Benjamin Stewart

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Benjamin Stewart#

Program Lead and Sr. Geographer#

Benjamin leads the GOST team as its Program Lead and Sr. Geographer (official WB bio here). He joined the World Bank as a STC with the IT department in the Sustainable Development Network in November 2011. Since then, he has supported teams across the institution in developing novel insights into World Bank operations using geospatial data.

Ben Stewart

Products and Projects#

Space2Stats - Ben leads our Space2Stats program focusing on aggregating geospatial information at official boundaries.
Urbanization metrics - GOST has developed a number of tools to quantify urbanization, following the methods developed in the DEGURBA methodology.
Energy planning - Ben has led the Global Electrification Platform for several years, developing and supporting open tools and capacity-building efforts for developing least-cost electrification plans.

Publications#

Title	Citation
An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa	Combes,Pierre Philippe; Gorin,Clément; Nakamura,Shohei; Roberts,Mark; Stewart,Benjamin P.. An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 10621 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099415311272320571
Urbanization and development : is Latin America and the Caribbean different from the rest of the world?	Roberts,Mark; Blankespoor,Brian; Deuskar,Chandan; Stewart,Benjamin P.. Urbanization and development : is Latin America and the Caribbean different from the rest of the world? (English). Policy Research working paper
Lost in the dark: A survey of energy poverty from space	Lost in the dark: A survey of energy poverty from space. Min, Brian et al. Joule, Volume 8, Issue 7, 1982 - 1998
Nighttime lights revisited : the use of nighttime lights data as a proxy for economic variables	Addison,Douglas M.; Stewart,Benjamin P.. Nighttime lights revisited : the use of nighttime lights data as a proxy for economic variables (English). Policy Research working paper
Quantifying grizzly bear selection of natural and anthropogenic edges	Stewart, Benjamin P., et al. “Quantifying grizzly bear selection of natural and anthropogenic edges.” The Journal of Wildlife Management 77.5 (2013): 957-964.
Impact of disturbance characteristics and age on grizzly bear habitat selection	Stewart, Benjamin P., et al. “Impact of disturbance characteristics and age on grizzly bear habitat selection.” Applied Geography 34 (2012): 614-625.
Oil and gas infrastructure and the spatial pattern of grizzly bear habitat selection in Alberta, Canada	Laberee, K., Nelson, T. A., Stewart, B. P., McKay, T., & Stenhouse, G. B. (2014). O il and gas infrastructure and the spatial pattern of grizzly bear habitat selection in Alberta, Canada. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 58(1), 79-94.
Disturbance capture and attribution through the integration of Landsat and IRS-1C imagery	Stewart, Benjamin P., et al. “Disturbance capture and attribution through the integration of Landsat and IRS-1C imagery.” Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 35.6 (2009): 523-533.