Publications
BOOK
Rowley, Rex J. 2013. Everyday Las Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 272 p. Everyday Las Vegas, Home Page
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Rowley, Rex J. In Press. “Under Threat of Fire.” GeoHumanities. doi: 10.1080/2373566X.2020.1778501.
Rowley, Rex J. 2020. “Antecedent Landscapes and Las Vegas Casinos: Exploring Place through a Referential Perspective.” Material Culture, 52, no. 1: 1-25. pdf
Rowley, Rex J. 2019. “Evoking a Shifting Sense of Place in One Museum Following the 3/11 Tsunami in Japan.” Asian Geographer. doi: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1703768. pdf
Rowley, Rex J. 2019. “Kiribati at the Center of the World.” FOCUS on Geography, 62, no. 4. http://www.focusongeography.org/publications/photoessays/kiribati/index.html. doi: 10.21690/foge/2019.62.4p
Rowley, Rex J. 2018. “Voluntary Regions and the Case of Las Vegas.” Journal of Cultural Geography, 35, no. 1: 102-32. doi: 10.1080/08873631.2017.1375371. pdf
Rabie, Anas, Eric W. Peterson, John C. Kostelnick, and Rex J. Rowley. 2017. “Optimizing Digital Elevation Model Resolution Inputs and Number of Stream Gauges in Geographic Information System Predictions of Flood Inundation: A Case Study along the Illinois River, USA.” Environmental & Engineering Geoscience, 23, no. 4: 345-357. doi: 10.2113/EEG-1890. pdf
O’Reilly, Catherine M., Derek K. Gray, Sapna Sharma, Stephanie E. Hampton, Jordan S. Read, Rex J. Rowley, Philipp Schneider, John D. Lenters, (and 56 others). 2015. “Rapid and highly variable warming of lake surface waters around the globe.” Geophysical Research Letters, 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL066235. pdf
Rowley, Rex J. 2015. “Multidimensional Community and the Las Vegas Experience.” GeoJournal, 80, no. 3: 393-410. DOI: 10.1007/s10708-014-9561-y. pdf
Sagers, Glen, Bryan Hosack, Rex J. Rowley, Doug Twitchell, and Ranjitha Nagaraj. 2015. “Where’s the Security in WiFi: An Argument for Industry Awareness,” HICSS 48 (48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences): 5453-5461. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2015.641. pdf
Rowley, Rex J. 2012 (2014 release of backdated issue). “Becoming Las Vegas: Opportunity and Challenge with the Building of Boulder Dam.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 55, no 1-4: 3-35. pdf
Kostelnick, John C., David McDermott, Rex J. Rowley, and Nathaniel Bunnyfield. 2013. “Cartographic Methods for Visualizing Sea Level Rise.” Cartographica 48, no. 3: 200–224. pdf
Rowley, Rex J. 2012. “Religion in Sin City.” Geographical Review 102, no. 1: 76–92. pdf
Li, Xingong, Rex J. Rowley, John C. Kostelnick, David Braaten, Joshua Meisel, and Kalonie Hulbutta. 2009. “GIS Analysis of Global Inundation Impacts from Sea Level Rise.” Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 75, no. 7: 807–818. pdf
Kostelnick, John C., Rex J. Rowley, David McDermott, and Carol Bowen. 2009. “Developing a GIS Program at a Tribal College.” Journal of Geography 108, no. 2: 68–77. pdf
Rowley, Rex J. 2008. “Extending the Security Net: The Impact of Rangeland Insurance on Ranching Economy and Culture.” Great Plains Quarterly 28, no. 2: 91–104. pdf
Rowley, Rex J., Kevin P. Price, and Jude H. Kastens. 2007. “Remote Sensing and the Rancher: Linking Rancher Perception and Remote Sensing.” Rangeland Ecology & Management 60, no. 4: 359–68. pdf
Rowley, Rex J., John C. Kostelnick, David Braaten, Xingong Li, and Joshua Meisel. 2007. “Risk of Rising Sea Level to Population and Land Area.” Eos Transactions 88, no. 9 (27 February 2007): 105, 107. pdf
EDITED BOOK CHAPTERS
Rowley, Rex J. In Press. “Everyday Casinos: The Expanding Gambling Landscape in America’s Neighborhoods” in Casino and Classic Card Games, edited by Mark Johnson. New York: Bloomsbury. (Invited)
Rowley, Rex J. 2018. “Landscapes of Recovery: Shifting Senses of Place Attachment in Kesennuma, Japan” in Explorations in Place Attachment, edited by Jeffery Smith, 211-225. London: Routledge. (Invited)
Rex J. Rowley. 2015. “Faith Islands in Hedonopolis: Ambivalent Adaptation in Las Vegas,” in The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics, Volume 4, edited by Stanley D. Brunn, 2265-2284. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Rowley, Rex J. 2013. “Where Locals Play: Neighborhood Casino Landscapes in Las Vegas,” in Frontiers in Chance: Gaming Research Across the Disciplines, edited by David G. Schwartz, 99–114. Las Vegas: UNLV Gaming Press. (A version of this paper was previously published as occasional paper in 2011.)
Bowen, Carol, John C. Kostelnick, David McDermott, Danny Rowland, and Rex J. Rowley. 2012. “Building and Sustaining a GIS Education Program for Indian Country at Haskell Indian Nations University,” in Tribal GIS: Supporting Native American Decision Making, edited by Anne Taylor, David Gadsden, Joseph J. Kerski, and Heather Warren, 113–18. Redlands CA: ESRI Press.
INVITED PAPERS and ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
Rowley, Rex J. In Preparation. “Changing as it Grows: A Review Essay of Recently Scholarship about Las Vegas,” Journal of Urban History. (Invited)
Rowley, Rex J. 2016. “Las Vegas Strip,” in Minicars, Maglevs, and Mopeds: Modern Modes of Transportation Around the World, edited by Selima Sultana and Joe Weber, 166-67. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press.
Rowley, Rex J. 2016. “Shinkansen (Japan),” in Minicars, Maglevs, and Mopeds: Modern Modes of Transportation Around the World, edited by Selima Sultana and Joe Weber, 278-79. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press.
Rowley, Rex J. 2011. “Where Locals Play: Neighborhood Casino Landscapes in Las Vegas.” Occasional Paper Series 9. Las Vegas: Center for Gaming Research, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. http://gaming.unlv.edu/papers/cgr_op09_rowley.pdf (Invited)