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Publications

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Books

2024  GL. Simon and K. Kay. Doing Political Ecology Routledge Press, New York, NY

2017  GL. Simon. Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change and the Great Oakland Hills Fire University of California Press, Oakland, CA (Book 1 of the Critical Environments: Nature, Science and Politics book series. Eds. Guthman J, Kosek J, Lave R.)

2012  S. Dooling and GL. SimonCities, Nature, Development: The Politics and Production of Urban Vulnerabilities Ashgate Publishing. Aldershot, UK. 

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Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

2025  C. Eriksen, J. Kirschner, GL. Simon, K. Uyttewaal, S. Lüthi, T. Prior, F. Zeffiri, N. O’Grady, R. Emmenegger, D. Ay,

          K. Chmutina, E. Raju, K. Grove. 'From Rigidity Traps Towards Reparative Disaster Management and Governance' International            Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 125, 105603

2025  E. Oscilowicz*, G. Solis, L. Martinez, J. Nemeth, GL. Simon, C. Makarewicz, KL. Dickinson, LM. McKenzie, J. Scandlyn, P.

           Erices-Ocampo*, PL. Kinney, P. DeSouza. 'The Role of Community Science in Addressing Policy Change: A Critical Review of                Air Pollution LiteratureCurrent Environmental Health Reports 12:17

2025  C. Eriksen, GL. Simon. 'Social resilience research on climate-related hazards: trends, accomplishments and          

           shortcomingsPLOS Climate 4(4): e0000496

2025  C. Eriksen, GL. Simon 'Governing Layers of Shifting Sands: Subterranean Hazards, Unfolding Catastrophes and Quotidian      

           Fragmentation' Geo: Geography and Environment

2024  LC. Kelley and GL. Simon. 'Enumerating Nature: Engaging Environmental Science and Data within Critical Nature-Society

           Scholarship' In, Simon GL. and Kay K. (eds) Doing Political Ecology. Routledge Press 

2023  L. Johnson, M. Mikulewicz, P. Bigger, R. Chakraborty, A. Cunniff, PJ. Griffin, V. Guermond, N. Lambrou, M. Mills-Novoa, B.                    Neimark, S. Nelson, C. Rampini, P. Sherpa, GL. SimonIntervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation.  

           Global Environmental Change, 83, 102769.

2023  NJ. Crane, A. Cooke, C. Ergler, P. Griffen, M. Holton, K. Rhiney, C. Robinson, GL. Simon'Whose Geography do we    

           Review?' Geography Compass 17:2 e12676

2022  GL. Simon'Disingenuous Natures and Post-Truth Politics: Five Knowledge Modalities of Concern in Environmental

           Governance' Geoforum 132, pp. 162-170 

2022  T. Birkenholtz and GL. Simon. 'Introduction to Themed Issue: Ignorance and Uncertainty in Environmental Decision 

           Making' Geoforum 132, pp. 154-161

2022  GL. Simon, B. Wee, D. Chatti, E. Anderson. 'Drawing on Knowledge: Visual Narrative Analysis for Critical Environment and                   Development ResearchEnvironment and Planning E: Nature and Space 5:1 pp. 293-317 

2021  GL. Simon, C Peterson, E Anderson, B Berve, M Caturia, I Rivera. 'Multiple Temporalities of Household Labour:      

           The Challenge of Assessing Women’s Empowerment' Development and Change 55:2 pp. 289-315 

2020  C. Eriksen, GL. Simon, F. Roth, S. Lakhina, B. Wisner, C. Adler, F. Thomalla, A. Scolobig, K. Brady, M. Brundl, F. Neisser, M.                      Grenfell, L. Maduz, T. Prior. 'Rethinking the Interplay Between Vulnerability and Affluence to Aid Climate Change                                   Adaptive Capacity' Climatic Change 162:1 pp 25-39

2020  A. Chin, GL. Simon, P. Anthamatten, K. Kelsey, B. Crawford, A. Weaver. 'Pandemics and the Future of Human-Landscape                     Interactions' Anthropocene 31, 100256

2019  GL. Simon and C Peterson. 'Disingenuous Forests: A Historical Political Ecology of Fuelwood Collection in South India'

           Journal of Historical Geography 63:1 pp 34-47

2018  GL. Simon. 'The Rise of Disingenuous Natures and Neoliberal Stealth Unknown-Knowns' Environment and Planning E:    

          Nature and Space pp. 47-51 (In, Reflecting on Neoliberal Natures: An Exchange P. Bigger, J. Dempsey, A. Asiyanbi, K.                         Kay, R. Lave, B. Mansfield, T. Osborne, M. Robertson, G. Simon)

2018  GL. Simon. 'How the West Was Spun: The De-politicization of Fire in the American West' In, Handbook on Critical Physical                  Geography Eds. R. Lave, C. Biermann, S. Lane. Palgrave Macmillan

2017  C Eriksen and GL. Simon. 'The Affluence-Vulnerability Interface: Intersecting Scales of Risk, Privilege and Disaster'

 Environment and Planning A 49:2 pp. 293-313

2017  GL. Simon. 'Don't Blame California Wildfires on a 'Perfect Storm of Weather Events' The Conversation 

2016  A. Kinoshita, A. Chin, GL. Simon, C. Briles, T. Hogue, A. O’Dowd, A. Gerlak, A. Uribe. 'Wildfire, Water and Society: Toward 

           Integrative Research in the “Anthropocene”' Anthropocene 16 pp. 16-27

2016  GL. Simon. 'How Regions Do Work, and the Work We Do: A Constructive Critique of Regions in Political Ecology'

 Journal of Political Ecology 23 pp. 197-203

2015  A. Chin, L. An, J.L. Florsheim, L.R. Laurencio, R.A. Marston, A.P. Solverson, GL. Simon, E. Stinson, E. Wohl. 'Investigating      

           feedbacks in human-landscape systems: Lessons following a wildfire in Colorado, USA' Geomorphology 252 pp.40-50

2014  GL. Simon. 'Vulnerability-in-Production: A Spatial History of Nature, Affluence and Fire in Oakland, California'

 Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104:6 pp. 1199-1221

2014  GL. Simon. 'If You Can’t Stand the Heat, Get Into the Kitchen: Obligatory Passage Points and Mutually Supported      

           Impediments at the Climate-Development Interface' Area 46:3 pp. 268-277

2014  R. Lave, M. Wilson, E. Barron, C. Biermann, M. Carey, M. Doyle, C. Duvall, L. Johnson, M. Lane, J. Lorimer, N. McClintock, D.                Munroe, R. Pain, J. Proctor, B. Rhoads, M. Robertson, J. Rossi, N. Sayre, GL. Simon, M. Tadaki, and C. Van Dyke.           

           'Intervention: Critical Physical Geography' The Canadian Geographer 58:1 pp. 1-10

2014  GL. Simon, R. Bailis, J. Baumgarner, J. Hyman, A. Laurent. 'Current Debates and Future Research Needs in the Clean 

           Cookstove Sector' Energy for Sustainable Development 20 pp. 49-57

2013  GL. Simon and S. Dooling. 'Flame and Fortune in California: The Material and Political Dimensions of Vulnerability'

 Global Environmental Change 23:6 pp. 1410-1423

2013  GL. Simon and P. Alagona. 'Contradictions at the Confluence of Commerce, Consumption and Conservation; or, An REI    

           Shopper Camps in the Forest, Does Anyone Notice?' Geoforum 45 pp. 225-236

2013  GL. Simon, B. Wee, A. Chin et al. 'Synthesis for the Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences: Integrating Systems    

           Approaches and Service Learning' Journal of College Science Teaching 42:5 pp. 46-53

2012  GL. Simon, A. Bumpus, P. Mann. 'Win-Win Scenarios at the Climate-Development Interface: Challenges and Opportunities

           for Cookstove Replacement Programs Through Carbon Finance' Global Environmental Change 22:1 pp. 275-287

2012  H. Bischel, GL. Simon, T. Frisby, D Luthy. 'Management Experiences and Trends for Water Reuse Implementation in    

           Northern California' Environmental Science and Technology 46 pp. 180-188

2012  GL. Simon. 'Development, Risk Momentum and the Ecology of Vulnerability: A Historical-Relational Analysis of the 1991                      Oakland Hills Firestorm' In, Cities, Nature, Development: The Politics and Production of Urban Vulnerabilities Eds. G.                            Simon and S. Dooling. Ashgate Publishing Aldershot, UK.

2012  P. Alagona and GL. Simon. 'Leave No Trace Starts at Home: A Response to Critics and Vision for the Future' Ethics, Policy                 and Environment 15:1 pp. 119-124

2011  D. Biehler and GL. Simon. 'The Great Indoors: Research Frontiers on Indoor Environments as Active Political Ecological      

           Spaces' Progress in Human Geography 35: 2 pp. 172-192

2011  GL. Simon. 'The 100th Meridian, Ecological Boundaries and the Problem of Reification' Society and Natural Resources                      24:1 pp. 95-101

2010  GL. Simon. 'Mobilizing Cookstoves for Development: A Dual Adoption Framework Analysis of Collaborative Technology                       Innovations in Western India' Environment and Planning A 42 pp. 2011-2030

2010  GL. Simon and J. Graybill. 'Geography in Interdisciplinarity: Towards a Third Conversation' Geoforum 41: 3 pp. 356-363

2010  P. Alagona and GL. Simon. 'The Role of Field Study in Humanistic and Interdisciplinary Environmental Education'

  Journal of Experiential Education 32: 3 pp. 191-206

2009  GL. Simon. 'Geographies of Mediation: Market Development and the Rural Broker in Maharashtra, India'

 Political Geography 28:3 pp. 197-207

2009  G. Simon and P. Alagona. 'Beyond ‘Leave no Trace’' Ethics, Policy and Environment 12:1 pp. 17-34

2006  S. Dooling, G. Simon, K. Yocom. 'Place-Based Urban Ecology: A Century of Park Planning in Seattle' Urban Ecosystems                   9:4 pp. 299-321

2006  J. Graybill, S. Dooling, A. Greve, V. Shandas, J. Withey, G. Simon. 'A Rough Guide to Interdisciplinarity: Graduate Student                  Perspectives' Bioscience 56: 9 pp. 757-763

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Gregory L Simon

Department of Geography and Environmental Science

University of Colorado Denver

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