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Wei Tu is a Professor in the School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability at Georgia Southern University. He joined Georgia Southern in 2004.

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Wei Tu is a Professor in the School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability at Georgia Southern University. He joined Georgia Southern in 2004.

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Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Earth Sciences, Geography, Geographic Information Sciences, Nature and Society Relations, and Physical and Environmental Geography

Geography, GIS, Spatial Analysis on Economic, Environmental, and Public Health Issues, Geography of the Information Society, Environmental Geography, and China and East Asia

AT&T Fellow in Industrial Ecology (2007)
Regent Graduate Fellow (2003)
The Pipe Fellowship (2003)
GERAC Fellowship (2002)
Excellent Graduate of Master Student (1995)
Graduate Excellence Scholarship (1993)
Excellent Graduate of Colleges and Universities in Shanghai (1992)

Introduction to GIS (GSU: GEOG 3430/5890G)
Introduction to GIS and Cartography (GSU: GEOG 3430/5890G)
Advanced GIS (GSU: GEOG 4543/5890G)
Cartography (GSU: GEOG 4541/5890G)
Applied GIS (GSU: GEOG 5091/5890G)
World Regional Geography (GSU: GEOG 1130)
Geography of Asia (GSU: GEOG 4233)
Economic Geography (GSU: GEOG 3230)
Introduction to Research (GSU: GEOG/L 4120)
Senior Thesis Seminar (GSU: GEOG/L 4610)
World Regional Geography (GSU: GEOG 1130-S)
Geography of China (GSU: GEOG 4233-S)
Internships in Geology/Geography (GSU: GEOL/GEOG 4790)

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Article

Assessing Urban Environmental Management Practice with a Scalar Approach: The ...

Symphonya: Emerging Issues in Management (2012)

Wei Tu

Shanghai’s urban environmental management in the past three decades has been focused primarily on the environmental problems at the intra-urban ...

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Article

Spatial Variations in the Associations Of Birth Weight with Socioeconomic ...

Applied Geography (2012)

Wei Tu

Birth weight is an important indicator of overall infant health and a strong predictor of infant morbidity and mortality, and ...

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Article

A State Transformed by Information? Texas Regional Economy in the ...

Regional Studies (2011)

Wei Tu and Daniel Sui

The structural change of the Texas regional economy in the 1990s is analysed using input–output and shift–share analyses. As the ...

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Article

An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis of Low Birth Weight Prevalence ...

Applied Geography (2011)

Wei Tu, Stuart H. Tedders and Jie Tian

Low birth weight (LBW), defined as a live birth weighing less than 2500 g, is a significant public health problem ...

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Article

Strategic Environmental Assessment for Shanghai Municipal Land Use Planning: A ...

Asian Geographers (2008)

Yanfen Lin, Wei Tu and Huijuan Han

This study developed a prototype of an environmental assessment tool, SEA_LUP_SD, based on the system dynamics model. SEA_LUD_SD can simulate ...

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Contribution to Book

Urban Environmental Management in Shanghai: A Multi-Scale Perspective

Urban Stability: A Global Perspective (2012)

Wei Tu, Daniel Z Sui and Weichun Ma

Since the late 1970s, Shanghai—China’s economic capital and the largest city—has transformed rapidly from a deteriorating industrial center of the ...

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Article

Quantitative Methods and Applications in GIS by Fahui Wang

The Professional Geographer (2008)

Wei Tu

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Paper Presented in Professional Meetings and Abstract Published (13)

Presentation

Growth in U.S. States, 1977-2001: How Much Do Foreign ...

2012 AAG Annual Meeting (2012)

Wei Tu and Jie Tian

The current "Great Depression" climate warrants more analyses of how and to what degree gross state production (GSP) is impacted ...

Presentation

Assessing Urban Environmental Management Practice with a Scalar Approach: The ...

Beijing Forum 2011 (2011)

Wei Tu and D. Z. Sui

Presentation

Modeling Low Weight Birth (LWB) Prevalence in Georgia

Invited by Professor Chunyang He, State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (2011)

Wei Tu

Presentation

The Application of R language in Environmental Studies: An Introduction

Invited by Dr. Weiqin Lin, Shanghai Academy of Environmental Sciences (SAES) (2011)

Wei Tu

Presentation

Spatial Variations in the Relationships between Birth Weight and Socioeconomic ...

The 19th International Conference on GeoInformatics (2011)

Jun Tu and Wei Tu

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Modeling Low Birth Weight Incidence in the State of Georgia ...

2011 AAG Annual Meeting (2011)

Wei Tu

Low birth weight (LBW) is a prevalent public health issue in the state of Georgia and the country. This condition ...

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Low Birth Weight Incidence in the State of Georgia, 2000

2010 AAG Annual Meeting (2010)

Wei Tu

Low birth weight (LBW) is a significant public health problem in the State of Georgia and in the United States. ...

Presentation

Low Birth Weight Prevalence in Georgia, 2000

Seminar Series, Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University (2009)

Wei Tu

Presentation

A State Transformed by Information: Texas Regional Economy in the ...

2009 AAG Annual Meeting (2009)

Wei Tu

Presentation

Mapping Low Birth Weight Incidences in Georgia Public Health Districts ...

2008 SEDAAG Annual Meeting (2008)

Wei Tu, K. S. McElveen and S. Tedders

Low birth weight (LBW), defined as a live birth weighing less than 2,500 grams, is a prevalent condition in the ...

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Detecting the Spatial Pattern of Low Weight Birth (LWB) in ...

Young Scholar Summer Workshop/The International Association of the Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science (CPGIS)/East China Normal University (2008)

Wei Tu

Presentation

From Industrial Ecology to Information Ecology: A Structural Economics Approach

2008 AAG Annual Meeting (2008)

Wei Tu

Despite the rapid evolution of the information economy, industrial ecology is still dominated by studies of material flows and lacks ...

Presentation

GIS Applications in Public Health: An Overview

Kollars' Environmental Health Class, Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University (2008)

Wei Tu

Other

Integrating Video-based Case Studies into World Regional Geography Classes

(2010)

Wei Tu, Robert Yarbrough and Mark Welford

Presentation

Detecting the Spatial Pattern of Low Weight Birth (LWB) in ...

Invited by Professor Jing Luo, Executive Associate Dean, School of City and Environmental Science, Hua Zhong Normal University (2008)

Wei Tu

Other

Integrating Structural Economics Approaches and Geographic Information Systems to Study ...

(2007)

Wei Tu

Other

SPACE Instructional Development Award

(2007)

Wei Tu

Other

Enhancing Skills of Geospatial Technologies of K-12 Teachers in Southeast ...

(2006)

Wei Tu

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Peer-Reviewed Publications (5)

Book Chapters (1)

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Paper Presented in Professional Meetings and Abstract Published (13)

Teaching Proposals Funded Research Proposal Funded (7)