Christian Brannstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 229951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Brannstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Brannstrom |
| SIGNATURE | BRANNSTROM C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6619-2020 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 291 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Counter-mapping reveals potential conflicts between offshore wind energy and traditional fishing communities in Brazil
What are the emerging contours of regional decarbonization? Insights from an exploratory analysis of US clean hydrogen hubs
The use and potential of Q method in environmental planning and management
Stakeholder engagement is critical to bridge gaps between academic knowledge production and application for environmental resources. Q Methodology, a qualitative and quantitative protocol, is well suited to address environmental planning and management issues through rigorous analysis of stakeholder perspectives. We review several methodological applications that have been used with or within Q Methodology aiming to improve environmental manageme…
The political ecology of justice outcomes of lithium mining: The case of Salar del Hombre Muerto, Argentina
Emerging challenges of offshore wind energy in the Global South: Perspectives from Brazil
Mapping the Unheard: Analyzing Tradeoffs Between Fisheries and Offshore Wind Farms Using Multicriteria Decision Analysis
Identifying offshore wind energy sites involves analyzing multiple variables, such as wind speed, proximity to the coastline, and sociocultural factors. This complex decision-making process often involves many stakeholders, resulting in conflicting data and goals. Decision analysis that promotes collaboration, transparency, understanding, and sustainability is key. This study presents a unique model of human-environment interaction that reconcile…
Participatory Methodologies and the Production of Data on Artisanal Fishing in Areas with Offshore Wind Farm Projects in Ceará, Brazil
Offshore wind farms (OWF) are an essential emerging energy source. In Brazil, environmental licensing of OWFs requires an identification map of multiple preexisting uses, targeting potentially conflicting activities, such as fishing and navigation routes. The objective of the work was to evaluate the application of participatory methodologies in the construction of data on fishing activity, aiming at analyzing potential impacts of OWFs in marine …
Do not put all your eggs in one basket: Social perspectives on desalination and water recycling in Israel
Israel has set ambitious goals in terms of the widespread adoption of desalination and water recycling technologies. Policymakers in Israel consider these technologies as the key to improve urban water security but knowledge of stakeholder views on this policy approach is not well established. We deployed the Q-methodology, a qualitative–quantitative approach, to empirically determine social perspectives on desalination and water recycling across…
Will peak talent arrive before peak oil or peak demand: Exploring whether career choices of highly skilled workers will accelerate the transition to renewable energy
Peak oil and peak demand hypotheses have generated significant research attention as claims that identify and explain pathways to decarbonization, but perspectives from human capital have been less prominent. We outline a peak talent hypothesis based on the idea that current and future oil and gas talent – comprising managerial, professional, and technical positions requiring a university degree – are opting to leave fossil fuels for careers in r…
Identifying diverging sustainability meanings for water policy: A Q-method study in Phoenix, Arizona
We identify and describe social perspectives on the sustainability of the water sector in the metropolitan area of Phoenix, Arizona. Using Q methodology, we find evidence for different meanings of sustainability when stakeholders are presented with concrete policy options and applications in spite of an apparently widespread agreement on the concept of sustainability itself. We put the social perspectives articulated by local stakeholders in pers…
What explains the community acceptance of wind energy? Exploring benefits, consultation, and livelihoods in coastal Brazil
In the Global South, qualitative research has identified injustices arising from exclusionary community consultation, wide information gaps between host communities and decision makers, and high reliance among residents on land- and sea-based resources that may compete with renewable power infrastructure. Here we analyze results of a face-to-face survey applied in three communities hosting wind farms in Ceará state, northeastern Brazil. Results f…
Feeding the World: Brazil's Transformation into a Modern Agricultural Economy; Agribusiness and the Neoliberal Food System in Brazil: Frontiers and Fissures of Agro-Neoliberalism
Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvii and 451 pp., maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $32.99 paper (ISBN 9781108460972), $9
Using Q-methodology in environmental sustainability research: A bibliometric analysis and systematic review
Q-methodology is a mixed qualitative-quantitative method used to measure social perspectives on issues relating to sustainability and environmental governance in a systematic, replicable manner. Although its use grown over the past two decades, to date there has not been a comprehensive review of the environmental sustainability Q-methodology literature. Using bibliometric analysis and systematic review, this paper examines the rapid growth in pu…
Social Perspectives on Deforestation, Land Use Change, and Economic Development in an Expanding Agricultural Frontier in Northern Argentina
The San Antonio River Doesn’t Start in San Antonio, It Now Starts in Burleson County’: Stakeholder Perspectives on a Groundwater Transfer Project in Central Texas
Water insecurity concerns drove San Antonio, Texas to pursue a controversial $3.4 billion groundwater transfer project from central Texas aquifers. The 228 km Vista Ridge Pipeline (VRP) would increase water supplies by 20%. Analysis through Q-Method revealed three social perspectives surrounding the VRP. Project Advocates offer particular views of urban water security, risk, and accountability. The creation of new hydro-social territories helps t…
Pluriatividade em uma comunidade pesqueira no litoral Leste do Ceará: Estimativas E Desdobramentos Para a Gestão Dos Recursos Ambientais
Studies focusing on pluriactivity normally analyze social and economic structures among rural families using land-based resources. However, studies by Sacco dos Anjos et al. (2004; 2012); Santos (2015) and Santos and Brannstrom (2015) include coastal resource users such as traditional fishers in discussions about pluriactivity. Thus, the present article analyzes pluriactivity in a fishing community on Ceará's eastern coastline based on the applic…
Perspectivas geográficas nas transformações do litoral brasileiro pela energia eólica
A implantação da energia eólica está transformando as condições socioambientais no litoral brasileiro, especialmente no Nordeste. Para aprofundar o tema, usamos análise espacial em Sistema de Informação Geográfico - SIG para demonstrar que quase 50% dos aerogeradores do Rio Grande do Norte e do Ceará estão localizados em até 5 km de distância da costa. Através de estudo de campo em seis casos específicos, demonstramos por quê existem conflitos en…
Economic-Development Stakeholder Perspectives on Boomtown Dynamics in the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas
Unconventional oil and gas production in the United States reversed a decades- \nold trend of rising oil imports, provided an argument for lifting the U.S. crude oil \nexport ban and motivated the development of domestic natural gas export facilities. But \nthe most visible impact of unconventional-hydrocarbon extraction is the creation of \nboomtowns in rural regions. Despite widespread media coverage, scholarly analysis of \nboomtowns is restri…
Wind power gone bad: Critiquing wind power planning processes in northeastern Brazil
The Discovery of Hispanic Child Labor in Agriculture in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas: A Life Geography Approach
A life geography approach is used to analyze the production of social science knowledge regarding Mexican-origin child agricultural workers in south Texas during the early 1940s. The protagonist in this article, Amber Arthun Warburton, worked for the U.S. Children's Bureau during the early 1940s and authored one of many reports analyzing conditions of children in U.S. agriculture. She was the first social scientist to report on labor relations in…
A Ferro e Fogo, história ambiental e a Geografia brasileira: Um Diálogo Por Inventar
In this essay, I evaluate the twenty-year impact of the book With Broadax and Firebrand: the destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, by the Brazilianist historian Warren Dean, on Brazilian geography.I note that, contrary to what happened among historians, the book did not spark such a heated debate among geographers, especially human geographers.Among the reasons for this are (1) the relatively low number of historical geographers, (2) the …
Will Brazil's ethanol ambitions undermine its agrarian reform goals? A study of social perspectives using Q-method”
Riding the rip”: An experiential and integrated human–physical geography curriculum in Costa Rica
Integrating research into short-term study abroad programs is challenging because of language, fieldwork logistics, and traditional learning models based on passive classroom experiences. Experiential learning often makes use of research as experience, but relatively few examples integrate human and physical geography. Here, we describe an experiential and integrated human–physical undergraduate geography curriculum in Costa Rica. We combine rip …
The Journal of Historical Geography at 40
Sustainbility for non-sustainable use of natural resources in western Bahia and the Eagle Ford
O artigo desenvolve estudo comparativo entre duas
We Don’t Take the Pledge”: Environmentality and environmental skepticism at the epicenter of US wind energy development
South America's Neoliberal Agricultural Frontiers: Places of Environmental Sacrifice or Conservation Opportunity
Neoliberal agricultural frontiers, defined as export-oriented farming areas motivated more by global demand and land privatization than by government subsidies, present at least two major challenges for environmental researchers: estimating land change and understanding governance types and outcomes. Environmental governance, the "filter" between human and biophysical systems, is considered in terms of two models in light of empirical evidence fr…
Using Q-methodology in environmental sustainability research: A bibliometric analysis and systematic review
Q-methodology is a mixed qualitative-quantitative method used to measure social perspectives on issues relating to sustainability and environmental governance in a systematic, replicable manner. Although its use grown over the past two decades, to date there has not been a comprehensive review of the environmental sustainability Q-methodology literature. Using bibliometric analysis and systematic review, this paper examines the rapid growth in pu…
Wind power gone bad: Critiquing wind power planning processes in northeastern Brazil
Access Regimes and Regional Land Change in the Brazilian Cerrado, 1972–2002
We examine how access regimes, defined by a set of interrelated institutions and organizations, facilitated the flow of production resources and benefits that resulted in patterns of land change in the Brazilian Cerrado. We analyzed remotely sensed data (Landsat MSS, TM, +ETM) for three time periods (1972/1973–1986, 1986–1992, 1992–2002) with qualitative and archival data for eastern Mato Grosso state. Overall we found that land privately coloniz…
Environmental policy reform on north-eastern Brazil’s agricultural frontier
Economic-Development Stakeholder Perspectives on Boomtown Dynamics in the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas
Unconventional oil and gas production in the United States reversed a decades- \nold trend of rising oil imports, provided an argument for lifting the U.S. crude oil \nexport ban and motivated the development of domestic natural gas export facilities. But \nthe most visible impact of unconventional-hydrocarbon extraction is the creation of \nboomtowns in rural regions. Despite widespread media coverage, scholarly analysis of \nboomtowns is restri…
Land change in the Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado), 1986–2002: Comparative analysis and implications for land-use policy
The Journal of Historical Geography at 40
Compliance and market exclusion in Brazilian agriculture: Analysis and implications for “soft” governance
What explains the community acceptance of wind energy? Exploring benefits, consultation, and livelihoods in coastal Brazil
In the Global South, qualitative research has identified injustices arising from exclusionary community consultation, wide information gaps between host communities and decision makers, and high reliance among residents on land- and sea-based resources that may compete with renewable power infrastructure. Here we analyze results of a face-to-face survey applied in three communities hosting wind farms in Ceará state, northeastern Brazil. Results f…
How Dallas became frack free: Hydrocarbon Governance Under Neoliberalism
Local-scale government ordinances that attempt to delay or displace oil and gas drilling in their territories are common in regions with hydrocarbon extraction activities. Drawing on literature from policy mobilities and resource and energy governance, this paper analyzes policymaking processes that resulted in a December 2013 ordinance in Dallas, Texas, which established a 1500 foot (457.2 meter) setback between gas wells and residences, making …
Producing possession: Labour, law and land on a Brazilian agricultural frontier, 1920-1945
Study Abroad Field Trip Improves Test Performance through Engagement and New Social Networks
Although study abroad trips provide an opportunity for affective and cognitive learning, it is largely assumed that they improve learning outcomes. The purpose of this study is to determine whether a study abroad field trip improved cognitive learning by comparing test performance between the study abroad participants (n = 20) and their peers who did not participate (n = 365). Test performance was statistically identical between these groups befo…
Social Perspectives on Wind-Power Development in West Texas
Since 2000, U.S. wind-energy capacity has increased 24 percent per year, with Texas emerging as the leading state. Multidimensionality, economic decline, and ownership-participation hypotheses dominate recent geographical research on social perspectives toward wind energy. We examine these hypotheses regarding support of wind power from the perspective of a county that leads Texas in installed capacity. Using Q-method, we present empirically dete…
Inventing the "Magic Valley" of South Texas, 1905-1941
In this article we examine the invention of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas as the “Magic Valley.” To sell land and water, early‐twentieth‐century land developers and boosters created the Magic Valley as a place myth comprising claims of abundant irrigation water, pliant and abundant labor, and modernity overtaking wilderness. We use a conceptual framework developed from place‐making and place‐marketing literatures in which language, iconogr…
Coffee Labor Regimes and Deforestation on a Brazilian Frontier, 1915-1965
In this paper I analyze the relationship between coffee labor relations and deforestation in São Paulo state, Brazil, using new empirical data from judicial archives and a microeconomic approach stressing transaction costs. Contractual planting, sharecropping, and mixed wage-piece rate schemes encouraged rapid conversion of forest and woodland (Cerradão) to coffee by a wide range of landowners. Factors of labor quality, costly supervision, inform…
The political ecology of justice outcomes of lithium mining: The case of Salar del Hombre Muerto, Argentina
Exposing students to repeat photography: Increasing cultural understanding on a short-term study abroad
Traditionally, repeat photography has been used to analyze land cover change. This paper describes how repeat photography may be used as a tool to enhance the short-term study abroad experience by facilitating cultural interaction and understanding. We present evidence from two cases and suggest a five-step repeat photography method for educators to use to increase participation and cultural interaction of students involved in fieldwork, long-hau…
Two Hundred Hectares of Good Business: Brazilian Agriculture in a Themed Space
Geographers have recognized that trade fairs and other temporary spaces function as centers of knowledge, but we have a weak understanding of how fairs are themed spaces, similar to parades, festivals, and built environments, that produce cultural and political meanings. In this article we analyze the morphology, iconography, and performance of a large agricultural fair in Brazil, the Bahia Farm Show, which produces a regional identity of highly …
Decentralising Water Resource Management in Brazil
Conservation-with-Development Models in Brazil's Agro-Pastoral Landscapes
Riding the rip”: An experiential and integrated human–physical geography curriculum in Costa Rica
Integrating research into short-term study abroad programs is challenging because of language, fieldwork logistics, and traditional learning models based on passive classroom experiences. Experiential learning often makes use of research as experience, but relatively few examples integrate human and physical geography. Here, we describe an experiential and integrated human–physical undergraduate geography curriculum in Costa Rica. We combine rip …
Emerging challenges of offshore wind energy in the Global South: Perspectives from Brazil
Will Brazil's ethanol ambitions undermine its agrarian reform goals? A study of social perspectives using Q-method”
Prize possessions: The United States and the Panama Canal
The River of Silver and the Island of Brazil
The River of Silver and the Island of Brazil
Almost a Canal: Visions of Interoceanic Communication Across Southern Nicaragua
The End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988
Coffee Labor Regimes and Deforestation on a Brazilian Frontier, 1915-1965
In this paper I analyze the relationship between coffee labor relations and deforestation in São Paulo state, Brazil, using new empirical data from judicial archives and a microeconomic approach stressing transaction costs. Contractual planting, sharecropping, and mixed wage-piece rate schemes encouraged rapid conversion of forest and woodland (Cerradão) to coffee by a wide range of landowners. Factors of labor quality, costly supervision, inform…
Conservation-with-Development Models in Brazil's Agro-Pastoral Landscapes
Livestock, Sugar and Coffee in Latin America's “Long” Nineteenth Century
Producing possession: Labour, law and land on a Brazilian agricultural frontier, 1920-1945
Rethinking the ‘Atlantic Forest’ of Brazil: New evidence for land cover and land value in western São Paulo, 1900–1930
Civil Society Participation in the Decentralisation of Brazil's Water Resources: Assessing Participation in Three States
Decentralisation, the transfer of powers to a lower level of government, is thought to encourage more efficient and equitable management of natural resources. Participation of civil society organisations (CSOs) is considered critical to create positive outcomes of decentralisation. Here we examine aspects of civil society participation in decentralised management using the case of Brazil's water resources management. Several Brazilian states have…
Decentralising Water Resource Management in Brazil
Environmental policy reform on north-eastern Brazil’s agricultural frontier
Was Brazilian Industrialisation Fuelled by Wood? Evaluating the Wood Hypothesis, 1900-1960
The ecological relationship between cities and resource hinterlands is a major theme in environmental history and historical geography. Most scholars described the twentieth-century industrialisation of Sao Paulo, Brazil, as reliant on hydroelectricity. Warren Dean's 'wood hypothesis', published posthumously in 1995, argued that industrialisation relied on wood fuel and charcoal during the first half of the twentieth century. However, Dean's wood…
The Timber Trade in Southeastern Brazil, 1920-1960
Logging economies in Latin America have long supplied forest resources to international and domestic markets. One of Latin America's more significant timber regions supplied South America's largest industrial metropolis, São Paulo. However, relatively little is known about the historical geography of logging in Brazil, or elsewhere in Latin America, in part because of the bias of forest histories to the destruction, rather than utilisation, of fo…
Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil - by Nicholas G. Arons
Land change in the Brazilian Savanna (Cerrado), 1986–2002: Comparative analysis and implications for land-use policy
South America's Neoliberal Agricultural Frontiers: Places of Environmental Sacrifice or Conservation Opportunity
Neoliberal agricultural frontiers, defined as export-oriented farming areas motivated more by global demand and land privatization than by government subsidies, present at least two major challenges for environmental researchers: estimating land change and understanding governance types and outcomes. Environmental governance, the "filter" between human and biophysical systems, is considered in terms of two models in light of empirical evidence fr…
Forests for cotton: Institutions and organizations in Brazil's mid-twentieth-century cotton boom
Inventing the "Magic Valley" of South Texas, 1905-1941
In this article we examine the invention of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas as the “Magic Valley.” To sell land and water, early‐twentieth‐century land developers and boosters created the Magic Valley as a place myth comprising claims of abundant irrigation water, pliant and abundant labor, and modernity overtaking wilderness. We use a conceptual framework developed from place‐making and place‐marketing literatures in which language, iconogr…
Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society - by Hochstetler, Kathryn and Keck, Margaret E
Access Regimes and Regional Land Change in the Brazilian Cerrado, 1972–2002
We examine how access regimes, defined by a set of interrelated institutions and organizations, facilitated the flow of production resources and benefits that resulted in patterns of land change in the Brazilian Cerrado. We analyzed remotely sensed data (Landsat MSS, TM, +ETM) for three time periods (1972/1973–1986, 1986–1992, 1992–2002) with qualitative and archival data for eastern Mato Grosso state. Overall we found that land privately coloniz…
Study Abroad Field Trip Improves Test Performance through Engagement and New Social Networks
Although study abroad trips provide an opportunity for affective and cognitive learning, it is largely assumed that they improve learning outcomes. The purpose of this study is to determine whether a study abroad field trip improved cognitive learning by comparing test performance between the study abroad participants (n = 20) and their peers who did not participate (n = 365). Test performance was statistically identical between these groups befo…
Mauricio de Almeida Abreu, Geografia Histórica do Rio de Janeiro (1502–1700)
Social Perspectives on Wind-Power Development in West Texas
Since 2000, U.S. wind-energy capacity has increased 24 percent per year, with Texas emerging as the leading state. Multidimensionality, economic decline, and ownership-participation hypotheses dominate recent geographical research on social perspectives toward wind energy. We examine these hypotheses regarding support of wind power from the perspective of a county that leads Texas in installed capacity. Using Q-method, we present empirically dete…
Geography (34 works) · Political science (33 works) · Economics (28 works) · Ecology (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Environmental resource management (16 works) · Archaeology (15 works) · Engineering (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (13 works)