Russell Weaver

Publications

Journal Articles

• Christina W. Lopez, & Russell Weaver. (2025). A Conceptual Model for Assessing Environmentally Responsible Practices in Ecological Intentional Communities: Examples from Texas, USA. Communal Societies, 39(2). (DOI:10.9707/0739-1250.1124)
• Heeeun Jang, Ariel Avgar, Russell Weaver, Daniel Spertus, Kiran Abraham-Aggarwal, Joanna Bryan Ringel, & Madeline Sterling. (2025). What Do Unions Do for Direct Care Workers? Assessing Employment and Economic Outcomes. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 26(3), 105427. (DOI:10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105427)
• Kiran Abraham-Aggarwal, Daniel Spertus, Ariel Avgar, Andy Hickner, Joseph Spak, Russell Weaver, Heeeun Jang, & Madeline Sterling. (2024). The Impact of Unions on US Direct Care Workers in Long-Term Care Settings: A Systematic Review. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 25(12), 105236. (DOI:10.1016/j.jamda.2024.105236)
• Niaz Morshed, Russell Weaver, & F Benjamin Zhan. (2024). Causal Mediation Analysis for Childhood Cancer Survival Disparity in Texas, 2005 to 2014. Journal of Community Medicine and Health Solutions, 5(1), 023-030. (DOI:10.29328/journal.jcmhs.1001044)
• Christina W. Lopez, & Russell Weaver. (2023). What influences where volunteers practice environmental stewardship? The role of scale(s) in sorting stewards. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 66(9), 1983-2008. (DOI:10.1080/09640568.2022.2049596)
• Russell Weaver. (2021). Back to the Future of Local Elections: Reestablishing Resident Voting Rights to Strengthen Municipal Democracy  . High Road Policy, 2(4).
• Russell Weaver. (2021). The Raise the Wage Act Could Lower Housing Cost Burden and Advance Racial Equity. High Road Policy, 2(1).
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Chartering an Inclusive, Sustainable, Democratic City  . High Road Policy, 1(4).
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Defining and Advancing High Road Policy Concepts, Strategies, and Tactics. High Road Policy, 1(2SE).
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Economic Development on Common Ground: Two Bipartisan State Policies for Defunding Low Road Infrastructure. High Road Policy, 1(2).
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Prioritizing Racial Equity and Social Justice in New York State. High Road Policy, 1(3).
• Chunhong Zhao, Jennifer L. Jensen, Qihao Weng, Nathan Currit, & Russell Weaver. (2020). Use of Local Climate Zones to investigate surface urban heat islands in Texas. GIScience & Remote Sensing, 57(8), 1083-1101. (DOI:10.1080/15481603.2020.1843869)
• Chunhong Zhao, Jennifer L.R. Jensen, & Russell Weaver. (2020). Global and Local Modeling of Land Use Change in the Border Cities of Laredo, Texas, USA and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico: A Comparative Analysis. Land, 9(10), 347. (DOI:10.3390/land9100347)
• Jason Knight, & Russell Weaver. (2020). Strategic demolition for shrinking and shrunken cities: A case study from Buffalo, NY, USA. Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 14(1), 51. (DOI:10.69554/gbxw3562)
• Milad Mohammadalizadehkorde, & Russell Weaver. (2020). Quantifying potential savings from sustainable energy projects at a large public university: An energy efficiency assessment for texas state university. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 37, 100570. (DOI:10.1016/j.seta.2019.100570)
• Autumn Lennartz, Michelle D. Hamilton, & Russell Weaver. (2020). Moisture Content in Decomposing, Desiccated, and Mummified Human Tissue. Forensic Anthropology, 3(1), 1-16. (DOI:10.5744/fa.2020.1001)
• Christina Lopez, & Russell Weaver. (2019). Placing Intentional Communities in Geography. Journal of Geography, 118(5), 197-209. (DOI:10.1080/00221341.2019.1616803)
• Chris Holtkamp, & Russell Weaver. (2019). Place Identity and Social Capital in an Appalachian Town. Journal of Appalachian Studies, 25(1), 49-71. (DOI:10.5406/jappastud.25.1.0049)
• Chunhong Zhao, Jennifer Jensen, Qihao Weng, Nathan Currit, & Russell Weaver. (2019). Application of airborne remote sensing data on mapping local climate zones: Cases of three metropolitan areas of Texas, U.S.. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 74, 175-193. (DOI:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.11.002)
• Jason Knight, Russell Weaver, & Paula Jones. (2018). Walkable and resurgent for whom? The uneven geographies of walkability in Buffalo, New York. Applied Geography, 90(1), 175-186.
• Milad Mohammadalizadehkorde, & Russell Weaver. (2018). Universities as Models of Sustainable Energy-Consuming Communities? Review of Selected Literature. Sustainability, 10(9), 3250. (DOI:10.3390/su10093250)
• Chunhong Zhao, Jennifer Jensen, Qihao Weng, & Russell Weaver. (2018). A Geographically Weighted Regression Analysis of the Underlying Factors Related to the Surface Urban Heat Island Phenomenon. Remote Sensing, 10(9), 1428. (DOI:10.3390/rs10091428)
• Russell Weaver, & Jason Knight. (2018). Can Shrinking Cities Demolish Vacancy? An Empirical Evaluation of a Demolition-First Approach to Vacancy Management in Buffalo, NY, USA. Urban Science, 2(3), 69. (DOI:10.3390/urbansci2030069)
• Chris Holtkamp, Russell Weaver, & David R. Butler. (2018). The Rocky Mountains And The Southwest: Using Feature Names To Study Two Iconic Subregions In The American West. Geographical Review, 108(3), 410-432. (DOI:10.1111/gere.12262)
• Russell Weaver, & Jason Knight. (2018). Analysis of a multipronged community development initiative in two distressed neighbourhoods. Community Development Journal, 53(2), 301-320. (DOI:10.1093/cdj/bsx009)
• Russell Weaver. (2018). Exploring the Elements of Social Capital: Leverage Points and Creative Measurement Strategies for Community Building and Program Evaluation. National Civic Review, 107(1), 16-30. (DOI:10.1002/ncr.21359)
• Jason Knight, Russell Weaver, & Paula Jones. (2018). Walkable and resurgent for whom? The uneven geographies of walkability in Buffalo, NY. Applied Geography, 92, 1-11. (DOI:10.1016/j.apgeog.2018.01.008)
• Russell Weaver. (2018). Exploring the elements of social capital: leverage points and creative measurement strategies for community building. National Civic Review, 107(1), 16-30.
• Russell Weaver. (2017). Palliative planning in an American shrinking city – Some thoughts and preliminary policy analysis. Community Development, 48(3), 436-450. (DOI:10.1080/15575330.2016.1259644)
• Russell Weaver. (2016). Capacity-building and community resilience: a pilot analysis of education and employment indicators before and after an Extension intervention. Journal of Extension, 54(2), 2FEA1.
• Russell Weaver. (2016). Evolutionary Theory and Neighborhood Quality: A Multilevel Selection-inspired Approach to Studying Urban Property Conditions. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 11(2), 369-386. (DOI:10.1007/s11482-014-9328-0)
• Russell Weaver, & Chris Holtkamp. (2016). Determinants of Appalachian Identity: Using Vernacular Traces to Study Cultural Geographies of an American Region. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106(1), 203-221. (DOI:10.1080/00045608.2015.1090266)
• Russell Weaver, & Chris Holtkamp. (2015). Geographical theories of neighborhood change: from evolutionary theory to political economy…and back? . Geography Compass, 9, 286-302.
• Russell Weaver. (2015). The partisan geographies of sincere crossover voting behavior: evidence from North Carolina. The Professional Geographer, 67(2), 145-153.
• Russell Weaver. (2026). Toward a Definitional Framework for Urban Design. SSRN Electronic Journal. (DOI:10.2139/ssrn.3009419)
• Russell Weaver. (2015). A Cross-Level Exploratory Analysis of “Neighborhood Effects” on Urban Behavior: An Evolutionary Perspective. Social Sciences, 4(4), 1046-1066. (DOI:10.3390/socsci4041046)
• Russell Weaver. (2015). Critical Sustainabilities: Negotiating Sustainability’s Discursive Maze in the Classroom. Journal of Geography, 114(6), 223-234. (DOI:10.1080/00221341.2015.1008023)
• Russell Weaver. (2015). The Racial Context of Convenience Voting Cutbacks. Sage Open, 5(3). (DOI:10.1177/2158244015591825)
• Russell Weaver, & Chris Holtkamp. (2015). Geographical Approaches to Understanding Urban Decline: From Evolutionary Theory to Political Economy…and Back?. Geography Compass, 9(5), 286-302. (DOI:10.1111/gec3.12211)
• Russell Weaver. (2015). Can Voter Identification Laws Increase Electoral Participation in the United States? Probably Not—A Simple Model of the Voting Market. Sage Open, 5(2). (DOI:10.1177/2158244015580379)
• Russell Weaver. (2015). Littering in context(s): Using a quasi-natural experiment to explore geographic influences on antisocial behavior. Applied Geography, 57, 142-153. (DOI:10.1016/j.apgeog.2015.01.001)
• Russell Weaver, & Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen. (2015). Racially Polarized Voting in a Southern U.S. Election: How Urbanization and Residential Segregation Shape Voting Patterns. Review of Regional Studies, 45(1). (DOI:10.52324/001c.8065)
• Russell Weaver. (2014). Contextual Influences on Political Behavior in Cities: Toward Urban Electoral Geography. Geography Compass, 8(12), 874-891. (DOI:10.1111/gec3.12186)
• Russell Weaver. (2014). Evolutionary analysis of neighborhood decline using multilevel selection theory. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 104(4), 765-783.
• Russell Weaver, & Jason Knight. (2014). Evolutionary Mismatch as a General Framework for Land Use Policy and Politics. Land, 3(2), 504-523. (DOI:10.3390/land3020504)
• Russell Weaver. (2013). Re-framing the urban blight problem with trans-disciplinary insights from ecological economics. Ecological Economics, 90, 168-176.

Research Reports

• Russell Weaver, & Cathy Creighton. (2025). Lower Pay and Greater Barriers to Success: An Examination of Gender Inequality in the Erie County, NY Labor Market.
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Erasing Red Lines: Epilogue-Where Do We Go From Here?.
• Russell Weaver. (2019). Buffalo Niagara's Union Members: Good Neighbors and Active Citizens.
• Russell Weaver. (2019). Erasing Red Lines: Part 1 - Geographies of Discrimination .
• Russell Weaver. (2019). Erasing Red Lines: Part 2-Systems Thinking for Social and Community Change.
• Russell Weaver. (2019). Erasing Red Lines: Part 3 – Building community wealth.

Policy Report

• Michael Lenmark, Megan Thorsfeldt, Anne DeCecco, Russell Weaver, Jillian Morley, Zoë West, Anne Marie Brady, & Avalon Hoek Spaans. (2025). Empire State Poll 2025.
• Zoe West, Russell Weaver, & KC Wagner. (2022). Unvarnished: Precarity and Poor Working Conditions for Nail Salon Workers in New York.
• Russell Weaver, & Jason Knight. (2021). Engaging the Future of Housing in the Buffalo-Niagara Region: A Preliminary Exploration of Challenges that Lie Ahead.
• Russell Weaver, & Jason Knight. (2020). Advancing Housing Security: An Analysis of Renting, Rent Burden, and Tenant Exploitation in Erie County, NY.
• Russell Weaver. (2020). Building “Next Generation” Democratic Workplaces to Reduce Inequality and Empower Workers: Evidence and Policy Implications from Buffalo-Niagara.

Book Chapters

• Russell Weaver. (2017). Growth, development, and housing stock quality in the administrative Appalachian region. Routledge.
• Russell Weaver, & Joshua Dyck. (2013). New York redistricting in action: legislative inaction and judicial enaction. (pp. 395-422). Lexington Books.

Books

• Russell Weaver, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Jason Knight, & Amy Frazier. (2016). Shrinking cities: understanding urban decline in the United States, 1st edition. Routledge.
• Russell Weaver, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Jason Knight, & Amy E. Frazier. (2016). Shrinking Cities. Routledge.