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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 the Ecuadorian Amazon. Specifically, he is interested in the relationships between socioeconomic and demographic factors and forest and agricultural transitions in frontier environments. Currently, Carlos is working with Complexity Theory, remote sensing, GIS, and household survey data to create models of land cover change. The objective of his research is the generation of spatially-explicit predictive models that can be used to guide environmental policy, resource management, and conservation efforts in Ecuador.
Advisor: Stephen J. Walsh
Keywords: Ecuador, Amazon, Population-Environment, GIS, Remote Sensing, Cellular Automata.
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