TURNER, B. L., II

TURNER, B. L., II. American, b. 1945. Genres: Geography. Career: University of Oklahoma, Norman, assistant professor of geography, 1975-80; Clark University, Worcester, MA, assistant professor, 1980-81, associate professor, 1981-84, professor of geography, 1984-, director of Graduate School of Geography, 1983-88, 1997-98, director of George Perkins Marsh Institute, 1990-96, Higgins Professor of Environment and Society, 1996-. Publications: Once Beneath the Forest: Prehistoric Terracing in the Rio Bec Region of the Maya Lowlands, 1983; (with T. Whitmore) Cultivated Landscapes of Native Middle America on the Eve of Conquest, 2002. EDITOR & CONTRIBUTOR: (with P.D. Harrison) Pre-Hispanic Maya Agriculture, 1978; (with P.D. Harrison) Pulltrouser Swamp: Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize, 1983; (with S.B. Brush) Comparative Farming Systems, 1987; The Earth as Transformed by Human Action, 1990; (with G. Hyden and R.W. Kates) Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa, 1993; (with J.X. Kasperson and R.E. Kasperson) Regions at Risk, 1995; (with W.B. Meyer) Changes in Land Use and Land Cover, 1994; (with A.G. Sal, F.G. Bernaldez and F. diCastri) Global Land-Use Change: A Perspective from the Columbian Encounter, 1995; (with J. Geoghegan and D. Foster) Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan, 2003. Address: Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA 01610, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]