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  • Brown, Madeline; Chen, Changjie; Thirumala, Krishnapriya; Lu, Vivian Chenxue; Wang, Luwei; Das, Subhadeep; Woods, Juliana. 2023. Visualizing and Tagging Trail Experiences. Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture. 8: 245-252. Link

  • Brown, M., Shackel, P. Text Mining Oral Histories in Historical Archaeology. 2023. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-022-00680-5.

  • Brown, M. and Ready, E., 2022. Market integration and cooperative resource harvesting among kin, clan, and neighbors in rural China. Ecology and Society, 27(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13601-270417.

  • Diver, S., M. V. Eitzel, M. Brown, A. Hazel, R. Reed, and S. Fricke. 2022. Indigenous nations at the confluence: water governance networks and system transformation in the Klamath Basin. Ecology and Society 27(4):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12942-270404.

  • Brown, M., Schroder, W. and Murtha, T., 2022. Are Threats the Connection? Linking Cultural and Natural Resource Conservation. Conservation & Society, 20(4). https://www.conservationandsociety.org.in//text.asp?2022/20/4/313/353840.

  • Brown, Madeline. 2020. Diversity and Adaptation in Local Forest Governance in Yunnan, China. Human Ecology 48:253–265. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-020-00149-1.

  • Brown, Madeline, Timothy Murtha, Luwei Wang and Yan Wang. 2020. Mapping Landscape Values with Social Media. Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 5:542-548. doi:10.14627/537690055.

  • Brown, Madeline and Timothy Murtha. 2019. Integrating Natural and Cultural Resources in North American Large-Landscape Conservation. Environmental Practice 21(2):57-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/14660466.2019.1601935.

  • Brown, Madeline, Timothy Murtha, Luwei Wang, and Yan Wang. 2019. ILAS: Intrinsic Landscape Assessment System for Landscape Design and Planning in the National Capital Region. Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture 4:84-94. doi:10.14627/53766300.

  • Brown, Madeline. 2019. Yi Ethnomycology: Wild mushroom knowledge and use in Yunnan, China. Journal of Ethnobiology 39(1):131-157. https://doi.org/10.2993/0278-0771-39.1.131.

  • Brown, Madeline*, Timothy McLellan*, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Huili Li. 2018. Applied Mycology Can Contribute to Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: Building upon China’s matsutake management initiatives. Joint first authorship. Environmental Management* 61(2):263-274. doi:10.1007/s00267-017-0976-3.

  • McLellan, Timothy and Madeline Brown. 2017. Mushrooms and cash-crops can co-exist in mountain livelihoods: Wild mushrooms as economic and recreational resources in the Greater Mekong. Mountain Research and Development 37(1):1-13. https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-15-00087.1.


Digital Portfolio



Project code, lexicons and data


TREKS Project: Trail activities

Collaborators: Changjie Chen, Vivian Lu, Luwei Wang, Krishnapriya Thirumala, Subhadeep Das, Juliana Woods

This project examines trail building and use with ethnographic data, online surveys, and mapping data.

Trail activity tagging lexicon
Trail activity dashboard github repository

Social network analysis in Yunnan, China

Collaborator: Elspeth Ready

Reproducible code available for publication on social networks of wild mushroom harvesters.

Github repository


Text analysis in oral history

This project examines the potential for using text mining and natural language processing methods to analyze oral history texts. Reproducible code for two publications (1, 2) including tagging lexicons and oral history text are available.

Text mining in oral history github repository

Gini coefficient

Reproducible code available for publication on social networks of wild mushroom harvesters.

Github repository




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