Robert W. Kates

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2012

Kates, R. W. 2012. Natural Hazards, Climate Change, and Adaptation: Persistent Questions and Answers. South Australian Geographical Journal, vol.111, pp. 43-55.

Kates, R.W., W.R. Travis, and T.J. Wilbanks, 2012. Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 109, No. 19, pp. 7156-7161, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1115521109.

2011

Kates, R. W., ed. 2011. From the Unity of Nature to Sustainability Science: Ideas and Practice. CID Working Paper No. 218. Center for International Development, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University.

Kates, R. W. 2011. Gilbert F. White, 1911-2006, A Biographical Memoir. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.

Kates, R.W., 2011. What kind of a science is sustainability science? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 108, No. 49, 99. 19449-19450, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1116097108

2010

Kates, R. W., ed. 2010. Readings in Sustainability Science and Technology. CID Working Paper No. 213. Center for International Development, Harvard University.

Wilbanks, T. J. and Kates, R. W., 2010. Beyond Adapting to Climate Change: Embedding Adaptation in Responses to Multiple Threats and Stresses, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(4) pp. 719 - 728.

2008

Colten, C. E., R. W. Kates, and S. B. Laska, 2008. Community Resilience: Lessons From New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina, CARRI Research Report 3, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Colten, C. E., R. W. Kates, and S. B. Laska, 2008. Three Years after Katrina: Lessons for Community Resilience, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 50(5), pp. 36-47.

Kates, R. W. and I. Burton, 2008. Gilbert F. White, 1911–2006: Local Legacies, National Achievements, and Global Visions, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98(2) pp. 1-8.

2007

Kates, R. W. and P. Dasgupta, 2007. African Poverty: A Grand Challenge for Sustainability Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(43), pp. 16747-16750.

2006

Kates, R., A. A. Leiserowitz, and T. M. Parris, 2006. Great Transition Values: Present Attitudes, Future ChangesIn Orion Kriegman and Paul Raskin eds. Frontiers of a Great Transtion : GTI paper series No. 9 Tellus Institute.

Kates, R. W., C. E. Colten, S. Laska, and S. P. Leatherman, 2006. Reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina: A Research Perspective, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(40), pp. 14653-14660.

Leiserowitz, A A., R W. Kates, and T M. Parris, 2006. Sustainability Values, Attitudes and Behaviors: A Review Of Multi-National And Global Trends, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 31(1), pp. 413-444.

2005

Kates, R., T. M. Parris, and A. A. Leiserowitz, 2005. What is Sustainable Development: Goals, Indicators, Values, and Practice, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 47(3), pp. 9-21.

Leiserowitz, A. A., R. W. Kates, and T. M. Parris, 2005. Do Global Attitudes and Behaviors Support Sustainable Development?, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 47(9, pp. 23-39.

Leiserowitz, A. A., R. W. Kates, and T. M. Parris, 2005. Sustainability Values, Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Review of Multi-National and Global Trends, CID Working Paper No. 113, Science, Environment, and Development Group, Center for International Development, Harvard University.

2004

Mabogunje, A. L., and R. W. Kates, 2004. Sustainable Development in Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria: The Role of Social Capital, Participation, and Science and Technology. CID Working Paper No. 102, Science, Environment, and Development Group, Center for International Development, Harvard University.

2003

Kates, R. W., 2003. The Nexus and the Neem Tree; Globalization and a Transition Toward Sustainability, in J.G. Speth, ed. Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment, Island Press, pp. 85-107.

Kates, R. W., 2003. Sustainability Science, in Transition to Sustainability in the 21st Century: The Contribution of Science and Technology. National Academies Press, pp. 140-145.

Kates, R. W. and T. M. Parris, 2003. Long-Term Trends and a Sustainability Transition, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 100, No.14, pp. 8062-8067.

Kates, R. W. and T. J. Wilbanks, 2003. Making the Global Local: Responding to Climate Change Concerns from the Ground Up, Environment, Vol. 45, No. 3, pp.12-23.

Parris, T. M. and R. W. Kates, 2003. Characterizing and Measuring Sustainable Development, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, pp 559-586.

Parris, T. M. and R. W. Kates, 2003. Characterizing a Sustainability Transition: Goals, Targets, Trends, and Driving Forces, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100(14), pp. 8068-8073.

2001

Kates, R. W., 2001. Queries on the Human Use of the Earth. Annual Review of Energy and Environment, vol.26, pp.1-26.

Kates, R. W., 2001. Sustainability Transition: Human-Environment Relationship, In N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (eds.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Pergamon, pp. 15325-15329.

Kates, R. W., W. C. Clark, R. Corell, J. M. Hall, C., et al., 2001. Sustainability science, Science, Vol. 292, p. 641-642.

White, G. F., R. W. Kates, and I. Burton, 2001. Knowing Better and Losing Even More: the Use of Knowledge in Hazards Management, Environmental Hazards, Vol. 3, pp. 81-92.

2000

Kates, R. W., 2000. Cautionary Tales: Adaptation and the Global Poor, Climatic Change, Vol.45, pp. 5-17.

Kates, R. W., 2000. Population and Consumption: What We Know, What We Need to Know, Environment, Vol. 42. No. 3, pp10-19.

1999

Wilbanks, T. J. and R. W. Kates, 1999. Global Change in Local Places: How Scale Matters, Climatic Change, 43(3):601-628.

1998

Kates, R. W. and R. D. Torrie, 1998. Global Change in Local Places, Environment, Vol. 40. No. 2, pp. 5, 39-41.

Kates, R. W., M. W. Mayfield, R. D. Torrie, and B. Witcher, 1998. Methods for Estimating Greenhouse Gases from Local Places, Local Environment. Vol. 3, No.3, pp. 279-297.

1996

Kates, R. W., 1996. Ending Hunger: Current Status and Prospects, Consequences, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 3-11.

Kates, R. W., 1996. Ending Hunger: 1999 and Beyond, in Ellen. Messer and Peter Uvin eds. The Hunger Report: 1995, Gordon and Breach, pp.229-245.

Kates, R. W., 1996. Population, Technology, and the Human Environment: A Thread Through Time, Daedalus Vol.125 No. 3, pp.1-29.

Kates, R. W. and W. C. Clark, 1996. Environmental Surprise: Expecting the Unexpected, Environment, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 6-11, 28-34.

1995

Kates, R. W., 1995. Presidential Address: Labnotes from the Jeremiah Experiment: Hope for a Sustainable Transition, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 85 No.4, pp. 623-640.

1994

Chen, R. S. and R. W. Kates, 1994. World Food Security: Prospects and Trends, Thomas E. Downing and Martin L. Parry, eds. Climate Change and World Food Security, a special issue of Food Policy Vol. 19 No.2, pp.192-208.

Turner II, B. L., R. W. Kates, and W. B. Meyer, 1994. The Earth As Transformed by Human Action, in Retrospect ,Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol.84 No. 4, pp. 711-715; 729-731.

1992

Kates, R.W., 1992. Meeting Human Needs in a Changing World, in Robert S. Chen, ed. Sharing Experiences: How to End Half the World's Hunger by the Year 2000, Fifth Annual Hunger Research Briefing and Exchange, Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program, pp.1-6.

Kates, R. W. and V. Haarmann, 1992. Where the Poor Live: Are the Assumptions Correct?, Environment, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 4-11, 25-28.

1990

Brown University Faculty (prepared in behalf by J. X. Kasperson and R. W. Kates], 1990. Overcoming Hunger: Promising Programmes and Policies, Food Policy, Vol.15, No. 4, pp.286-298.

Kasperson, J. X. and R. W. Kates, 1990. Introduction: Halving Hunger, Food Policy, Vol.15, No. 4, pp. 274-276.

Kasperson, J. X. and R. W. Kates (eds.), 1990. Overcoming Hunger in the 1990s, a special issue of Food Policy, Vol.15, No. 4, pp.273-368.

Kates, R. W., 1990. Bellagio: The Next Steps, Why Magazine, No.5, pp.22-23.

Kates, R. W., 1990. Halving Hunger in the 1990s, in Robert S. Chen ed. The Hunger Report: 1990 Providence: The Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program, Brown University, pp. 73-82.

Kates, R. W. and S. Millman, 1990. On Ending Hunger: The Lessons of History, in L.F. Newman et al. (eds.), Hunger in History: Food Stroage, Poverty, and Deprivation, Blackwell, pp. 389-410.

Millman, S. and R. W. Kates, 1990. Toward Understanding Hunger, in: Lucile F. Newman et al. (eds.), Hunger in History: Food Shortage, Poverty, and Deprivation. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 3-24.

Newman, L. F., A. Boegehold, D. Herlihy, R. W. Kates, and K. Raaflaub, 1990. Agricultural Intensification, Urbanization, and Hierarchy, in L. F. Newman, et al. (eds.), Hunger in History: Food Storage, Poverty, and Deprivation, Blackwell, pp.101-125.

Ward, H. R. and R. W. Kates, 1990. Will Rhode Island Be the First Green State?, Environment, October 1990, Vol. 32, No. 8, pp. 10-15, 34-38.

1989

Kates, R. W., R. S. Chen, T. E. Downing, J. X. Kasperson, E. Messer, and S. R. Millman, 1989. The Hunger Report: Update 1989. The Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program, Brown University.

1988

Kates, R.W., R. S. Chen, T. E. Downing, J. X. Kasperon, E. Messer, and S. R. Millman, 1988. The Hunger Report: 1988. Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program, Brown University.

1987

Kates, R. W., 1987. Ending Hunger for the Second Billion, Currents: The Journal of Food, Nutrition and Health, Vol. 3, No.1, pp.7-14.

Kates, R. W., 1987. The Human Environment: The Road Not Taken, The Road Still Beckoning, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 77, No. 4, pp. 525-534.

Kates, R.W., 1987. The World of Hunger, Rhode Island Medical Journal, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 65-68.

1986

Burton, I. and R. W. Kates, 1986. The Great Climacteric, 1798-2048: The Transition to a Just and Sustainable Human Environment, in Robert W. Kates and Ian Burton (eds.), Geography, Resources, and Environment, Volume II, Themes from the Work of Gilbert F. White, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 339-360.

1985

Derr, P., R. Goble, R. E. Kasperson, and R. W. Kates, 1985. Protecting Workers, Protecting Publics: The Ethics of Differential Protection, in Chris Whipple and Vincent T. Covello (eds)., Risk Analysis in the Private Sector, New York: Plenum Press, pp. 257-269.

Harriss, R. C., C. Hohenemser, and R. W. Kates, 1985. Human and Nonhuman Mortality, in Robert W. Kates, Christoph Hohenemser, and Jeanne X. Kasperson (eds.), Perilous Progress: Managing the Hazards of Technology, Westview Press, pp. 129-155.

Hohenemser, C., R. E. Kasperson, and R. W. Kates, 1985. Causal Structure, in Robert W. Kates, Christoph Hohenemser, and Jeanne X. Kasperson (eds.), Perilous Progress: Managing the Hazards of Technology, Westview Press, pp. 25-42.

Hohenemser, C., R. E. Kasperson, and R. W. Kates, 1985. Nuclear Power, in Robert W. Kates, Christoph Hohenemser, and Jeanne X. Kasperson (eds.), Perilous Progress: Managing the Hazards of Technology, Westview Press, pp. 219-250.

Hohenemser, C., R. W. Kates, and P. Slovic, 1985. A Casual Taxonomy, in Robert W. Kates, Christoph Hohenemser, and Jeanne X. Kasperson (eds.), Perilous Progress: Managing the Hazards of Technology, Westview Press, pp. 67-89.

Kane, D. N. and R. W. Kates, 1985. Environmental Hazards and the Lives of Children, in Dorothy Noyes Kane (ed.), Environmental Hazards to Young Children, Oryx Press, pp. 1-9.

Kane, D. N. and R. W. Kates, 1985. Hazard Management for the Next Decade, in Dorothy Noyes Kane (ed.), Environmental Hazards to Young Children, Oryx Press, pp. 227- 237.

Kasperson, R. E., R. W. Kates, and C. Hohenemser, 1985. Hazard Management, in Robert W. Kates, Christoph Hohenemser, and Jeanne X. Kasperson (eds.), Perilous Progress: Managing the Hazards of Technology, Westview Press, pp. 43-66.

Kates, R. W., 1985. Foreword, Part I Overview, Part II Biosphysical Impacts, Part III Social and Economic Impacts and Adjustments, Part IV Integrated Assessment, in Robert W. Kates, Jesse H. Ausubel and Mimi Berberian (eds), Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society, John Wiley, pp. 1-2, 103-104, 247-249, 465-467.

Kates, R. W., 1985. Hazard Assessment: Art, Science, and Ideology, in Robert W. Kates, Christoph Hohenemser, and Jeanne X. Kasperson (eds.), Perilous Progress: Managing the Hazards of Technology, Westview Press, pp. 251-264.

Kates, R. W., 1985. The Interaction of Climate and Society, in Robert W. Kates, Jesse H. Ausubel and Mimi Berberian (eds), Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society, John Wiley, pp. 3-36.

Kates, R. W., 1985. Success, Strain, and Surprise, Issues in Science and Technology, Vol. 2, No. 1.

Kates, R. W., C. Hohenemser, and J. X. Kasperson, 1985. Introduction: Coping With Technological Hazards, in Robert W. Kates, Christoph Hohenemser, and Jeanne X. Kasperson (eds.), Perilous Progress: Managing the Hazards of Technology, Westview Press, pp. 1-19.

1984

Kates, R. W., S. A. Changnon, Jr., T. R. Karl and W. Riebsame, 1984. The Climate Impact Perception and Adjustment Experiment (CLIMPAX): A Proposal for Collaborative Research Worcester: Climate and Society Research Group, Clark University, Center for Technology, Environment, and Development.

1983

Derr, P., R. Goble, and R. E. Kasperson, and R. W. Kates, 1983. Responding to the Double Standard of Worker/Public Protection, Environment, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 6-11, 35-36.

Hohenemser, C., et al. and R. W. Kates, 1983. Methods for Analyzing and Comparing Technological Hazards: Definitions and Factor Structures, CENTED Research Report No. 3. Worcester, MA: Clark University, Center for Technology, Environment, and Development (CENTED).

Hohenemser, C., R. W. Kates, and P. Slovic, 1983. The Nature of Technological Hazard, Science, Vol. 220, No. 4495 pp. 378-384.

Kasperson, J. X. and R. W. Kates, 1983. Comparative Risk Analysis of Technological Hazards (A Review), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A. 80, pp. 7027-7038.

Kasperson, R. E., P. Derr, and R. W. Kates, 1983. Confronting Equity in Radioactive Waste Management: Modest Proposals for a Socially Just and Acceptable Program, in Roger E. Kasperson (ed.), Equity Issues in Radioactive Waste Management, Cambridge, MA: Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, pp. 331-368.

Kates, R. W., 1983. The Human Environment: Penultimate Problems of Survival, The 1983 Reuben G. Gustavson Memorial Lecture, Boulder, CO: Institute of Behavioral Science, Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center Special Publication No. 6.

Kates, R. W., 1983. Part and Apart: Issues in Humankind's Relationship to the Natural World, in F. Kenneth Hare (ed.), The Experiment of Life: Science and Religion, University of Toronto Press, pp. 151-180.

Kates, R. W., and B. Braine, 1983. Locus, Equity, and the West Valley Nuclear Wastes, in Roger E. Kasperson (ed.), Equity Issues in Radioactive Waste Management, Oelgeschlager, Gunn and Hain, pp. 94-117.

1982

Downing, T. E. and R. W. Kates, 1982. The International Response to the Threat of Chloroflurocarbon to Atmospheric Ozone, The American Economic Review 72, No. 2, May pp. 267-272.

Hohenemser, C., R. E. Kasperson, and R. W. Kates, 1982. Causal Structure: A Framework for Policy Formulation, in C. Hohenemser and J.X. Kasperson (eds.), Risk in the Technological Society, AAAS Selected Symposium 65, Westview Press, pp. 109-139.

Kasperson, R.E., R. W. Kates, C. Hohenemser and J.X. Kasperson, 1982. Institutional Responses to Different Perceptions of Risks, in David L. Sills et al. (eds.), Accident at Three Mile Island: The Human Dimension, Westview Press, pp. 39-46.

1981

Bowden, M. J., R. W. Kates, P. A. Ray, W. E. Riebsame, R. A. Warrick, D. L. Johnson, H. A. Gould, and D. Wiener, 1981. The Effect of Climate Fluctuations on Human Populations: Two Hypotheses, in T.M.L. Wigley and G. Farmer (eds.), Climate and History: Studies in Past Climates and Their Impact on Man, Cambridge University Press, pp. 479-513.

Derr, P., R. Goble, R.E. Kasperson, and R. W. Kates, 1981. Worker/Public Protection: The Double Standard, Environment 23, No. 7, pp. 6-15, 31-36.

Kates, R. W., 1981. Improving the Science of Climate Impact Study, Proceedings of the Technical Conference on Climate-- Asia and Western Pacific Guangzhou, China, 15-20 December, 1980, World Meteorological Organization Pub. #578, pp. 446-449.

Kates, R. W., with the Governing Board Committee on the Assessment of Risk, 1981. The Handling of Risk Assessments in NRC Reports, A Report to the Governing Board, National Research Council, pp. 1-19.

1980

Berry, L. and R. W. Kates, 1980. Least Developed Nations, in Leonard Berry and Robert W. Kates (eds)., Making the Most of the Least: Alternative Ways to Development, Holmes and Meier, pp. 243-253.

Kates, R. W.,1980. Drought Impact in the Sahelian-Sudanic Zone of West Africa: A Comparative Analysis of 1910-15 and 1968-74, Office of Evaluation Working Paper No. 32.

1979

Bick, T., C. Hohenemser, and R. W. Kates, 1979. Target: Highway Risks, II, the Government Regulators, Environment 21, pp. 6-15, 29-38.

Harris, R. C., C. Hohenemser, and R. W. Kates, 1979. The Burden of Technological Hazards, in G.T. Goodman and W.D. Rowe (eds.), Energy Risk Management, Academic Press, pp. 103-137.

Kasperson, J.X., R.E. Kasperson, C. Hohenemser, and R. W. Kates, 1979. Institutional Responses to Three Mile Island, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 35, No. 10, pp. 20-24.

Kates, R. W., 1979. The Australian Experience: Summary and Prospect, Natural Hazards in Australia, Australian Academy of Sciences, pp. 511-520.

Kates, R. W., 1979. Climate and Society: Lessons from Recent Events, Proceedings of the World Climate Conference, Geneva: World Meteorological Organization Publication No. 387, pp. 682-691.

Kates, R. W. and W. M. Todd, 1979. The Scientists' Dilemma: Conflict between Concerns for Human Rights and the Imperative to Communicate, Science, Technology and Human Values Vol. 4, pp. 4-10.

1978

Baruch F., C. Hohenemser, R. E. Kasperson, and R. W. Kates, 1978. Handling Hazards, Environment 20, pp. 16-20, 32-37.

Harriss, R. C., C. Hohenemser, and R. W. Kates, 1978. Our Hazardous Environment, Environment 20, pp. 6-15, 38-41.

Kates, R. W., 1978. The Automobile as Hazard: The Failure to Respond, in Gerald J. Karaska and Judith B. Gertler (eds.), Transportation, Technology and Society: Future Options, Clark University Press, pp. 46-59.

Kates, R. W., 1978. Human Issues in Human Rights, Science, Vol. 201 pp. 502-506.

1977

Hare, F. K., R. W. Kates, and A. Warren, 1977. The Making of Deserts: Climate, Ecology, and Society, Economic Geography, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 332-346.

Hohenemser, C., R. Kasperson, and R. W. Kates, 1977. The Distrust of Nuclear Power, Science, Vol. 196, pp. 25-43.

Kates, R. W., 1977. Assessing the Assessors: The Art and Ideology of Risk Assessment, Ambio, Vol. VI, No. 5, pp. 247-252.

Kates, R. W. and C. Katz, 1977. The Hydrologic Cycle and the Wisdom of the Child, The Geographical Review, Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. 51-62.

Kates, R. W., D. L. Johnson, and K. Johnson Haring, 1977. Population, Society and Desertification, Desertification: Its Causes and Consequences, Pergamon Press, pp. 261-318.

1976

Kates, R. W., 1976. Dealing With Disaster, Science Year, pp. 166-179.

Kates, R. W., 1976. Experiencing the Environment as Hazard, in Seymour Wapner, Saul Cohen and Bernard Kaplan (eds.), Experiencing the Environment, Plenum Press, pp. 133-156.

Kates, R. W., 1976. Geographical Contributions to Alternative Development Approaches for Least-Developed Nations, The Golden Jubilee Volume, 1976. The Indian Geographical Society, pp. 13-22.

1975

Kates, R. W., 1975. Planning for Hazards in Everyday Landscapes, Landscape Architecture, April, pp.165-168.

1974

Burton, I., R. W. Kates, and A. Kirkby, 1974. Geography, in A.E. Utton and D.H. Henning (eds.), Interdisciplinary Environmental Approaches, Educational Media Press, pp. 100-126.

Heijnen, J. and R. W. Kates, 1974. Northeast Tanzania: Comparative Observations Along a Moisture Gradient, in G.F. White (ed.), Natural Hazards: Local, National, Global, Oxford University Press, pp. 105-114.

Von Laue, T. and R. W. Kates, 1974. The Future: Ways of Knowing and Survival, A Documentary in Four Acts, Clark Now, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 2-7.

1973

Berry, L. and R. W. Kates, 1973. Applied Geographical Research in East Africa, The Professional Geographer, Vol. 25, pp. 267-271.

Kates, R. W., J.E. Haas, D. J. Amaral, R. A. Olson, R. Ramos and R. Olson, 1973. Human Impact of the Managua Earthquake, Science, Vol. 182, No. 7, pp. 981-990.

1972

Bauman, D. D. and R. W. Kates, 1972. Risk from Nature in the City, in T.R. Detwyler and M.G. Marcus (eds.), Urbanization and Environment: The Physical Geography of the City, Belmont, California: Duxbury Press, pp. 169-194.

Berry, L. and R. W. Kates, 1972. Environmental Problems in an African Setting, in W.P. Adams and F.N. Helleiner eds.), International Geography, Vol. 1, University of Toronto Press, pp. 667-670.

Berry, L. and R. W. Kates, 1972. Views on Environmental Problems-in East Africa, The African Review, Vol. II, No. 3, pp. 299-314.

Kates, R. W., 1972. The Hazard of Drought, Patterns and Perspectives in Environmental Science, Washington: National Science Foundation, pp. 218-221.

1971

Kates, R. W., 1971. Flexibility, Coordination and Choice in Water Resource Planning: The Utility of Recent Planning Innovations for Water Development in Tanzania, Proceedings of the Conference on Rural Water Supply in East Africa, University College, Bureau of Resource Assessment and Land Use Planning Research Paper No. 20.

Kates, R. W., 1971. Natural Hazard in Human Ecological Perspective: Hypotheses and Models, Economic Geography, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 438-451.

1970

Berry, L. and R. W. Kates, 1970. A Study of Four Villages in Dodoma and Singida Regions, University College, Bureau of Resource Assessment and Land Use Planning Research Paper No. 10.

Kates, R. W., 1970. Human Adjustment to Earthquake Hazard, The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964: Human Ecology, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Publication No. 1607, pp. 7-31.

Kates, R. W., 1970. Human Perception of the Environment, International Social Sciences Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 648-660. (a1970.02)

Kates, R. W., 1970. Introduction to Public Administration Aspects, The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964: Human Ecology, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Publication No. 1607, pp. 149.

Kates, R. W. and J. E. Haas, 1970. General Introduction, Conclusions and Recommendations, The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964: Human Ecology, National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Publication No. 1607, pp. 1-4.

Kates, R. W., J. McKay, and L. Berry, 1970. Twelve New Settlements in Tanzania: A Comparative Study of Success, Proceedings of The University of East Africa Social Science Conference, 1968-69, University of East Africa, pp. 63-100.

1969

Chorley, R.J. and R. W. Kates, 1969. Introduction, Water, Earth and Man, Methuen, pp. 1-7.

Julian, P. R., R. W. Kates, and W.R.D. Sewell, 1969. Estimating Probabilities of Research Success in Atmospheric Sciences: Results of a Pilot Investigation, Water Resources Research, Vol. V, No. 1, pp. 215-227.

Kates, R. W., 1969. Comprehensive Environmental Planning, Regional Planning: Challenge and Prospects, Frederick A. Praeger, Inc., pp. 67-87.

Kates, R. W., 1969. Mirror or Monitor for Man?, Antipode, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 47-53.

Kates, R. W., 1969. Water as a Focus for Rural Research, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Vol. III, No. 1, pp. 297-302.

McKay, J., R. W. Kates, and D. Conyers, 1969. Benefits from Rural Water Supply: The Impact of the Bulenya Hills Pipeline in North-East Nzega, University College, Bureau of Resource Assessment and Land Use Planning Research Report No. 5.

1968

Burton, I., R. W. Kates, and G. F. White, 1968. The Human Ecology of Extreme Geophysical Events, Natural Hazard Working Paper No. 1.

Sewell, W. R. D. and R. W. Kates, 1968. Contributions of Geographical Analysis to the Study of Human Response to Weather and Climate, Human Dimensions of the Atmosphere, pp. 29-41.

Sewell, W. R. D., R. W. Kates, and W.J. Maunder, 1968. Measuring the Economic Impact of Weather and Weather Modification: A Review of Techniques of Analysis, Human Dimensions of the Atmosphere, pp. 103-112.

Sewell, W.R. D., R. W. Kates, and L. Phillips, 1968. Human Response to Weather and Climate: Geographical Contributions, The Geographical Review, Vol. LVIII, No. 2, pp. 262-280.

1967

Crutchfield, J. A., R. W. Kates, and W. R. D. Sewell, 1967. Benefit-Cost Analysis and the National Oceanographic Program, Natural Resources Journal, Vol. VII, No. 3, pp. 361-375.

Kates, R. W., 1967. Geography: The Case for the Specialized Generalist in a Science of Environment, Social Science and the Environment, pp. 53-72.

Kates, R. W., 1967. Links Between Physical and Human Geography: A Systems Approach, Introductory Geography: Viewpoint and Themes, Washington: Association of American Geographers Commission on College Geography Publication No. 5, pp. 23-30.

Kates, R. W., 1967. The Perception of Storm Hazard on the Shores of Megalopolis, Environmental Perception and Behavior, University of Chicago, Department of Geography Research Paper No. 109, pp. 60-74.

Kates, R. W., 1967. The Pursuit of Beauty in the Environment, Landscape, Vol. XVI, No. 2, pp. 21-25.

1966

Kates, R. W., 1966. The Comprehensive Regional Resource Plan, 1974. Research and Education for Regional and Area Development, pp. 244-254.

Kates, R. W., 1966. Stimulus and Symbol: The View from the Bridge, Journal of Social Issues, Vol. XXII, No. 4, pp. 21-28.

1964

Burton, I. and R. W. Kates, 1964. The Flood Plain and the Sea Shore: A Comparative Analysis of Hazard-Zone Occupance, Geographical Review, Vol. LIV, No. 3, pp. 366- 385.

Burton, I. and R. W. Kates, 1964. The Perception of Natural Hazards in Resource Management, Natural Resources Journal, Vol. III, No. 3, pp. 412-441; also in H. Kunreuther and A. Z. Rose (eds.), 2004. The Economics of Natural Hazards, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, Vol. 1, pp. 53-82.

Kates, R. W., 1964. Variation in Flood Hazard Perception: Implications for Rational Flood Plain Use, Spatial Organization of Land Uses: The Willamette Valley, pp. 96-112.

1963

Kates, R. W., 1963. Perceptual Regions and Regional Perception in Flood Plain Management, Papers and Proceedings of the Regional Science Association, Vol. 11, pp. 217-227.

Kates, R. W., 1963. The Synthetic Estimation of Flood Damages: A New Approach, Trends in Economics: Papers of the Fifth Conference of Pennsylvania Economists, pp. 9-27.

1961

Kates, R. W., 1961. Seasonality, Papers on Flood Problems, University of Chicago, Department of Geography Research Paper No. 70, pp. 114-131.

Kates, R. W. and G. F. White, 1961. Flood Hazard Evaluation, Papers on Flood Problems, Chicago: University of Chicago, Department of Geography Research Paper No. 70, pp. 135-147.