Tom Evans

Interests

No activities entered.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Journals/Publications

• Krell, N., Davenport, F., Harrison, L., Turner, W., Peterson, S., Shukla, S., Marter-Kenyon, J., Husak, G., Evans, T., & Caylor, K. (2022). Using real-time mobile phone data to characterize the relationships between small-scale farmers’ planting dates and socio-environmental factors. Climate Risk Management, 100396.
• Blekking, J., Gatti, N., Waldman, K., Evans, T., & Baylis, K. (2021). The benefits and limitations of agricultural input cooperatives in Zambia. World Development, 146, 105616.
• Blekking, J., Waldman, K. B., & Evans, T. (2021). Hybrid-maize seed certification and smallholder adoption in Zambia. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 64(2), 359--377.
• Davies, J., Hannah, C., Guido, Z., Zimmer, A., McCann, L., Battersby, J., & Evans, T. (2021). Barriers to urban agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food Policy, 103, 101999.
• Feng, X., Merow, C., Liu, Z., Park, D. S., Roehrdanz, P. R., Maitner, B., Newman, E. A., Boyle, B. L., Lien, A., Burger, J. R., & others, . (2021). How deregulation, drought and increasing fire impact Amazonian biodiversity. Nature, 597(7877), 516--521.
• Guido, Z., Lopus, S., Waldman, K., Hannah, C., Zimmer, A., Krell, N., Knudson, C., Estes, L., Caylor, K., & Evans, T. (2021). Perceived links between climate change and weather forecast accuracy: new barriers to tools for agricultural decision-making. Climatic Change, 168(1), 1--20.
• Hannah, C., Giroux, S., Krell, N., Lopus, S. E., McCann, L. E., Zimmer, A., Caylor, K. K., & Evans, T. P. (2021). Has the vision of a gender quota rule been realized for community-based water management committees in Kenya?. World Development, 137, 105154.
• Krell, N. T., Giroux, S. A., Guido, Z., Hannah, C., Lopus, S. E., Caylor, K. K., & Evans, T. P. (2021). Smallholder farmers' use of mobile phone services in central Kenya. Climate and Development, 13(3), 215--227.
• Niles, M. T., Beavers, A. W., Clay, L. A., Dougan, M. M., Pignotti, G. A., Rogus, S., Savoie-Roskos, M. R., Schattman, R. E., Zack, R. M., Acciai, F., & others, . (2021). A Multi-Site Analysis of the Prevalence of Food Insecurity in the United States, before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Current developments in nutrition, 5(12), nzab135.
• Pearson, A. L., Mack, E. A., Ross, A., Marcantonio, R., Zimmer, A., Bunting, E. L., Smith, A. C., Miller, J. D., Evans, T., & others, . (2021). Interpersonal Conflict over Water Is Associated with Household Demographics, Domains of Water Insecurity, and Regional Conflict: Evidence from Nine Sites across Eight Sub-Saharan African Countries. Water, 13(9), 1150.
• Tuholske, C., Caylor, K., Funk, C., Verdin, A., Sweeney, S., Grace, K., Peterson, P., & Evans, T. (2021). Global urban population exposure to extreme heat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(41).
• Vergopolan, N., Xiong, S., Estes, L., Wanders, N., Chaney, N. W., Wood, E. F., Konar, M., Caylor, K., Beck, H. E., Gatti, N., & others, . (2021). Field-scale soil moisture bridges the spatial-scale gap between drought monitoring and agricultural yields. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(4), 1827--1847.
• Waldman, K. B., Guido, Z., Todd, P. M., Evans, T. P., Carrico, A., & Attari, S. Z. (2021). Reorienting climate decision making research for smallholder farming systems through decision science. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 52, 92--99.
• Blekking, J., Waldman, K., Tuholske, C., & Evans, T. (2020). Formal/Informal employment and Urban Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Applied Geography, 114.
• Davies, J., Hannah, C., Guido, Z., Zimmer, A., McCann, L., Battersby, J., & Evans, T. (2020). Barriers to urban agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. Food Policy, 101999.
• Giroux, S., McCord, P., Lopus, S., Dell' Angelo, J., Dickinson, S., Chen, X., Caylor, K., & Evans, T. (2020). Environmental Heterogeneity and Commodity Sharing in Smallholder Agroecosystems. PLOS One.
• Guido, Z., Zimmer, A., Lopus, S., Hannah, C., Gower, D., Waldman, K., Krell, N., Sheffield, J., Caylor, K., & Evans, T. (2020). Farmer forecasts: Impacts of seasonal rainfall expectations on agricultural decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa. Climate Risk Management, 30, 100247.
• Krell, N., Giroux, S., Guideo, Z., Hannah, C., Lopus, S., Evans, T., & Caylor, K. (2020). Smallholder farmers’ use of mobile phone services in central Kenya. Climate and Development.
• Lansey, K. E., Evans, T., Mayer, B. M., Gerlak, A. K., & Zuniga Teran, A. A. (2020). A multidimensional assessment of urban resilience from green infrastructure systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 44, 42-47.
• Schmitt-Harsh, M., Waldman, K., Estes, L., & Evans, T. (2020). Understanding social and environmental determinants of piecework labor in smallholder agricultural systems. Applied Geography, 121, 102243.
• Tuholske, C., Andam, K., Blekking, J., Evans, T., & Caylor, K. (2020). Comparing Measures of Urban Food Security in Accra, Ghana. Food Security.
• Vergopolan, N., Xiong, S., Estes, L., Wanders, N., Chaney, N. W., Wood, E. F., Konar, M., Caylor, K., Beck, H. E., Gatti, N., & others, . (2020). Field-scale soil moisture bridges the spatial-scale gap between drought monitoring and agricultural yields. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 1--31.
• Von, G. R., Wang, J., Konar, M., Baylis, K., Anderson, P., Giroux, S., Jackson, N. D., & Evans, T. (2020). A gravity model and network analysis of household food sharing in Zambia. Environmental Research Letters, 15(11), 115010.
• Waldman, K. B., Giroux, S., Blekking, J. P., Baylis, K., & Evans, T. P. (2020). Smallholder food storage dynamics and resilience. Food Security, 12(1), 7--20.
• Waldman, K. B., Todd, P. M., Omar, S., Blekking, J. P., Giroux, S. A., Attari, S. Z., Baylis, K., & Evans, T. P. (2020). Agricultural decision making and climate uncertainty in developing countries. Environmental Research Letters, 15(11), 113004.
• Zimmer, A., Guido, Z., Tuholske, C., Pakalniskis, A., Lopus, S., Caylor, K., & Evans, T. (2020). Dynamics of population growth in secondary cities across southern Africa. Landscape Ecology, 35(11), 2501--2516.
• Evans, T., Van Bers, C., Erikson, S., Korhonen-Kurki, K., Purdon, M., Delaney, A., Vasileiou, A., Cramer, L., Eakin, H., Pahl-Wostl, C., Jones, L., & Oberlack, C. (2019). Advancing the Research Agenda on Food Systems Governance and Transformation. Current Opinions in Environmental Sustainability, 39, 94-102.
• Giroux, S., Kouper, I., Estes, L., Schumacher, J., Waldman, K., Caylor, K., & Evans, T. (2019). A High-Frequency Mobile Phone Data Collection Approach for Research in Social-Environmental Systems: Applications in Climate Variability and Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Environmental Modelling & Software, 119, 57-69.
• He, X., Estes, L., Konar, M., Tian, D., Anghileri, D., Baylis, K., Evans, T., & Sheffield, J. (2019). Integrated Approaches to understanding reducing drought impact on food security across scales. Current Opinions in Environmental Sustainability, 40, 43-54.
• Tuholske, C., Caylor, K., Evans, T., & Avery, R. (2019). Variability in Urban Population Distributions Across Africa. Environmental Research Letters, 14(8), 085009.
• Verburg, P., Alexander, P., Evans, T., Magliocca, N., Malek, Z., Rousvell, M., & J., v. V. (2019). Beyond land cover change: Towards a new generation of Land Use Models. Current Opinions in Environmental Sustainability, 38, 77-85.
• Waldman, K., Attari, S., Gower, D., Giroux, S., Caylor, K., & Evans, T. (2019). The salience of climate change in farmer decision making within smallholder semi-arid agroecosystems. Climatic Change, 156(4), 527-543.
• Waldman, K., Blekking, J., Vergopolan, N., Estes, L., Attari, S., Sheffield, J., Caylor, K., & Evans, T. (2019). Cognitive biases about climate variability in smallholder farming systems in Zambia. Weather, Climate and Society, 369-383.
• Washington-Ottombre, C., & Evans, T. (2019). Exploring Relationships Between the Institutional Success and Length of Tenure in a Kenyan Irrigation Scheme. International Journal of the Commons, 13(1), 328-351.
• Baldwin, E., McCord, P., Dell'Angelo, J., & Evans, T. (2018). Collective action in a polycentric water governance system. Environmental Policy and Governance.
• Carley, S., Evans, T. P., & Konisky, D. M. (2018). Adaptation, culture, and the energy transition in American coal country. Energy Research & Social Science.
• Carley, S., Evans, T. P., Graff, M., & Konisky, D. M. (2018). A framework for evaluating geographic disparities in energy transition vulnerability. Nature Energy.
• Delaney, A., Evans, T., McGreevy, J., Blekking, J., & others, . (2018). Governance of food systems across scales in times of social-ecological change: a review of indicators. Food Security, 10(2), 287--310.
• Estes, L., Chen, P., Debats, S., Evans, T., & others, . (2018). A large‐area, spatially continuous assessment of land cover map error and its impact on downstream analyses. Global Change Biology, 24(1), 322--337.
• Kuil, L., Evans, T., McCord, P. F., Salinas, J. L., & others, . (2018). Exploring the Influence of Smallholders' Perceptions Regarding Water Availability on Crop Choice and Water Allocation Through Socio-Hydrological Modeling. Water Resources Research, 54, 2580--2604.
• Marcantonio, D., Attari, S., & Evans, T. P. (2018). Farmer Perceptions of Conflict Related to Water in Zambia. Sustainability, 10(2), 313.
• McCord, P., Waldman, K., Baldwin, E., Dell'Angelo, J., & Evans, T. (2018). Assessing multi-level drivers of adaptation to climate variability and water insecurity in smallholder irrigation systems. World Development.
• Zhao, Y. i., Vergopolan, N., Baylis, K., Blekking, J., Caylor, K., Evans, T., Giroux, S., Sheffield, J., & Estes, L. (2018). Comparing empirical and survey-based yield forecasts in a dryland agro-ecosystem. Agriculture Forest and Meteorology, 262, 147--156.
• Baldwin, E., McCord, P., Dell'Angelo, J., & Evans, T. (2015). Coordination and Redundancy in a Multi-Level Water Governance System: Polycentric water governance in Kenya. Environmental Policy and Governance.
• Blekking, J., Tuholske, C., & Evans, T. (2017). Adaptive Governance and Market Heterogeneity: An Institutional Analysis of an Urban Food System in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainability, 9(12), 2191.
• Blekking, J., Tuholske, C., & Evans, T. (2017). Adaptive Governance and Market Heterogeneity: An Institutional Analysis of an Urban Food System in Sub-Saharan Africa. Sustainability.
• Delaney, A., Evans, T. P., McGreevy, J., Blekking, J., Schlachter, T., Korhonen-Kurki, K., Tamas, P., Crane, T., Eakin, H., Forch, W., & Others, . (2017). Governance of Food Systems Across Scales in Time of Social-Ecological Change: A Review of Indicators. Food Security.
• Evans, T., Dell'Angelo, J., McCord, P., & Baldwin, E. (2018). Collective action in a polycentric water governance system.. Environmental Policy and Governance.
• Waldman, K. B., Blekking, J. P., Attari, S. Z., & others, . (2017). Maize seed choice and perceptions of climate variability among smallholder farmers. Global Environmental Change.
• Chen, P., Evans, T., & Plale, B. (2016). Analysis of memory constrained live provenance. International Provenance and Annotation.
• Chen, P., Evans, T., Frisby, M., Izquierdo, E., & Plale, B. (2016). A hybrid approach to population construction for agricultural agent-based simulation.
• Konar, M., Evans, T. P., Levy, M., Scott, C. A., & others, . (2016). Water resources sustainability in a globalizing world: who uses the water?. Hydrological.
• O'Sullivan, D., Evans, T., Manson, S., Metcalf, S., Ligmann-Zielinska, A., & Bone, C. (2016). Strategic directions for agent-based modeling: avoiding the YAAWN syndrome. J. Land Use Sci., 11(2), 177--187.
• Wright, G. D., Andersson, K. P., Gibson, C. C., & Evans, T. P. (2016). Decentralization can help reduce deforestation when user groups engage with local government. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 113(52), 14958--14963.
• Magliocca, N. R., Van Vliet, J., Brown, C., Evans, T. P., & others, . (2015). From meta-studies to modeling: Using synthesis knowledge to build broadly applicable process-based land change models. Modelling \& Software.
• McCord, P. F., Cox, M., Schmitt-Harsh, M., & Evans, T. (2015). Crop diversification as a smallholder livelihood strategy within semi-arid agricultural systems near Mount Kenya. Land use policy.
• Paulson, P., Evans, T., Andersson, K., & others, . (2015). Decentralization, forest management, and forest conditions in Guatemala. Journal of Land Use.
• Ruseva, T. B., Evans, T. P., & Fischer, B. C. (2015). Can incentives make a difference? Assessing the effects of policy tools for encouraging tree-planting on private lands. J. Environ. Manage., 155, 162--170.
• Sweeney, S., Ruseva, T., Estes, L., & Evans, T. (2015). Mapping cropland in smallholder-dominated savannas: integrating remote sensing techniques and probabilistic modeling. Remote Sensing.
• Andersson, K., & Evans, T. (2014). Decentralization and deforestation: comparing local forest governance regimes in Latin America. State and Environment: the Comparative.
• Evans, T. P., & Cole, D. H. (2014). Contextualizing the influence of social norms, collective action on social-ecological systems. Journal of Natural Resources Policy.
• Farinaci, J. S., Ruseva, T. B., Tucker, C. M., Evans, T. P., & others, . (2014). Humans as agents of change in forest landscapes. Forest Landscapes and.
• Ruseva, T. B., Evans, T. P., & Fischer, B. C. (2014). Variations in the social networks of forest owners: The effect of management activity, resource professionals, and ownership size. Small-scale forestry.
• Evans, T., & Robinson, D. (2013). Limitations, challenges, and solutions to integrating carbon dynamics with land-use models. Land use and the carbon cycle: advances.
• Mincey, S. K., Hutten, M., Fischer, B. C., Evans, T. P., & others, . (2013). Structuring institutional analysis for urban ecosystems: A key to sustainable urban forest management. Urban.
• Schmitt-Harsh, M., Evans, T. P., Castellanos, E., & others, . (2012). Carbon stocks in coffee agroforests and mixed dry tropical forests in the western highlands of Guatemala. Agrofor. Syst..
• Sweeney, S. P., & Evans, T. P. (2012). An edge-oriented approach to thematic map error assessment. Geocarto Int..
• Evans, T. P., Phanvilay, K., Fox, J., & others, . (2011). An agent-based model of agricultural innovation, land-cover change and household inequality: the transition from swidden cultivation to rubber plantations in Laos …. Journal of Land Use.
• Kelley, H., & Evans, T. (2011). The relative influences of land-owner and landscape heterogeneity in an agent-based model of land-use. Ecol. Econ..
• Andersson, K., Evans, T. P., & Richards, K. R. (2009). National forest carbon inventories: policy needs and assessment capacity. Clim. Change.
• Ekbia, H. R., & Evans, T. P. (2009). Regimes of information: Land use, management, and policy. The Information Society.
• Evans, T. P., Donnelly, S., & Sweeney, S. (2009). Threats to the forest transition in the Midwest United States. Reforesting Landscapes.
• Donnelly, S., & Evans, T. P. (2008). Characterizing spatial patterns of land ownership at the parcel level in south-central Indiana, 1928--1997. Landsc. Urban Plan..
• Evans, T. P., & Kelley, H. (2008). Assessing the transition from deforestation to forest regrowth with an agent-based model of land cover change for south-central Indiana (USA). Geoforum.
• Evans, T. P., York, A. M., & Ostrom, E. (2008). Institutional dynamics, spatial organization, and landscape change. Political Economies of Landscape Change.
• Messina, J. P., Evans, T. P., Manson, S. M., & others, . (2008). Complex systems models and the management of error and uncertainty. Journal of Land Use.
• Parker, D. C., Entwisle, B., Rindfuss, R. R., Vanwey, L. K., Manson, S. M., Moran, E., An, L. i., Deadman, P., Evans, T. P., Linderman, M., Rizi, S., & Malanson, G. (2008). Case studies, cross-site comparisons, and the challenge of generalization: comparing agent-based models of land-use change in frontier regions. J. Land Use Sci., 3(1), 41--72.
• Rindfuss, R. R., Entwisle, B., Walsh, S. J., An, L. i., Badenoch, N., Brown, D. G., Deadman, P., Evans, T. P., Fox, J., Geoghegan, J., Gutmann, M., Kelly, M., Linderman, M., Liu, J., Malanson, G. P., Mena, C. F., Messina, J. P., Moran, E. F., Parker, D. C., , Parton, W., et al. (2008). Land use change: complexity and comparisons. J. Land Use Sci., 3(1), 1--10.
• Tucker, C. M., Randolph, J. C., Evans, T., Andersson, K. P., & others, . (2008). An approach to assess relative degradation in dissimilar forests: toward a comparative assessment of institutional outcomes. Ecology.
• Evans, T. P., & Manson, S. (2007). Space, complexity, and agent-based modeling.
• Manson, S. M., & Evans, T. (2007). Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatan, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 104(52), 20678--20683.
• Evans, T. P., Sun, W., & Kelley, H. (2006). Spatially explicit experiments for the exploration of land‐use decision‐making dynamics. Int. J. Geogr. Inf. Sci..
• Evans, T. P., Munroe, D. K., & Parker, D. C. (2005). Modeling land-use/land-cover change: Exploring the dynamics of human-environment relationships. Seeing the forest and the.
• Evans, T. P., VanWey, L. K., & Moran, E. F. (2005). Human-environment research, spatially explicit data analysis, and geographic information systems. In seeing the forest and the.
• Musacchio, L., Ozdenerol, E., Bryant, M., & Evans, T. (2005). Changing landscapes, changing disciplines: seeking to understand interdisciplinarity in landscape ecological change research. Landsc. Urban Plan..
• Schweik, C., Evans, T., & Grove, J. M. (2005). Open source and open content: A framework for global collaboration in social-ecological research. Ecol. Soc..
• Evans, T. P., & Kelley, H. (2004). Multi-scale analysis of a household level agent-based model of landcover change. J. Environ. Manage., 72(1-2), 57--72.
• Walsh, S. J., Evans, T. P., & Turner, B. L. (2004). Population-environment interactions with an emphasis on land-use/land-cover dynamics and the role of technology. Geography and technology.
• Evans, T. P., Ostrom, E., & Gibson, C. (2003). Scaling issues in the social sciences. Scaling in Integrated.
• Agarwal, C., Green, G. M., Grove, J. M., Evans, T. P., & others, . (2002). A review and assessment of land-use change models: dynamics of space, time, and human choice. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE.
• Agarwal, C., Green, G. M., Grove, J. M., Evans, T. P., & others, . (2002). A review and assessment of land-use change models: dynamics of space. Time, and Human Choice.
• Evans, T. P., & Moran, E. F. (2002). Spatial integration of social and biophysical factors related to landcover change. Popul. Dev. Rev..
• Evans, T. P., Ostrom, E., & Gibson, C. (2002). Scaling issues with social data in integrated assessment modeling. Integrated Assessment.
• Grove, M., Schweik, C., Evans, T., & Green, G. (2002). Modeling human-environmental systems. In: Clarke, Keith; Parks.
• Hoffmann, M., Kelley, H., & Evans, T. (2002). Simulating land-cover change in South-Central Indiana: an agent-based model of deforestation and afforestation. Complexity and ecosystem management: the theory.
• Evans, T. P., Green, G. M., & Carlson, L. A. (2001). Multi-scale analysis of landcover composition and landscape management of public and private lands in Indiana. GIS and remote sensing applications in.
• Evans, T. P., Manire, A., Castro, F., Brondizio, E., & others, . (2001). A dynamic model of household decision-making and parcel level landcover change in the eastern Amazon. Ecological.
• Parker, D. C., Evans, T., & Meretsky, V. (2001). Measuring emergent properties of agent-based landcover/landuse models using spatial metrics.
• Entwisle, B., Rindfuss, R. R., Walsh, S. J., Evans, T. P., & Curran, S. R. (1997). Geographic information systems, spatial network analysis, and contraceptive choice. Demography, 34(2), 171--187.