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Biographical Information
Carlos
Mena is an Ecuadorian doctoral student at the Geography
Department and pre-doctoral trainee at the Carolina Population
Center. He is interested in the study of land use and land
cover change in frontier environments. Specifically, his
dissertation work deals with the relationships between
socioeconomic and demographic factors and forest and
agricultural transitions in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon.
Carlos is using remote sensing, GIS, and household survey data
to create statistic and spatially explicit models that predict
future land cover change.
Advisor: Stephen J. Walsh
Keywords: Ecuador, Amazon,
Population-Environment, GIS, Remote Sensing, Dynamic Modeling.
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