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

该计划以工业决策、自然资源开发和环境保护为中心。 研究部分将比较美洲矿物开采区域内土地使用/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、委内瑞拉奥里诺科河带和安第斯山脉南部秘鲁）矿产投资对土地价值、土地利用和土地覆盖的长期影响分析将使用来自当地土地使用者访谈的数据，并结合当地档案来源的信息。这些信息将用于构建一个社会经济机制模型，通过该模型，直接投资驱动土地利用/土地覆盖变化。 直接的土地覆盖变化（在开采活动地点）和间接土地覆被变化（土地价值变化和支持基础设施发展）将进行研究。教育部分将导致两个跨学科课程的发展，与来自商业，经济学和能源经济与政策研究所的同事一起授课，以及与俄克拉荷马州地理教育联盟合作的K-12推广计划，以开发课程材料，帮助教师达到国家地理标准。

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.