Faculty

Bruce M. Hannon

Bruce Hannon
  • Jubilee Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences,
    Professor of Geography and
    The National Center for Supercomputer
    Applications (NCSA), Honors Faculty.
  • Affiliate: National Center for Supercomputing
    Applications
    Illinois Natural History Survey
    Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
    Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
    Bioengineering
    Campus Honors Program
  • Ph.D. 1970, University of Illinois,
    Engineering Mechanics
  • Research interests: Ecological, Economic, Energy
    Systems, Conservation, Resource Utilization.
    Conservation and employment impacts of
    changes in technology and consumption.
  • Office: 133 Davenport Hall
  • Phone: 333-0348
  • Fax: 217 244-1785
  • E-mail: bhannon@uiuc.edu

  • Example Spatial Dynamic Models
Bruce Hannon has completed several research projects funded by NSF, U.S. Department of Energy and the University's Energy Research Group in Energy involving energy-economic input-output modeling. State of Illinois support has been directed towards and the modeling of ecologic systems.

Courses

Recent Publications

A Sense of Place, presented at the workshop on Religion and the Environment, 3-5 June, 2008

Articles in Periodicals (* Denotes refereed publications)

*Ecologcial Network Analysis: network construction, (w/B. Fath, U. Scharler, R. Ulanowicz), Ecological Modeling, 208, 49-55, 2007.

*From Complex Conflicts to Stable Cooperation: Cases in Environment and Security, w/ Jurgen Scheffran, first author, Complexity, 13-2, 78-91, 2007.

*Scheffran, Jurgen, Todd K. BenDor, and Bruce M. Hannon.   An Exploration of Competition and Cooperation through a Multi-Agent Dynamic-Game Model of Fishery Management.  Proceedings of the 24th International System Dynamics Conference, Nijmegen, Netherlands (July 17-21, 2005). 

* Rackless Striking, NAWCC bulletin, 48/3, No. 362, June 2006.

*Modeling the Spread of the Emerald Ash Borer: A Knowledgebase for Future Eradication Strategies, BenDor, Todd K., Varkki George Pallathucheril, and Bruce M. Hannon. Associated Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Conference, Kansas City, MO October 27-30, 2005

*Pathways to environmental change, Ecol. Econ, 52, 417-420, 2005.

*Spatial Discounting, Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, 3:605-612, 2005.
*Democracy and Sense of Place Values in Environmental Policy, with Bryan Norton, first author, in Environmental Ethics, A. Light and H. Rolston, eds., 500:515, 2003.

*A computer simulation of the prevention of the transmission of Toxoplasma gondii on swine farms using a feline T. gondii vaccine, with N. Mateus-Pinilla and R. Weigel, Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 55-1, 17-36, 2002.


*Dancing on the Dredges, Illinois Steward, 10-3:23-26, Fall 2001.

*Spatial Discounting: Endogenous Preferences and the Valuation of Geographically Distributed Environmental Externalities, with C. Perrings (first author), Journal of Regional Science, 41-1:23-38, 2001.

*Ecological Pricing and Economic Efficiency, Ecological Economics, 36, 19-30, 2001.

*A Dynamic Model of the Spatial Spread of an Infectious Disease: The Case of Fox Rabies in Illinois, with Brian Deal, Cheryl Farello, Mary Lancaster, Thomas Kompare, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 5:47-62, 2000.

*How might nature value man?, Ecological Economics, 25-3::265-280, 1998.

*The use of analogy in biology and economics: From biology to economics, and back, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 1997, 8:471-488.

*The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital, Nature, 1997, 387-6230:253-260, with: Robert Costanza, Ralph d'Arge, Rudolf de Groot, Stephen Farber, Monica Grasso, Karin Limburg, Shahid Naeem, Robert V. O'Neill, Jose Paruelo, Robert G. Raskin, Paul Sutton & Marjan van den Belt.

*Dynamic Modeling of Business Strategies, w/P. Gorman, T. Nelson and H. Thomas, in: Statistical Models for Strategic Management, M. Ghertman, et al, eds., 1997, Kluwer Acad., Netherlands, 159-183.

*Environmental values: A place-based approach, (B. Norton, first author), Envir. Ethics, 1997, 19-4:227-246.

*A sense of time and place: an introduction to spatial discounting, Conf. Proc. Ecolgy, Society, Economy, Université de Versailles, May 1996, Plenary Session. C. Perrings, first author.

*Input-Output Economics and Ecology, a special editon of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, in honor of Nobel Laureate W. Leontieff, Duchin, F., ed. , 1995, 6-3:331-333.

* Sense of Place: Geographic Discounting by People, Animals and Plants, Ecol. Econ., 1994, 10:157-174.

*Specialization and Synthesis in Agriculture: the Advent of Frugiculture, J. Sust. Ag.,1995, 7-1:89-97.

*in loco naturae, Change, Nov-Dec 1995, 27-6;58-63.(PDF file: requires Acrobat plug-in)

*Input-Output Economics and Ecology, a special editon of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, in honor of Nobel Laureate W. Leontieff, Dcuhin, F., ed. , 1995, 6-3:331-333.

A ten-million acre national wetland acre park, 1994, Ecological Economics, 9:187-189. Comentary.

*A physical view of sustainability, w/M. Ruth and E. Delucia, 1993, Ecological Economics, 8:253-268.

*The authentic restoration of an 1878 tower clock, w/M. Dorneich, first author, 1992, NAWCC Bull., 34/6, 281:694-702.

*Modeling Monkeys: A comparison of computer generated and empirical measures. w/ Paul Garber, first author, 1993, Int. J. Primatology, 14-6:827-852.

*Optimal growth of Helianthus Annuus, 1993, J. Theo. Biol., 165:523-31.

*A General Accounting Framework For Ecological Systems: A Functional Taxonomy for Connectivist Ecology, with R. Costanza and R. Ulanowicz, 1991, Theoretical Population Biology, 40-1:78-104.

*Biowealth Discounting in Ecosystems, (Shmuel Amir, first author), Spec. in Sci.and Tech., 1992, 15-3:228-237.

*Empirical Cyclic Stabilization of an Oyster Reef Ecosystem, 1991, J. Theo. Biol., 149:507-519.

*Accounting in Ecological Systems, 1991, Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability, R. Costanza, ed., Columbia University Press, 234-252.

*Biological Time Value, Math. Bio Sci., 1990, 100:115-140

*The Forgetting Rate, Landscape Journal 9-1, 1990:l6-21

Books


Dynamic Modeling, w/Matthias Ruth, Springer-Verlag, 1994.

Dynamic Modeling of Economic Systems, w/ M. Ruth, first author, Springer-Verlag, 1997.

Dynamic Modeling in Ecology, w/M. Ruth, Springer-Verlag, 1997.

Dynamic Modeling of Business Systems, w/B. McGarvey, Springer-Verlag,2003.

Dynamic Modeling of Disease and Pestst, w/M. Ruth, in preparation.

Book Chapters (* Denotes refereed publication)

* A Dynamic Model of the Spatial Spread of an Infectious Disease: The Case of Fox Rabies in Illinois, Deal, B., Farello, C., Lancaster, M. Kompare, T., Hannon, B., in: Costanza, R. and A. Voinov (eds). Spatially Explicit Landscape Simulation Modeling. Springer, New York, 2003

*Democracy and Sense of Place Values in Environmental Policy, in Philosophies of Place, Bryan Norton, first author, A. Light and J. Smith, eds., Rowman and Littlefield, New York, 119-146, 1998.

*Multicommodity ecosystem analysis: dealing with the "Mixed Units" problem in flow and compartmental analysis, w/R. Costanza first author, in: Complex Ecology, B. Patten and S. Jorgensen, eds., Prentice-Hall, Englewood-Cliffs, NJ. 1995, 485-508.

*The natural ecosystem as a standard for sustainability; a thermodynamic approach (with: Ruth, M. and E. DeLucia), 1994, in: Sustainable Agriculture in the American Midwest, G. McIsaac and W. Edwards, eds., Univ. of Illinois Press, 125-143.

*Multicommodity ecosystem analysis: dealing with the "Mixed Units" problem in flow and compartmental analysis, w/R. Costanza first author, 485-508, Chapter 19, Prentice-Hall, Englewood-Cliffs, NJ. 1995.

*The natural ecosystem as a standard for sustainability; a thermodynamic approach (with: Ruth, M. and E. DeLucia), 1994, in: Sustainable Agriculture in the American Midwest, G. McIsaac and W. Edwards, eds., Univ. of Illinois Press, 125-143.

*Measures of Econmic and Ecological Health, in: Ecosystem Health, R. Costanza, B. Norton and B. Haskell, eds., Island Press, Washington, DC, 207-221, 1992.

*Accounting in Ecological Systems, Ecological Economics: the Science and Management of Sustainability, R. Costanza, ed., Columbia Universtiy Press, Chap. 16, 234-252, 1991.