Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Ph.D.

(Clark University, 2003)

Assistant Professor

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Professor Roy Chowdhury conducts research on the driving forces and consequences of land cover/land use change in tropical forest/agricultural mosaics, analyzing multiple dimensions of social and ecological system vulnerability using field research and modeling techniques. Her primary research site lies in the southern Yucat·n peninsular region of Mexico. Her research and teaching interests are in the human dimensions of global environmental change, cultural and political ecology, remote sensing, GIS, and Latin America. Her recent research has appeared in The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Journal of Latin American Geography, Applied Geography, and The Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.

Publications:

• 2007 Roy Chowdhury, R. Household Land Management and Biodiversity: Secondary Succession in a Forest-Agriculture Mosaic in Southern Mexico. Ecology and Society 12 (2): 31. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art31/
• 2006 Roy Chowdhury, R. Driving forces of tropical deforestation: The role of remote sensing and spatial models. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27(1): 82-101.
• 2006 Roy Chowdhury, R. Landscape change in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico: Modeling the driving forces of smallholder deforestation in land parcels. Applied Geography 26(2): 129-152.
• 2006 Roy Chowdhury, R. and B. L. Turner II. Reconciling agency and structure in empirical analysis: Smallholder land use in the southern Yucatán, Mexico. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96(2): 302-322.
• 2006 Keys, E. and R. Roy Chowdhury. Cash crops, smallholder decision making and institutional interactions in a closing frontier, Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography 5(2): 75-90.
• 2006 Fuller, D.O and R. Roy Chowdhury. Monitoring and modelling tropical deforestation: Introduction to the special issue. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27(1): 1-3.

Courses taught:

• GEG 199/545: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
  GEG 391/591: Intermediate Geographic Information Systems
  ECS 302/ GEG 545: Perspectives on Environmental Decisions
  GEG 515: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
  GEG 603: Research Design