Publications

On this page you can find information about my publications in various forms.  I’ll try to keep this as up-to-date as possible and provide links to the most recent version of published or pre-published files.  If you’re interested in any of the publications, please contact me.

Opinion/Editorials in Popular Press

Doyle, Martin and Todd BenDor.  “Stream Restoration: Who Really Benefits?”  Op-Ed in Raleigh News and Observer (Raleigh, NC: December 16, 2009)  [Also Online]: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/columnists_blogs/other_views/story/242385.html.  [Note: Also supported by News and Observer Editorial: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/story/246211.html

BenDor, Todd, Adam Riggsbee, and George Howard.  "Mitigation Bankers Say New Rule Heightens Old Conflicts:  Survey". Op-Ed in Ecosytem Marketplace (Washington, DC: November 20, 2009) [Online]: http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/pages/dynamic/article.page.php?page_id=7150&section=home

BenDor, Todd and Hannah Berg.  ”A New Form of Water-Quality Protection,” Op-Ed in Raleigh News and Observer (Raleigh, NC: November 1, 2009)  [Also Online]: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/columnists_blogs/other_views/story/166402.html

BenDor, Todd.  “BRAC Demands Require Creativity,” Op-Ed in Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, NC: July 9, 2009).  [Also Online]: http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2009/07/08/915698.

BenDor, Todd and Martin Doyle.  “Build the Environment, Too,” Op-Ed in Raleigh News and Observer (Raleigh, NC: March 5, 2009).  [Also Online]: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/columns/story/1428828.html. [Note: original title was "Stimulus in a Wet State"]

Peer Reviewed Articles in Academic Journals

14. BenDor, Todd K. and Martin Doyle.  Planning for Ecosystem Service Markets.  2010.  Journal of the American Planning Association 76(1):59-72 | LINK.

13. Hamstead, Zoe and Todd K. BenDor.  2010.  Nutrient Trading for Enhanced Water Quality: A Case Study of North Carolina’s Neuse River Compliance Association.  Environment and Planning: C 28(1):1-17. | LINK

12. BenDor, Todd K., Joel Sholtes, Martin Doyle.  2009.  Landscape Characteristics of a Stream and Wetland Mitigation Banking Program.  Ecological Applications 19(8): 2078-2092. | LINK

11. Metcalf, Sara S., Emily Wheeler, Todd K. BenDor, Ken Lubinski, and Bruce M. Hannon. Sharing the Floodplain: Finding Common Ground through Mediated Modeling. Environmental Modelling and Software (In Press – Available Online). | LINK

10. BenDor, Todd K. Jim Westervelt, J.P. Aurambout, and William Meyer.  2009.  Simulating Population Variation and Movement within Fragmented Landscapes: A Spatial Dynamic Model of the Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus).  Ecological Modelling 220: 867-878. | LINK

9. Scheffran, Jurgen, Todd K. BenDor, and Bruce M. Hannon.  2009.  Bioenergy and Land Use: A Spatial-Agent Dynamic Model of Energy Crop Production in Illinois.  International Journal of Environment and Pollution 39(1/2): 4-27. | LINK

8. BenDor, Todd K., Jurgen Scheffran, and Bruce M. Hannon.  2009.  Ecological and Economic Sustainability in Fishery Management: A Multi-Agent Model for Understanding Competition and Cooperation.  Ecological Economics 68(4): 1061-1073. | LINK

7. BenDor, Todd K.  2009.  A Dynamic Analysis of the Wetland Mitigation Process and Its Effects on No Net Loss Policy.  Landscape and Urban Planning 89: 17-27. | LINK

6. BenDor, Todd K., Nicholas Brozovic, and Varkki George Pallathucheril.  2008.  The Social Impacts of Wetland Mitigation Policies in the United States.  Journal of Planning Literature 22: 341-357. | LINK

5. BenDor, Todd K. and Nicholas Brozovic.  2007.  Determinants of Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Compensatory Wetland Mitigation.  Environmental Management, 40(3): 349-364, | LINK

  • For a truncated version, see: BenDor, Todd and Nicholas Brozovic.  2007.  The Role of Regulatory Change on Wetlands Mitigation.  The National Wetlands Newsletter, 29(4): 10-13, 21. | LINK

4. BenDor, Todd K., Nicholas Brozovic, and Varkki George Pallathucheril.  2007.  Assessing the Socioeconomic Impacts of Wetland Mitigation in the Chicago Region.  Journal of the American Planning Association 73(3): 263-282. | LINK

3. BenDor, Todd K., Sara S. Metcalf, Lauren E. Fontenot, and Brandi Sangunett.  2006.  Modeling the Emerald Ash Borer Spread: A Decision Support System for Invasive Species Eradication.  Ecological Modelling, 197: 221-236. | LINK

2. BenDor, Todd K. and Sara S. Metcalf.  2006.  The Spatial Dynamics of Invasive Species Spread.  System Dynamics Review, 22(1): 27-50. | LINK

1. BenDor, Todd K. and Andrew Ford.  2006.  Simulating a Combination of Feebates and Scrappage Incentives to Reduce Automobile Emissions.  Energy, 31: 1197-1214. | LINK

Academic Articles in Progress (i.e. “Working Papers” for Academic Journals)

BenDor, Todd K. and Adam Riggsbee.  An Analysis of Federal Efforts to Elevate Standards for Compensatory Mitigation.  (In Preparation).

BenDor, Todd K. and Nicholas Brozovic.  Wetland Mitigation Method Selection and Developer Decision-Making Processes (In Preparation).

BenDor, Todd K. and Timothy Green.  Toward a Theory of Spatially Dynamic Reference Modes and System Archetypes (In Preparation).

BenDor, Todd K. , James Westervelt, and Yan Song.  Creating Urban Recreational Open Space through Political Feedback: Integration into a Large-Scale Regional Land Use Change Model (In Preparation).

Scheffran, Jurgen, Todd K. BenDor, and Bruce M. Hannon.  A Multi-Agent Model of Sustainable Fishery Management off the Wisconsin Shore of Lake Michigan (In Preparation).

BenDor, Todd K. ,Yan Song, and Sara Metcalf.  Conceptualizing the Dynamics of Brownfield Redevelopment (In Preparation).

Book Chapters

Doyle, Martin and Todd K. BenDor. Markets for freshwater ecosystem services.  In: Water Markets. Edited by D. Gardener and R. Simmons.  Independent Institute Press: San Francisco, CA (Forthcoming). | LINK

BenDor, Todd K.  Flood Control.  In: The Encyclopedia of Issues in U.S. Public Policy, edited by Mark Rushefsky.  Gale Public Policy: Farmington Hills, MI.  (Forthcoming?  Book halted due to economic collapse?). | PDF

Jamison, Wesley, Todd. K. BenDor, Adrianne. L. Kolpak, and Maureen A. McDonnell.  2004.  Political and Social Risk Amplification of GMOs.  In: Handbook of Plant Biotechnology, edited by Paul Christou.  London: John Wiley & Sons. | LINKPDF

Other Publications

BenDor, Todd K. and Adam Riggsbee. A National Survey of Federal Mitigation Regulations and their Impacts on Wetland and Stream Banking. Report to the National Mitigation Banking Association (NMBA) (Orlando, FL).

Berke, Phillip, Todd BenDor, Dave Salvesen, Yan Song and Nora Lenahan.  2009.  “Building Local Government Capacity to Manage Growth in Eastern North Carolina.”  A Report to support the Southeast Regional Partnership for Planning and Sustainability (SERPPAS).  Center for Sustainable Community Design, Institute for the Environment.  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Chapel Hill, NC.

BenDor, Todd K., Jeff M. Bielicki, Brian S. Powell, and Derrick T. Robinson.  2004.  Modeling Feedback Mechanisms Between Land Use and Climate Change.  Proceedings of the 2004 Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, Santa Fe, NM (June 6–July 3, 2004).  Paper and plenary session presentation.