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

该规划以产业决策、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带和秘鲁安第斯山脉南部）对矿产投资对土地价值、土地利用和土地覆盖的影响的分析将使用来自当地土地使用者访谈的数据和来自当地档案来源的信息。这些信息将用于构建直接投资推动土地利用/土地覆盖变化的社会经济机制模型。将研究直接土地覆盖变化（采掘活动地点）和间接土地覆盖变化（土地价值变化和配套基础设施发展）。教育部分将包括两门跨学科课程的开发，由来自商业、经济和能源经济与政策研究所的同事团队教授，以及与俄克拉何马州地理教育联盟合作的K-12扩展计划，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.