About Research

Publications

Bacon, C. M., Sundstrom, W. A., Stewart, I. T., Maurer, E., & Kelley, L. C. (2021). Towards smallholder food and water security: Climate variability in the context of multiple livelihood hazards in Nicaragua. World Development, 143, 105468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105468

Bacon, C.M., W. Sundstrom, I. Stewart-Frey, and D. Beezer. Vulnerability to Cumulative Hazards: Coping with the Coffee Leaf Rust Outbreak, Drought, and Food Insecurity in Nicaragua. World Development, 2017,  93: 136-152.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2016.12.025

Maurer, E.P., N. Roby, I.T. Stewart-Frey, and C.M. Bacon, Projected twenty-first-century changes in the Central American mid-summer drought using statistically downscaled climate projections  Regional Environmental Change, 2017, DOI 10.1007/s10113-017-1177-

Presentations and Posters

Bacon, C.M., Sundstrom, W. and Stewart-Frey, I.T. (2017) Smallholder solidarity and strategies to secure food and water access in Central America. Panels on the Geographies of Bread and Water. AAG 2017 meeting, Boston, MA. 4/8/2017.

Stewart-Frey, I., Bacon, C.M., and Smoker, C. (2017) Assessing Water Resources for Climate Adaptation through Community-Based Monitoring in rural Nicaragua. Poster #100: AAG 2017 meeting, Boston, MA. 4/6/2017.

Maurer, E.P., Stewart-Frey, I.T., W. Sundstrom, C. Bacon (2016), Climate Change and the Central American Mid-summer Drought – The Importance of Changing Precipitation Patterns for Food and Water Security,  Presentation GC43C-1171 at AGU Fall 2016 meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/15/2016.

Bacon, C.M., Sundstrom, W. and Stewart-Frey, I.T. and Maurer, E.  (2016) Vulnerabilidad y Resiliencia de hogares de Productores de pequeña escala frente a Riesgos Ambientales.  Foro Construyendo Resiliencia en Comunidades que Dependen del Café en Centroamérica y el Caribe, Managua, Nicaragua. 9/20/2016. http://resilienciacafe.com/

Bacon, CM., Sundstrom, W., Stewart-Frey, I, Beezer, D, (2016) Vulnerability or Resilience: Smallholders Respond to Drought and the Coffee Rust Outbreak in Nicaragua. Presented at the 2016 American Association of Geographers San Francisco, CA, 3/31/2016.

N. Roby, Maurer, E.P., and C.M. Bacon, 2015. Projected 21st-century changes in the Central American mid-summer drought using statistically downscaled daily CMIP5 precipitation. poster presented at 2015 Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/16/2015.

Bacon, CB, Sundstrom, W, Stewart, I., and Beezer, D. 2015. Smallholder Food and Water Security in the Face of Climatic Stress and the Coffee Leaf Rust: Lessons from Nicaragua. Presented at 2015 Fall AGU Meeting, San Francisco, Session: Observed and Projected Climate Change Impacts on Water Resources and Agriculture III /Focus Group: Global Environmental Change. 2015 12/19/2015

Undergraduate Student Thesis and Proposals:

Leah Bensching and Jamie Monk. (2016) Nicaragua Water Distribution System Design. Engineering Senior Design Project. Advisers: Laura Doyle and Edwin Maurer.  School of Engineering Santa Clara University.

Lauren Cloward (Pending Fulbright Proposal)

Background research

Bacon, C.M., Sundstrom, W. A., Flores Gómez, M. E., Ernesto Méndez, V., Santos, R., Goldoftas, B., & Dougherty, I. (2014). Explaining the ‘hungry farmer paradox’: Smallholders and fair trade cooperatives navigate seasonality and change in Nicaragua’s corn and coffee markets. Global Environmental Change (25): 133-149. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095937801400034X

Bacon, C. M. (2015). Food sovereignty, food security and fair trade: the case of an influential Nicaraguan smallholder cooperatives. Third World Quarterly, 36(3), 469-488.