Socio-Environmental Research in Latin America

Chapter 1. Interdisciplinarity, GIScience, and Socio-environmental Research in Latin America.- Chapter 2. Using Spatial Time-series and Field Data to Understand Cultural Drivers of Land Change: Connecting Land Conflict and Land Change in Eastern Amazonia.- Chapter 3. Crossing Boundaries: Transboundary Geographic Information in the Amazon Borderlands of Peru and Brazil.- Chapter 4. Territorial Implications of Economic Diversification in the Waorani Ancestral Lands.- Chapter 5. New Insights on Water Quality and Land Use Dynamics in the Napo Region of Western Amazonia.- Chapter 6. From Mapping to Guiding: An Emergent Framework for the Multiple Uses of Remote Sensing and GIScience in Socio-Environmental Research in the Peruvian Andes.- Chapter 7. The Use of Remote Sensing in Air Pollution Control and Public Health.- Chapter 8. Human-environmental Interactions and their Impacts on Temperate Forests in the Exploradores Valley in Western Patagonia.- Chapter 9. El Chaltén, Argentine Patagonia: A successful Combination of Conservation and Tourism?.- Chapter 10. GIS Approaches to Environmental Justice in Mexico's Oil and Gas Production Zones with Implications for Latin America.- Chapter 11. Contributions to Socio-Environmental Research through Participatory GIS in Archaeology.- Chapter 12. Comparing Volunteered Data Acquisition Methods on Informal Settlements in Mexico City and São Paulo: a Citizen Participation Ladder for VGI.- Chapter 13. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Interdisciplinary GIScience Research on Human-environment Dynamics in Latin America.

Dr. Santiago López is an Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Director of the Environmental Education and Research Center at the University of Washington-Bothell, Bothell, WA. He holds a PhD in Geography and the Environment from University of Texas at Austin, a MA in Geography from Arizona State University, and a BEng in Geographical Engineering from the Armed Forces University (ESPE) in Ecuador. His research interests include human-environment dynamics, land use and land cover transformations, and climate change with an emphasis on GIScience applications and has taught about these themes at higher education institutions in the US and Ecuador.