Billie Turner II
Regents Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Arizona State University
PO Box 875302
Tempe, AZ 85287-5302
Titles
- Distinguished Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
- Regents Professor, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
- Regents Professor and Gilbert F White Professor of Environment and Society, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Affiliated Faculty, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
Biography
B. L. Turner II is a geographer and human-environmental scientist who works on land change from prehistory to present, urban land system design, vulnerability and resilience, and sustainability. He works on deforestation, primarily in Mexico and Central America, and urban design in arid environments, especially the American Southwest.
Professor Turner has been involved in a number of international and national science programs examining global environmental change including those dealing with land systems of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, the International Human Dimensions Programme, DIVERSITAS, and the U.S. National Climate Assessment, and is a senior review editor for Climate Change and Land: An IPCC Special Report. He is also the Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences focused on sustainability.
He teaches courses society and environment, sustainability, and land systems.
Education
- PhD, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1974
- MA, Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 1969
- BS, Geography, University of Texas at Austin, 1968
Expertise
- land use and land cover
- deforestation
- desertification
- land architecture
- vulnerability
- risk
- hazards assessment
- agrarian societies
- agriculture
- ecosystem services
- Life on Land
External Links
Journal Articles
2022
Zhang, Y., J. P. Smith, D. Tong and B. L. Turner II. 2022. Optimizing the co-benefits of food desert and urban heat mitigation through community garden planning. Landscape and Urban Planning 226(Oct):104488. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104488. (link )
2020
Stuhlmacher, M., R. Andrade, B. L. Turner II, A. E. Frazier and W. Li. 2020. Environmental outcomes of urban land system change: Comparing riparian design approaches in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Land Use Policy 99(Dec):104615. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104615. (link )
Tellman, B., N. Magliocca, B. L. Turner II and P. H. Verburg. 2020. Understanding the role of illicit transactions in land-change dynamics. Nature Sustainability DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0457-1. (link )
2019
Sala, O. E., C. G. Boone, B. L. Turner II and C. M. Currier. 2019. The sustainability publication gap and its implications. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 39(Aug):39-43. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2019.06.006. (link )
Zhang, Y., A. Middel and B. L. Turner II. 2019. Evaluating the effect of 3D urban form on neighborhood land surface temperature using Google Street View and geographically weighted regression. Landscape Ecology 34(3):681–697. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-019-00794-y. (link )
2017
Kamarianakis, Y., X. Li, B. L. Turner II and A. J. Brazel. 2017. On the effects of landscape configuration on summer diurnal temperatures in urban residential areas: Application in Phoenix, AZ. Frontiers of Earth Science DOI: 10.1007/s11707-017-0678-4. (link )
Li, X., Y. Kamarianakis, Y. Ouyang, B. L. Turner II and A. J. Brazel. 2017. On the association between land system architecture and land surface temperatures: Evidence from a desert metropolis -- Phoenix, Arizona. Landscape and Urban Planning 163(2017):107-120. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.02.009. (link )
Seto, K. C., J. S. Golden, M. Alberti and B. L. Turner II. 2017. Sustainability in an urbanizing planet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 114(34):8935-8938. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1606037114. (link )
Smith, J. P., X. Li and B. L. Turner II. 2017. Lots for greening: Identification of metropolitan vacant land and its potential use for cooling and agriculture in Phoenix, AZ, USA. Applied Geography 85(Aug):139-151. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2017.06.005. (link )
Zhang, Y., A. T. Murray and B. L. Turner II. 2017. Optimizing green space locations to reduce daytime and nighttime urban heat island effects in Phoenix, Arizona. Landscape and Urban Planning 165:162-171. DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2017.04.009. (link )
2016
Galletti, C. S., B. L. Turner II and S. W. Myint. 2016. Land changes and their drivers in the cloud forest and coastal zone of Dhofar, Oman, between 1988 and 2013. Regional Environmental Changes 16(7):2141-2153. DOI: 10.1007/s10113-016-0942-2. (link )
Li, X., W. Li, A. Middel, S. L. Harlan, A. J. Brazel and B. L. Turner II. 2016. Remote sensing of the surface urban heat island and land architecture in Phoenix, Arizona: Combined effects of land composition and configuration and cadastral-demographic-economic factors. Remote Sensing of Environment 174(March):233-243. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.022. (link )
Turner II, B. L. 2016. Land system architecture for urban sustainability: New directions for land system science illustrated by application to the urban heat island problem. Journal of Land Use Science 11(6):689-697. DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2016.1241315. (link )
Wentz, E. A., S. Rode, X. Li, E. M. Tellman and B. L. Turner II. 2016. Impact of Homeowner Association (HOA) landscaping guidelines on residential water use. Water Resources Research 52(5):3373-3386. DOI: 10.1002/2015WR018238. (link )
2015
Laney, R. and B. L. Turner II. 2015. The persistence of self-provisioning among smallholder farmers in northeast Madagascar. Human Ecology 43(6):811-826. DOI: 10.1007/s10745-015-9791-8. (link )
2014
Anadon, J. D., O. E. Sala, B. L. Turner II and E. M. Bennett. 2014. Effect of woody-plant encroachment on livestock production in North and South America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111(35):12948-12953. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1320585111. (link )
Li, X., S. W. Myint, Y. Zhang, C. S. Galletti and B. L. Turner II. 2014. Object-based land-cover classification for metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona, using aerial photography. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 33:321-330. DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.04.018 . (link )
2012
Neeti, N., J. Rogan, Z. Christman, J. R. Eastman, M. Millones, L. Schneider, E. Nickl, B. Schmook, B. L. Turner II and B. Ghimire. 2012. Mapping seasonal trends in vegetation using AVHRR-NDVI time series in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Remote Sensing Letters 3(5):433-442. DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.616238. (link )
Turner II, B. L. and J. A. Sabloff. 2012. Classic Period collapse of the Central Maya Lowlands: Insights about human–environment relationships for sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(35):13908-13914. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1210106109. (link )
2011
Kinzig, A. P., C. K. Perrings, F. S. Chapin III, S. Polasky, V. K. Smith, D. Tilman and B. L. Turner II. 2011. Paying for ecosystem services—promise and peril. Science 334:603-604. DOI: 10.1126/science.1210297. (link )
2010
Dearing, J., A. K. Braimoh, A. Reenberg, B. L. Turner II and S. E. van der Leeuw. 2010. Complex land systems: The need for long time perspectives to assess their future. Ecology and Society 15(4):Art 21. (link )
Turner II, B. L. 2010. Land change in the southern Yucatán: Case studies in land change science. Regional Environmental Change 10(3):169-174. DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0129-1. (link )
Turner II, B. L. 2010. Vulnerability and resilience: Coalescing or paralleling approaches for sustainability science?. Global Environmental Change 20(4):570-576. DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.07.003. (link )
Turner II, B. L. and M. Fischer-Kowalski. 2010. Ester Boserup: An interdisciplinary visionary relevant for sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(51):21963-21965. DOI: 1073/pnas.1013972108. (link )
2008
Turner, B. L. and P. Robbins. 2008. Land change science and political ecology: Similarities, differences, and implications for sustainability science. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 33:295-316. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.environ.33.022207.104943. (link )
2007
Clark, W. C., R. W. Kates, J. F. Richards, J. T. Mathews, W. B. Meyer, B. L. Turner II, S. T. Pickett, C. G. Boone and M. L. Cadenasso. 2007. Relationships of environmental justice to ecological theory. Bulletin for the Ecological Society of America 88:166-170. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9623(2007)88[166:ROEJTE]2.0.CO;2. (link )
Reynolds, J. F., M. Stafford-Smith, E. F. Lambin, B. L. Turner II, M. Mortimore, S. P. Batterbury, T. E. Downing, H. Dowlatabadi, R. J. Fernandez, J. E. Herrick, E. Huber-Sannwald, H. Jiang, R. Leemans, T. Lynam, F. T. Maetre, M. Ayarza and B. Walker. 2007. Global desertification: Building a science for dryland development. Science 316(5826):847-851. DOI: 10.1126/science.1131634. (link )
Turner II, B. L., E. F. Lambin and A. Reenberg. 2007. The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(52):20666-20671. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0704119104. (link )
Books
2022
Turner II, B. L. 2022. The Anthropocene: 101 Questions and Answers for Understsanding the Human Impact on the Global Environment. Agenda Publishing. ISBN: 9781788215114.
Book Chapters
2013
Grimm, N. B., C. L. Redman, C. G. Boone, D. L. Childers, S. L. Harlan and B. L. Turner II. 2013. Viewing the urban socioecological system through a sustainability lens: Lessons and prospects from the Central Arizona–Phoenix LTER Program. Pp. 217-246 In: Singh, S. J., H. Haberl, M. Chertow and M. Mirtl eds., Long Term Socio-Ecological Research. Springer.
2005
Kareiva, P. M., B. R. Agard, J. Alder, E. M. Bennett, C. Butler, S. Carpenter, W. Cheung, G. S. Cumming, R. DeFries, B. de Vries, R. E. Dickinson, A. P. Dobson, J. A. Foley, J. Geoghregan, B. Holland, P. Kabat, J. Keymer, A. Kleidon, D. Lodge, S. M. Manson, J. McGlade, H. Mooney, A. M. Parma, M. A. Pascual, H. Pereira dos Santos, M. Rosegrant, C. Ringler, O. E. Sala, B. L. Turner II, D. P. van Vuuren, P. Wilkinson and V. Wolters. 2005. Chapter 4: State of the Art in Simulating Future Changes in Ecosystem Services. Pp. 71-115 In: Carpenter, S. R., P. L. Pingali, E. M. Bennett and M. Zurek eds., Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Scenarios. Island Press. ISBN: 978-1559633901.
Posters
2020
Smith, J. P., S. A. Meerow and B. L. Turner II. 2020. Siting urban gardens through multicriteria decision analysis. Poster presented at the Twenty-second Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 17, 2020, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ.
2019
Stuhlmacher, M., R. Andrade and B. L. Turner II. 2019. The ecological outcomes of land system architecture (LSA) change: A case study of riverfront redevelopment in Tempe, Arizona. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 11, 2019, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
Zhang, Y., A. Middel and B. L. Turner II. 2019. Evaluating the effect of 3D urban form on neighborhood land surface temperature using Google Street View. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeing and Poster Symposium, Januay 11, 2019, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2018
Zhang, Y., A. Middel and B. L. Turner II. 2018. Evaluating the effects of vertical urban forms on land surface temperature using Google Street View images.. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposum, January 5, 2018, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2017
Smith, J. P., X. Li and B. L. Turner II. 2017. Lots of potential: Urban vacant land identification from high resolution remote sensing imagery. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Central-Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 13 January 2017, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
2016
Zhang, Y., X. Li and B. L. Turner II. 2016. Long Term Land-Cover Mapping in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Poster presented at the AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting, February 14, 2016, Washington, D. C.. (link )
2015
Li, X., S. R. Shaffer, A. Mahalov, B. L. Turner II, M. Georgescu, I. Kamarianakis, E. Mack and M. Moustaoui. 2015. High-resolution fractional land-cover classification and infuence of multi-scale aggregation method for urban applications. Poster presented at the 16th Annual WRF Users Workshop, 17 June 2015, Boulder, CO. (link )
Zhang, Y. and B. L. Turner. 2015. Discovering land-cover typology of residential parcels in metropolitan Phoenix. Poster presented at the Decision Center for a Desert City Annual Poster Symposium, April 27, 2015, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Zhang, Y. and B. L. Turner. 2015. Discovering land-cover typology of residential parcels in metropolitan Phoenix. Poster presented at the AAAS 2015 Annual Meeting, February 12-16, 2015, San Jose, CA.
2014
Li, X., Y. Ouyang, B. Turner II, S. Harlan and A. Brazel. 2014. Parcel-level land architecture and land surface temperature in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Poster presented at the 16th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientists Meeting, January 17, 2014, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
Li, X., Y. Ouyang, B. L. Turner II, S. L. Harlan and A. J. Brazel. 2014. The impact of the parcel-level land architecture on land surface temperature in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Poster presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, December 15-19, 2014, San Francisco, California.
Rode, S., E. A. Wentz, X. Li and B. L. Turner II. 2014. The impact of homeowner association landscape guidelines on residential water use. Poster presented at the 16th Annual CAP LTER Poster Symposium and All Scientists Meeting, January 17, 2014, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )
Stephenson, R., D. Sversvold and B. L. Turner II. 2014. Impacts of foreclosure on single family residential landscapes. Poster presented at the Decision Center for a Desert City Annual Poster Symposium, April 28, 2014, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Presentations
2016
Li, X., A. J. Brazel, A. Middel, S. L. Harlan and B. L. Turner II. 2016. The combined impact of land architecture and socio-economic factors on surface urban heat island effects in Phoenix, Arizona. Presentation at the American Association of Geographers 2016 Annual Meeting, March 29-April 2, 2016, San Francisco, CA. (link )
2014
Li, X., Y. Ouyang, A. J. Brazel and B. L. Turner II. 2014. Near-ground air temperature and landscape architecture in Phoenix, AZ: A spatio-temporal assessment. Presentation at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, April 8-12, 2014, Tampa, FL.
Conference Papers
2012
Atsurni, S., J. M. Berman, G. Dantas, C. M. Febria, W. Liao, M. Talley, B. Tansel, K. M. Twigg, P. K. Westerhoff and F. You. 2012. IDR Team Summary 2: Identify what resources can be produced renewably or recovered by developing intense technologies that can be applied on a massive scale. In: Carpenter, S. R., A. V. Diez Roux, G. Hornberger, H. Mooney, M. G. Morgan, R. Morss, S. P. Murphy, S. Polasky, W. Reid, B. E. Rittmann and B. L. Turner II eds., Washington, DC. Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries from 10-13 November 2011 Conference at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center,. (link )
Brouder, S. M., F. A. DeClerck, P. S. Kettlewell, A. M. Latta, E. F. Moran, S. C. Murray, T. L. Rabaey, P. K. Riggs, J. B. Ristaino, D. Rose and O. E. Sala. 2012. IDR Team Summary 5: Design production systems for ecosystem services that improve human outcomes related to food and nutrition. In: Carpenter, S. R., A. V. Diez Roux, G. Hornberger, H. Mooney, M. G. Morgan, R. Morss, S. P. Murphy, S. Polasky, W. Reid, B. E. Rittmann and B. L. Turner II eds., Washington, DC. Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries from 10-13 November 2011 Conference at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center,. (link )
2012. Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability. In: Carpenter, S. R., A. V. Diez Roux, G. Hornberger, H. Mooney, M. G. Morgan, R. Morgan, S. P. Murphy, S. Polasky, W. Reid, B. E. Rittmann and B. L. Turner II eds., Ecosystem Services: Charting a Path to Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries. Washington, DC. Interdisciplinary Research Team Summaries from 10-13 November 2011 Conference at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center,. (link )
Reports
1995
Turner II, B. L., D. Skole, S. Sanderson, G. Fischer, L. Fresco and R. Leemans. 1995. Land-use and land-cover change. Science/Research Plan.. IGBP Report No. 35 and HDP Report No.7.