Desheng Liu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Desheng Liu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Desheng |
| FAMILY NAME | Liu |
| SIGNATURE | LIU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6088-5985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nexus between urban green space and adult frequent mental distress
Tree canopy and grass show distinct, non-linear association with mental distress. • Urban heat, air pollution, and noise mediate the UGS-mental health relationship. • The associations between UGS and mental distress vary across racial groups. • The mental health benefits of trees are greater in communities of color. • Planners should prioritize trees over grass in UGS planning. Amid escalating adult mental distress in urban areas, urban green spa…
Wildfire risk in Alaska
Key factors in social vulnerability and wildfire risk vary across social contexts. • Federal fuel treatments are more equitably distributed across vulnerable groups. • CWPPs and state fuel treatments, placed near urban, link to lower vulnerability. High-latitude regions are experiencing larger, longer, and more severe wildfires, leading to significant impacts on ecosystems and human societies. However, quantitative assessments of wildfire risk th…
Adaptive Strategies of Indigenous Nenets Reindeer Herders for Climate Change in Yamal
Nenets reindeer pastoralists of Yamal in the Russian Arctic, successfully deal with rapidly changing climate and natural gas industrialization. We present results from our long-term ethnographic study (2001–present) on the adaptive strategies that Nenets nomadic households have employed over time, their tradeoffs, inherent risks, and social implications of these strategies. While some strategies limit the adaptive flexibility of herding, they sim…
Characterizing the dynamics of wildland-urban interface and the potential impacts on fire activity in Alaska from 2000 to 2010
Understanding the role of urban social and physical environment in opioid overdose events using found geospatial data
Impacts of tree and building shades on the urban heat island
Spatiotemporal dynamics of encroaching tall vegetation in timberline ecotone of the Polar Urals Region, Russia
Previous studies discovered a spatially heterogeneous expansion of Siberian larch into the tundra of the Polar Urals (Russia). This study reveals that the spatial pattern of encroachment of tree stands is related to environmental factors including topography and snow cover. Structural and allometric characteristics of trees, along with terrain elevation and snow depth were collected along a transect 860 m long and 80 m wide. Terrain curvature ind…
Built environment and violent crime
The Political Ecology of a Highway through Belize's Forested Borderlands
This paper examines how a new highway in Belize will change a tropical forest landscape. Since the end of British colonialism (1981), the Maya communities in Belize's Toledo District have struggled with the state for control of the lands they have customarily used to produce a livelihood. We were approached by some Maya leaders, who recognize that the paving of a new highway through their villages could transform Maya agricultural practices and t…
A Spatial-Temporal Modeling Approach to Reconstructing Land-Cover Change Trajectories from Multi-temporal Satellite Imagery
Temporal trajectories of land-cover change provide important information on landscape dynamics that are critical to our understanding of complex human–environment adaptive systems. The increasing availability of long time series of satellite images, especially the recent free release of multi-decadal Landsat satellite archive, presents a great opportunity to improve our ability to detect land-cover change over multiple dates and advance land chan…
Understanding the role of urban social and physical environment in opioid overdose events using found geospatial data
The Political Ecology of a Highway through Belize's Forested Borderlands
This paper examines how a new highway in Belize will change a tropical forest landscape. Since the end of British colonialism (1981), the Maya communities in Belize's Toledo District have struggled with the state for control of the lands they have customarily used to produce a livelihood. We were approached by some Maya leaders, who recognize that the paving of a new highway through their villages could transform Maya agricultural practices and t…
A Spatial-Temporal Modeling Approach to Reconstructing Land-Cover Change Trajectories from Multi-temporal Satellite Imagery
Temporal trajectories of land-cover change provide important information on landscape dynamics that are critical to our understanding of complex human–environment adaptive systems. The increasing availability of long time series of satellite images, especially the recent free release of multi-decadal Landsat satellite archive, presents a great opportunity to improve our ability to detect land-cover change over multiple dates and advance land chan…
The Political Ecology of a Highway through Belize's Forested Borderlands
This paper examines how a new highway in Belize will change a tropical forest landscape. Since the end of British colonialism (1981), the Maya communities in Belize's Toledo District have struggled with the state for control of the lands they have customarily used to produce a livelihood. We were approached by some Maya leaders, who recognize that the paving of a new highway through their villages could transform Maya agricultural practices and t…
Built environment and violent crime
Impacts of tree and building shades on the urban heat island
Spatiotemporal dynamics of encroaching tall vegetation in timberline ecotone of the Polar Urals Region, Russia
Previous studies discovered a spatially heterogeneous expansion of Siberian larch into the tundra of the Polar Urals (Russia). This study reveals that the spatial pattern of encroachment of tree stands is related to environmental factors including topography and snow cover. Structural and allometric characteristics of trees, along with terrain elevation and snow depth were collected along a transect 860 m long and 80 m wide. Terrain curvature ind…
Characterizing the dynamics of wildland-urban interface and the potential impacts on fire activity in Alaska from 2000 to 2010
Understanding the role of urban social and physical environment in opioid overdose events using found geospatial data
Adaptive Strategies of Indigenous Nenets Reindeer Herders for Climate Change in Yamal
Nenets reindeer pastoralists of Yamal in the Russian Arctic, successfully deal with rapidly changing climate and natural gas industrialization. We present results from our long-term ethnographic study (2001–present) on the adaptive strategies that Nenets nomadic households have employed over time, their tradeoffs, inherent risks, and social implications of these strategies. While some strategies limit the adaptive flexibility of herding, they sim…
Wildfire risk in Alaska
Key factors in social vulnerability and wildfire risk vary across social contexts. • Federal fuel treatments are more equitably distributed across vulnerable groups. • CWPPs and state fuel treatments, placed near urban, link to lower vulnerability. High-latitude regions are experiencing larger, longer, and more severe wildfires, leading to significant impacts on ecosystems and human societies. However, quantitative assessments of wildfire risk th…
Nexus between urban green space and adult frequent mental distress
Tree canopy and grass show distinct, non-linear association with mental distress. • Urban heat, air pollution, and noise mediate the UGS-mental health relationship. • The associations between UGS and mental distress vary across racial groups. • The mental health benefits of trees are greater in communities of color. • Planners should prioritize trees over grass in UGS planning. Amid escalating adult mental distress in urban areas, urban green spa…
Geography (9 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Cartography (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Environmental resource management (4 works) · Environmental Science (4 works) · Land cover (4 works) · Land use (4 works) · Climate change and permafrost (3 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (3 works)