Research

My research focuses on understanding and addressing environmental change through the integration of remote sensing, spatial analysis, and social science methods.

Selected Publications

2024-2025

  • Araujo, Diogo S. et al. (including Alex Zvoleff). "Global Future Drought Layers Based on Downscaled CMIP6 Models and Multiple Socioeconomic Pathways." Scientific Data 12, no. 1 (February 2025). DOI

  • Viana, Daniel F., David Gill, Alex Zvoleff, et al. "Sustainable-Use Marine Protected Areas to Improve Human Nutrition." Nature Communications 15, no. 1 (September 2024). DOI

  • Donatti, Camila I. et al. (including Alex Zvoleff). "Global Hotspots of Climate-Related Disasters." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 108 (June 2024). DOI

2023

  • Duncanson, L et al. (including Alex Zvoleff). "The Effectiveness of Global Protected Areas for Climate Change Mitigation." Nature Communications 14, no. 1 (June 2023). DOI

  • Liang, Mengyu et al. (including Alex Zvoleff). "Assessing Protected Area's Carbon Stocks and Ecological Structure at Regional-Scale Using GEDI Lidar." Global Environmental Change 78 (January 2023). DOI

  • López-Carr, David, Narcisa G. Pricope, Kevin M. Mwenda, Gabriel Antunes Daldegan, and Alex Zvoleff. "A Conceptual Approach towards Improving Monitoring of Living Conditions for Populations Affected by Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought." Sustainability 15, no. 12 (2023). DOI

2019-2022

  • Pricope, Narcisa G., Gabriel A. Daldegan, Alex Zvoleff, et al. "Operationalizing an Integrative Socio‐ecological Framework in Support of Global Monitoring of Land Degradation." Land Degradation & Development (September 2022). DOI

  • An, Li et al. (including Alex Zvoleff). "Sex-Specific Habitat Suitability Modeling for Panthera Tigris in Chitwan National Park, Nepal." Sustainability 13, no. 24 (2021). DOI

  • Rovero, Francesco et al. (including Alex Zvoleff). "A Standardized Assessment of Forest Mammal Communities Reveals Consistent Functional Composition and Vulnerability across the Tropics." Ecography 43, no. 1 (2020). DOI

  • Cooper, Matthew W. et al. (including Alex Zvoleff). "Mapping the Effects of Drought on Child Stunting." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 35 (August 2019).

  • Beaudrot, Lydia et al. (including Alex Zvoleff). "Local Temperature and Ecological Similarity Drive Distributional Dynamics of Tropical Mammals Worldwide." Global Ecology and Biogeography 28, no. 7 (July 2019): 976–91.

  • Selig, E. R. et al. (including Alex Zvoleff). "Mapping global human dependence on marine ecosystems." Conservation Letters 12, no. 2 (March 2019): e12617.

  • Gonzalez-Roglich, Mariano, Alex Zvoleff, et al. "Synergizing Global Tools to Monitor Progress towards Land Degradation Neutrality." Environmental Science & Policy 93 (2019): 34–42.

Earlier Publications

  • Zvoleff, A., S. M. Wandersee, L. An, and D. López-Carr. 2014. "Land use and land cover change." Oxford Bibliographies.

  • An, L., A. Zvoleff, J. Liu, and W. Axinn. 2014. "Agent based modeling in coupled human and natural systems (CHANS): lessons from a comparative analysis." Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104(4):723-745.

  • Zvoleff, A., An, L. 2014. "The effect of reciprocal connections between demographic decision making and land use on decadal dynamics of population and land-use change." Ecology and Society 19:2.

  • Zvoleff, A., and L. An. 2014. "Analyzing human-landscape interactions: tools that integrate." Environmental Management 53:94–111.

  • Zvoleff, A., S. Kocaman, W. T. Huh, and V. Modi. 2009. "The impact of geography on energy infrastructure costs." Energy Policy 37(10):4066-4078.

Book Chapters

  • Zvoleff, A., L. An, J. Stoler, and J. R. Weeks. 2013. "What if neighbors' neighborhoods differ? The influence of neighborhood definition on health outcomes in Accra." In Spatial Inequalities, eds. J. R. Weeks, A. Hill, and J. Stoler. Springer.

  • Weeks, J. R., J. Stoler, A. G. Hill, and A. Zvoleff. 2013. "Fertility in context: The influence of neighborhoods on family-building and reproductive health." In Spatial Inequalities: Health, Poverty and Place in Accra, Ghana, eds. J. R. Weeks, A. G. Hill, and J. Stoler. Springer.

Service & Leadership

  • Co-lead of Science Based Targets Network Land Hub – developing land sector targets for companies consistent with remaining within planetary boundaries (2019 – present)

  • Lead of Group on Earth Observations Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Initiative Data Analytics Working Group (2018 – present)

  • Reviewer for: PLoS One, Global Environmental Change, Population and Environment, Land, Landscape Ecology, Environmental Management, Transactions in GIS, Journal of Nature Conservation, and many others

Professional Memberships

  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011 – Present)
  • Association of American Geographers (2008 – Present)
  • American Geophysical Union (2006 – Present)