MATTHEW FRY portrait
  • Associate Professor, Sch Of Environ,Society&Sustain
801-581-6419

Publications

  • Zach Tabor & Fry, Matthew; Johnson, Jamie (2024). Breeding Distrust: The Biopolitics of Chronic Wasting Disease in White-Tailed Deer. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space. Accepted, 02/11/2024.
  • Matthew Fry & Lauren Fischer (2023). Valuing Property over the Environment: Municipal Landscaping Ordinances in Texas. Landscape and Urban Planning. Vol. 239, 104867. Published, 08/21/2023.
  • Fry, M. & Hilburn, A. (2023). GIS Approaches to Environmental Justice in Mexico’s Oil and Gas Production Zones with Implications for Latin America. (pp. 217-232). Springer. Published, 03/01/2023.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22680-9_10
  • Ellis, J.L., Ponette-González, A.G., , Fry, M. & Johnson, J.A. (2023). Reduced Reflectance and Altered Color: The Cost of External Particulate Matter Accumulation on urban Rock Pigeon (Columba livia) feathers. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Vol. 11, 38. Published, 02/2023.
  • Fischer, L.A. & Fry, M. (2022). Typologies of Integration: An Analysis of Municipal Land Use and Water Management Practices in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Babbitt Center for Land and Water Policy, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Published, 08/2022.
    https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/working-p...
  • Murphy, T., , Fry, M., Hilburn, A. & García Chiang, A. (2021). Contracts and Access to Mexico’s Natural Gas Resources: The Text is not Legible on the Ground. Geoforum. Vol. 134, 59-70. Published, 10/2021.
  • Fry, M. & Murphy, T. (2021). The Geo-imaginaries of Potential in Mexico’s Burgos Basin. Political Geography. Vol. 90, 90. Published, 03/2021.
  • Pitre, C., Ponette-González, A.G., , Rindy, J., , Doherty, D., , Lee, A., , Fry, M., & Johnson, J.A. (2021). Bird feathers are potential biomonitors for airborne elemental carbon. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. Vol. 193(1), 1-8. Published, 01/2021.
  • Fry, M. & Hilburn, A. (2020). The Distributional Justice of Oil Industry Social Development Projects and Upstream Production Activities. Extractive Industries and Society. Vol. 7, 647-659. Published, 10/2020.
  • Brannstrom, C. & Fry, M. (2020). New Geographies of the Texas Energy Revolution. (pp. 17-31). Routledge. Published, 09/2020.
  • Rous, J., Oppenheim, V., , Kim, M., , Fry, M., , Tiwari, C. & Rice, M. (2020). Evaluating Determinants of Shale Gas Well Locations in an Urban Setting. Annals of Regional Science. Vol. 65(3), 645-671. Published, 06/2020.
  • Fry, M., Murphy, T., Hilburn, A. & García Chiang, A. (2020). What Happened to Mexico’s Burgos Shale? Developments, Strategies, and Policy Options. SMU: Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center Research. Published, 02/2020.
    https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Research/Institutes-and...
  • Hilburn, A. & Fry, M. (2019). Empirical environmental justice research in hydrocarbon extraction areas: examining applicability outside the U.S. using a Mexican case study. Applied Geography. Vol. 107, 63-71. Published, 08/2019.
  • Fry, M. (2018). Shifting Volumetric Imaginaries of Oil Potential in Mexico’s Chicontepec Basin: Investible Asset, Reserve Replacement, and Oilfield Services Zone. Journal of Latin American Geography. Vol. 17(3), 70-98. Published, 10/2018.
  • Fry, M. & Delgado, E. (2018). Petro-Geographies and Hydrocarbon Realities in Latin America: Introduction to Special Issue. (pp. 7-11). Vol. 17(3). Journal of Latin American Geography. Published, 06/2018.
  • Murphy, T., Brannstrom, C., Fry, M. & Ewers, M. (2018). Economic development stakeholder perspectives on boomtown dynamics in the Eagle Ford Shale, Texas. Geographical Review. Vol. 108(1), 24-44. Published, 05/2018.
  • Fry, M. & Brannstrom, C. (2018). Experimental regulatory approaches for unconventional oil and gas: the case of urban drilling and local government authority in Texas. Routledge. Published, 03/2018.
  • Fry, M., Brannstrom, C. & Sakinejad, M. (2017). Suburbanization and Shale Gas Wells: Patterns, Planning Perspectives, and Reverse Setback Policies. Landscape and Urban Planning. Vol. 168, 9-21. Published, 08/2017.
  • Fry, M. & Brannstrom, C. (2017). Emergent Patterns and Processes in Urban Hydrocarbon Governance. Energy Policy. Vol. 111, 383-393. Published, 08/2017.
  • Fry, M. (2017). Energy in the 21st Century: Unconventional Hydrocarbons and the Fracking Revolution. (pp. 385). Pearson. Published, 06/2017.
  • Murphy, T., Brannstrom, C. & Fry, M. (2017). Ownership and Spatial Distribution of Mineral Wealth in Eagle Ford Shale (Texas, USA). Professional Geographer. Vol. 69(4), 616-628. Published, 04/2017.
  • Otaola, C., Giardina, M., Fry, M., Neme, G. & Wolverton, S. (2016). Zooarqueologia y Tafonomia en Pastores actuales del Sur de Mendoza. InterSecciones en Antropología. Vol. 17, 121-127. Published, 08/2016.
  • Ponette-González, A.G., Ewing, E.A., Fry, M. & Young, K.R. (2016). Soil and fine root chemistry at a tropical Andean timberline. Catena. Vol. 137, 350-359. Published, 04/2016.
  • Wolverton, S., Nolan, J.M. & Fry, M. (2016). Political Ecology and Ethnobiology. (pp. 75-82). Springer. Published, 04/2016.
  • Fry, M., Brannstrom, C. & Murphy, T. (2015). How Dallas became Frack Free: Hydrocarbon Governance under Neoliberalism. Environment and Planning A. Vol. 47, 2591-2608. Published, 08/2015.
  • Aucoin, M. & Fry, M. (2015). Growing local food movements: Farmer’s markets as nodes for products and community. Geographical Bulletin. Vol. 56(2). Published, 06/2015.
  • Fry, M., Briggle, A. & Kincaid, J. (2015). Fracking and Environmental (In)Justice in a Texas City. Ecological Economics. Vol. 117, 97-107. Published, 04/2015.
  • Fry, M. & Brannstrom, C. (2015). Op-Ed: Preemption and Scalar Politics, from Living Wages to Hydraulic Fracturing. AAG Newsletter. Published, 03/2015.
  • Fry, M., Ponette-González, A.G., & Young, K.R. (2015). A low-cost GPS-based protocol to create high-resolution DEMs for remote mountain areas. Mountain Research and Development. Vol. 35(1). Published, 02/2015.
  • Ponette-González, A.G. & Fry, M. (2014). Enduring footprint of historical land tenure on modern land cover in eastern Mexico: implications for environmental services programs. Area. Vol. 46(4), 398-408. Published, 06/2014.
  • Fry, M. (2013). Cement, carbon dioxide, and the ‘necessity’ narrative: A case study of Mexico. Geoforum. Vol. 49, 127-138. Published, 09/2013.
  • Fry, M. (2013). Urban gas drilling and distance ordinances in the Texas Barnett Shale. Energy Policy. Vol. 62, 79-89. Published, 04/2013.
  • Fry, M., Hoeinghaus, D., Ponette-González, A.G., Thompson, R. & LaPoint, T.W. (2012). Fracking vs Faucets: Balancing Energy Needs and Water Sustainability at Urban Frontiers. Environmental Science & Technology. Vol. 46(14), 7444-7445. Published, 06/2012.
  • Fry, M. (2011). From Crops to Concrete: Deagriculturalization, Urbanization, and Construction Material Mining in Central Mexico. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Vol. 101(6), 1285-1306. Published, 08/2011.
  • Fry, M. (2011). The Building Material Industry in Xalapa, Mexico. Industrial Geographer. Vol. 8(2). Published, 04/2011.
  • Ponette-González, A.G. & Fry, M. (2010). Pig pandemic: Industrial hog farming in eastern Mexico. Land Use Policy. Vol. 27(4), 1107-1110. Published, 06/2010.
  • Fry, M. (2009). Tepetzil y la Producción de Block en la Región Montañosa del Centro de Veracruz. Servicio Geológico Mexicano.. Published, 04/2009.
  • Fry, M. (2008). Mexico’s Concrete Block Landscape: A Modern Legacy in the Vernacular. Journal of Latin American Geographers. Vol. 72(2), 35-58. Published, 08/2008.
  • Fry, M. (2008). Concrete-Block Farmers in Mexico. Geographical Review. Vol. 98(1), 123-132. Published, 04/2008.

Research Statement

I am a human-environment geographer, which means I study environmental questions from a social scientist perspective. I have much experience conducting research in Latin America on topics related to resource extraction and political ecology, as well as work in Texas examining oil and gas extraction, governance, and environmental justice. More recently, I've been exploring urban environmental governance, landscaping, and urban forestry. All my research aims to articulate uneven power dynamics, understand the root causes of environmental degradation and contamination, and promote social justice.

Research Keywords

  • Political Ecology

Presentations

  • Shade, canopy, community: Urban tree epistemologies, Global Change and Sustainability Seminar Series, University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/26/2024.
  • Valuing Property over the Environment: Municipal Landscaping Ordinances in Texas, paper presented at the 2023 Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Conference Paper, Presented, 11/03/2023.
  • Making Resources Above and Below: Governance, Justice, and Geo-Imaginaries, Geography Research of the Week (GROW) seminar; sponsored by the Department of Geography at the University of Utah. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 02/03/2023.

Languages

  • Spanish, functional.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Latin America and the Caribbean
    Most work in Mexico, followed by Argentina, Peru, and Bolivia.