employment
- November 2006 - present, Executive Officer, International Project Office, Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC) - an IHDP Core Project, hosted by the Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University
- September 2003 - September 2006, Postdoctoral scholar, Center for Environmental Science and Policy, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
education
Ph.D. in Economics - May 2004; Clark University, Massachusetts, USA
interests
- urban land use change, urban growth modeling, urban spatial structure and the environment
- geographical and environmental economics
- applied econometrics, discrete choice modeling
- institutional economics, urban political economy
Peer-reviewed journals and book chapters
- Fragkias, M. and Geoghegan, J. (in review) Commercial and industrial land use change, job decentralization and growth controls: a spatially-explicit analysis, Journal of Land Use Science
- Seto, K.C. and Fragkias, M. (revise and resubmit) Determinants of early spatial patterns of FDI in the Pearl River Delta of Southeast China, International Regional Science Review
- Fragkias, M. and Seto, K. C. (in press), Evolving rank-size distributions for intra-metropolitan urban clusters in South China, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems [DOI Link]
- Fragkias, M. and Seto, K.C., (2008) Urban land-use change, models, uncertainty and policymaking in rapidly growing developing-world cities: evidence from China, In: Richard J. Aspinall and Michael J. Hill (Editors). Land use change: science, policy and management. CRC Press, New York. pp. 139-160
- Seto, K.C. and Fragkias, M., (2007) Mangrove Conversion and Aquaculture Development in Vietnam: A Remote Sensing-Based Approach for Evaluating the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Global Environmental Change, Volume 17, Issues 3-4, (August-October), Pages 486-500 [DOI Link]
- Fragkias, M. and Seto, K.C., (2007) Modeling urban growth in data-sparse environments: a new approach, Environment and Planning B, Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 858 - 883 [DOI Link]
- Seto, K. C., Fragkias, M., and Schneider, A., (2007) 20 Years After Reforms: Challenges to Planning and Development in China's City-Regions and Opportunities for Remote Sensing, in Applied Remote Sensing for Urban Planning, Governance and Sustainability, Redman, C., Stefanov, W., and Netzband, M., eds. Springer-Verlag.
- Seto, K.C. and Fragkias, M. (2005) Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns of urban land-use change in four cities of China with time series landscape metrics, Landscape Ecology, Volume 20, Issue 7, 871-888 [DOI Link]
- Simon, D. and Fragkias, M. (2008) The dynamic relationship between cities and global environmental change, Urban Researchers' Roundtable on Cities and Climate Change, Fourth World Urban Forum (WUF4), Nanjing, China, 5 November 2008
- Fragkias, M., (2008) Connecting global environmental change to environmental justice: The critical role of cities and good urban governance, Re-public: re-imagining democracy, http://www.re-public.gr/en
- Seto, K.C. and Fragkias, M. (2008) Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, The Earth Observer (NASA), 20 (1), January - February 2008, 7-15
- Fragkias, M., (2007) Institutional responses of cities to global environmental change, UGEC International Working Paper Series, October 2007, WP07-04 [ISSN: 1935-9160]
- Fragkias, M., (2007) Interactions and responses to Global Environmental Change (GEC) and their implications for human security in urbanized coastal zones - a synthesis, IHDP UPDATE Newsletter, Focus: "The Implications of Global Environmental Change for Human Security in Coastal Urban Areas", Issue 2, October 2007, [ISSN 1727-155X]
- Fragkias, M., (2006) Urban modeling, global environmental change, and policymaking in developing-world cities, IHDP UPDATE Newsletter, Focus: Urbanization and Global Environmental Change, Issue 2, February 2006, [ISSN 1727-155X]
- Fragkias, M. and Seto, K.C. (2005) Modeling urban growth in data-sparse environments: a new approach, presented at CUPUM05, June 2005
- Seto, K.C. and Fragkias, M. (2005) Modeling urban land-use change in rapidly developing regions: what's the policy relevance?, presented at the 6th Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Research Community (IHDP-GEC), University of Bonn, October 2005.
- Boucher, A., Fragkias, M., Seto, K.C. A geostatistical approach to urban land cover forecasting
- Seto, K.C. and Fragkias, M. What drives urban form? Some empirical evidence from remote sensing and socio-economic data, for submission to Environment and Planning A
- Fragkias, M. What drives agglomerated and diffuse commercial/industrial land use changes?
- Fragkias, M. and Seto, K.C. Urban growth simulation for the Shenzhen city metropolitan area in Pearl River Delta, Guangdong Province, China: An application of the SLEUTH cellular automaton model
- Seto, K.C., Beman, J.M., Liu, W., Fragkias.M., Matson, P.A., Coastal land use change in Northern Vietnam: aquaculture development, mangrove conversion, and methane flux
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