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Dinko, D. H., Kansanga, M., Nyantakyi-Frimpong, H., & Luginaah, I. (2024). Unpacking the dynamics of natural resource conflicts: The case of African rosewood. Land Use Policy, 136, 106962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106962


Dinko, D. H., & Bahati, I. (2023). A Review of the Impact of Climate Change on Water Security and Livelihoods in Semiarid Africa: Cases From Kenya, Malawi, and Ghana. Journal of Climate Resilience & Climate Justice, 1, 107–118. https://doi.org/10.1162/crcj_a_00002


Dinko Hanaan Dinko & Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong (2023): Uneven Geographies of the Embodied Effects of Water Insecurity Among Women Irrigators in Northern Ghana, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2023.2231528


Serin Houston. (2019). Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press – Our Sustainable Future series.


Serin Houston. (2019). Conceptualizing Sanctuary as a Process in the United States. Geographical Review.


Serin Houston and Kirk Lange. (2018). “Global/Local” Community Engagement: Advancing Integrative Learning and Situated Solidarity. Journal of Geography in Higher Education 42(1),44-60.


Serin D. Houston's book, Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance, was honored at the American Association of Geographers conference in April 2021 at a book celebration event and an "Author Meets her Readers" session. 


Serin D. Houston gave a talk on March 25, 2021 for the Zube Lecture Series at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. Her talk was titled, 'Unsettling Whiteness in Neighborhood Planning: Social Justice Efforts in Seattle, WA."