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Stuart Sweeney

Stuart Sweeney

Associate Professor, Department of Geography

sweeney@geog.uscb.edu

805-893-5647

Department of Geography
University of California-Santa Barbara
Ellison Hall 3611
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060
USA

Titles

  • Associate Professor, Department of Geography

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Journal Articles

2018

Eakin, H., S. Sweeney, A. M. Lerner, K. Appendini, H. Perales, D. G. Steigerwald, C. F. Dewes, F. Davenport and J. C. Bausch. 2018. Agricultural change and resilience: Agricultural policy, climate trends and market integration in the Mexican maize system. Anthropocene 23(Sep):43-52. DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2018.08.002. (link )

2015

Eakin, H., K. Appendini, S. Sweeney and H. Perales. 2015. Correlates of maize land and livelihood change among maize farming households in Mexico. World Development 70(June):78-91. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.12.012. (link )

2014

Eakin, H., J. C. Bausch and S. Sweeney. 2014. Agrarian winners of neoliberal reform: The “maize boom” of Sinaloa, Mexico. Journal of Agrarian Change 14(1):26-51. DOI: 10.1111/joac.12005. (link )

Eakin, H., H. Perales, K. Appendini and S. Sweeney. 2014. Selling maize in Mexico: The persistance of peasant farming in an era of global markets. Development and Change 45(1):133-155. DOI: 10.1111/dech.12074 . (link )

Lerner, A. M., S. Sweeney and H. Eakin. 2014. Growing buildings in corn fields: Urban expansion and the persistence of maize in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico. Urban Studies 51(10):2185-2201. DOI: 10.1177/0042098013506064. (link )

2013

Lerner, A. M., H. Eakin and S. Sweeney. 2013. Understanding peri-urban maize production through an examination of household livelihoods in the Toluca Metropolitan Area, Mexico. Journal of Rural Studies 30(Apr):52-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2012.11.001. (link )

Sweeney, S., D. G. Steigerwald, F. Davenport and H. Eakin. 2013. Mexican maize production: Evolving organizational and spatial structures since 1980. Applied Geography 39(May):78-92. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.12.005. (link )

Presentations

2010

Eakin, H., J. C. Bausch, S. Sweeney and K. Appendini. 2010. Shifting geographies of food security: The rise of irrigated maize in Sinaloa, Mexico. Presentation for the Global Land Project, October 18, 2010.