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Appendix About the Contributors
Appendix About the Contributors
Pages 309-322
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An interest in methodology pervades all of her work. Her current research utilizes innovative data from Nang Rong, Thailand, which links prospective longitudinal social survey data on households, and links between households, to information about land use and land cover extracted from a time series of satellite images.
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Ojima is a senior research scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory and an assistant professor in the Rangeland Ecosystem Science Department at Colorado State University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in ecosystem modeling and land use change and lectures in a number of departments, including the anthropology, atmospheric, and natural resource departments.
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His most recent work examines the consequences of the Indian Green Revolution for schooling attainment, household structure, and deforestation; the impact of local democratization on the distribution of public services in India; the effects of maternal schooling on children's human capital; and the consequences of low birthweight. During 1979-1980, Rosenzweig was the director of research for the U.S.
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Her research area is the economics of agroenvironmental policy. Recent research projects include implementation of agroenvironmental water quality standards, the policy implications of the uncertain environmental impacts of biotechnology products, corporate environmental management strategies in the agricultural sector, and examining the influence of agricultural contractual arrangements on producers' financial and environmental performance.
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Burke is professor and university distinguished teaching scholar in the Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship in the College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University. Her professional interests include soil organic matter dynamics, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, regional modeling, and global change.
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He has played a key role in the design, implementation, and analysis of population surveys in Thailand, including Thailandís National Contraceptive Prevalence Surveys, the National Migration Survey, and the Nang Rong longitudinal surveys. Chamratrithirong was director of IPSR from 1988 to 1996 and advisor on Population Census and Survey Data Analysis for the Country Technical Services Team for East and South-East Asia of the United National Population Fund.
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Groop is professor and chair of the Department of Geography and former director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Science at Michigan State University. He has published numerous research articles and book chapters and contributed to a number of atlases, including the Digital Atlas of Michigan.
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Amy Lynd Luers is a climate impacts scientist for the Global Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Berkeley, California. Her research has focused on assessing vulnerability of agricultural farmers and coastal communities in northern Mexico to global environmental changes.
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She has been involved in a number of field-level research projects throughout the world concerning issues of high-input agricultural production, biotechnology, climate-induced yield variability, aquaculture production, and food security. She was named a fellow in the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program in Environmental Sciences in 1999 and a Pew fellow in conservation and the environment in 1994, and she serves on the oversight committee for the McKnight Foundation's Collaborative Crop Research Program.
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Zhiyun Ouyang is professor and director of the Key Lab of Systems Ecology and associate director of the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include ecosystem services, ecosystem assessment, and ecological planning, biodiversity conservation, as well as applications of geographic information systems in ecology and environmental sciences.
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The author or coauthor of numerous books, including Explanation in Archaeology, The Rise of Civilization, People of the Tonto Rim and, most recently, Human Impact on Ancient Environments, he has directed archaeological field projects in the Near East, North Africa, and Arizona. He is a founding member of the Southwest Center for Education and the Natural Environment, a member of the board of trustees of the Museum of Northern Arizona, as well as the Arizona chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and a member of the science advisory committee of Biosphere 2 and the WennerGren Foundation.
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She is particularly interested in the spatiotemporal patterns and social interactions at the agriculture-urban land use interface. She is on the scientific steering committees of the International Human Dimensions Programme's project on urbanization and global environmental change, and the World Conservation Union's Commission on Ecosystem Management.
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. Specific research foci are on pattern and process at the alpine treeline ecotone, biocomplexity, scale dependence and information scaling, land use and land cover dynamics, spatial simulations and change modeling, health care delivery, and population-environment interactions.
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