Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Elena Lioubimtseva

Brooks College Faculty Member

Elena Lioubimtseva

Associate Professor

lioubme@gvsu.edu

Affilitations

Primary College

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Brooks College Partnership

Director, Environmental Studies Minor

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TEACHING FOCUS

New courses in Environmental Studies (available in Fall 2009)

ENS201 Introduction to Environmental Studies and Sustainability - Fall 2009

ENS401 Environmental Problem Solving - Winter 2010

GPY100A - Physical Geography

GPY 350 - Geography of Russia and Eurasian Republics

GPY 410 - A Landscape Analysis

GPY 412 - Global Environmental Change

RESEARCH FOCUS

RECENT AWARDS AND HONORS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Lioubimtseva, E. and Henebry G.M. (in press) Climate and Environmental Change in Central Asia: Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptations. Journal of Arid Environments.

Lioubimtseva, E., 2008. Human Dimensions of Climate Change in Arid and Semi-arid Environments:A Case Study of Post-Soviet Central Asia, Annals of Arid Zone 47(3&4): 1-24

Lioubimtseva, E.  2008. Climate Change in Turkmenistan, In S. G. Philander, ed., Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change. New York: SAGE Reference, Golson Books.

Lioubimtseva, E. 2007. Possible Changes in the Carbon Budget of Arid and Semi-arid Central Asia Inferred from Landuse/Landcover Analyses during 1981 to 2001. In Rattan Lal, ed., Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in Central Asia. New York: Taylor and Francis. Pages 441-452.

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Lioubimtseva, E. 2005. Environmental changes in arid Central Asia inferred from remote sensing data and ground observations. Arid Ecosystems, 11(26-27): 64-72.

Lioubimtseva E. Climate Change in Arid Environments: revisiting the past to understand the future. Progress in Physical Geography, Volume 28 issue 14, p.525-538

INTEREST AREAS

Climate change and carbon cycle

land-use and landcover change

vulnerability analysis

Landscape ecology

Arid and semi-arid environments

Central Asia.

WEBSITE

 

. and R. Cole. 2006. Uncertainties of climate change in arid environments of Central Asia. In R. R. Stickney, (ed.) Reviews in Fisheries Science, 14(1-2): 29-50. ., R. Cole, J. M. Adams, and G. Kapustin, Impacts of Climate and Land-Cover Changes in Arid Lands of Central Asia. Journal of Arid Environments.

 

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