Guangqing Chi

Guangqing Chi

Provost Professor, Geography

Education

  • Ph.D., Environmental Demography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
  • M.S., Environmental Policy, Michigan Technological University, 2002
  • B.S, Environmental Science, East China Normal University, 1999

Research

  • Environmental demography
  • Socio-environmental systems
  • Spatio-temporal modeling
  • Population-infrastructure nexus
  • Data intensive social sciences

Teaching

  • GEOG-G603 Environmental Demography

Publications

  • Chi, Guangqing and Jun Zhu. 2019. Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences. Volume 14 of Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences. SAGE Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA. 272 pages. ISBN: 9781544302072; 154430207X. 

  • Sundar, S. Shyam, Eugene C. Snyder, Mengqi Liao, Junjun Yin, Jinping Wang, and Guangqing Chi. 2025. "Sharing without Clicking on News in Social Media." Nature Human Behaviour 9:156–158.

  • Chi, Guangqing and Jun Zhu. 2019. Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences. Volume 14 of Advanced Quantitative Techniques in the Social Sciences. SAGE Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA. 272 pages. ISBN: 9781544302072; 154430207X.

  • Chi, Guangqing, Shuai Zhou, Megan Mucioki, Jessica Miller, Lance Howe, Ekrem Korkut, Junjun Yin, Davin Holen, Heather Randell, Ayse Akyildiz, Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Lara Fowler, James D. Ford, and Ann Tickamyer. 2024. "Climate Impacts on Migration in the Arctic North America: Existing Evidence and Research Recommendations." Regional Environmental Change 24: 47.

  • Zhou, Shuai, Guangqing Chi, Huanguang Qiu, Zhen Lei, Erica Smithwick, and Jiquan Chen. 2024. "Relocation Preference and Settlement: Lessons from the Poverty Alleviation Relocation Program in China." PLoS ONE 19(10): e0309534.

  • Scott, Christian, Elizabeth Mack, Guangqing Chi, Kamilya Kelgenbaeva, and Geoffrey Henebry. 2024. "Remittances and Livestock Management in Agropastoral Households in Rural Kyrgyzstan: Telecoupled Impacts of Globalization." Rural Sociology 89(3): 456–482.

  • Zhou, Shuai and Guangqing Chi. 2024. "How Do Environmental Changes and Variations Influence Migration? A Meta-regression Analysis of the Environmental Migration Literature." Demographic Research 50(2): 41–100.

  • Smith, M. Luke, Guangqing Chi, Hannah Hennighausen, Davin Holen, and E. Lance Howe. 2024. “Differences in Perceptions of COVID-19 Risks in a Fishing Community in Alaska, 2020–2021.” Marine Policy 161: 106045.

  • Hamilton, Casey W., Erica A.H. Smithwick, Katie V. Spellman, Andy P. Baltensperger, Blaine T. Spellman, and Guangqing Chi. 2024. "Predicting the Suitable Habitat Distribution of Berry Plants under Climate Change." Landscape Ecology 39: 18.

  • Park, Hyun Joon, Sara Francisco, Rosemary Pang, Lulu Peng, and Guangqing Chi. 2023. "Exposure to Anti-Black Lives Matter Movement and Obesity of the Black Population." Social Science & Medicine 316: 114265.

  • Li, Chuo, Jing Zhao, Junjun Yin, and Guangqing Chi. 2023. "Park Access Affects Physical Activity: New Evidence from Geolocated Twitter Data Analysis." Journal of Urban Design 28(3): 316–335.

  • Hofmann, Erin and Guangqing Chi. 2022. "Bride Kidnapping and Gendered Labor Migration: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 48(11): 2493–2514.

  • Yin, Junjun and Guangqing Chi. 2021. "Characterizing People’s Daily Activity Patterns in the Urban Environment: A Mobility Network Approach with Geographic Context-Aware Twitter Data." The Annals of the American Association of Geographers 111(7): 1967–1987.

  • Chi, Guangqing and Donghui Wang. 2018. "Population Projection Accuracy: The Impacts of Sociodemographics, Accessibility, Land Use, and Neighbor Characteristics." Population, Space and Place 24(5): e2129. 

  • Chi, Guangqing and Hung Chak Ho. 2018. "Population Stress: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Population Change and Land Development at the County Level in the Continental United States, 2000–2010." Land Use Policy 70(1): 128–137.

  • Chi, Guangqing and Jamie Boydstun. 2017. "Are Gasoline Prices a Factor in Residential Relocation Decisions? Preliminary Findings from the American Housing Survey, 1996–2008." Journal of Planning Education and Research 37(3): 334–346. 

  • Chi, Guangqing, Willie Brown, Xiang Zhang, and Yanbing Zheng. 2015. "Safer Roads Owing to Higher Gasoline Prices: How Long It Takes." American Journal of Public Health 105(8): 119–125.

  • Chi, Guangqing and David W. Marcouiller. 2013. "In-Migration to Remote Rural Regions: The Relative Impacts of Natural Amenities and Land Developability." Landscape and Urban Planning 117(1): 22–31. 

  • Chi, Guangqing and David W. Marcouiller. 2011. "Isolating the Effect of Natural Amenities on Population Change at the Local Level." Regional Studies 45(4): 491–505. 

  • Chi, Guangqing. 2010. "The Impacts of Highway Expansion on Population Change: An Integrated Spatial Approach." Rural Sociology 75(1): 58–89. 

  • Chi, Guangqing. 2009. "Can Knowledge Improve Population Forecasts at Subcounty Levels?" Demography 46(2): 405–427.