Faculty Details

Darla Munroe
Address: 1123 Derby Hall
Phone: 247-8382
Email: munroe.9@osu.edu
Current CV: Download (PDF)
Personal Webpage: http://www.geography.osu.edu/faculty/dmunroe/index/dmunroe.html
Interests: Economic Restructuring, Land-use Change and Modeling

Current Research: I am an economic geographer who studies land use/cover change. I am interested in how economic restructuring (e.g., neoliberalism and globalization) and political changes (e.g., land reform) lead to changes in agricultural and forested landscapes. In order to understand processes underlying land-use/cover change and associated socioecological effects, I employ a variety of techniques including statistics, spatial statistics and more recently, complex systems frameworks and agent-based modeling.

Courses Taught:
Geography 2400-Economic and Social Geography
Geography 5402-Land Use Geography

Select Publications:
Clark, J.K., Munroe, D.K. and B. Mansfield, 2010. What counts as farming: How classification limits regionalization of the food system. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 3(2): 245-259.

Mansfield, B., Munroe, D.K. and K. McSweeney,  2010. Does economic growth cause environmental recovery? Geographical explanations of forest regrowth. Geography Compass 4(5): 416-427

Müller, D. and D. K. Munroe, 2009. Changing rural landscapes in Albania: Cropland abandonment and forest clearing in the postsocialist transition. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98(4).

Munroe, D.K., Nagendra, H. and J. Southworth, 2007. Monitoring landscape fragmentation in an inaccessible mountain region: The case of Celaque National Park. Landscape and Urban Planning 83: 154-167.

Munroe, D.K. 2007. Exploring the determinants of spatial pattern in residential land markets: Amenities and disamenities in Charlotte, NC, USA. Environment and Planning B 34: 336-354.