1999 Summer Institute Introduction
A Summer Institute on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Applications in the Americas
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
will be researchers from several countries who are both already established
research scholars as well as 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 Summer Institute will be located on the Bloomington Campus of Indiana
University. Many sessions will be 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 will be 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). We will also spend one full
day in the field. Labs will be 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 NSF, NICHD, and NASA. He
is the author of 5 books and 9 edited volumes, and more than 80 journal
articles and book chapters.
Dr. Elinor Ostrom, Co-Director of CIPEC; Co-Director of the Workshop
in Political Theory and Policy Analysis; Arthur F. Bentley Professor of
Government in the Department of Political Science; and Professor, School
of Public and Environmental Affairs. Since 1965, she has pursued an active
research program linking institutional arrangements at a local, regional,
and national level to the actions of individuals and their outcomes. Since
the mid 1980s, she has headed a major research program funded by NSF, the
Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations on common-pool resources. She is the
author of Governing the Commons and co-author with Roy Gardner and
James Walker of Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources as well
as many articles in scholarly journals.
Antonio Azuela is the Federal Prosecutor for Environmental Protection
of The United States of Mexico. He holds a Licentiate in Law from the Iberoamerican
University (Mexico City) and a LLM Degree from the University of Warwick
(UK). He has been a researcher and lecturer on urban and environmental
law, the sociology of law and urban sociology in different Mexican universities.
He is on leave from the Institute of Social Research, National Autonomous
University of Mexico (UNAM), where he is a Research Fellow. He is the author
of more than 40 articles and several books, including La ciudad, la
propiedad privada y el derecho (The City, Private Property and the
Law), (Mexico, D.F.: El Colegio de Mexico, 1989).
Dr. Eduardo Brondizio, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology;
Research Associate, CIPEC; and Assistant Director of the Anthropological
Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT),
Indiana University. His work has focused on agricultural and agroforestry
intensification, land use/land cover change, and secondary succession in
the Eastern Amazônia region (especially in the Amazon estuary), and
the application of remote sensing to these issues. Previously, he was the
Coordinator of the "Atlas of the Atlantic Forest Remnants in Brazil," published
in 1990. His work has appeared in numerous journals.
Laura Carlson, Research Assistant, CIPEC. Laura is a senior
undergraduate pursuing a double major in political science and the politics
and ecology of Indiana's forests. The latter is an individualized major
which combines elements of GIS, remote sensing, and ecology with political
theory and policy analysis. Prior to returning to IU to complete this degree,
Laura worked with a regional, nongovernmental organization concerned with
forest policy issues in the eastern United States.
Dr. David Dodds, Fellow in Demography,
CIPEC. David is an anthropologist who received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1994.
Before coming to CIPEC, he was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in anthropological
demography at UC-Berkeley. His doctoral research, funded by the InterAmerican
Foundation and a Fulbright-Hays grant, assessed the degree to which the
subsistence system of the Miskito of Honduras may be sustainable by integrating
data on population growth, agricultural land use, and deforestation into
a mathematical projection model. His postdoctoral research, funded by the
Rand Corporation, CIPEC, and the MacArthur Foundation has focused on population
and land use change in eastern Honduras, community forestry institutions
in Guatemala and Mexico, and experimental economics.
Julie England, Systems Analyst,
CIPEC. Julie was involved with the development of core CIPEC research methods
from its inception, and has been involved in the design and implementation
of every research database developed by the Workshop in Political Theory
and Policy Analysis for the past 10 years. She teaches database and computing
issues to visitors, students, and staff, and helps assess computing and
technology needs for CIPEC and its related centers.
Dr. Thomas Evans, Assistant
Professor, Department of Geography, and Research Associate, CIPEC, Indiana
University. 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 past 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
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 based on his fieldwork in journals
such as Environmental History, World Development, Human Ecology,
and Comparative Politics. He is the author of the forthcoming book
Politicians
and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa (Cambridge
University Press). 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 Washington University (Department
of Earth and Planetary Sciences) in St. Louis, MO. He has studied several
of the prominent agents of anthropogenic change (grazing, salinization,
and de- forestation 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
deforesta- tion processes to determine environmental degradation associated
with various resource manage- ment 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 U.S. Midwest.
Robin Humphrey, Institutional Database
Manager, CIPEC. Robin is the Database Manager for institutional data. He
has had more than 10 years experience working in the computing applications
at Indiana University. Robin coordinates all database changes with the
member Collaborating Research Centers and reviews all data collected in
the field with the team leaders. Currently he is working with the data
recently collected in Brazil and Guatemala. He also assists in training
visiting scholars and graduate students in computer and database classes.
Dr. Fabrice Lehoucq, Institutional
Research Coordinator, CIPEC. Dr. Lehoucq holds a Ph.D. in Political Science
from Duke University. He is a specialist in comparative politics and institutional
analysis. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and has received grants from
The American Political Science Association, The Helen Kellogg Institute,
the University of Notre Dame, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
and The Social Science Research Council. He is the author of articles and
books on voter turnout rates, political change and electoral fraud. Currently,
he is studying the impact of property rights and informal institutions
on forest conditions in Guatemala as well as studying the sources and consequences
of government policies on forests in select countries of the Western Hemisphere.
Dr. Stephen McCracken, Postdoctoral
Scholar, ACT. Dr. McCracken is a social demographer with a focus on health
and environment in Latin America. He earned a Master's degree at the Center
for Latin American Studies, University of Florida in 1985, and a Ph.D.
in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin. Teaching areas include
Analytical Demography, Social Demography of Mortality, Population-Development
& Environment, and Social Science Research Methods. Current research
focuses on family demography, land-use strategies, and deforestation in
the Brazilian Amazon, and historical demography of Indiana and de/reforestation.
Both research endeavors have been focusing on how traditional sources of
data (e.g., census and sample surveys) can be combined with remotely sensed
data through the use of GIS for furthering research and analysis.
Dr. J.C. Randolph, Director of the
National Institute of Global Environmental Change (NIGEC); 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 upon
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 10 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 the
National Institute for Global Environmental Change (NIGEC), sponsored by
the Department of Energy.
Jane Southworth, Research
Assistant, CIPEC. Jane is currently a student in the School of Public and
Environmental Affairs undertaking a Ph.D. in Environmental Science. Prior
to this she received a Master's degree in Meteorology and Climatology within
the Department of Geography at Indiana University, and a B.S. in Geography
from Leicester University, England. Her research interests lie within the
field of Remote Sensing, specifically in the use of the thermal band as
a tool in land use/land cover classification schemes and is currently working
on a proposal for undertaking this research in the Yucatan, Mexico. Jane's
position within CIPEC entails much work in the area of remote sensing analysis
and methodologies for various research sites. This procedure standardizes
the methods used across all sites and hence allows for ease of comparison.
Dr. Catherine Tucker, Environmental
Research Coordinator, CIPEC. Catherine 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 she is starting work in Oaxaca and Michoacán, Mexico.
She has forthcoming articles in Human Ecology, Mesoamérica,
and Praxis. In addition to interests in deforestation, institutional
arrangements, and global environmental change, Catherine brings to CIPEC
a background in team research projects, group administration, and management
and broad experience with fieldwork in Latin America.
Dr. Richard Wilk, Professor, Department
of Anthropology, Indiana University. Dr. Wilk's fieldwork focus has been
in Belize for over 20 years now, though he has also done research in West
Africa and the U.S. 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 archaeologists' 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 has recently published a textbook entitled Economies
and Cultures: Foundations of Economic Anthropology, which brings the
field up to date with the anthropology of the 1990s and beyond.
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