Yi-Fu Tuan Lecture Schedule, Fall 2007

All lectures presented in Science Hall Room 180, 3:30 pm

29 September 2006 - Dr. Vance Holliday

Landscape Evolution and the Earliest Modern Humans on the Russian Plains: Geoarchaeology of the Kostenki Localities

Departments of Anthropology and Geosciences, University of Arizona

20 October 2006 - Dr. Bill Cronon

And the Moral of the Story Is.': Fables of Climate Change

UW-Madison

27 October 2006 - Dr. Ken Young

Challenged by diversity: Biogeography and conservation of tropical landscapes
Univ of Texas

3 November 2006 - Dr. Alec Brownlow

Natural Articulations? Inherited and Entrepreneurial Ecologies in the Neoliberal City

DePaul University

10 November 2006 - Compton Tucker

1400 Years of Forest Alteration in Madagascar by Homo sapiens

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

17 Novemebr 2006 - Dr. Jason McLachlan

Ice age hotspots? Conservation lessons from the last glacial maximum

Notre Dame

1 December 2006 - Dr. Colin Long

Pacific Northwest Fires, Volcanoes, and Forests: Evidence from the past informing the future

UW-Oshkosh

Past lectures this semester

15 September 2006 - Dr. Steve Manson

Global change, local places: models of individual decision making on the new Mexican frontier

Abstract: Humans have long altered the land by clearing forests, farming, and building settlements. The extent of these activities in many places has become environmentally and socially unsustainable. Yet, we know surprisingly little about the nature, causes, and impacts of our changing landscapes. I combine empirical research with computer modeling to advance theory and develop practical knowledge on how this land change is caused by interactions among individuals, organizations, and broader social and environmental systems. I use this approach to conduct comparative research on deforestation in the Southern Yucatán of Mexico.

Biographical sketch: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~manson/research.htm Steven Manson is an assistant professor and McKnight Land-Grant Professor of Geography at the University of Minnesota. He received his PhD from Clark University in 2002. He combines environmental research, social science approaches, and geographic information science to understand changing urban and rural landscapes in the United States and Mexico. This work is part of his longer term research on global environmental change, decision making, and understanding complex human-environment systems. Among other things, Dr. Manson was a NASA Earth System Science Fellow, received the Young Scholar Award from the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, and is a NASA New Investigator in Earth-Sun System Science. Dr. Manson teaches in the areas of geographic information science and spatial analysis of human-environment systems. He is also co-director of UMN's Masters of Geographic Information Science program.

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