Brian Alan Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6721845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Alan Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Global Environmental Strategies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1911-3585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contribution of natural capital to quality of life of urban-to-rural migrants in Japan
Spatial exploration of rural capital contributing to quality of life and urban-to-rural migration decisions
Globally, urbanization constitutes one of the major underlying drivers of global ecological degradation. Hence, deurbanization, i.e., demographic shift from urban to distant rural areas in a way that increases quality of life (QoL), can be one of the key pathways to address this global challenge. In this study, we investigated the contribution of nature and other types of rural capital to QoL and to people’s decision to migrate from urban to rura…
Investigating urban heat-related health risks based on local climate zones
Patch-Based Local Climate Zones Mapping and Population Distribution Pattern in Provincial Capital Cities of China
Accurate urban morphology provided by Local Climate Zones (LCZ), a universal surface classification scheme, offers opportunities for studies of urban heat risk, urban ventilation, and transport planning. In recent years, researchers have attempted to generate LCZ maps worldwide with the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT). However, the accuracy of LCZ mapping is not satisfactory and cannot fulfill the quality demands of practica…
Aquifer and Land Subsidence Interaction Assessment Using Sentinel-1 Data and DInSAR Technique
Climate change and overpopulation have led to an increase in water demands worldwide. As a result, land subsidence due to groundwater extraction and water level decline is causing damage to communities in arid and semiarid regions. The agricultural plain of Samalghan in Iran has recently experienced wide areas of land subsidence, which is hypothesized to be caused by groundwater overexploitation. This hypothesis was assessed by estimating the amo…
Riverine flood vulnerability assessment and zoning using geospatial data and MCDA method in Aq’Qala
Spatiotemporal pattern of global forest change over the past 60 years and the forest transition theory
Forest ecosystems play an indispensable role in addressing various pressing sustainability and social-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, global forest loss has been, and still is today, an important issue. Here, based on spatially explicit data, we show that over the past 60 years (1960–2019), the global forest area has declined by 81.7 million ha (i.e. 10% more than the size of the entire Borneo island),…
Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Polarimetric SAR Data and Experimental Observations in an Arid Environment
Soil moisture is a critical component for Earth science studies, and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data have high potential for retrieving soil moisture using backscattering models. In this study, polarimetric SAR (PALSAR: Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) data and polarimetric decompositions including span, entropy/H/alpha, and anisotropy, in combination with surface properties resulting from field and laboratory measurements, …
Use of multifrequency (C‐band and L‐band) SAR data to monitor peat subsidence based on time‐series SBAS InSAR technique
Peatlands in tropical regions like Indonesia are undergoing irreversible subsidence due to changes in land use (e.g., deforestation) and land management practices (e.g., drainage alteration), resulting in massive amounts of soil carbon loss. Several satellite‐borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors are operating concurrently at different frequencies, providing potentially useful data for monitoring surface motion over tropical peatlands. Thi…
High-resolution urban change modeling and flood exposure estimation at a national scale using open geospatial data
Bushmeat, wet markets, and the risks of pandemics
Remotely sensed tree canopy cover-based indicators for monitoring global sustainability and environmental initiatives
With the intensifying challenges of global environmental change, sustainability, and biodiversity conservation, the monitoring of the world’s remaining forests has become more important than ever. Today, Earth observation technologies, particularly remote sensing, are at the forefront of forest cover monitoring worldwide. Given the current conceptual understanding of what a forest is, canopy cover threshold values are used to map forest cover fro…
Spatial characterization of non-material values across multiple coastal production landscapes in the Indian Sundarban delta
A rapid indicator-based assessment of foreign resident preparedness in Japan during Typhoon Hagibis
Invasive alien species and local communities in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes
Hydrological Simulation for Predicting the Future Water Quality of Adyar River, Chennai, India
Just a few decades ago, Adyar River in India's city of Chennai was an important source of water for various uses. Due to local and global changes (e.g., population growth and climate change), its ecosystem and overall water quality, including its aesthetic value, has deteriorated, and the water has become unsuitable for commercial uses. Adverse impacts of excessive population and changing climate are expected to continue in the future. Thus, this…
Understanding national biodiversity targets in a Redd+ context
Participatory land-use approach for integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation into basin-scale local planning
Modeling the Effects of Human Activity on Katmai Brown Bears ( Ursus arctos ) through the Use of Survival Analysis
Brown bear-human interactions were observed in 1993, 1995, and 1997 at Kulik River in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. We analyzed these interactions using survival analysis, creating survival curves for the time that bears remained on the river in the presence, and absence, of human activity. Bear-only survival curves did not vary significantly between years (p = 0.067). Ninety-seven percent of bears left the river within 70 minutes of…
Spatial exploration of rural capital contributing to quality of life and urban-to-rural migration decisions
Globally, urbanization constitutes one of the major underlying drivers of global ecological degradation. Hence, deurbanization, i.e., demographic shift from urban to distant rural areas in a way that increases quality of life (QoL), can be one of the key pathways to address this global challenge. In this study, we investigated the contribution of nature and other types of rural capital to QoL and to people’s decision to migrate from urban to rura…
Spatial characterization of non-material values across multiple coastal production landscapes in the Indian Sundarban delta
Understanding national biodiversity targets in a Redd+ context
Modeling the Effects of Human Activity on Katmai Brown Bears ( Ursus arctos ) through the Use of Survival Analysis
Brown bear-human interactions were observed in 1993, 1995, and 1997 at Kulik River in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. We analyzed these interactions using survival analysis, creating survival curves for the time that bears remained on the river in the presence, and absence, of human activity. Bear-only survival curves did not vary significantly between years (p = 0.067). Ninety-seven percent of bears left the river within 70 minutes of…
Participatory land-use approach for integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation into basin-scale local planning
Understanding national biodiversity targets in a Redd+ context
Hydrological Simulation for Predicting the Future Water Quality of Adyar River, Chennai, India
Just a few decades ago, Adyar River in India's city of Chennai was an important source of water for various uses. Due to local and global changes (e.g., population growth and climate change), its ecosystem and overall water quality, including its aesthetic value, has deteriorated, and the water has become unsuitable for commercial uses. Adverse impacts of excessive population and changing climate are expected to continue in the future. Thus, this…
A rapid indicator-based assessment of foreign resident preparedness in Japan during Typhoon Hagibis
Invasive alien species and local communities in socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes
Soil Moisture Retrieval Using Polarimetric SAR Data and Experimental Observations in an Arid Environment
Soil moisture is a critical component for Earth science studies, and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data have high potential for retrieving soil moisture using backscattering models. In this study, polarimetric SAR (PALSAR: Phased Array type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar) data and polarimetric decompositions including span, entropy/H/alpha, and anisotropy, in combination with surface properties resulting from field and laboratory measurements, …
Use of multifrequency (C‐band and L‐band) SAR data to monitor peat subsidence based on time‐series SBAS InSAR technique
Peatlands in tropical regions like Indonesia are undergoing irreversible subsidence due to changes in land use (e.g., deforestation) and land management practices (e.g., drainage alteration), resulting in massive amounts of soil carbon loss. Several satellite‐borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors are operating concurrently at different frequencies, providing potentially useful data for monitoring surface motion over tropical peatlands. Thi…
High-resolution urban change modeling and flood exposure estimation at a national scale using open geospatial data
Bushmeat, wet markets, and the risks of pandemics
Remotely sensed tree canopy cover-based indicators for monitoring global sustainability and environmental initiatives
With the intensifying challenges of global environmental change, sustainability, and biodiversity conservation, the monitoring of the world’s remaining forests has become more important than ever. Today, Earth observation technologies, particularly remote sensing, are at the forefront of forest cover monitoring worldwide. Given the current conceptual understanding of what a forest is, canopy cover threshold values are used to map forest cover fro…
Spatial characterization of non-material values across multiple coastal production landscapes in the Indian Sundarban delta
Patch-Based Local Climate Zones Mapping and Population Distribution Pattern in Provincial Capital Cities of China
Accurate urban morphology provided by Local Climate Zones (LCZ), a universal surface classification scheme, offers opportunities for studies of urban heat risk, urban ventilation, and transport planning. In recent years, researchers have attempted to generate LCZ maps worldwide with the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT). However, the accuracy of LCZ mapping is not satisfactory and cannot fulfill the quality demands of practica…
Aquifer and Land Subsidence Interaction Assessment Using Sentinel-1 Data and DInSAR Technique
Climate change and overpopulation have led to an increase in water demands worldwide. As a result, land subsidence due to groundwater extraction and water level decline is causing damage to communities in arid and semiarid regions. The agricultural plain of Samalghan in Iran has recently experienced wide areas of land subsidence, which is hypothesized to be caused by groundwater overexploitation. This hypothesis was assessed by estimating the amo…
Riverine flood vulnerability assessment and zoning using geospatial data and MCDA method in Aq’Qala
Spatiotemporal pattern of global forest change over the past 60 years and the forest transition theory
Forest ecosystems play an indispensable role in addressing various pressing sustainability and social-ecological challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. However, global forest loss has been, and still is today, an important issue. Here, based on spatially explicit data, we show that over the past 60 years (1960–2019), the global forest area has declined by 81.7 million ha (i.e. 10% more than the size of the entire Borneo island),…
Investigating urban heat-related health risks based on local climate zones
Spatial exploration of rural capital contributing to quality of life and urban-to-rural migration decisions
Globally, urbanization constitutes one of the major underlying drivers of global ecological degradation. Hence, deurbanization, i.e., demographic shift from urban to distant rural areas in a way that increases quality of life (QoL), can be one of the key pathways to address this global challenge. In this study, we investigated the contribution of nature and other types of rural capital to QoL and to people’s decision to migrate from urban to rura…
Contribution of natural capital to quality of life of urban-to-rural migrants in Japan
Geography (15 works) · Environmental Science (12 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (8 works) · Population (7 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Remote sensing (5 works) · Cartography (4 works)