestern Amazonia. Ecology and Society 19(4): 56. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-0691…
Trans-boundary infrastructure and land cover change
Does population increase equate to conservation success? Forest fragmentation and conservation of the black howler monkey
The Community Baboon Sanctuary (CBS) in Belize is a community reserve for the endangered black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra). This study assessed the performance of the CBS as an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Category IV protected area through deforestation and forest fragmentation of the CBS and 500 m river buffer, and impacts on black howler monkey habitat over 15 years (1989-2004). Using satellite imagery remote sensin…
Digital Remote Sensing within the Field of Land Change Science
The availability of repeat digital, synoptic measures of the earth's surface has resulted in remote sensing of the earth's surface forming the basis of many land change science (LCS) research questions. This article reviews passive digital remote sensing for the use of LCS and discusses the past, present and future directions for remote sensing applications within the LCS field. Rigorous detection of land cover change provides the foundation for …
Wetland conservation
An Exploratory Framework for the Empirical Measurement of Resilience
Fragmentation of a Landscape
The relationship between trajectories of forest-cover change and the biophysical and social characteristics of the landscape in the mountains of Western Honduras is addressed. Metrics of land-cover change were used to infer patterns of land-use change, using Landsat TM imagery from 1987, 1991 and 1996. With 15-20% of the land cover changing across each two-date period, the study landscape was very dynamic. Areas of reforestation were significantl…
The Influence of Accessibility, Local Institutions, and Socioeconomic Factors on Forest Cover Change in the Mountains of Western Honduras
Tropical deforestation poses a threat to ecological sustainability and socioeconomic development in many parts of the world. Information on forest transformations is especially pertinent in sensitive ecological zones such as mountainous regions, where forest cover protects steep slopes and thin soils from erosion. Such areas are frequently unsuitable for agriculture, but inhabitants may have few alternatives to meet subsistence needs. Understandi…
Productivity Theories of the Trade Cycle
A Possible Cause of Cyclical Unemployment
Fragmentation of a Landscape
The relationship between trajectories of forest-cover change and the biophysical and social characteristics of the landscape in the mountains of Western Honduras is addressed. Metrics of land-cover change were used to infer patterns of land-use change, using Landsat TM imagery from 1987, 1991 and 1996. With 15-20% of the land cover changing across each two-date period, the study landscape was very dynamic. Areas of reforestation were significantl…
Wetland conservation
Trans-boundary infrastructure and land cover change
How argumentative writing stifles open-mindedness
A longstanding assumption within higher education is that there is a clear link between argumentative writing and critical thinking. In this paper, I challenge this assumption. I argue that argumentative writing genres of persuasion, inquiry, and consensus fail to target students’ open-mindedness, which is an important aspect of critical thinking. In particular, argumentative writing genres do not challenge students to confront key cognitive bias…
A Possible Cause of Cyclical Unemployment
Productivity Theories of the Trade Cycle
The Influence of Accessibility, Local Institutions, and Socioeconomic Factors on Forest Cover Change in the Mountains of Western Honduras
Tropical deforestation poses a threat to ecological sustainability and socioeconomic development in many parts of the world. Information on forest transformations is especially pertinent in sensitive ecological zones such as mountainous regions, where forest cover protects steep slopes and thin soils from erosion. Such areas are frequently unsuitable for agriculture, but inhabitants may have few alternatives to meet subsistence needs. Understandi…
Fragmentation of a Landscape
The relationship between trajectories of forest-cover change and the biophysical and social characteristics of the landscape in the mountains of Western Honduras is addressed. Metrics of land-cover change were used to infer patterns of land-use change, using Landsat TM imagery from 1987, 1991 and 1996. With 15-20% of the land cover changing across each two-date period, the study landscape was very dynamic. Areas of reforestation were significantl…
An Exploratory Framework for the Empirical Measurement of Resilience
Wetland conservation
Digital Remote Sensing within the Field of Land Change Science
The availability of repeat digital, synoptic measures of the earth's surface has resulted in remote sensing of the earth's surface forming the basis of many land change science (LCS) research questions. This article reviews passive digital remote sensing for the use of LCS and discusses the past, present and future directions for remote sensing applications within the LCS field. Rigorous detection of land cover change provides the foundation for …
Does population increase equate to conservation success? Forest fragmentation and conservation of the black howler monkey
The Community Baboon Sanctuary (CBS) in Belize is a community reserve for the endangered black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra). This study assessed the performance of the CBS as an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Category IV protected area through deforestation and forest fragmentation of the CBS and 500 m river buffer, and impacts on black howler monkey habitat over 15 years (1989-2004). Using satellite imagery remote sensin…
Trans-boundary infrastructure and land cover change
Trade-offs among forest value components in community forests of southwestern Amazonia
Baraloto, C., P. Alverga, S. Baéz Quispe, G. Barnes, N. Bejar Chura, I. Brasil da Silva, W. Castro, H. Da Souza, I. De Souza Moll, J. Del Alcazar Chilo, H. Duenas Linares, J. Garate Quispe, D. Kenji, H. Medeiros, C. A. Rockwell, A. Shenkin, M. Silveira, J. Southworth, G. Vasquez, and S. Perz. 2014. Trade-offs among forest value components in community forests of southwestern Amazonia. Ecology and Society 19(4): 56. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-0691…
How argumentative writing stifles open-mindedness
A longstanding assumption within higher education is that there is a clear link between argumentative writing and critical thinking. In this paper, I challenge this assumption. I argue that argumentative writing genres of persuasion, inquiry, and consensus fail to target students’ open-mindedness, which is an important aspect of critical thinking. In particular, argumentative writing genres do not challenge students to confront key cognitive bias…
A Perspective‐Taking Theory of Open‐Mindedness
Previous research on open‐mindedness, whether by critical thinking researchers, philosophers of education, or intellectual virtue theorists, has not sufficiently addressed the challenge posed by cognitive bias, particularly motivated reasoning. How can students develop their open‐mindedness when they are often motivated to preserve their prior beliefs? In this paper, James Southworth proposes a theory of open‐mindedness that attempts to confront …
Bridging critical thinking and transformative learning
Although the literature on critical thinking and transformative learning has remained relatively distinct, they have both emphasized the importance of working through and resolving states of doubt. There has been less focus, however, on how we can bring ourselves from a confirmed belief to a position of doubt. This is a foundational skill. Without it, the possibility for intellectual and personal growth is limited. In part one, I focus on critica…
Developing a model for AI Across the curriculum
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a ubiquitous concept and tool already found across society and an integral part of everyday life. As such, basic understanding and knowledge of AI should be a critical component of student education to foster successful global citizens. This position paper describes one possible path to address potential gaps in AI education and integrate AI across the curriculum at a traditional research university. The University…
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia
Foreign investment in agricultural land, often referred to as large-scale land acquisition (LSLA), presents a complex phenomenon with significant social-ecological trade-offs and synergies, leading to potential lasting ecological impacts. The assessment of these impacts is frequently hindered by limited transparency and insufficient data. Remote sensing offers a vital method for overcoming some of these data challenges by providing comprehensive …
Geography (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental Science (6 works) · Land use (6 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works) · Land cover (5 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Forestry (4 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (4 works)