A Summer Institute on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Applications
2002
Purpose
The purpose of the Summer Institute is to share knowledge
within the scholarly community about the human dimensions of
global change research and how such interdisciplinary research
programs are conducted. The participants come from around the
world and range from research scholars who are already
established in their fields to younger scholars just starting
their research on these topics. No single discipline has the
essential tools needed to undertake extensive, long-term efforts
to monitor and assess how various patterns of human use affect
environmental processes at local, landscape, regional, and
global levels. Thus, it is essential to bring scholars from
diverse physical, biological, and social sciences together to
share with one another their relevant technical tools and skills
for conceptualizing, measuring, and analyzing these problems.
The Location
The Summer Institute is located on the Bloomington Campus of
Indiana University. Many sessions are conducted in Woodburn
Hall, which houses the Department of Political Science and a
suite of offices of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy
Analysis. Lab sessions are offered in the Student Building,
which houses the Department of Anthropology, the Department of
Geography, and the Anthropological Center for Training and
Research in Global Environmental Change (ACT). One full day is
also spent in the field. Labs are held at ACT.
The Faculty and Presenters
Dr. Emilio Moran, Co-Director of CIPEC; Director of the
Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global
Environmental Change (ACT); James H. Rudy Professor of
Anthropology; and Professor, School of Public and Environmental
Affairs. Dr. Moran has 25 years' experience in research in the
Amazon Basin and other tropical countries. He is a specialist in
tropical ecology, tropical soils, and the study of land-use and
land-cover change. Since 1991, he has developed methods linking
traditional field techniques of data collection to remotely
sensed data from Landsat satellites. His work is currently
supported by grants from the NSF, NICHD, and NASA. He is the
author of five books and nine edited volumes, and more that 80
journal articles and book chapters.
Dr. Jon Unruh, Associate Director, CIPEC; and Associate
Professor, Department of Geography. Dr. Unruh's applied,
research, and policy work focuses on natural resources and
agriculture in developing countries. He has spent a number of
years in Africa and Latin America involved in work on land
tenure, conflict resolution, irrigation, agroforestry,
pastoralism, deforestation, local institutions, food security,
environmental change, land law, and land policy; and has
published widely on these issues. Prior to coming to Indiana
University, he served as Country Representative to the Famine
Early Warning System for Ethiopia and has worked with USAID, the
University of Wisconsin's Land Tenure Center and Institute for
Environmental Studies, and the Woods Hole Research Center. His
Africa work has focused on Somalia, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.
Dr. Thomas Evans, Assistant Professor, Department of
Geography; and Research Associate, CIPEC. His main area of
research is in the application of GIS and remote sensing
techniques to the study of population-environment interactions.
In particular, his research has focused on developing GIS and
spatial analytic techniques to aid in the integration of social
survey data and biophysical data. He has conducted fieldwork in
Ecuador and Thailand and has collaborated with researchers from
a variety of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology,
ecology, and planning. He is a past employee of Environmental
Systems Research Institute (ESRI), the developers of ARC/INFO
and ARCVIEW.
Dr. Clark Gibson, Assistant Professor of Political
Science and Research Associate, CIPEC. Dr. Gibson's research
focuses on the politics of natural resource management at the
national, regional, and local levels. He has worked extensively
in Southern and Eastern Africa on wildlife and forestry issues.
As part of the International Forestry Resources and Institutions
(IFRI) Research Program, he has undertaken fieldwork regarding
forests and the communities that use them in North, South, and
Central America. Dr. Gibson has published articles based on his
fieldwork in journals such as Environmental History, World
Development, Human Ecology, and Comparative
Politics. He is the author of Politicians and Poachers:
The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa
(Cambridge University Press, 1999). Dr. Gibson teaches the IFRI
Training Course as a graduate seminar at Indiana University.
Dr. Glen Green, Remote Sensing Postdoctoral Scholar,
CIPEC. Dr. Green earned a Ph.D. from the Department of Earth and
Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. He
has studied several of the prominent agents of anthropogenic
change (grazing, salinization, and deforestation caused by
subsistence farming and charcoal production) in a diverse array
of vegetation types. In field and laboratory studies, he has
relied heavily on quantitative methodologies such as GIS, remote
sensing, and GPS technologies. His research interests include
examining deforestation processes to determine environmental
degradation associated with various resource management
policies, and the use of models, together with remotely sensed
mapping and monitoring, to study the biodiversity implications
of land-cover changes and the future economic costs associated
with various conservation and development strategies. He has
worked in Madagascar, Egypt, and in the oak-hickory forests of
the Midwest USA.
Dr. William McConnell, Science Officer, Focus 1 Office of
the Land Use and Cover Change (LUCC) Project, a joint core
project of the International Geosphere_Biosphere Programme and
the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global
Environmental Change. The Focus 1 Office, housed at ACT,
coordinates research on land-use dynamics through comparative
case-study analysis. One of the key themes assigned to Focus 1
in the LUCC Implementation Strategy is to assist in the
development of simulation models that identify key interactions
associated with land degradation and vulnerability. Dr.
McConnell holds an M.A. in International Development and a Ph.D.
in Geography from Clark University. His research concerns
human_environment relations in Sub_Saharan Africa and, most
recently, the scalar dynamics of population and forest cover
change in Madagascar.
Dr. Vicky Meretsky, Assistant Professor, School of Public
and Environmental Affairs, Adjunct Professor, Department of
Biology, and Research Associate, CIPEC. Her main areas of
interest are conservation in managed landscapes and applied
ecology. She conducts research both at the single-species level,
working primarily with endangered species (California condor,
humpback chub, Kanab ambersnail), and at the landscape level.
She managed the vertebrate portion of the Arizona GAP analysis
and is currently a member of the CIPEC Biocomplexity project.
She previously worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
where she was part of the multidisciplinary team monitoring the
first ecosystem-management flood in Grand Canyon; she has also
conducted research for the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research
Center, the National Park Service, and the Bureau of Land
Management.
Dr. Darla Munroe, Postdoctoral Fellow, CIPEC. Dr. Munroe
is an economic geographer, with a focus on land use, spatial
analysis, and spatial econometrics. She earned a Master's
degree from the University of Michigan, specializing in
international economic policy and economic development, and a
Ph.D. in Regional Science from the University of Illinois. She
has conducted fieldwork in Poland, looking at the effect of
historical factors on regional variations in land use on small
farms, which is the subject of a forthcoming article in Regional
Studies. She is currently conducting research on integrating
remotely sensed data into a spatial econometric framework to
study land_use/land_cover change in western Honduras and
southern Indiana.
Dr. Harini Nagendra, Postdoctoral Fellow, CIPEC. Dr.
Nagendra received her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science
and is a researcher in landscape ecology and remote sensing. Her
past research in Southern India involved the development of a
multiscale methodology, combining remote sensing with field
studies, for biodiversity assessment. She is especially
interested in the relationship between landscape pattern and
processes leading to fragmentation, with a focus on tropical
mountain landscapes. She is currently investigating patterns of
land-cover change in Western Honduras and Nepal, with future
planned research in India. As an ecologist, she is also
interested in the use of the IFRI database to investigate
changes in forest condition over time, and has initiated studies
in Nepal. She has published in Journal of Applied Ecology
and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and
has forthcoming articles in Biodiversity and Conservation,
and International Journal of Remote Sensing.
Dr. Dawn Parker, Postdoctoral Fellow, CIPEC. Dr. Parker
received her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from
the University of California at Davis. She is currently a
postdoctoral fellow in modeling at CIPEC. Her current research
is focused on constructing empirically parameterized and
testable agent_based models of land-use decisions. Her general
research interests include impacts of spatial externalities
construction of integrated socioeconomic and biophysical models
of natural resource exploitation, complexity theory, agent_based
modeling, and sustainable agriculture.
Dr. Stephen Perz, Assistant Professor of Sociology and
Affiliate of the Center for Latin American Studies at the
University of Florida. Dr. Perz received a Ph.D. in sociology
and demography from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997.
His research focuses on social and demographic aspects of
land-use and land-cover change in the Brazilian Amazon.
Theoretically, this has required cross_fertilization of ideas
from many areas of the social and natural sciences and Latin
American studies; methodologically, this has required fieldwork,
statistical analysis, and remote sensing and GIS applications.
Dr. Perz currently has papers on this work out or forthcoming in
Population and Environment, International Regional
Science Review, Rural Sociology, Population
Research and Policy Review, Social Science Quarterly,
and a chapter in a forthcoming book, Patterns and Processes
of Land Use and Forest Change in the Brazilian Amazon.
Dr. Amy Poteete, Research Coordinator, International
Forestry Resources and Institutions (IFRI) research program,
Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. After
receiving her doctorate in political science from Duke
University in 1999, Dr. Poteete spent a year teaching at Yale
University before joining the IFRI research program. Her
research focuses on natural resource management as a window onto
the social, economic, and political position of
resource_dependent populations. Current research projects
explore how historical patterns of social organization affect
possibilities for political mobilization by resource_dependent
populations, how perceptions of natural resource systems affect
the development of rules for their management, and when
communities respond to perceived resource degradation through
redistribution versus exclusion. Dr. Poteete is a member of the
teaching team for the IFRI research seminar taught each fall at
Indiana University.
Dr. J. C. Randolph, Director of the National Institute of
Global Environmental Change (NIGEC); and Professor, School of
Public and Environmental Affairs. Dr. Randolph is a forest
ecologist. He teaches courses in applied ecology, forest
ecology, and applications of geographic information systems
(GIS). His research interests focus on ecological aspects of
global environmental change with particular interests in
forestry and agriculture. Other research interests include
physiological ecology of woody plants and small mammals. Dr.
Randolph was director of Environmental Programs for ten years
and later Associate Dean for Research from 1986 to 1989, both in
the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Currently, he is
the director of the Midwestern Regional Center of NIGEC,
sponsored by the Department of Energy.
Dr. Catherine Tucker, Environmental Research Coordinator
and Outreach Coordinator, CIPEC. Dr. Tucker received her
doctorate at the University of Arizona in 1996. Her research
investigates human dimensions of forest change, with a focus on
the relationships between tenure arrangements, national
policies, socioeconomic conditions, demographic factors, and
management decisions. She is conducting a longitudinal study of
forest change in western Honduras and is starting work in Oaxaca
and Michoacán, Mexico. She has forthcoming articles in Human
Ecology, Mesoamerica, and Praxis. In addition
to interests in deforestation, institutional arrangements, and
global environmental change, Dr. Tucker brings to CIPEC a
background in team research projects, group administration and
management, and broad experience with field work in Latin
America.
Dr. James M. Walker, Professor, Department of Economics.
Dr. Walker earned his Ph.D. at Texas A&M University in 1978.
His areas of teaching include experimental economics and public
choice. Dr. Walker is also a member of the Research Faculty and
Co_Associate Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and
Policy Analysis. His principal research focus is the use of
experimental methods in the investigation of individual and
group behavior related to the voluntary provision of public
goods and the use of common pool resources. Recent publications
include co-authored journal articles in Economic Journal,
American Political Science Review, Journal of Public
Economics, and the book Rules Games, and Common Pool
Resources, co-authored with Elinor Ostrom and Roy Gardner.
Dr. Richard Wilk, Professor, Department of Anthropology.
Dr. Wilk's fieldwork focus has been in Belize for over 20
years, though he also has done research in West Africa and the
USA. There are three major topical themes in his research: a
focus on the social and economic organization of the household,
an interest in consumer culture and the global media, and a
continuing concern with ethical issues and practice in our
discipline, with particular emphasis on the issues raised by
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depictions of the past. He has co-edited a book on beauty
pageants, with 14 case studies from around the world, which
focused his attention on the naturalization of gender and on the
ways beauty links previously isolated cultures into global
hierarchies. In the long run, he hopes to bring these
theoretical interests to bear on his household consumption work,
looking at the way gendered experience is learned through
processes of decision making and consumption of food and
clothing. He recently has published a textbook entitled Economies
and Cultures: Foundation of Economic Anthropology, which
brings the field up to date with the anthropology of the 1990s
and beyond.
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