CAREER: MINERAL INVESTMENT AND LAND-USE/LAND-COVER CHANGE IN THE AMERICAS

该规划围绕产业决策、自然资源开发和环境保护三个方面展开。研究部分将比较美洲矿产开采区内土地利用/土地覆盖变化的四个案例研究。(美国亚利桑那州、墨西哥索诺拉州、委内瑞拉奥里诺科河地带和秘鲁南部安第斯山脉)对矿产投资随时间推移对土地价值、土地利用和土地覆盖的影响的分析将使用来自对当地土地使用者的采访数据，并结合当地档案来源的信息。这些信息将被用来构建社会经济机制的模型，通过这种机制，直接投资推动土地利用/土地覆盖的变化。将对直接土地覆盖变化(提取活动现场)和间接土地覆盖变化(土地价值变化和支持基础设施发展)进行研究。教育部分将导致开发两门跨学科课程，并与来自商业、经济和能源经济与政策研究所的同事合作教授，以及与俄克拉荷马地理教育联盟合作开展的K-12推广计划，以开发帮助教师达到国家地理标准的课程材料。

This plan is centered on industrial decision-making, natural resource development, and environmental protection. The research component will compare four case studies of land-use/land-cover change within mineral exraction regions of the Americas. (Arizona US, Sonora Mexico, Orinoco Belt Venezuela, and southern Andes Peru) An analysis of the impact of mineral investment on land values, land-use, and land-cover over time will use data derived from interviews with local land users combined with information from local archival sources. This information will be used to construct a model of the socioeconomic mechnisms through which direct investment drives land-use/land-cover change. Both direct land-cover change (at the site of the extraction activity) and indirect land-cover change (land values change and supporting infrastructural development) will be researched.The educational component will result in the development of two interdisciplinary courses to be team-taught with colleagues from Business, Economics, and the Institute for Energy Economics and Policy, and a program of K-12 outreach in partnership with the Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education to develop curriculum materials which assist teachers in meeting the National Geography Standards.