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C. Gregory Knight

C. Gregory Knight

Background

Awards

Funded Projects

Interests

Water Resources

Impacts of climate variability and change on water resources

Global Change

Teaching

Geography 10H: Introduction to Physical Geography (Honors)

Geography 406: Human Use of Environment

Geography 410: Geography of Water Resources

Graduate seminars on graduate research, water, and resource management

Contact Dr. Knight by email.

Publications

Books

2002. River Environmental Knowledge and Assessment – REKA, Applied to the Yantra River Basin. Sofia: National Coordination Center for Global Change, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 80 + iv pp. (C. Gregory Knight, Todor N. Hristov with others). ISBN 954-90485-3-5

2004. Drought in Bulgaria: A Contemporary Analog of Climate Change. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice. 336 + xvi pp. (C. G. Knight, I. Raev, M. P. Staneva, editors). ISBN 978-0754642152

2009. Integrated Regional Assessment of Global Climate Change. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press. 412 + xiv pp. (C. G. Knight, Jill Jäger, editors), ISBN 9780521518109

2010. Climate Change Impacts in Southeastern Europe. Dordrecht: Springer (V. Alexandrov, C. G. Knight, M. F. Gajdusek, A. Yotova , editors), in press September 2009.

Selected articles and chapters

2000. “The potential impacts of climate change on the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Region,“ Climate Research 14:207-218 (R. G. Najjar, H.A. Walker, P.J. Anderson, E.J. Barron, R. Bord, J. Gibson, V.S. Kennedy, C.G. Knight, P. Megonigal, R. O'Connor, C.D. Polsky, N.P. Psuty, B. Richards, L.G. Sorenson, E. Steele, and R.S. Swanson).

2000. “Impact of Climate Variation and Change on Mid-Atlantic Region Hydrology and Water Resources,” Climate Research 14:219-233 (R. Neff, H. Chang, C. G. Knight, R. G. Najjar, B. Yarnal).

2001. “Regional Assessment,” in A. S. Goudie (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Change, Vol.2, pp. 304-308. New York: Oxford University Press.

2001. “Human-Environment Relationship: Comparative Case Studies,” In: N. Smelser and P. Baltes (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Elsevier, Oxford, UK, Vol.10, pp. 7039-45.

2001. “A Simplified Basin Model for Simulating Runoff: The Struma River GIS,” The Professional Geographer 53(4): 533-545 (C. Gregory Knight, Heejun Chang, Deyan Kostov, Marieta P. Staneva).

2002. Fuzzy decision analysis for integrated environmental vulnerability assessment of the Mid-Atlantic region. Environmental Management 29:845–859. (Tran, L.T., Knight, C.G., O’Neill, R.V., Smith, E.R., Riitters, K.H., and Wickham, J.)

2002. Climate change research in central and eastern Europe, GeoJournal 57:117-137 (Knight, C. G. and M. P. Staneva).

2002. Water resource impacts of climate change in southwestern Bulgaria, GeoJournal 57:159-168 (Chang, H., C. G. Knight, M. P. Staneva, D. Kostov).

2002. Drought in Bulgaria and atmospheric synoptic conditions over Europe, GeoJournal 57:149-157 (Tran, Liem, C. G. Knight, Victoria Wesner).

2003. Self-organizing maps for integrated environmental assessment of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region. Journal of Environmental Management 31,6:822-835. (Tran, L.T., Knight, C.G., O’Neill, R.V., Smith, E.R, and O’Connell, M.).

2003. “Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions: GCLP Experience and Analogs,” pp. 195-213 in Global Change and Local Places: Estimating, Understanding and Reducing Greenhouse Gases, ed. Association of American Geographers GCLP Research Group. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (C . Gregory Knight, et al.).

2004. Mapping spatial accuracy and estimating ecological indicators from thematic land cover maps using fuzzy set theory. In Lunetta, R.S., and J.G. Lyon (Editors), Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL (Tran, L.T., Jarnagin, S.T., Knight, C.G., and Baskaran, L.) ISBN 156670443X.

2004. Integrated Environmental Vulnerability Assessment of the Mid-Atlantic Region with Analytical Network Process, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 94:263-277 (Tran, L.T., Knight, C.G., O’Neill, R.V., Smith, E.R.).

2004. Perspectives on Climate Change and Moldova: Vision of the U.S. Counterparts, pp. 9-15 in R. Corobov (editor), Moldova’s Climate in XXI century: The Projections of Changes, Impacts, and Responses. Chisinau: Moldova Academy of Sciences. (C. Gregory Knight, Marieta P. Staneva; in English and Russian).

2004. Impacts of climate change on the Struma River in Southwestern Bulgaria, pp. 659-663 in B. D. Katsoulis (ed.), Proceedings of the 6th Hellenic Conference in Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric Physics. University of Ioannina, Greece (C. G. Knight, M. P. Staneva, H. Chang, D. Kostov).

2004. Drought: Could Today's Hazard become Tomorrow's Norm, Riscuri si Catastrofe 2004,1: 39-46 (Marieta P. Staneva and C. G. Knight. Romanian periodical based at Faculty of Geography, Babes,-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca).

2005. Mapping Thematic Accuracy with Fuzzy Sets, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 71,1:29-36 (Tran, L.T., Jarnagin, S.T., Wickham, J.D., and Knight, C.G.).

2007. REKA: A Catchment Management Tool for Improving Water Quality, pp. 129-138 in Peter Robinson, Tony Jones, and Ming-ko Woo (editors), Managing Water Resources in a Changing Physical and Social Environment, Rome, Italy: Home of Geography, International Geographical Union (C. Gregory Knight, Barry M. Evans, James M. Hamlett, David W. Lehning, Marieta P. Staneva, Jeffrey Carmichael, Todor N. Hristov, Dimitar Dimitrov, Vania D. Ioncheva, Ivan I. Nikolov, Heejun Chang).

2007. Sensitivity Analysis of Aggregated Indices for Integrated Assessment with a Case Study of the Mid-Atlantic Region, Environmental Management 39: 506-514 (Liem T. Tran, Robert V. O’Neill, Elizabeth R. Smith, C. Gregory Knight).

2007. Cross-European landscape analyses: illustrative examples using existing spatial data, pp. 258-316 in I. Petrosillo et al. (editors), Use of Landscape Sciences for the Assessment of Environmental Security. Springer-Verlag, The Netherlands. (Bruce K. Jones, Joe Walker, Giovanni Zurlini, Timothy G. Wade, Maliha S. Nash, Hamann Sharon, Annie C. Neale, Felix Müller, Rob Jongman, Nicola Zaccarelli, Stoyan Nedkov, C. Gregory Knight and William G. Kepner).

2007. Vulnerability to Water Scarcity in Moldova: Identification of the Regions, Buletinul Academiei de Stiinte a Moldovei. Stiintele vietii 3(303): 159-166 (I. Sîrodoev, C. G. Knight) [Moldova]

2008. Planning for Climate Impacts on Water Resources, Proceedings, BALWOIS 2008, Water Observation and Information System for Balkan Countries, Ohrid, Macedonia (M. P. Staneva, C. G. Knight).

2008. Vulnerability to Water Scarcity in Moldova: Likely Threats for Future Development, Present Environment and Sustainable Development 2:7-15 (I. Sîrodoev, C. G. Knight) [Moldova].

2010. Decision Support for River Quality Management: The REKA Model, in Bulgaria Decision Support Systems in Agriculture, Food, and the Environment; Trends, Applications and Advances (Basil Manos, Konstantinos Paparrizos, Nikolaos Matsatsinis and Jason Papathanasiou, editors), Hershey PA: IGI Global (James Hamlett and C. G. Knight), in press.

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