Expertise

Geographical areas of specialization:

  • Amazon; Brazil; Latin America

Research Interests:

  • environmental and economic anthropology; land use and landscape history; institutions and collective action; household economy and demographics; livelihoods and poverty; local ecological knowledge; people-forest interaction; social-ecological complex systems analysis; global environmental and climate change; sustainability sciences; integrative methodologies

At Indiana University Bloomington, I have developed a research program in Environmental Anthropology that is collaborative and international, interdisciplinary and problem-oriented, and, perhaps foremost, dedicated to understanding rural and urban populations and landscapes in the Amazon. For most of my career, I have studied small farmers and rural households in Eastern Amazonia as they have interacted with commodity markets, development programs and policies, social movements, and environmental-climate change. For the past decade, my research has extended to the analysis of rural-urban household networks, urbanization and urban problems, and the governance of indigenous areas and conservation units in the region.


Geographical Areas of Specialization

  • Amazon; Brazil; Latin America

Research Interests

  • environmental and economic anthropology; land use and landscape history; institutions and collective action; household economy and demographics; livelihoods and poverty; local ecological knowledge; people-forest interaction; social-ecological complex systems analysis; global environmental and climate change; sustainability sciences; integrative methodologies

Interests: Human-environment interaction; land use; global change; institutional analysis; mixed methods; complex systems; rural-urban linkages


Keywords:

  • Brazilian Studies
Affiliations

Affiliate Faculty, Ostrom Workshop, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Academic and Research Units, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Integrated Program in the Environment, Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President, Academic and Research Units, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Department of American Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Environmental Resilience Institute, Office of the Vice President for Research, Academic and Research Units, Indiana University Bloomington

Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Fellow, Ostrom Workshop, Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Academic and Research Units, Indiana University Bloomington

Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Past Affiliations

Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Chair, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington

Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Director, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
North American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Political Science, Anthropology
Degrees
PhD, Indiana University Bloomington, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Anthropology, 1996
BS, Universidade de Taubaté, Brazil, Agronomic Engineering, 1987
Keywords
brazil land management or land use forest management anthropology ethnobotany ecology landscape ecology remote sensing
Languages
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish