Publications

My research and writing examines multiple dimensions of both urban and rural water governance, environmental security, and the emerging research area of digital natures and techno-natures. I investigate uncertainties related to how supplies of and demands for water resources may shift under future climate and land use change scenarios. My research focuses on complex water resources challenges at multiple scales, from the local, community level to state and regional level climate change impacts and concerns, to issues of binational and global significance.  In particular, my dissertation research is based in the US-Mexico borderlands and seeks to illuminate the intricate, coupled social and ecological dynamics of riparian corridors located in the water-limited and geopolitically complicated Sonoran desert region.

Water Security, the Environmental Nexus, and Sustainability:
Gerlak, A.K, L. House-Peters, R.G. Varady, T. Albrecht, A. Zúñiga-Terán, C.A. Scott, R.R. de Grenade, and C. Cook. 2018. Water security: A critical review of place-based studies. Environmental Science and Policy 82: 79-89. (Journal Impact Factor: 3.751)

deGrenade, R., L. House-Peters, C.A. Scott, B. Thapa, M. Mills-Novoa, A. Gerlak, and K. Verbist. 2016. The nexus: Reconsidering environmental security and adaptive capacity. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 21: 15-21. (Journal Impact Factor: 4.658)

Critical Online Pedagogy:
House-Peters, L., V. Del Casino, Jr., and C.F. Brooks. 2017. Dialogue, inquiry, and encounter: Critical geographies of online higher education. Progress in Human Geography (Peer-Reviewed, Journal Impact Factor: 5.162)

Urban Residential Water Demand Modeling:
House-Peters, L. and Chang, H. 2011. Urban water demand modeling: review of concepts, methods, and organizing principles. Water Resources Research 47: W05401.

House-Peters, L., B. Pratt, and H. Chang. 2010. Effects of urban spatial structure, sociodemographics, and climate on residential water consumption in Hillsboro, Oregon. Journal of American Water Resources Association 46 (2): 1-12.

Water Conservation, Urban Landscapes, and Climate Change:
Gober, P., Middel, A., Brazel, A., Myint, S., Chang, H., Duh, J.D., and House-Peters, L. 2012. Tradeoffs between water conservation and temperature amelioration in Phoenix and Portland: Implications for urban sustainability. Urban Geography 33 (7): 1030–1054.

House-Peters, L. and Chang, H. 2011. Modeling the impact of land use and climate change on neighborhood-scale evaporation and nighttime cooling: A surface energy balance approach. Landscape and Urban Planning 103 (2): 139-155.

Chang, H. and House-Peters, L. 2010. Cities as place for climate mitigation and adaptation: A case study of Portland, Oregon, USA. Journal of the Korean Geographical Society 45 (1): 49-74.

Chang, H., Jones, J., Gannett, M., Tullos, D., Moradkhani, H., Vache, K., Parandvash, H., Shandas, V., Nolin, A., Fountain, A., Johnson, S., Jung, I.-W., House-Peters, L., Steele, M., and Copeland, B., 2010. Chapter 3: Climate change and freshwater resources in Oregon, in Oregon Climate Impact Assessment. Dello, K.D. and Mote, P.W. (Eds.) College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. pp. 69-150.

Global and Bi-National Scale Water Resource Governance Challenges and Opportunities:
House-Peters, L. 2017. Social-ecological transformations in riparian zones: The production of spaces of exclusion and the uneven development of resilience in the Sonoran borderlands. In: Grichting, A. and M. Zebich-Knos (Eds.) Between the Lines: The Social Ecology of Border Landscapes. Anthem Press: London. (Peer-Reviewed)

Varady, R.G., van Weert, F., Megdal, S.B., Gerlak, A., Iskandar, C.A., and House-Peters, L. 2012. Groundwater policy and governance. In: Groundwater Governance: A Global Framework for Country Action. Commissioned by UNESCO IHP.

Chang, H. and House-Peters, L. 2012. A roadmap for expanding U.S.-Korea Alliance Cooperation: Cooperation on functional issues, Climate Change. In: Snyder, S. (Ed.) The US-South Korea Alliance: Meeting New Security Challenges. Lynne Rienner Publishers: London.

House-Peters, L. and C.A. Scott. 2011. Assessing the impacts of land use change on water availability, management, and resilience in arid region riparian corridors: A case study of the San Pedro and Rio Sonora watersheds in southwestern USA and northern Mexico.” Proceedings from the XIVth World Water Congress, Porto de Galinhas, Brazil.