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Books & Book Chapters
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Dissertations and Theses

Books & Book Chapters

Books

Xu YJ, Lam NSN, Liu KB. Eds. 2018. Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System. London: MDPI. (Collected articles from the special issue published in Water).

Xu YJ, Allison MA, Bentley SJ, Collins AL, Erskine WD, Golosov V, Horowitz AJ, Stone M (eds.). 2014. Sediment Dynamics from the Summit to the Sea, IAHS Publication 367, Wallingford, UK, 470pp (ISSN 0144-7815).

Book Chapters

Lam NSN, Xu YJ, Pace RK, Liu KB, Qiang Y, Narra S, Bianchette TA, Cai H, Zou L, Li K, Joshi S, Mihunov V. 2019. Collaboration across boundaries: Reflections on studying the sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a coupled natural-human system. In Collaboration across Boundaries for Interdisciplinary Social-Ecological Systems Science, eds. S. Perz. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Baltagi BH, Lesage JP, Pace RK. 2016. Progress in spatial modeling of discrete and continuous dependent Variables. In Baltagi, BH, Lesage JP, Pace RK (eds.) Spatial Econometrics: Qualitative and Limited Dependent Variables (Advances in Econometrics, Volume 37) Emerald Group Publishing Limited. pp. xiii-xvi.

Pace RK, LeSage JP. 2016. Fast simulated maximum likelihood estimation of the spatial probit model capable of handling large samples. In Baltagi, BH, Lesage JP, Pace RK (eds.) Spatial Econometrics: Qualitative and Limited Dependent Variables (Advances in Econometrics, Volume 37) Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.3 – 34

Xu YJ. 2014. Rethinking the Mississippi River diversion for effective capture of riverine sediments. In Xu YJ, Allison MA, Bentley SJ, Collins AL, Erskine WD, Golosov V, Horowitz AJ, Stone M (eds.): Sediment Dynamics from the Summit to the Sea, p463-470, IAHS Publication 367, Wallingford, UK.

Rosen T, Xu YJ, Ma Z, Xu X. 2013. What can we learn from recent development of the Atchafalaya River Delta, USA and the Yellow River Delta, China? In Gorden Y, Perillo G (ed.): Deltas: Landforms, Ecosystems and Human Activities, p209-217, IAHS Publication 358, Wallingford, UK.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

(Updated 12/6/2018)

2019

Pace RK, Zhu S, 2019. The influence of house, seller, and locational factors on the probability of sale, Journal of Housing Economics, Volume 43, pp. 72-82.

2018

Cai H, Lam NSN, Zou L, Qiang Y. 2018a. Modeling the dynamics of community resilience to coastal hazards using a Bayesian network. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108(5):1260-1279.

Cai H, Lam NSN, Qiang Y, Zou L, Correll R, Mihunov V. 2018b. A synthesis of disaster resilience measurement methods and indices. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction.

Dietz ME, Liu KB, and Bianchette TA. 2018. Hurricanes as a major driver of coastal erosion in the Mississippi River Delta: A multi-decadal analysis of shoreline retreat rates at Bay Champagne, Louisiana (USA), Water 10: 1480.

Dismukes DE, Narra S. 2018. Sea-level Rise and Coastal Inundation: A Case Study of the Gulf Coast Energy Infrastructure. Natural Resources 9:150-174.

Lam NSN, Cheng W, Zou L, Cai H. 2018a. Effects of landscape fragmentation on land loss. Remote Sensing of Environment 209:253-262.

Lam NSN, Qiang Y, Li K, Cai H, Zou L, Mihunov V. 2018b. Extending resilience assessment to dynamic system modeling: Perspectives on human dynamics and climate change research. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 85, pp. 1401-1405.

Lam NSN, Xu YJ, Liu KB, Dismukes DE, Reams M, Pace RK, Qiang Y, Narra S, Li K, Bianchette TA, Cai H, Zou L, Mihunov V. 2018c. Understanding the Mississippi River Delta as a coupled natural-human system: Research methods, challenges, and prospects. Water 2018, 10, 1054.

LeSage J, Pace RK. 2018. Spatial econometric Monte Carlo studies: raising the bar. Empirical Economics, 55 (1): 17–34.

Li K, Lam NSN. 2018a. A spatial dynamic model of population changes in a vulnerable coastal environment. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 32(4): 685-710.

Li K, Lam NSN. 2018b. Geographically weighted elastic net: A variable-selection and modeling method under the spatially nonstationary condition. Annals of the American Association of Geographers.

Ryu J, Bianchette, TA, Liu KB, Yao Q, Maiti K. 2018. Palynological and geochemical records of environmental changes in a taxodium swamp near Lake Pontchartrain in southern Louisiana (USA) during the last 150 years. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue, 85: 381–385.

Wang B, Xu YJ. 2018.a Dynamics of 30 large channel bars in the Lower Mississippi River in response to river engineering from 1985 to 2015. Geomorphology.

Wang B, Xu YJ. 2018b. Decadal-scale riverbed deformation and sand budget of the last 500 kilometers of the Mississippi River: Insights into natural and river engineering effects on large alluvial rivers. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface.

Xu YJ, Lam NSN, Liu KB. 2018. Assessing resilience and sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a coupled natural-human system. Water 10, 1317.

Zheng S, Xu YJ, Cheng H, Wang B, Xu W, Wu S. 2018 Excess riverbed erosion of the final 565 kilometers of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) following construction of the Three Gorges Dam. Scientific Reports 8 (11917).

Zou L, Lam NSN, Cai H, Qiang Y. 2018. Mining twitter data for improved understanding of disaster resilience. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108(5):1422-1441.

2017

Joshi S, Xu YJ. 2017. Recent changes in channel morphology of a highly engineered alluvial river – the Lower Mississippi River. Physical Geography.

Joshi S, Xu YJ. 2017. Bedload and suspended load transport in the 140 km reach downstream of the Mississippi River avulsion to the Atchafalaya River. Water.

Pace RK, Zhu S. 2017. Implicit hedonic pricing using mortgage payment information. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 54(3): 387–402.

Qiang Y, Lam NSN, Cai H, Zou L. 2017. Changes in exposure to flood hazards in the United States. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 107(6):1332-1350.

Reams MA, Harding AK, Subra W, Lam NSN, O’Connell G, Tidwell L, Anderson KA. 2017. Response, recovery, and resilience to oil spills and environmental disasters: Exploration and use of novel approaches to enhance community resilience. Journal of Environmental Health 80(2): 8-15. [Access]

Wang H, Steyer GD, Couvillion BR, Beck HJ, Rybczyk JM, Rivera-Monroy VH, Krauss W, Visser JM. 2017. Predicting landscape effects of Mississippi River Diversions on soil organic carbon sequestration by vertical accretion in Louisiana Deltaic Wetlands under future environmental scenarios. Ecosphere (8) 11.

Zheng S, Xu YJ, Cheng H, Wang B, Lu X. 2017. Assessment of bridge scour in the lower, middle, and upper Yangtze River estuary with riverbed sonar profiling techniques. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.

2016

Bianchette T, Liu KB, Qiang Y, Lam NSN. 2016. Wetland accretion rates along coastal Louisiana: Spatial and temporal variability in light of Hurricane Isaac’s impacts. Water 8(1):

Cai H, Lam NSN, Zou L, Qiang Y, Li K. 2016. Assessing community resilience to coastal hazards in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. Water 8(2), 46.

Joshi S, Xu YJ. 2016. Assessment of suspended sand availability under different flow conditions of the Lowermost Mississippi River at Tarbert Landing during 1973 – 2013. Water.

Lam NSN, Reams M, Li K, Li C, Mata L. 2016. Measuring community resilience to coastal hazards along the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Natural Hazards Review 17(1):04015013.

Li X, Lam NSN, Qiang Y, Li K, Yin L, Liu S, Zheng W. 2016. Measuring county resilience after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.

Pace RK, Zhu S. 2016. Inferring price information from mortgage payment behavior: a latent index approach. The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 53(2): 246–267.

Paille M, Reams M, Argote J, Lam NSN, Kirby R. 2016. Influences on adaptive planning to reduce flood risks among parishes in South Louisiana. Water 8, 51.

Qiang Y, Lam NSN. 2016. The impact of Hurricane Katrina on urban growth in Louisiana: an analysis using data mining and simulation approaches. International Journal of Geographical Information Science.

Wang B, Xu YJ. 2016. Long-term Geomorphic response to flow regulation and bank revetment in a 10–km reach downstream of the Mississippi – Atchafalaya River diversion. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies 8: 10-25.

Wu S. Cheng H, Xu YJ, Li J, Zheng S. 2016. Decadal changes in bathymetry of the Yangtze River Estuary: Human impacts and potential saltwater intrusion. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science.

Zou L, Kent J, Lam NSN, Cai H, Qiang Y, Li K. 2016. Evaluating land subsidence rates and their implications for land loss in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. Water 8(1).

2015

Dismukes DE, Narra S. 2015. Identifying the vulnerabilities of working Coasts Supporting Critical Energy Infrastructure. Water, 8, 8. doi:10.3390/w8010008.

Lam NSN, Qiang Y, Arenas H, Brito P, Liu KB. 2015. Mapping and assessing coastal resilience in the Caribbean region. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 42:4, 315-322.

Li K, Lam NSN, Qiang Y, Zou L, Cai H. 2015. A cyberinfrastructure for community resilience assessment and visualization. Cartographic and Geographic Information Science 42:sup1, 34-39.

Li X, Lam NSN, Qiang Y, Li K, Yin L, Liu S, Zheng W. 2015. Measuring county resilience after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussion, 3, 81-122.

Liang W, Lam NSN, Qin X, Ju W. 2015. A two-level agent-based model for hurricane evacuation in New Orleans. Journal of Homeland Security & Emergency Management. ISSN (Online) 1547-7355, ISSN (Print) 2194-6361,

McCollum M, Lee H, Pace RK. 2015. Deleveraging and mortgage curtailment. Journal of Banking and Finance. 60: 60-75.

Qiang Y, Lam NSN. 2015. Modeling land use and land cover changes in a vulnerable coastal region using artificial neural networks and cellular automata. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 187:57.

Rosen T, Xu YJ. 2015. Estimation of sedimentation rates in the distributary basin of the Mississippi River, the Atchafalaya River Basin, USA. Hydrology Research 46: 244-257.

Wang B, Xu YJ. 2015. Sediment trapping by emerged channel bars in the Lowermost Mississippi River during a major flood. Water 7:6079-6096.

Zhu S, Pace RK. 2015. The Influence of foreclosure delays on borrowers' default behavior. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. 47:1205-1222.

2014

Perera PKP, Lam NSN. 2014. An environmental justice assessment of the Mississippi River industrial corridor in Louisiana, U.S. using a GIS-based approach. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research 11(4): 681-697. [Access]

Lam NSN, Arenas H, Brito P, Liu KB. 2014. Assessment of vulnerability and adaptive capacity to coastal hazards in the Caribbean region. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 70, 473-478.

Liu KB, McCloskey TA, Bianchette TA, Keller G, Lam NSN, Cable JE, Arriola J. 2014. Hurricane Isaac storm surge deposition in a coastal wetland along Lake Pontchartrain, Southern Louisiana. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 66, 266-271.

Liu KB, McCloskey TA, Ortego S, Maiti K. 2014. Sedimentary signature of Hurricane Isaac in a Taxodium swamp on the western margin of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, USA. Sediment Dynamics from the Summit to the Sea, IAHS Publication 367, pp. 421-428.

Naquin JD, Liu KB, McCloskey TA, Bianchette TA, 2014. Storm deposition induced by hurricanes in a subsiding coastal zone. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue 70: 308-313.

Nyerges T, Roderick M, Prager S, Bennett D, Lam NSN. 2014. Foundations of sustainability information representation theory: spatial-temporal dynamics of sustainable systems. International Journal of Geographic Information Science 28(5): 1165-1185.

Rosen T, Xu YJ. 2014. A hydrograph-based sediment availability assessment: Implications for Mississippi River sediment diversion. Water 6:564-583.

Wang HQ, Steyer GD, Couvillion BR, Rybczyk JM, Beck HJ, Sleavin WJ, Meselhe EA, Allison MA, Boustany RG, Fischenich CJ, Rivera-Monroy VH. 2014. Forecasting landscape effects of Mississippi River diversions on elevation and accretion in Louisiana deltaic wetlands under future environmental uncertainty scenarios. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 138: 57-68.

2013

Reams MA, Lam NSN, Cale TM, Hinton CM. 2013. Applying a community resilience framework to examine household emergency planning and exposure-reducing behavior among residents of Louisiana’s industrial corridor. Journal of Emergency Management 11(2): 108-120. [Access]

Rosen T, Xu YJ. 2013. Recent decadal growth of the Atchafalaya River Delta complex: effects of variable riverine sediment input and vegetation succession. Geomorphology, [Access]

2012

Lam NSN. 2012. Geospatial methods for reducing uncertainties in environmental health risk assessment: challenges and opportunities. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 102(5):942-950.

Lam NSN, Arenas H, Pace RK, LeSage JP, Campanella R. 2012. Predictors of Business Return in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. PLoS One 7(10): e47935. [Access]

Reams MA, Clinton KW, Lam NSN. 2012. Achievement of climate planning objectives among U.S. member cities of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives. Low Carbon Economy 3:137-143.

Dissertations and Theses

2019

Dietz ME. 2019. A multi-proxy approach to refining paleotempestology records on the northern Gulf of Mexico coast. Ph.D. dissertation, Louisiana State University (successfully defended 11/28/2018).

2018

Hillmann ER, 2018. Analysis of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Resources across the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Communities and Biomass. PhD Dissertation. LSU School of Renewable Natural Resources. 1730.

2017

Cai H. 2017. Assessing and Modeling Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards using a Bayesian Network. (2017). Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences. PhD Dissertation.

Joshi S. 2017. Sediment Transport and Channel Morphology Dynamics of Highly Regulated Alluvial Rivers – A Case Study of the Lowermost Mississippi River. Louisiana State University, School of Renewable Natural Resources. PhD dissertation.

Wang B. 2017. Assessing Morphodynamics of the Lower Mississippi River from 1985 to 2015 with Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques. Louisiana State University, Department of Geography and Anthropology. PhD Dissertation.

Zou L. 2017. Mining Social Media Data for Improved Understanding of Disaster Resilience. Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences. PhD Dissertation.

2016

Cheng WJ. 2016. Effects of Landscape Fragmentation on Land Loss. Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences. MS Thesis.

Elliton C. 2016 Interactions among hydrology, sediment and vegetation in accreting Wax Lake Delta: Physical and biogeochemical implications to coastal Louisiana restoration. Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. MS Thesis.

2015

Algu P. A Study of Resiliency in New Orleans Neighborhoods Ten Years after Hurricane Katrina. (2015). Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences. MS Thesis.

Brown HM. An Analysis of Risk Perceptions and Attitudes toward Climate Change among Residents of Southeastern Louisiana. (2015). Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences. MS Thesis.

Li K. A Spatial Dynamic Model of Population Changes in a Vulnerable Coastal Environment. (2015). Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences. PhD Dissertation.

2014

Carraway TM. 2014. An Analysis of the Influences on Household-level Adaptations to Environmental Hazards. Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences. MS Thesis.

Gootee E. 2014. A Comparison of Capacity for Resilience Among Coastal Communities in the Northeast U.S. and the Northern Gulf of Mexico Region. Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences. MS Thesis.

Lambert JE. 2014. Sedimentary record of extreme events in the Lake Maurepas basin, southern Louisiana (Undergraduate Honors Thesis). Louisiana State University.

Naquin JD. 2014. Hurricane-induced geologic change and palynological assessment of a rapidly subsiding deltaic environment in coastal Louisiana. Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. MS Thesis.

2013

Golden PC. 2013. An Analysis of the Allocation of FEMA Public Assistance Funds Along the U. S. Gulf Coast Following Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences, MS Thesis.

Li C. 2013. Community Resilience to Coastal Hazards: An Analysis of Two Geographical Scales in Louisiana. Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences, MS Thesis.

Lillian M. An Analysis of the Prevalence of the West Nile Virus in Relation to Health Resilience along the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana State University, Department of Environmental Sciences, MS Thesis.