Jennifer A Burney
Biographic Data
| ID | 5082566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer A Burney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer A |
| FAMILY NAME | Burney |
| SIGNATURE | BURNEY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3532-2934 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Crop water origins and hydroclimate vulnerability of global croplands
Climate resilience programmes and technical efficiency
This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of smallholder dairy farmers assisted by a climate resilience programme in the Brazilian semi-arid region. We use stochastic frontier models applied to a panel with quarterly data for 43 dairy family farmers assisted by the MAIS programme (Módulo Agroclimático Inteligente e Sustentável) between January 2016 and March 2018. Results highlight how the assistance to implement climate-smart production prac…
Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s Covid-19 economic shutdown
Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke
The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal burden of wildfire in the United States. We estimate that nearly 50 million homes are currently in the wildland–urban interface in the United States, a number increasing by 1 million houses every 3 y. To…
Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961–2017
Drivers and projections of global surface temperature anomalies at the local scale
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and trends in rural-to-urban migration are expected to continue through the end of the century. Although cities create efficiencies that drive innovation and economic growth, they also alter the local surface energy balance, resulting in urban temperatures that can differ dramatically from surrounding areas. Here we introduce a global 1 km resolution data set of seasonal and diurn…
The adaptive benefits of agricultural water markets in California
Climate change is expected to increase the scarcity and variability of fresh water supplies in some regions with important implications for irrigated agriculture. By allowing for increased flexibility in response to scarcity and by incentivizing the allocation of water to higher value use, markets can play an important role in limiting the economic losses associated with droughts. Using data on water demand, the seniority of water rights, county …
Cleaner air has contributed one-fifth of US maize and soybean yield gains since 1999
Crop productivity is potentially affected by several air pollutants, although these are usually studied in isolation. A significant challenge to understanding the effects of multiple pollutants in many regions is the dearth of air quality data near agricultural fields. Here we empirically estimate the effect of four key pollutants (ozone (O 3 ), particulate matter (PM), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 )) on maize and soybean yi…
Fine-scale spatiotemporal variation in subsidence across California’s San Joaquin Valley explained by groundwater demand
Achieving sustainable agricultural groundwater use remains a significant challenge worldwide in part because data on groundwater withdrawals are limited. A new generation of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data provide high spatial- and temporal- resolution measurements of subsidence and uplift of the earth’s surface, which are known to reflect change in groundwater storage below. Here, we establish for the first time a quantitat…
The downstream air pollution impacts of the transition from coal to natural gas in the United States
Dust pollution from the Sahara and African infant mortality
The impact of a Solar Market Garden programme on dietary diversity, women’s nutritional status and micronutrient levels in Kalalé district of northern Benin
Objective: To examine the impacts of a Solar Market Garden 1-year solar-powered drip irrigation (SMG) programme in Kalalé district of northern Benin on mothers’ nutritional status and micronutrient levels. Design: Using a quasi-experimental design, sixteen villages were assigned to four groups: (i) SMG women’s groups (WG); (ii) comparison WG; (iii) SMG non-WG (NWG); and (iv) comparison NWG. Difference-in-differences (DID) estimates were used to a…
Techno–ecological synergies of solar energy for global sustainability
Impact of a rural solar electrification project on the level and structure of women’s empowerment
Although development organizations agree that reliable access to energy and energy services—one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals—is likely to have profound and perhaps disproportionate impacts on women, few studies have directly empirically estimated the impact of energy access on women’s empowerment. This is a result of both a relative dearth of energy access evaluations in general and a lack of clarity on how to quantify gender impacts o…
Prevalence of anaemia, deficiencies of iron and vitamin A and their determinants in rural women and young children
Objective To identify the magnitude of anaemia and deficiencies of Fe (ID) and vitamin A (VAD) and their associated factors among rural women and children. Design Cross-sectional, comprising a household, health and nutrition survey and determination of Hb, biochemical (serum concentrations of ferritin, retinol, C-reactive protein and α 1 -acid glycoprotein) and anthropometric parameters. Multivariate logistic regression examined associations of v…
Chapter 3. Science and Pathways for Bending the Curve
Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion and land use are changing the radiative budget of the Earth and changing its climate. The negative impacts of this climate change on natural and human systems are already emergent. The solution is to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions altogether as soon as possible, but the rate at which these emissions can decrease is limited by human reliance on fossil fuels for energy and the infrastructural…
Cookstoves illustrate the need for a comprehensive carbon market
Existing carbon offset protocols for improved cookstoves do not require emissions testing. They are based only on estimated reductions in the use of non-renewable biomass generated by a given stove, and use simplistic calculations to convert those fuel savings to imputed emissions of carbon dioxide (CO _2 ). Yet recent research has shown that different cookstoves vary tremendously in their combustion quality, and thus in their emissions profiles …
Smallholder Irrigation as a Poverty Alleviation Tool in Sub-Saharan Africa
Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification
As efforts to mitigate climate change increase, there is a need to identify cost-effective ways to avoid emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Agriculture is rightly recognized as a source of considerable emissions, with concomitant opportunities for mitigation. Although future agricultural productivity is critical, as it will shape emissions from conversion of native landscapes to food and biofuel crops, investment in agricultural research is ra…
Smallholder Irrigation as a Poverty Alleviation Tool in Sub-Saharan Africa
Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke
Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s Covid-19 economic shutdown
Dust pollution from the Sahara and African infant mortality
Techno–ecological synergies of solar energy for global sustainability
The downstream air pollution impacts of the transition from coal to natural gas in the United States
Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification
As efforts to mitigate climate change increase, there is a need to identify cost-effective ways to avoid emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Agriculture is rightly recognized as a source of considerable emissions, with concomitant opportunities for mitigation. Although future agricultural productivity is critical, as it will shape emissions from conversion of native landscapes to food and biofuel crops, investment in agricultural research is ra…
Smallholder Irrigation as a Poverty Alleviation Tool in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cookstoves illustrate the need for a comprehensive carbon market
Existing carbon offset protocols for improved cookstoves do not require emissions testing. They are based only on estimated reductions in the use of non-renewable biomass generated by a given stove, and use simplistic calculations to convert those fuel savings to imputed emissions of carbon dioxide (CO _2 ). Yet recent research has shown that different cookstoves vary tremendously in their combustion quality, and thus in their emissions profiles …
Chapter 3. Science and Pathways for Bending the Curve
Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion and land use are changing the radiative budget of the Earth and changing its climate. The negative impacts of this climate change on natural and human systems are already emergent. The solution is to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions altogether as soon as possible, but the rate at which these emissions can decrease is limited by human reliance on fossil fuels for energy and the infrastructural…
Impact of a rural solar electrification project on the level and structure of women’s empowerment
Although development organizations agree that reliable access to energy and energy services—one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals—is likely to have profound and perhaps disproportionate impacts on women, few studies have directly empirically estimated the impact of energy access on women’s empowerment. This is a result of both a relative dearth of energy access evaluations in general and a lack of clarity on how to quantify gender impacts o…
Prevalence of anaemia, deficiencies of iron and vitamin A and their determinants in rural women and young children
Objective To identify the magnitude of anaemia and deficiencies of Fe (ID) and vitamin A (VAD) and their associated factors among rural women and children. Design Cross-sectional, comprising a household, health and nutrition survey and determination of Hb, biochemical (serum concentrations of ferritin, retinol, C-reactive protein and α 1 -acid glycoprotein) and anthropometric parameters. Multivariate logistic regression examined associations of v…
The impact of a Solar Market Garden programme on dietary diversity, women’s nutritional status and micronutrient levels in Kalalé district of northern Benin
Objective: To examine the impacts of a Solar Market Garden 1-year solar-powered drip irrigation (SMG) programme in Kalalé district of northern Benin on mothers’ nutritional status and micronutrient levels. Design: Using a quasi-experimental design, sixteen villages were assigned to four groups: (i) SMG women’s groups (WG); (ii) comparison WG; (iii) SMG non-WG (NWG); and (iv) comparison NWG. Difference-in-differences (DID) estimates were used to a…
Techno–ecological synergies of solar energy for global sustainability
Fine-scale spatiotemporal variation in subsidence across California’s San Joaquin Valley explained by groundwater demand
Achieving sustainable agricultural groundwater use remains a significant challenge worldwide in part because data on groundwater withdrawals are limited. A new generation of interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data provide high spatial- and temporal- resolution measurements of subsidence and uplift of the earth’s surface, which are known to reflect change in groundwater storage below. Here, we establish for the first time a quantitat…
The downstream air pollution impacts of the transition from coal to natural gas in the United States
Dust pollution from the Sahara and African infant mortality
The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal burden of wildfire in the United States. We estimate that nearly 50 million homes are currently in the wildland–urban interface in the United States, a number increasing by 1 million houses every 3 y. To…
Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961–2017
Drivers and projections of global surface temperature anomalies at the local scale
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and trends in rural-to-urban migration are expected to continue through the end of the century. Although cities create efficiencies that drive innovation and economic growth, they also alter the local surface energy balance, resulting in urban temperatures that can differ dramatically from surrounding areas. Here we introduce a global 1 km resolution data set of seasonal and diurn…
The adaptive benefits of agricultural water markets in California
Climate change is expected to increase the scarcity and variability of fresh water supplies in some regions with important implications for irrigated agriculture. By allowing for increased flexibility in response to scarcity and by incentivizing the allocation of water to higher value use, markets can play an important role in limiting the economic losses associated with droughts. Using data on water demand, the seniority of water rights, county …
Cleaner air has contributed one-fifth of US maize and soybean yield gains since 1999
Crop productivity is potentially affected by several air pollutants, although these are usually studied in isolation. A significant challenge to understanding the effects of multiple pollutants in many regions is the dearth of air quality data near agricultural fields. Here we empirically estimate the effect of four key pollutants (ozone (O 3 ), particulate matter (PM), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 )) on maize and soybean yi…
Climate resilience programmes and technical efficiency
This paper evaluates the technical efficiency of smallholder dairy farmers assisted by a climate resilience programme in the Brazilian semi-arid region. We use stochastic frontier models applied to a panel with quarterly data for 43 dairy family farmers assisted by the MAIS programme (Módulo Agroclimático Inteligente e Sustentável) between January 2016 and March 2018. Results highlight how the assistance to implement climate-smart production prac…
Disparate air pollution reductions during California’s Covid-19 economic shutdown
Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke
Crop water origins and hydroclimate vulnerability of global croplands
Environmental Science (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Economics (9 works) · Agriculture (8 works) · Natural resource economics (7 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Energy and Environment Impacts (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Meteorology (6 works) · Agricultural economics (5 works)