Stuart H Sweeney
Biographic Data
| ID | 2125926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart H Sweeney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart H |
| FAMILY NAME | Sweeney |
| SIGNATURE | SWEENEY S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3450-6870 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Social Vulnerability, Locational Vulnerability, and Uncertainty in Wildfire Risk Index Construction
Over the past two decades, methods to measure and account for social vulnerability, or the ability of a community to prepare for, cope with, and recover from a natural disaster, have rapidly proliferated. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of vulnerability, researchers and practitioners now seek to combine social with locational (physical) vulnerability into singular indexes designed to identify areas of high risk. Central to such efforts are co…
Social vulnerability gaps
Demographic and socio-economic omissions in social vulnerability assessments are not uncommon. However, conclusions from incomplete population characterization contribute to inequity and marginalization of at-risk segments of society, individuals who require care, resource assistance, and tailored public policy. The unsheltered homeless are considered here as an underrepresented segment of socially vulnerable people in hazard assessment. The unsh…
Depressive Symptoms, Emergency Care, and School Climate
BACKGROUND: As rates of depression and anxiety continue to rise, prevention, and treatment of poor mental health in adolescents is a major challenge for population health. Within the US context, a growing body of literature is examining the relationship between school climate and student mental health. METHODS: We extend the notion of school climate and mesosystem effects by creating an emergency department visit intensity, a novel indirect summa…
Food security change in the college student population due to the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic killed over one million people in the United States and the disease itself, combined with policies implemented to minimize its spread, dramatically increased both unemployment and food insecurity throughout the nation. College students, who have high rates of food insecurity during non-pandemic times, were heavily impacted by the pandemic as campus closures caused large changes in living conditions and business closures led …
Wildfire, evacuation, and cardiovascular events
Increasingly, adverse health effects from wildfire exposure are not limited to select populations in the wildland-urban interface. As wildfires continue to grow in frequency and intensity, they are also continuing to encroach on urban areas, putting larger and larger populations at risk. In this study we develop an innovative research design in the wildfire and health literature, and report results for a small scale implementation on California's…
Global urban population exposure to extreme heat
Significance Increased extreme heat exposure from both climate change and the urban heat island effect threatens rapidly growing urban settlements worldwide. Yet, because we do not know where urban population growth and extreme heat intersect, we have limited capacity to reduce the impacts of urban extreme heat exposure. Here, we leverage fine-resolution temperature and population data to measure urban extreme heat exposure for 13,115 cities from…
Agricultural change and resilience
Firm location, interaction, and local characteristics
Ethnic Dimensions of Guatemala’s Stalled Transition
In some contemporary populations, fertility levels appear to plateau, with women maintaining a consistently high level of fertility for a relatively extended period. Because this plateau does not reflect the historical patterns observed in Europe, the focus of most studies on fertility patterns, mechanisms underlying the plateau and the reinstatement of a decline have not been fully explored and are not fully understood. Through the construction …
Open Trade, Price Supports, and Regional Price Behavior in Mexican Maize Markets
We analyze wholesale maize prices in 12 Mexican markets from 1998 to 2010, a period when markets became more open to inter- and intranational trade. We ask how the influence of global and local forces on Mexican maize prices changed during this period. We also explore how the strength of global and local forces varies across maize-producing regions. In general, we expect the influence of global forces to increase and local forces to decrease as m…
Correlates of Maize Land and Livelihood Change Among Maize Farming Households in Mexico
Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875–1914
The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience
Growing buildings in corn fields
Urban growth continues to rise globally, especially in and around small cities and peri-urban areas of the developing world. In Mexico, a culture of maize production still exists alongside rapid urban and industrial growth, which exemplifies a hybridized urban-rural landscape. This paper discusses a study of household land-use and livelihood strategies in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, west of Mexico City, a traditional maize-growing region that h…
Selling Maize in Mexico
The last decade of the twentieth century was heralded as the 'end of agrarian reform' in Mexico and the initiation of a new era of market-led agricultural policy and practice. The impact of neoliberalism and the North American Free Trade Agreement on smallholder maize production has been widely conceived as negative, associated with ecological degradation, rural emigration and cultural erosion. Yet, some twenty years later, all evidence suggests …
Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America
The notion that increasing prevalence of cohabitation relative to marriage, and increasing age at first marriage are part of a broader shift in societal norms -- a second demographic transition -- is now well supported by studies focused on US and European
Agrarian Winners of Neoliberal Reform
While the detrimental impact of neoliberal policy on Mexico's maize smallholders is well researched, little attention has been paid to the rise of maize in the northern state of Sinaloa. Sinaloa's entry into maize has restructured the geography of national supply, and generated a new national confidence in white maize self-sufficiency. Using semi-structured interviews and secondary data, we document the primary social and political drivers of Sin…
Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression
Understanding stalling demographic transition in high-fertility countries
Understanding peri-urban maize production through an examination of household livelihoods in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico
Indian railroading
This article provides a case study of four late nineteenth-century share flotations of Indian railway companies. It highlights an important gap in the historiography of Indian railway finance, which has focused on the period up to 1875. The role of N. M. Rothschild as lead underwriter and its relationship with the India Office, managing agents, and investors is analysed. This gives an evolving picture of mutual dependence between the City and Whi…
Testing assumptions underlying economic research on transgenic food crops for Third World farmers
Multiregional cohort enrolment projections
School districts throughout California are struggling with uncertainty in primary school enrolment levels. Some areas of the state are witnessing soaring enrolment levels due to immigration and internal migration, while other areas with expensive housing stock and ageing populations are expected to decline. State-level budget problems, the increasing popularity of home/private schooling, and school choice laws at the local level have resulted in …
Robust Point-Pattern Inference from Spatially Censored Data
Administrative data sources are increasingly being used for spatial analysis and policy formation. For example, 'welfare to work' programs have stimulated demand for spatial mismatch studies in which ES-202 employment files are used. The increased resolution gained by geocoding the address records in administrative files can be of enormous research value when the process under study resolves over small distances. Yet the resulting point-reference…
Understanding peri-urban maize production through an examination of household livelihoods in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico
Agrarian Winners of Neoliberal Reform
While the detrimental impact of neoliberal policy on Mexico's maize smallholders is well researched, little attention has been paid to the rise of maize in the northern state of Sinaloa. Sinaloa's entry into maize has restructured the geography of national supply, and generated a new national confidence in white maize self-sufficiency. Using semi-structured interviews and secondary data, we document the primary social and political drivers of Sin…
Correlates of Maize Land and Livelihood Change Among Maize Farming Households in Mexico
Selling Maize in Mexico
The last decade of the twentieth century was heralded as the 'end of agrarian reform' in Mexico and the initiation of a new era of market-led agricultural policy and practice. The impact of neoliberalism and the North American Free Trade Agreement on smallholder maize production has been widely conceived as negative, associated with ecological degradation, rural emigration and cultural erosion. Yet, some twenty years later, all evidence suggests …
Growing buildings in corn fields
Urban growth continues to rise globally, especially in and around small cities and peri-urban areas of the developing world. In Mexico, a culture of maize production still exists alongside rapid urban and industrial growth, which exemplifies a hybridized urban-rural landscape. This paper discusses a study of household land-use and livelihood strategies in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, west of Mexico City, a traditional maize-growing region that h…
Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America
The notion that increasing prevalence of cohabitation relative to marriage, and increasing age at first marriage are part of a broader shift in societal norms -- a second demographic transition -- is now well supported by studies focused on US and European
Agricultural change and resilience
Ethnic Dimensions of Guatemala’s Stalled Transition
In some contemporary populations, fertility levels appear to plateau, with women maintaining a consistently high level of fertility for a relatively extended period. Because this plateau does not reflect the historical patterns observed in Europe, the focus of most studies on fertility patterns, mechanisms underlying the plateau and the reinstatement of a decline have not been fully explored and are not fully understood. Through the construction …
Multiregional cohort enrolment projections
School districts throughout California are struggling with uncertainty in primary school enrolment levels. Some areas of the state are witnessing soaring enrolment levels due to immigration and internal migration, while other areas with expensive housing stock and ageing populations are expected to decline. State-level budget problems, the increasing popularity of home/private schooling, and school choice laws at the local level have resulted in …
Firm location, interaction, and local characteristics
Open Trade, Price Supports, and Regional Price Behavior in Mexican Maize Markets
We analyze wholesale maize prices in 12 Mexican markets from 1998 to 2010, a period when markets became more open to inter- and intranational trade. We ask how the influence of global and local forces on Mexican maize prices changed during this period. We also explore how the strength of global and local forces varies across maize-producing regions. In general, we expect the influence of global forces to increase and local forces to decrease as m…
Understanding stalling demographic transition in high-fertility countries
Robust Point-Pattern Inference from Spatially Censored Data
Administrative data sources are increasingly being used for spatial analysis and policy formation. For example, 'welfare to work' programs have stimulated demand for spatial mismatch studies in which ES-202 employment files are used. The increased resolution gained by geocoding the address records in administrative files can be of enormous research value when the process under study resolves over small distances. Yet the resulting point-reference…
Multiregional cohort enrolment projections
School districts throughout California are struggling with uncertainty in primary school enrolment levels. Some areas of the state are witnessing soaring enrolment levels due to immigration and internal migration, while other areas with expensive housing stock and ageing populations are expected to decline. State-level budget problems, the increasing popularity of home/private schooling, and school choice laws at the local level have resulted in …
Robust Point-Pattern Inference from Spatially Censored Data
Administrative data sources are increasingly being used for spatial analysis and policy formation. For example, 'welfare to work' programs have stimulated demand for spatial mismatch studies in which ES-202 employment files are used. The increased resolution gained by geocoding the address records in administrative files can be of enormous research value when the process under study resolves over small distances. Yet the resulting point-reference…
Testing assumptions underlying economic research on transgenic food crops for Third World farmers
Indian railroading
This article provides a case study of four late nineteenth-century share flotations of Indian railway companies. It highlights an important gap in the historiography of Indian railway finance, which has focused on the period up to 1875. The role of N. M. Rothschild as lead underwriter and its relationship with the India Office, managing agents, and investors is analysed. This gives an evolving picture of mutual dependence between the City and Whi…
Combining insights from quantile and ordinal regression
Understanding stalling demographic transition in high-fertility countries
Understanding peri-urban maize production through an examination of household livelihoods in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico
Growing buildings in corn fields
Urban growth continues to rise globally, especially in and around small cities and peri-urban areas of the developing world. In Mexico, a culture of maize production still exists alongside rapid urban and industrial growth, which exemplifies a hybridized urban-rural landscape. This paper discusses a study of household land-use and livelihood strategies in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, west of Mexico City, a traditional maize-growing region that h…
Selling Maize in Mexico
The last decade of the twentieth century was heralded as the 'end of agrarian reform' in Mexico and the initiation of a new era of market-led agricultural policy and practice. The impact of neoliberalism and the North American Free Trade Agreement on smallholder maize production has been widely conceived as negative, associated with ecological degradation, rural emigration and cultural erosion. Yet, some twenty years later, all evidence suggests …
Pathways to marriage and cohabitation in Central America
The notion that increasing prevalence of cohabitation relative to marriage, and increasing age at first marriage are part of a broader shift in societal norms -- a second demographic transition -- is now well supported by studies focused on US and European
Agrarian Winners of Neoliberal Reform
While the detrimental impact of neoliberal policy on Mexico's maize smallholders is well researched, little attention has been paid to the rise of maize in the northern state of Sinaloa. Sinaloa's entry into maize has restructured the geography of national supply, and generated a new national confidence in white maize self-sufficiency. Using semi-structured interviews and secondary data, we document the primary social and political drivers of Sin…
Correlates of Maize Land and Livelihood Change Among Maize Farming Households in Mexico
Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875–1914
The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience
Firm location, interaction, and local characteristics
Ethnic Dimensions of Guatemala’s Stalled Transition
In some contemporary populations, fertility levels appear to plateau, with women maintaining a consistently high level of fertility for a relatively extended period. Because this plateau does not reflect the historical patterns observed in Europe, the focus of most studies on fertility patterns, mechanisms underlying the plateau and the reinstatement of a decline have not been fully explored and are not fully understood. Through the construction …
Open Trade, Price Supports, and Regional Price Behavior in Mexican Maize Markets
We analyze wholesale maize prices in 12 Mexican markets from 1998 to 2010, a period when markets became more open to inter- and intranational trade. We ask how the influence of global and local forces on Mexican maize prices changed during this period. We also explore how the strength of global and local forces varies across maize-producing regions. In general, we expect the influence of global forces to increase and local forces to decrease as m…
Agricultural change and resilience
Global urban population exposure to extreme heat
Significance Increased extreme heat exposure from both climate change and the urban heat island effect threatens rapidly growing urban settlements worldwide. Yet, because we do not know where urban population growth and extreme heat intersect, we have limited capacity to reduce the impacts of urban extreme heat exposure. Here, we leverage fine-resolution temperature and population data to measure urban extreme heat exposure for 13,115 cities from…
Wildfire, evacuation, and cardiovascular events
Increasingly, adverse health effects from wildfire exposure are not limited to select populations in the wildland-urban interface. As wildfires continue to grow in frequency and intensity, they are also continuing to encroach on urban areas, putting larger and larger populations at risk. In this study we develop an innovative research design in the wildfire and health literature, and report results for a small scale implementation on California's…
Food security change in the college student population due to the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic killed over one million people in the United States and the disease itself, combined with policies implemented to minimize its spread, dramatically increased both unemployment and food insecurity throughout the nation. College students, who have high rates of food insecurity during non-pandemic times, were heavily impacted by the pandemic as campus closures caused large changes in living conditions and business closures led …
Social vulnerability gaps
Demographic and socio-economic omissions in social vulnerability assessments are not uncommon. However, conclusions from incomplete population characterization contribute to inequity and marginalization of at-risk segments of society, individuals who require care, resource assistance, and tailored public policy. The unsheltered homeless are considered here as an underrepresented segment of socially vulnerable people in hazard assessment. The unsh…
Depressive Symptoms, Emergency Care, and School Climate
BACKGROUND: As rates of depression and anxiety continue to rise, prevention, and treatment of poor mental health in adolescents is a major challenge for population health. Within the US context, a growing body of literature is examining the relationship between school climate and student mental health. METHODS: We extend the notion of school climate and mesosystem effects by creating an emergency department visit intensity, a novel indirect summa…
Social Vulnerability, Locational Vulnerability, and Uncertainty in Wildfire Risk Index Construction
Over the past two decades, methods to measure and account for social vulnerability, or the ability of a community to prepare for, cope with, and recover from a natural disaster, have rapidly proliferated. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of vulnerability, researchers and practitioners now seek to combine social with locational (physical) vulnerability into singular indexes designed to identify areas of high risk. Central to such efforts are co…
Geography (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Population (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Biology (5 works)