Dan Brown
- Director and Professor
- Corkery Family Environmental and Forest Sciences Director's Endowed Chair
- 206-685-1928
Dan Brown
- Director and Professor
- Corkery Family Environmental and Forest Sciences Director's Endowed Chair
Research areas
GIS, remote sensing, spatial modeling; land-use and land-cover dynamics; linking landscape patterns with ecological and social processes
B.A. Geoenvironmental Studies, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
M.A. Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D. Geography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Autumn 2026: Dan Brown is not currently accepting graduate students.
Current sponsored projects
Land Transactions and Investments: Impacts on Agricultural Production, Ecosystem Services, and Food-Energy Security
Large-Scale Land Transactions as Drivers of Land-Cover Change in Sub-Saharan Africa
Leadership, Coordination, and Administrative Oversight for the Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (PNW CESU)
McIntire-Stennis
Selected publications
Liao, C., Nolte, K., Sullivan, J., Brown, D.G., Lay, J., Althoff, C., and Agrawal, A. 2021.Carbon emissions from the global land rush and potential mitigation. Nature Food, 2: 15-18.
Williams, T.G., Trush, S.A., Sullivan, J., Liao, C., Chesterman, N., Agrawal, A. Geuikema, S.D., Brown, D.G. 2021. Land-use changes associated with large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia. Ecology and Society, 26(4):34.
Steger, C., Hirsch, S., Cosgrove, C., Inman, S., Nost, E., Shinbrot, X., Thorn, J.P.R., Brown, D.G., Gret-Regamey, A., Mueller, B., Reid, R., Tucker, C., Weibel, B., and Klein, J., 2021. Linking model design and application for transdisciplinary approaches in social-ecological systems. Global Environmental Change, 66: 102201.
Elsawah, S., Filatova, T., Jakeman, A., Kettner, A., Zellner, M., Athanasiadis, I., Axtell, R., Brown, D., Gilligan, J., Janssen, M., Robinson, D., Rozenberg, J., Ullah, I., and Hamilton, S. 2020. Eight grand challenges in socio-environmental systems modeling. Socio-Environmental System Modelling, 2:16226.
Chesterman, N., Entwistle, J., Chambers, M.C., Liu, H.C., Agrawal, A., Brown, D.G. 2019. The effects of trainings in soil and water conservation on farming practices, livelihoods, and land-use intensity in the Ethiopian Highlands. Land Use Policy, 87:104051.
Liao, C., Brown, D.G. 2018. Assessments of synergistic outcomes from sustainable intensification of agriculture need to include smallholder livelihoods with food production and ecosystem services. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 32: 53-59.
Allington, G.R.H., Li, W., and Brown, D.G. 2017. Urbanization and environmental policy effects on the future availability of grazing resources on the Mongolian Plateau: Modeling socio-environmental system dynamics. Environmental Science and Policy, 68: 35-46.
Xu, H., Brown, D.G., Moore, M.R., and Currie, W.C. 2017. Optimizing spatial land management to balance water quality and economic returns in a Lake Erie watershed. Ecological Economics 145C: 104-114.
Currie, W.S., Kiger, S., Nassauer, J.I., Hutchins, M., Marshall, L.L., Brown, D.G., Riolo, R.L., and Robinson, D.T. 2016. Multi-scale heterogeneity in vegetation and soil carbon in exurban residential land in Southeastern Michigan. Ecological Applications 26(5):1421-1436.
Tian, Q., Holland, J.H., Brown, D.G. 2016. Social and economic impacts of subsidy policies on rural development in the Poyang Lake Region, China: insights from an agent-based model. Agricultural Systems 148: 12-27.