Shanon’s research interests include mapping land cover change using GIS and remote sensing from aerial and satellite platforms and trying to understand the social-ecological system in which these changes occur. Of particular interest are questions of property rights and land tenure that spatially structure land management strategies. He has applied these interests to forested landscapes where individuals and communities are the primary drivers of change as well as landscapes where shale gas drilling (fracking) is emerging as a primary driver of change.
Application of geospatial technologies in the study of social-ecological systems
Spatial organization and landscape impacts of oil and gas drilling
Resilience and urban food production systems
Land-use and land-cover change in forested ecosystems
Collective property rights arrangements