2025
Sjöstedt, E.C., Fowler, K.F., Rushforth, R.R., McManamay, R.A. & Ruddell, B.L. (2025). "Sustainability and resilience through connection: the economic metacommunities of the Western USA." Ecology and Society. 30(1):4. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-15676-300104
2024
Lobo, J. & Ruddell, B.L. (2024). "The relative roles of energy and water intensity in the economic growth of the United States, 1950–2015." Environmental Research Communications, 6(5), p.051003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad4260
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2024). "Supply Chain Disruptions: Impacts on Vulnerable Communities: Proceedings of a Workshop — in Brief." Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/27390.
Perry, D., Praskievicz, S., McManamay, R., Saxena, A., Grimm, K., Zegre, N., Bair, L., Ruddell, B. L. & Rushforth, R. (2024). "Resilient riverine social–ecological systems: A new paradigm to meet global conservation targets." WIREs Water, e1753. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1753.
Perry, D., Praskievicz, S., McManamay, R., Saxena, A., Grimm, K., Zegre, N., Bair, L., Ruddell, B.L. & Rushforth, R. (2024). "Resilient riverine social–ecological systems: A new paradigm to meet global conservation targets." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, 11(6), p.e1753. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1753
Richter, B.D., Fowler, K.F., Lamsal, G., Lant, C., Ripple, W. & Rushforth, R. (2024). "Reducing Irrigation of Livestock Feed is Essential to Saving Great Salt Lake." Environmental Challenges, p.101065. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2024.101065
Richter, B.D., Lamsal, G., Marston, L., et al. (2024). "New water accounting reveals why the Colorado River no longer reaches the sea." Commun Earth Environ 5, 134. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01291-0
2023
Lant, C., Paudel, S., Mueller, K., Larson, G., Ovando-Montejo, G.A. & Givens, J. (2023). "Allocation of U.S. Biomass Production to Food, Feed, Fiber, Fuel and Exports." Land 2023, 12(3), 695. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030695
Mejia, A., and Gomez, M. (2023). "City vulnerability to drought-related food supply shock" Research Square: natureportfolio. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3115849/v1
Siddik, M.A.B., Dickson, K.E., Rising, J. et al. (2023). "Interbasin water transfers in the United States and Canada." Scientific Data 10, 27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01935-4
2022
Bingham, D.R., Rushforth, R.R., Stevens, B. & Ruddell, B.L. (2022). "Mapping local food self-sufficiency in the US and the tradeoffs for food system diversity." Applied Geography, 143, p.102687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102687
Bondank, E.N., Chester, M.V., Michne, A., Ahmad, N., Ruddell, B.L. & Johnson, N.G. (2022). "Anticipating water distribution service outages from increasing temperatures." Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1088/2634-4505/ac8ba3
Karakoc, D.B., Wang, J. & Konar, M. (2022). "Food flows between counties in the United States from 2007 to 2017." Environmental Research Letters, accepted manuscript, posted 020722. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac5270
Marston, Landon, Adel M. Abdallah, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Kerim Dickson, Pierre Glynn, Sara G. Larsen, Forrest S. Melton, Kyle Onda, Jaime A. Painter, James Prairie, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Richard R. Rushforth, Gabriel B. Senay, and Kimberly Shaffer. (2022). "Water-Use Data in the United States: Challenges and Future Directions." Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA), JAWR-21-0080-C. http://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.13004
McManamay, R.A., George, R., Morrison, R.R. & Ruddell, B.L. (2022). "Mapping hydrologic alteration and ecological consequences in stream reaches of the conterminous United States." Sci Data 9, 450. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01566-1
Rushforth, R.R. & Ruddell, B.L. (2022). The FEWSION Database™ Version 1.0: Dataset Documentation and Guide. FEWSION Project, Northern Arizona University. https://fewsion.us/data.
Rushforth, R.R., Zegre, N.P. & Ruddell, B.L. (2022). "The Three Colorado Rivers: Hydrologic, Infrastructural, and Economic Flows of Water in a Shared River Basin." Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWR), 58(2): 269– 281. https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12997
2021
Garcia, S., Gomez, M., Rushforth, R., Ruddell, B.L. & Mejia, A. (2021). "Multilayer Network Clarifies Prevailing Water Consumption Telecouplings in the United States." Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR029141. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR029141
George, R., McManamay, R., Perry, D., Sabo, J. & Ruddell, B.L. (2021). "Indicators of hydro-ecological alteration for the rivers of the United States." Science Direct, Ecological Indicators, 120, 106908. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106908
Gomez, M., Mejia, A., Ruddell, B.L. & Rushforth, R.R. (2021). "Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocks." Nature, V.595. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03621-0
Hope, D., Lant, C., Paudel, S., Mueller, K. & Montejo, G.O. (2021). “Crucial FEWSION Episode 9: Net Primary Production – From A Pixel to the Planet.” https://soundcloud.com/diane-hope/crucial-fewsion-episode-9-mix
Hope, D. & Gurney, K. (2021). “Crucial FEWSION Episode 8 Extra: Think Global – Act Local.” https://soundcloud.com/diane-hope/episode-8-extra-think-global-act-localwav
Hope, D. & Gurney, K. (2021). “Crucial FEWSION Episode 8: Harnessing Hestia and Vulcan. A U.S.-Wide Emissions Monitoring Network.” https://soundcloud.com/diane-hope/crucial-fewsion-episode-8-harnessing-hestia-and-vulcan-us-wide-co2-emissions-monitoring
Hope, D., Gomez, M., Mejia, A. & Ruddell, B.L. (2021). “Crucial FEWSION Episode 7: Supply Chain Diversity Buffers Cities Against Food Shocks.” https://soundcloud.com/diane-hope/fewsion-ep-7-mix
Karakoc, D.B., & Konar, M. (2021). "A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade. Environmental Research Letters." https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1a9b
McManamay, R.A., KC, B., Allen‐Dumas, M.R., Kao, S.C., Brelsford, C.M., Ruddell, B.L., et al. (2021). "Reanalysis of water withdrawal for irrigation, electric power, and public supply sectors in the conterminous United States, 1950–2016." Water Resources Research, 57, e2020WR027751. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020WR027751
Paudel, S., Ovando-Montejo, G. & Lant. C. (2021). “Human Appropriation of Net Primary production: From a Planet to a Pixel.” Sustainability: vol. 13, no. 15, 2021. 10.3390/su13158606
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=uaes_pubs
Ruddell, B.L., Miller, J., Rushforth, R.R., Salla, R., Soktoeva, E. & Gorantla, R. (2021). "FEW-View™ 1.3, the FEWSION™ Visualization System," 04 October, 2021. https://fewsion.us / https://fewview.us.
Ruddell, B.L., Rushforth, R.R. & Science Animated. (2021). "FEWSION Supply Chain: Science Animated." Accessed December 16th, 2021 at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYnAI-I2Zjo.
Ruddell, B.L., Rushforth, R.R. & Ryan, S.M. (2021). F4R™: FEWSION for Community Resilience™ Curriculum. July 16th, 2021 Edition, Lulu Press.
Ryan, S., Roberts, E., Hibbett, E., Bloom, N., Haden, C., Rushforth, R., Pfeiffer, K. & Ruddell, B.L. (2021). "The FEWSION for Community Resilience™ (F4R™) Process: Building Local Technical and Social Capacity for Critical Supply Chain Resilience." Front. Environ. Sci., 26 March 2021. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.601220
2020
Garcia, S., Rushforth, R., Ruddell, B.L. & Mejia, A. (2020). “Full domestic supply chains of blue virtual water flows estimated for major US cities.” Water Resources Research: e2019WR026190. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026190
George, R., McManamay, R., Perry, D., Sabo, J. & Ruddell, B.L. (2020). "Indicators of hydro-ecological alteration for the rivers of the United States." Ecological Indicators, 120, 106908. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106908
Gumidyala, S., Ruess, P. J., Konar, M., Marston, L., Dalin, C. & Wada, Y. (2020). "Groundwater depletion embedded in domestic transfers and international exports of the United States." Water Resources Research, 56(2), p.e2019WR024986. doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024986
Hibbett, E., Rushforth, R.R., Roberts, E., Ryan, S.M., Pfeiffer, K., Bloom, N.E. & Ruddell, B.L. (2020). “Citizen-Led Community Innovation for Food Energy Water Nexus Resilience.” Frontiers in Environmental Science. 8:571614. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2020.571614
Hope, D., Bingham, D. & Ruddell, B.L. (2020). “Crucial FEWSION Episode 6: U.S. Food Supply Change, COVID, and Climate Change.” https://soundcloud.com/diane-hope/crucial-fewsion-episode-6-voice-track-mix
Hope, D., Richter, B. & Ruddell, B.L. (2020). “Crucial FEWSION Episode 5: Is My Burger Killing a River?” https://soundcloud.com/diane-hope/is-my-burger-killing-a-river-crucial-fewsion-episode-5
Konar, M. & Marston, L. (2020). "The Water Footprint of the United States." Water 2020, 12(11), 3286. doi:10.3390/w12113286
Marston, L.T., Lamsal, G., Ancona, Z.H., Caldwell, P., Richter, Brian D., Ruddell, B.L., Rushforth, R.R. & Davis, K.F. (2020). "Reducing water scarcity by improving water productivity in the United States," Environmental Research Letters, 15 094033. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9d39
Read, Quentin D., et al. (2020). “Assessing the environmental impacts of halving food loss and waste along the food supply chain.” Science of The Total Environment, 712, 136255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136255
Richter, B.D., Bartak, D., Caldwell, P. et al. (2020). “Water scarcity and fish imperilment driven by beef production.” Nature Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0483-z.
Ruddell, B.L., Miller, J., Rushforth, R.R., Salla, R., Soktoeva, E. & Gorantla, R. (2020). "FEW-View™ 1.2, the FEWSION™ Visualization System," 02 March 2020. https://fewsion.us / https://fewview.us.
Rushforth, R.R., Messerschmidt, M. & Ruddell, B.L. (2020). "A Systems Approach to Municipal Water Portfolio Security: A Case Study of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area." Water, 12(6), p.1663.
Saundry, P. and Ruddell, B.L. (eds.). (2020). “The Food-Energy-Water Nexus,” (AESS Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies and Sciences Series). Springer, 978-3-030-29913-2. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29914-9
Siddik, M. A., Chini, C. M., & Marston, L. (2020). “Water and carbon footprints of electricity are sensitive to geographical attribution method.” Environmental Science & Technology.
Spencer, S. and Varshney, L. (2020). "Social Bubbles and Superspreaders: Source Identification for Contagion Processes on Hypertrees." Coordinated Science Laboratory and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Paper PDF.
2019
Burchfield, E., Pennanen, N., Schoof, J., and Lant, C.L. (2019). "Changing yields in the Central United States under climate and technological change" aka Projected changes in yields of rainfed maize, soybeans, winter wheat, and cotton in the central United States under climate and technological change. Climatic Change. 159: 329–346. https://doi: 10.1007/s10584-019-02567-7.
Djehdian, L. A., Chini, C. M., Marston, L., Konar, M., & Stillwell, A. S. (2019). “Exposure of urban food–energy–water (FEW) systems to water scarcity.” Sustainable Cities and Society, 50, 101621.
Hondula, D.M., Sabo, J.L., Quay, R., Chester, M., Georgescu, M., Grimm, N., Harlan, S.L., Middel, A., Porter, S., Redman, C.L., Rittmann, B., Ruddell, B.L., and White, D.D. (2019). “Cities of the Southwest are testbeds for urban resilience.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 17(2), pp. 79-80. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2005
Leshyk, Victor O., Ruddell, Benjamin L., and Rushforth, Richard R.. (2019). “Do You Know Where your Food, Energy, and Water Come From?” American Scientist, https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/macroscope/do-you-know-where-your-food-energy-and-water-come-from, April 29, 2019.
Lin, X., Ruess, P. J., Marston, L., & Konar, M. (2019). “Food flows between counties in the United States.” Environmental Research Letters, 14(8), 084011.
Ruddell, B.L., Miller, J., Rushforth, R.R., Salla, R., Soktoeva, E., and Gorantla, R. (2019). “FEW-View™ 1.1, the FEWSION™ Visualization System,” https://fewsion.us / https://fewview.us, 2 August 2019.
Ruddell, B.L., Miller, J., Rushforth, R.R., Salla, R., Soktoeva, E., and Gorantla, R. (2019). “FEW-View™ 1.0, the FEWSION™ Visualization System,” https://fewsion.us / https://fewview.us, 29 April, 2019.
Ruess, P. and Konar, M. (2019). “Grain and virtual water storage capacity in the United States.” Water Resources Research, Vol 55, doi: 10.1029/2018WR024292.
Rushforth, R.R. and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). The FEWSION Database™ Version 1.0: Dataset Documentation and Guide. FEWSION Project, https://fewsion.us/data.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “How Much Leverage Does Colorado Have Over Your Beer Supply?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=17. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “How Will “The Big One” Affect the Flow of Global FEW Resources?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=6. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “How Would a Cascadian Subduction Zone Event Affect Seattle’s FEW System?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=13. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “What States Have the Most Local Food Industries?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=14. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “Where are Energy Supplies Disrupted When a Hurricane Hits Houston?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=11. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “Where are Hawaii’s Food and Energy Dependencies?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=4. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “Where does New York City Outsource Water Consumption to?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=12. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “Which Counties Have the Most Resilient Gasoline Supplies?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=15. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “Which States’ Food Supply are Exposed to Water Stress?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=18. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “Which States Contribute Water Stress to Virginia’s Food Supply?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=19. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “Who does Chicago Depend on for Electricity Generation?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=16. 29 April 2019.
Rushforth, R.R., Leshyk, V.O., and Ruddell, B.L. (2019). “Who is Dependent on Water in California’s Central Valley?” URL: https://fewview.us/app/public?scenario_id=8. 29 April 2019.
2018
Baggio, J.A. and Hillis, V. “Managing ecological disturbances: Learning and the structure of social-ecological networks.” Environmental Modelling & Software 109 (2018): 32-40. https://doi.org/10.
Cornell du Houx, A. and Day, A.T. (2018). “Code Blue – Water Security Conflicts and Solutions: FEWSION, Water, Food, Energy.” https://youtu.be/yzh0AvXdt3I, Accessed May 21, 2018.
Dang, Q., Konar, M., and Debaere, P. (2018). Trade openness and the nutrient use of nations, Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaebcb
Dang, Q. and Konar, M. (2018). “Trade openness and domestic water use.” Water Resources Research, 54. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR021102
Hope, D., B.L. Ruddell, R.R. Rushforth, and Ryan, S. (2018). “Crucial FEWSION Episode 4: The Last Mile & the Role of Citizen Scientists,” https://soundcloud.com/diane-hope/crucial-fewsion-episode-4-the-last-mile-the-role-of-citizen-scientists/s-6y8vL.
Hope, D., Ruddell, B.L., and Rushforth, R.R. (2018), Crucial FEWSION Episode 3: The Butterfly Effect: Understanding Resilience, Vulnerability, and Sustainability in Food-Energy-Water Systems https://soundcloud.com/diane-hope/crucial-fewsion-episode-3. Accessed November 2nd, 2018.
Hope, D., Ruddell, B.L., and Rushforth, R.R. (2018). “Crucial FEWSION Episode 2: What is local?” https://soundcloud.com/diane-hope/crucial-fewsion-episode-2. Accessed September 12th, 2018.
Hope, D. and Ruddell, B. (2018). “Crucial FEWSION Episode 1: An Introduction to FEWSION.” https://soundcloud.com/diane-hope/crucial-fewsion-episode-1-introduction-to-fewsion/s-gWrqK. Accessed July 10th, 2018.
Konar, M., Lin, X., Ruddell, B., and Sivapalan, M. (2018). “Scaling properties of food flow networks.” PLOS ONE 13(7): e0199498. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0199498
Lant, C., Baggio, J., Konar, M., Mejia, A., Ruddell, B., Rushforth, R., Sabo, J.L., and Troy, T.J. (2018). “The US food–energy–water system: A blueprint to fill the mesoscale gap for science and decision-making.” Ambio: 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1077-0
Mahjabin, Tasnuva, et al. (2018). “Large cities get more for less: Water footprint efficiency across the US.” PLOS ONE 13.8: e0202301. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202301
Marston, L., Ao, Y., Konar, M., Mekonnen, M.M., and Hoekstra, A.Y. (2018). “High-Resolution Water Footprints of Production of the United States.” Water Resources Research, Vol 54, doi:10.1002/2017WR021923
Ruddell, B.L. “HESS Opinions: How should a future water census address consumptive use? (And where can we substitute withdrawal data while we wait?).” Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 22.10 (2018): pp. 5551-5558. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-5551-2018.
Ruddell, B.L. (2018). “Threshold-based footprints (for water).” Water, 10(8), p. 1029. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10081029
Rushforth, R.R. and Ruddell, B.L. (2018). “A spatially detailed blue water footprint of the United States economy, Hydrol.” Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 3007-3032, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3007-2018.
2017
Ahams, I.C., Paterson, W., Garcia, S., Rushforth, R., Ruddell, B.L., and Mejia, A. (2017). “Water Footprint of 65 Mid‐to Large‐Sized US Cities and Their Metropolitan Areas.” Journal of the American Water Resources Association, (JAWRA) 53(5), pp. 1-17, pp. 1147-1163, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12563.
Chini, C., Konar, M., and Stillwell, A. (2017). “Direct and indirect urban water footprints of the United States.” Water Resources Research, Vol 53, doi: 10.1002/2016WR019473.
Costanza, R., Fisher, B., Mulder K., Liu, S. & Christophe, T. (2017). Biodiversity and ecosystem services: A multi-scale empirical study of the relationship between species richness and net primary production. Ecological Economics: March 2017, 61, 478-491. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.03.021
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Deryugina, T., and Konar, M. (2017). “Impacts of crop insurance on water withdrawals for irrigation.” Advances in Water Resources, 110, pp. 437-444. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2017.03.013
Marston, L., and Konar, M. (2017). “Drought impacts to water footprints and virtual water transfers of the Central Valley of California.” Water Resources Research, 53, pp. 5756–5773, doi:10.1002/2016WR020251
McManamay, R.A., Nair, S.S., DeRolph, C.R., Ruddell, B.L., Morton, A.M., Stewart, R.N., Troia, M.J., Tran, L., Kim, H., and Bhaduri, B.L. (2017). “US cities can manage national hydrology and biodiversity using local infrastructure policy.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 2017: 9581-9586; published ahead of print August 21, 2017, doi:10.1073/pnas.1706201114.
Sayles, J. and Baggio, J.A. (2017). “Social-Ecological network analysis of scale-mismatches in estuary watershed restoration.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(10), pp. E1776-E1785, https://doi.org/10.1073%2Fpnas.1604405114
Scanlon, B.R., Ruddell, B.L., Reed, P.M., Hook, R.I., Zheng, C., Tidwell, V.C., and Siebert, S. (2017). “The food‐energy‐water nexus: Transforming science for society.” Water Resources Research, 53(5), pp. 3550-3556. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR020889.
Shanafelt, D.W., Salau, K.R., and Baggio, J.A. (2017). “Do-it-yourself networks: a novel method of generating weighted networks.” 4(11):171227, doi: 10.1098/rsos.171227.
2016
Baggio, J.A., et al. (2016). “Multiplex social ecological network analysis reveals how social changes affect community robustness more than resource depletion.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113.48: pp. 13708-13713, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604401113.