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Environmental Science Faculty

Emilio F. Moran
Professor
Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography

Rudy Professor of Anthropology
Director, ACT, Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change.
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change

Ph.D., University of Florida, 1975

Fellow, Linnean Society of London, 1999 to present
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1989-1990
Fullbright-Hays Fellowships 1989, 1976-77, 1973-74
President, Society for Economic Anthropology 1990-91

Professor Moran's research currently combines remote sensing methods, and field methods of data gathering and analysis, in the study of secondary succession in the Amazon Basin. Landsat™ satellite digital data is combined in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with soils, vegetation, land use histories, yield, and carbon cyciing to arrive at a detailed understanding of the processes responsible for accelerated or retarded rates of regrowth following deforestation. This work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, NOAA, NASA, and the Midwestern Center of the National Institutes for Global Environmental Change in the past. Current support includes NSF, the population program at the National Institutes of Health, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Students working with me would have the opportunity to develop their own research or take part in ongoing projects that examine deforestation and afforestation processes in temperate and tropical forest ecosystems in the Western Hemisphere.

Moran is the author of six books, nine edited volumes and over 100 articles on tropical ecology and resource management, migration and resettlement, and on ecosystem ecology.

Selected Publications

Boucek, B. and E.F. Moran. (2004). "Inferring the Behavior of Households from Remotely Sensed Changes in Land Cover: Current Methods and Future Directions." In: Spatially Integrated Social Science. M.F. Goodchild and D.G. Janelle (Eds.). New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 23-47.

Batistella, M., S. Robeson, E.F. Moran. (2003). "Settlement Design, Forest Fragmentation, and Landscape Change in Rondônia, Amazonia." Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 69(7), pp. 805-12.

Moran. E.F., Brondizio and S. McCracken. (2002). "Trajectories of Land Use: Soils, Succession, and Crop Choice." In Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon. C. Wood and R. Porro (Eds.). Gainesville: University of Florida Press. Pp. 193-217.

Evans, T.P. and E.F. Moran. (2002). "Spatial Integration of Social and Biophysical Factors Related to Land Cover Change." Population and Development Review. Supplement to Vol. 28. Pp. 165-86.

Lim, K. P.J. Deadman, E.F. Moran, E. Brondizio, and S. McCracken. (2002). "Agent-based Simulations of Household Decision making and Land Use Change in Altamira, Brazil." In Integrating Geographic Information Systems and Agent-based Modeling Techniques for Understanding Social and Ecological Processes. H. Randy Gimblett (Ed.). Oxford University Press and the Santa Fe Institute. Pp. 277-310.

Lu, D., P. Mausel and E.F. Moran. (2002)." Linking Amazonian Secondary Succession Forest Growth to Soil Properties." Land Degradation & Development 13: 331-43.

McCracken, S., B.Boucek and E.F. Moran. (2002). "Deforestation Trajectories in a Frontier Region of the Brazilian Amazon." In Linking People, Place, and Policy: A GIScience Approach. S. Walsh and K. Crews-Meyer (Eds.). Kluwer Publishers. Pp. 215-34.

Walker, R., E.F. Moran, and L. Anselin. (2000). "Deforestation and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: External Capital and Household Processes." World Development 28(4): 683-99.

Moran, E.F. (2000). Human Adaptability: An Introduction to Ecological Anthropology. (2000). 2nd edition. Boulder: Westview Press.

McCracken, S., E.S. Brondizio, D. Nelson, E.F. Moran, A.D. Siqueira, and C. Rodriguez-Pedraza. (1999). "Remote Sensing and GIS at Farm Property Level: Demography and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon." Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 65(11):1311-320.