Melinda Laituri
Biographic Data
| ID | 2464434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melinda Laituri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melinda |
| FAMILY NAME | Laituri |
| SIGNATURE | LAITURI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2268-6774 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Climate Change, Sustainable Development Goal 13, and Adaptive Pathways in the Kenyan Drylands Using Social Media
This study examines social media communication in Kenya to assess how dryland pastoral concerns are represented in national climate policy dialogues. Approximately 80% of Kenya’s land area consists of drylands that support pastoral livelihoods, yet recurring droughts and increasingly variable rainfall threaten these social-ecological systems. Although Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action) emphasizes adaptation, progress is typically me…
Humanitarian GIS
Humanitarian GIS is the use of geospatial technologies and digital data to increase the effectiveness of humanitarian aid for extreme events. It is an approach to examine disasters where spatial data using geographic coordinates linked to place‐based attributes improve humanitarian logistics, planning, and monitoring. Humanitarian GIS informs cybercartographies – internet‐based, interactive maps with multimedia and diverse data sources using a dy…
Automated Geospatial Approach for Assessing SDG Indicator 11.3.1
Geospatial data has proven useful for monitoring urbanization and guiding sustainable development in rapidly urbanizing regions. The United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 11.3.1 leverages geospatial data to estimate rates of urban land and population change, providing insight on urban land use expansion patterns and thereby informing sustainable urbanization initiatives (i.e., SDG 11). Our work enhances a UN proposed d…
Questioning the practice of participation
Developing and evaluating transit-based healthcare accessibility in a low- and middle-income country
SDG Indicator 11.3.1 and Secondary Cities
Secondary cities are rapidly growing areas in low- and middle-income countries that lack data, planning, and essential services for sustainable development. Their rapid, informal growth patterns mean secondary cities are often data-poor and under-resourced, impacting the ability of governments to target development efforts, respond to emergencies, and design sustainable futures. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 focuses on…
Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene
Vulnerability of Subsistence Systems Due to Social and Environmental Change
Arctic Indigenous communities have been classified as highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. The remoteness of Arctic communities, their dependence upon local species and habitats, and the historical marginalization of Indigenous peoples enhances this characterization of vulnerability. However, vulnerability is a result of diverse historical, social, economic, political, cultural, institutional, natural resource, and environmental condition…
Afroalpine Wetlands of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
The Bale Mountains of Ethiopia contain the largest contiguous area of alpine habitat in Africa. The region provides critical water resources and other essential environmental services to highland communities, endemic wildlife, and millions of downstream people in East Africa. Increasing land use change has created concern over degradation to headwater wetlands and potential impacts on hydrologic regimes. Baseline understanding of wetland dynamics…
Accessing Flexibility
US Mountain West Water access and allocation institutions have a history of adapting policy and practice to increase flexibility for diverse water uses. We examine how flexible access has developed over time and space by operationalizing the historical institutional (HI) theoretical and methodological framework. We trace historical water access for oil and gas (OG) development in Colorado, working from contemporary water right data to examine his…
Changing times, changing stories
Herman-Mercer, N. M., E. Matkin, M. J. Laituri, R. C. Toohey, M. Massey, K. Elder, P. F. Schuster, and E. A. Mutter. 2016. Changing times, changing stories: generational differences in climate change perspectives from four remote indigenous communities in Subarctic Alaska. Ecology and Society 21(3):28.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08463-210328
Exogenous and indigenous influences on sustainable management
The Resource Management Act, the cornerstone of New Zealand's legislated environmental policy, reflects the mediation of internationally debated constructs of sustainable development and profoundly local meanings of living within nature. The outcome is a made-in-New Zealand approach to conceptualizing sustainable management in national environmental policy. This paper demonstrates how and why the contribution of non-New Zealanders and the first p…
Cross-cultural dynamics in the ecocity
Finding Fairness in America's Cities? The Search for Environmental Equity in Everyday Life
This article argues that any consideration of green justice cannot be limited solely to wilderness areas; it must include natural resources as they are manifested in urban areas. We discuss the ways in which residents' images of the natural world are shaped by various institutional forces, including corporations and government of all types. We link up these insights to the growing recognition that there exists an inequitable distribution of natur…
The research system in transition
The closing of the American mind—or just closing the ranks
(1991). The closing of the American mind—or just closing the ranks? Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 221-228
Changing times, changing stories
Herman-Mercer, N. M., E. Matkin, M. J. Laituri, R. C. Toohey, M. Massey, K. Elder, P. F. Schuster, and E. A. Mutter. 2016. Changing times, changing stories: generational differences in climate change perspectives from four remote indigenous communities in Subarctic Alaska. Ecology and Society 21(3):28.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08463-210328
Finding Fairness in America's Cities? The Search for Environmental Equity in Everyday Life
This article argues that any consideration of green justice cannot be limited solely to wilderness areas; it must include natural resources as they are manifested in urban areas. We discuss the ways in which residents' images of the natural world are shaped by various institutional forces, including corporations and government of all types. We link up these insights to the growing recognition that there exists an inequitable distribution of natur…
Developing and evaluating transit-based healthcare accessibility in a low- and middle-income country
Afroalpine Wetlands of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
The Bale Mountains of Ethiopia contain the largest contiguous area of alpine habitat in Africa. The region provides critical water resources and other essential environmental services to highland communities, endemic wildlife, and millions of downstream people in East Africa. Increasing land use change has created concern over degradation to headwater wetlands and potential impacts on hydrologic regimes. Baseline understanding of wetland dynamics…
The closing of the American mind—or just closing the ranks
(1991). The closing of the American mind—or just closing the ranks? Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 221-228
The research system in transition
Finding Fairness in America's Cities? The Search for Environmental Equity in Everyday Life
This article argues that any consideration of green justice cannot be limited solely to wilderness areas; it must include natural resources as they are manifested in urban areas. We discuss the ways in which residents' images of the natural world are shaped by various institutional forces, including corporations and government of all types. We link up these insights to the growing recognition that there exists an inequitable distribution of natur…
Cross-cultural dynamics in the ecocity
Exogenous and indigenous influences on sustainable management
The Resource Management Act, the cornerstone of New Zealand's legislated environmental policy, reflects the mediation of internationally debated constructs of sustainable development and profoundly local meanings of living within nature. The outcome is a made-in-New Zealand approach to conceptualizing sustainable management in national environmental policy. This paper demonstrates how and why the contribution of non-New Zealanders and the first p…
Changing times, changing stories
Herman-Mercer, N. M., E. Matkin, M. J. Laituri, R. C. Toohey, M. Massey, K. Elder, P. F. Schuster, and E. A. Mutter. 2016. Changing times, changing stories: generational differences in climate change perspectives from four remote indigenous communities in Subarctic Alaska. Ecology and Society 21(3):28.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08463-210328
Accessing Flexibility
US Mountain West Water access and allocation institutions have a history of adapting policy and practice to increase flexibility for diverse water uses. We examine how flexible access has developed over time and space by operationalizing the historical institutional (HI) theoretical and methodological framework. We trace historical water access for oil and gas (OG) development in Colorado, working from contemporary water right data to examine his…
Vulnerability of Subsistence Systems Due to Social and Environmental Change
Arctic Indigenous communities have been classified as highly vulnerable to climate change impacts. The remoteness of Arctic communities, their dependence upon local species and habitats, and the historical marginalization of Indigenous peoples enhances this characterization of vulnerability. However, vulnerability is a result of diverse historical, social, economic, political, cultural, institutional, natural resource, and environmental condition…
Afroalpine Wetlands of the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia
The Bale Mountains of Ethiopia contain the largest contiguous area of alpine habitat in Africa. The region provides critical water resources and other essential environmental services to highland communities, endemic wildlife, and millions of downstream people in East Africa. Increasing land use change has created concern over degradation to headwater wetlands and potential impacts on hydrologic regimes. Baseline understanding of wetland dynamics…
SDG Indicator 11.3.1 and Secondary Cities
Secondary cities are rapidly growing areas in low- and middle-income countries that lack data, planning, and essential services for sustainable development. Their rapid, informal growth patterns mean secondary cities are often data-poor and under-resourced, impacting the ability of governments to target development efforts, respond to emergencies, and design sustainable futures. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11 focuses on…
Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene
Questioning the practice of participation
Developing and evaluating transit-based healthcare accessibility in a low- and middle-income country
Humanitarian GIS
Humanitarian GIS is the use of geospatial technologies and digital data to increase the effectiveness of humanitarian aid for extreme events. It is an approach to examine disasters where spatial data using geographic coordinates linked to place‐based attributes improve humanitarian logistics, planning, and monitoring. Humanitarian GIS informs cybercartographies – internet‐based, interactive maps with multimedia and diverse data sources using a dy…
Automated Geospatial Approach for Assessing SDG Indicator 11.3.1
Geospatial data has proven useful for monitoring urbanization and guiding sustainable development in rapidly urbanizing regions. The United Nations’ (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 11.3.1 leverages geospatial data to estimate rates of urban land and population change, providing insight on urban land use expansion patterns and thereby informing sustainable urbanization initiatives (i.e., SDG 11). Our work enhances a UN proposed d…
Climate Change, Sustainable Development Goal 13, and Adaptive Pathways in the Kenyan Drylands Using Social Media
This study examines social media communication in Kenya to assess how dryland pastoral concerns are represented in national climate policy dialogues. Approximately 80% of Kenya’s land area consists of drylands that support pastoral livelihoods, yet recurring droughts and increasingly variable rainfall threaten these social-ecological systems. Although Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action) emphasizes adaptation, progress is typically me…
Geography (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sustainable development (5 works)