Geoffrey L Buckley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1685635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey L Buckley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey L |
| FAMILY NAME | Buckley |
| SIGNATURE | BUCKLEY G L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7356-5289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Forging just ecologies
We ask how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) project. BES began after environmental justice emerged through activism and scholarship in the 1980s but spans a period of increasing awareness among ecologists and environmental practitioners. The work in Baltimore provides a detailed exampl…
Resilience of racialized segregation is an ecological factor
Segregation by racialized categories is common to cities across the world and its social effects are well studied. However, the environmental effects—the ecology of segregation—have received less attention. Racialized segregation persists through time and is associated with environmental hazards or lack of amenities. The environmental burdens of racial segregation are increasingly documented and this paper synthesizes the dynamics of segregation …
Promoting Diversity at Cuyahoga Valley National Park
In December 1974, the National Park Service established the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area (CVNRA) in northeastern Ohio as part of a nationwide effort to increase the amount of green space available to urban residents. Today, the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP) comprises ∼33,000 acres, and its combination of historic artifacts, nature trails, and recreational amenities attracts over 2.2 million visitors annually. As is the case wit…
Protecting Canyonlands
National parks have been called “America’s best idea”, but their creation and management never fail to stir controversy. On September 12, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill creating Canyonlands National Park (CANY). Instead of a preservation climax, however, the establishment of CANY simply opened a new chapter in the long-term effort to protect a much greater percentage of southeastern Utah’s canyon country. Over the next several …
The History and Legacies of Mercantile, Industrial, and Sanitary Transformations
Bombs Away
David G. Havlick. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 204 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, index. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-226-54754-1).Not long after graduating from college I landed a
Teaching Urban Sustainability
Since 2011 more than 100 students from Ohio University have travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland, to study history, urban planning, and sustainability. In this paper we recount the genesis of this highly successful program, situate it in the broader literature on urban sustainability and study abroad, and then unpack its contents. We then consider how the adoption of green living practices combined with hands-on and experiential learning activities d…
Scenescapes
Scenescapes: how qualities of place shape social life." Journal of Cultural Geography, 35(3), pp. 413–414
Historical approaches to environmental justice
Early work in environmental justice focused on the immediate need of analysing the distribution of environmental burdens, such as toxic facilities or landfills, to see if low-income and ethnic/racial minority communities live with a disproportionately high concentration of environmental hazards. Historical approaches provide an important and useful mechanism for understanding the origins, causes, and legacies of present day environmental injustic…
The Greening of Baltimore's Asphalt Schoolyards
Asphalt was becoming an integral part of the urban American landscape by the end of the nineteenth century. Not only was it emerging as the preferred alternative for street paving, its promoters were endorsing it for other purposes as well. Although Baltimore was not in the vanguard when it came to adopting asphalt for road surfaces, it soon followed the trend. Like other cities, it too found other applications for this versatile petroleum produc…
Trees Grow on Money
This study examines the distributional equity of urban tree canopy (UTC) cover for Baltimore, MD, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Raleigh, NC, Sacramento, CA, and Washington, D.C. using high spatial resolution land cover data and census data. Data are analyzed at the Census Block Group levels using Spearman's correlation, ordinary least squares regression (OLS), and a spatial autoregressive model (SAR). Across all cities there is…
America's Public Lands
Introduction: Why Public Lands? Part I: Origins of the Public Domain Chapter 1: Building the National Commons Chapter 2: Disposing of the Public Domain: From Commons to Commodity Chapter 3: A Public Land System Emerges Part II: America's Public Land System Chapter 4: National Parks Chapter 5: National Forests Chapter 6: National Wildlife Refuges Chapter 7: Bureau of Land Management Lands Chapter 8: National Wilderness Preservation System: Wild an…
Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard
A long view of polluting industry and environmental justice in Baltimore
Mountains of Injustice
Parks and People
This article examines the distribution of parks in Baltimore, Maryland, as an environmental justice issue. In addition to established methods for measuring distribution of and access to parks, we employ a novel park service area approach that uses Thiessen polygons and dasymetric reapportioning of census data to measure potential park congestion as an equity outcome measure. We find that a higher proportion of African Americans have access to par…
Separate But Equal? Desegregating Baltimore's Golf Courses
Between the time of its opening, in 1923, and 1956, when the last vestiges of official segregation were swept away by the courts, the Carroll Park Municipal Golf Course in Baltimore, Maryland, figured prominently in the struggle to desegregate the city's recreational facilities. In this article we use historical sources to examine how access to Carroll Park was shaped by issues of race and ethnicity during the first half of the twentieth century,…
When the Lights go out in Cheshire
The purchase and subsequent demolition of Cheshire, Ohio‐located in the shadow of the General James M. Gavin Power Plant‐has attracted national attention. According to a New York Times report, “the deal ... is believed to be the first by a company to dissolve an entire town.” In this article we consider historical precedents for the case, explore the thirty‐year history of community‐plant relations in Cheshire, and recount the series of incidents…
Where There Are Mountains
The Environmental Transformation of an Appalachian Valley, 1850-1906
Parks and People
This article examines the distribution of parks in Baltimore, Maryland, as an environmental justice issue. In addition to established methods for measuring distribution of and access to parks, we employ a novel park service area approach that uses Thiessen polygons and dasymetric reapportioning of census data to measure potential park congestion as an equity outcome measure. We find that a higher proportion of African Americans have access to par…
A long view of polluting industry and environmental justice in Baltimore
Separate But Equal? Desegregating Baltimore's Golf Courses
Between the time of its opening, in 1923, and 1956, when the last vestiges of official segregation were swept away by the courts, the Carroll Park Municipal Golf Course in Baltimore, Maryland, figured prominently in the struggle to desegregate the city's recreational facilities. In this article we use historical sources to examine how access to Carroll Park was shaped by issues of race and ethnicity during the first half of the twentieth century,…
Forging just ecologies
We ask how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) project. BES began after environmental justice emerged through activism and scholarship in the 1980s but spans a period of increasing awareness among ecologists and environmental practitioners. The work in Baltimore provides a detailed exampl…
Resilience of racialized segregation is an ecological factor
Segregation by racialized categories is common to cities across the world and its social effects are well studied. However, the environmental effects—the ecology of segregation—have received less attention. Racialized segregation persists through time and is associated with environmental hazards or lack of amenities. The environmental burdens of racial segregation are increasingly documented and this paper synthesizes the dynamics of segregation …
The Greening of Baltimore's Asphalt Schoolyards
Asphalt was becoming an integral part of the urban American landscape by the end of the nineteenth century. Not only was it emerging as the preferred alternative for street paving, its promoters were endorsing it for other purposes as well. Although Baltimore was not in the vanguard when it came to adopting asphalt for road surfaces, it soon followed the trend. Like other cities, it too found other applications for this versatile petroleum produc…
Teaching Urban Sustainability
Since 2011 more than 100 students from Ohio University have travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland, to study history, urban planning, and sustainability. In this paper we recount the genesis of this highly successful program, situate it in the broader literature on urban sustainability and study abroad, and then unpack its contents. We then consider how the adoption of green living practices combined with hands-on and experiential learning activities d…
When the Lights go out in Cheshire
The purchase and subsequent demolition of Cheshire, Ohio‐located in the shadow of the General James M. Gavin Power Plant‐has attracted national attention. According to a New York Times report, “the deal ... is believed to be the first by a company to dissolve an entire town.” In this article we consider historical precedents for the case, explore the thirty‐year history of community‐plant relations in Cheshire, and recount the series of incidents…
The Environmental Transformation of an Appalachian Valley, 1850-1906
The Environmental Transformation of an Appalachian Valley, 1850-1906
Where There Are Mountains
When the Lights go out in Cheshire
The purchase and subsequent demolition of Cheshire, Ohio‐located in the shadow of the General James M. Gavin Power Plant‐has attracted national attention. According to a New York Times report, “the deal ... is believed to be the first by a company to dissolve an entire town.” In this article we consider historical precedents for the case, explore the thirty‐year history of community‐plant relations in Cheshire, and recount the series of incidents…
Separate But Equal? Desegregating Baltimore's Golf Courses
Between the time of its opening, in 1923, and 1956, when the last vestiges of official segregation were swept away by the courts, the Carroll Park Municipal Golf Course in Baltimore, Maryland, figured prominently in the struggle to desegregate the city's recreational facilities. In this article we use historical sources to examine how access to Carroll Park was shaped by issues of race and ethnicity during the first half of the twentieth century,…
Parks and People
This article examines the distribution of parks in Baltimore, Maryland, as an environmental justice issue. In addition to established methods for measuring distribution of and access to parks, we employ a novel park service area approach that uses Thiessen polygons and dasymetric reapportioning of census data to measure potential park congestion as an equity outcome measure. We find that a higher proportion of African Americans have access to par…
Mountains of Injustice
Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard
A long view of polluting industry and environmental justice in Baltimore
Trees Grow on Money
This study examines the distributional equity of urban tree canopy (UTC) cover for Baltimore, MD, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Raleigh, NC, Sacramento, CA, and Washington, D.C. using high spatial resolution land cover data and census data. Data are analyzed at the Census Block Group levels using Spearman's correlation, ordinary least squares regression (OLS), and a spatial autoregressive model (SAR). Across all cities there is…
America's Public Lands
Introduction: Why Public Lands? Part I: Origins of the Public Domain Chapter 1: Building the National Commons Chapter 2: Disposing of the Public Domain: From Commons to Commodity Chapter 3: A Public Land System Emerges Part II: America's Public Land System Chapter 4: National Parks Chapter 5: National Forests Chapter 6: National Wildlife Refuges Chapter 7: Bureau of Land Management Lands Chapter 8: National Wilderness Preservation System: Wild an…
Historical approaches to environmental justice
Early work in environmental justice focused on the immediate need of analysing the distribution of environmental burdens, such as toxic facilities or landfills, to see if low-income and ethnic/racial minority communities live with a disproportionately high concentration of environmental hazards. Historical approaches provide an important and useful mechanism for understanding the origins, causes, and legacies of present day environmental injustic…
The Greening of Baltimore's Asphalt Schoolyards
Asphalt was becoming an integral part of the urban American landscape by the end of the nineteenth century. Not only was it emerging as the preferred alternative for street paving, its promoters were endorsing it for other purposes as well. Although Baltimore was not in the vanguard when it came to adopting asphalt for road surfaces, it soon followed the trend. Like other cities, it too found other applications for this versatile petroleum produc…
Scenescapes
Scenescapes: how qualities of place shape social life." Journal of Cultural Geography, 35(3), pp. 413–414
The History and Legacies of Mercantile, Industrial, and Sanitary Transformations
Bombs Away
David G. Havlick. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 204 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, index. $35.00 cloth (ISBN 978-0-226-54754-1).Not long after graduating from college I landed a
Teaching Urban Sustainability
Since 2011 more than 100 students from Ohio University have travelled to Edinburgh, Scotland, to study history, urban planning, and sustainability. In this paper we recount the genesis of this highly successful program, situate it in the broader literature on urban sustainability and study abroad, and then unpack its contents. We then consider how the adoption of green living practices combined with hands-on and experiential learning activities d…
Protecting Canyonlands
National parks have been called “America’s best idea”, but their creation and management never fail to stir controversy. On September 12, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the bill creating Canyonlands National Park (CANY). Instead of a preservation climax, however, the establishment of CANY simply opened a new chapter in the long-term effort to protect a much greater percentage of southeastern Utah’s canyon country. Over the next several …
Promoting Diversity at Cuyahoga Valley National Park
In December 1974, the National Park Service established the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area (CVNRA) in northeastern Ohio as part of a nationwide effort to increase the amount of green space available to urban residents. Today, the Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CVNP) comprises ∼33,000 acres, and its combination of historic artifacts, nature trails, and recreational amenities attracts over 2.2 million visitors annually. As is the case wit…
Resilience of racialized segregation is an ecological factor
Segregation by racialized categories is common to cities across the world and its social effects are well studied. However, the environmental effects—the ecology of segregation—have received less attention. Racialized segregation persists through time and is associated with environmental hazards or lack of amenities. The environmental burdens of racial segregation are increasingly documented and this paper synthesizes the dynamics of segregation …
Forging just ecologies
We ask how environmental justice and urban ecology have influenced one another over the past 25 years in the context of the US Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program and Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) project. BES began after environmental justice emerged through activism and scholarship in the 1980s but spans a period of increasing awareness among ecologists and environmental practitioners. The work in Baltimore provides a detailed exampl…
Geography (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (8 works) · History (8 works) · American Environmental and Regional History (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (7 works)