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Joe Douglas Francis

Associate Professor

Primary Research Areas

  • applied economics
  • biometry
  • city and regional planning
  • communication
  • development sociology
  • education
  • environmental sciences
  • land use
  • natural resources

Graduate Fields

Research Focus

My emphasis is on applied work and this is reflected in work on land use, specialty agricultural production and marketing. I have also been engaged in developing a maketing tool for small and specialty farmers to use in maketing their products.

Selected Publications

PubMed Listings
  • Pfeffer, Max, Joe Francis and Zev Ross. "Fifty Years of Farmland Change: Urbanization, Population Growth and the Changing Farm Economy. " Chapter in Population Change and Rural Society. William Kandel and David Brown (Editors). Kluwer Plenum (Springer) Press. 2005
  • Barney, J., T.Whitlow and J. Francis. "Visualizing Value Systems: Exploring Property Value and Eco-system Services in Constructed Three Dimensional Space. " In Geographic Information and Critical Geographic Research. Temple University Press. Philadelphia, PA. 2004 2004