Derek T. Robinson

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Refereed publications

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in Press Rounsevell, M., Robinson, D.T. and D. Murray-Rust. From actors to agents in socio-ecological systems models. Royal Philosophical Society B.
  Robinson, D.T., Murray-Rust, D., Rieser, V., Melicic, V., and M. Rounsevell. Modelling the impacts of land system dynamics on human well-being: using an agent-based approach to cope with data limitations in Koper, Slovenia. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems.
  Luus, N., Robinson, D.T. and P.J. Deadman. Representing environmental processes in agent-based models of land use and cover change using ecological model approaches. Journal of Land Use Science.
Online First Robinson, D.T., Land-cover fragmentation and configuration of ownership parcels in an exurban landscape. Urban Ecosystems.
2009 Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown, Evaluating the effects of land-use development policies on ex-urban forest cover: an integrated agent-based GIS approach. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 23:9, 1211-1232.
  Robinson. D.T., Brown, D.G., and W.S. Currie. Modelling carbon storage in highly fragmented and human dominated landscapes: a step toward linking land-cover patterns and ecosystem models. Ecological Modelling 220: 1325-1338.
  Zellner M.L., Page S.E., Rand W., Brown D.G., Robinson D.T., Nassauer J., and B.
Low. The emergence of zoning policy games in exurban jurisdictions: Informing collective action theory. Land Use Policy 26: 356-367.
2008 Rindfuss, R.R., Entwistle B., Walsh, S.J., An., L., Badenoch, N., Brown, D.G., Deadman, P., Evans, T.P., Fox, J., Geoghegan, J., Gutman, M., Kelly, M., Linderman, M., Liu, J., Malanson, G.P., Mena, C.F., Messina, J.P., Robinson, D.T., Sawangdee, Y., Verburg, P., Zong, G., Land use change: complexity and comparisons. Land Use Science 3(1): 1-10.
  Brown D.G., Robinson D.T., Nassauer J.I., An L., Page S.E., Low B., Rand W., Zellner M., and R. Riolo. Exurbia from the Bottom-Up: Agent-Based Modeling and Empirical Requirements. Geoforum 39: 805-818..
2007 Robinson D.T., Brown D.G., Parker D.C., Schreinemachers P., Janssen M.A., Huigen M., Wittmer H., Gotts N., Promburom P. , Irwin E., Berger T., Gatzweiler F., and C. Barnaud. Comparison of Empirical Methods for Building Agent-Based Models in Land Use Science. Land Use Science 2(1): 31-55.
2006 Brown, D. G. and D. T. Robinson. Effects of Heterogeneity in Residential Preferences on an Agent-Based Model of Urban Sprawl. Ecology and Society 11(1): 46.
2005 Brown D., Riolo R., Robinson D.T., North M., and W. Rand. Spatial Process and Data Models: Toward Integration of Agent-Based Models and GIS. Journal of Geographical Systems (7)1: 25-47.
2004 Deadman, P. J., Robinson, D.T., Moran, E., and E. Brondizio. Colonist household decision-making and land-use change in the Amazon Rainforest: an agent-based simulation. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design (31)5: 693-709.
   
 


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Other Publications

In Prep Brown, D.G., Robinson, D.T., French, N.H.F., and B.C. Reed (eds). Land Use and the Carbon Cycle: Science and Applications in Human Environment Interactions. Book proposal accepted by publisher. Expected publication date Winter 2011.
in Press

Robinson, D.T., and D.G. Brown. Querying and Changing Raster Data with Agent Analyst. Kevin Johnston (ed), in Agent-Based Modeling in ArcGIS. ESRI Press.

2012 D.C. Parker, D.G. Brown, T. Filatova, R. Riolo, D.T. Robinson, and S. Sun.  Do land markets matter? A modeling ontology and experimental design to test the effects of land markets for an agent-based model of ex-urban residential land-use change. A. Heppenstall, A. Crooks, L.M. See, and M. Batty (eds), in Agent-Based Models of Geographical Systems, 525-542, DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8927-4_26
2010 Robinson, D.T., Filatova, T., Sun, S., Riolo, R.L., Brown, D.G., Parker, D.C., Hutchins, M., Currie, W.S. and J.I. Nassauer. Integrating land markets, land management, and ecosystem function in a model of land change. in Proceedings of 2010 International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, D.A. Swayne, W. Yang, A.A. Voinov,  A.Rizzoli, T.Filatova  (Eds.), Fifth Biennial Meeting, Ottawa, Canada http://www.iemss.org/iemss2010/index.php?n=Main.Proceedings
2009 Brown, D.G., French, N.H.F., Reed, B.C., and D.T. Robinson. Land Use/Land Cover Change and the Carbon Cycle. Report submitted to the Land Use and Carbon Cycle Steering Groups of the US Global Change Research Program. Produced as an outcome from a workshop held in Ann Arbor, June 8-9, 2009.
  Brown, D.G., Höll, B., Mauser, W., and D.T. Robinson. Tough Choices - Land use under a Changing Climate. White paper - on joint German-US research activities in the field of Land Use and Global Change. Report submitted to Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)/Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and National Science Foundation (NSF). Produced as an outcome from a workshop held in Berlin, Oct. 2-3, 2008.
2005 Rand, W., Brown D., Riolo, R., and D. Robinson. Toward a Graphical ABM Toolkit with GIS Integration. Proceedings of Agent 2005, Chicago, IL, Oct. 13-15.
2004 Shepardson, B.L. and D.T. Robinson - Land Use and Resource Management in an Agent-Based Commons Model. Proceedings of Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe, NM, June 6 - July 2.
2002 Deadman, P. J., Lim, K., Robinson, D., Moran, E. and McCracken, S. LUCITA: Multi-Agent Simulations of Land-Use Change near Altamira, Brazil. in Agent-Based Models of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. LUCC Report Series No. 6. (Eds) D. C. Parker, T. Berger and S. Manson. Irvine, California, USA, October 4-7, 2001.

 

Conference papers, posters, & presentations

2010

Robinson, D.T., Murray-Rust, D., Rieser, V., Melicic, V., and M. Rounsevell. Evaluating the impacts of land use change on human well-being and the provision of ecosystem services.  Modelling Complexity, at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, April 12-16.

 

Bone, C., Ligmann-Zielinska, A., Manson, S.M., Morgan, F., Sun, S., Brown, D., Dragicevic, S., and D. Robinson. Design Principles for Agent-based Models of Land-use/Land-cover change. Panelist Discussion at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Seattle, WA, April 12-16.

2009 Robinson. D.T., Brown, D.G., and W.S. Currie - Evaluating the effects of land-use development policies on forest carbon storage: an integration of ABM, GIS, and BIOME-BGC. To be presented in the 'Agent-based modelling of land use effects on ecosystem processes and services' symposium at the International Association of Landscape Ecology, Snowbird, UT, April 12-16.
 

Robinson. D.T. and D.G. Brown - Describing heterogeneity in residential land-cover characteristics and their effects across parcel boundaries in Southeastern Michigan. To be presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV, March 22-27.

2008 Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown - Moving towards carbon storage estimates based on integrated land-use and forest process models. Joint German-U.S. Conference "Tough Choices - Land Use under a Changing Climate", Berlin, Germany, Oct. 2-3.
  Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown - Development of a GIS-based ABM as a platform to evaluate ecological land-use development policies. To be presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, MA, April 15-19.
  Brown, D.G., Robinson, D.T., Taylor, J.T., Nassauer, J.I., Page, S.E., and R.L.Riolo - Human Agents and Landscape Ecological Function at the Urban-Rural Fringe. To be presented at U.S. Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, April 6-10.
2007 Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown - Evaluation of Publicly versus Privately Directed Land-Use Policies using a GIS-Centric ABM. Presented at Framing Land Use Dynamics II, Utrecht, Netherlands, April 18-20, 2007.
2006 Robinson, D.T., Brown D.G., and W.S. Currie - Linking Ecosystem and Land-Use Process Models: A Way Forward. Presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference Chicago, IL, Mar. 7-11, 2006.
2005 Robinson, D.T. - Identification and use of Land-Use Modelling Primitives 'LUMPS'. Presented at the Method2Method Workshop on Multi-Agent Modeling and Collaborative Planning, Bonn, Germany Oct. 8-9, 2005.
  Robinson, D.T. - Modeling Urban Growth Using Eulerian & Lagrangian Perspectives, Presented at the Summer Institute on Agent-based Modeling and Natural Resources. Indiana University, Center for the study of Institutions, Populations and Environmental Change (CIPEC), Bloomington, IN, June 2-4, 2005.
  Robinson, D.T. et al. - Mapping Heterogeneity Levels & Neighbourhood Similarity in an Urban ABM. Presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.
2004 Robinson, D.T. - Site Evaluation and Cultural Influence Extensions to a Residential Location Model. Presented at SWARMFEST, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 9-11, 2004.
2003 Deadman, P.J. and D.T. Robinson - Linking Multi-Agent Systems and Geographic Information Systems for Land Use Land Cover Change Modelling: A Case Study from the Brazilian Amazon. Presented at Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, May 28 - June 1, 2003.
  Deadman, P.J. and D.T. Robinson - Framing Land Use Dynamics: Exploring Theories of Land Use Change through Agent-based Simulation. Presented at Framing Land Use Dynamics, Utrecht, Netherlands, April 16-18, 2003.
  Robinson, D.T. and P. Deadman - Agent Based Modeling of Household Decision Making in the Brazilian Trans-Amazon Frontier. Presented at Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 5-8, 2003.
2001 Robinson, D.T. - Private Campground Management Facilitated By GIS and VB. Presented at Canadian Association of Geographers Ontario Division Meeting, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Oct. 26, 2001.

Published extended abstracts

2005 Robinson, D.T. and D.G. Brown. Comparison of Eulerian & Lagrangian Models for Representing a Landuse Change Process. GeoComputation 2005, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, August 1-3, 2005.
2004 Daniel G. Brown, Rick Riolo, Derek T. Robinson , William Rand, Michael North, and Kevin Johnston.Toward Integration of Spatial Data Models and Agent-Based Process Models. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on GIScience, abstracts volume. Adelphi, MD, USA, October 20-23, 2004

Other media publications

2009 Complex Systems Fall 2009 Newsletter - Description of Project SLUCE
Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan.

Erratum

Robinson and Brown (2009)
Brown et al. (2008)

In both papers, Table 2 - Percent slope value of 60.65 for Country Subdivision should be -60.65.
Robinson et al. (2009) Page 1333. In the first sentence of the paragraph starting "Total Estimated carbon..." the value 26,569 should be 262,569.