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8675
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4231
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1471

Overview

Robert Walker is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a specific focus on global environmental and agricultural challenges. Their work contributes to the understanding of ecosystem dynamics, land use, and sustainability, employing interdisciplinary approaches that combine ecological, social, and policy perspectives.

The main fields of study covered by their research include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broad domains, their subfields of specialization consist of:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Ecology
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Strategy and Management

Their scholarly contributions address several focused topics, such as:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
  • Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
  • Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Robert Walker has published research in several academic venues. The frequent publication venues include:

  • Forests
  • Annals of the American Association of Geographers
  • Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
  • Geographical Review
  • World Development

The following recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert Walker exemplify their topical scope and research interest:

  • "Collision Course: Development Pushes Amazonia Toward Its Tipping Point" (2020), published in Environment Science and Policy for Sustainable Development
  • "GEOGRAPHY, VON THÜNEN, AND TOBLER'S FIRST LAW: TRACING THE EVOLUTION OF A CONCEPT" (2021), published in Geographical Review
  • "The COVID-19 crisis and Amazonia's indigenous people: Implications for conservation and global health" (2021), published in World Development
  • "Agronomic or contentious land change? A longitudinal analysis from the Eastern Brazilian Amazon" (2020), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Post-NAFTA Changes in Peasant Land Use-The Case of the Pátzcuaro Lake Watershed Region in the Central-West México" (2020), published in Land

Frequent collaborators in Robert Walker's research include:

  • Cynthia Simmons
  • Marta Astier
  • Yankuic Galván-Miyoshi
  • Javier E. Mercado
  • Scott B. Franklin

Best Publications

  • Rural household demographics, livelihoods and the environment

    Alex de Sherbinin;Leah K. VanWey;Kendra McSweeney;Rimjhim Aggarwal

  • Statistical confirmation of indirect land use change in the Brazilian Amazon

    Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Peter Richards;Robert Walker;Marcellus M. Caldas

  • Deforestation and Cattle Ranching in the Brazilian Amazon: External Capital and Household Processes

    Robert Walker;Emilio Moran;Luc Anselin

  • Land Use and Land Cover Change in Forest Frontiers: The Role of Household Life Cycles

    Robert Walker;Stephen Perz;Marcellus Marcellus Caldas;Luiz Guilherme Teixeira Silva

  • Road investments, spatial spillovers, and deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

    Alexander Pfaff;Juan Robalino;Robert Walker;Steven Aldrich

  • Land use and land cover dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon: an overview

    Robert Walker;Robert Walker;Alfredo Kingo Oyama Homma

  • THEORIZING LAND-COVER AND LAND-USE CHANGE: THE CASE OF TROPICAL DEFORESTATION

    Robert Walker

  • Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation

    Marcellus Caldas;Robert Walker;Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Stephen Perz

  • Household Life Cycles and Secondary Forest Cover Among Small Farm Colonists in the Amazon

    Stephen G Perz;Robert T Walker

  • Ranching and the new global range: Amazônia in the 21st century

    Robert Walker;John Browder;Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Cynthia Simmons

  • Exchange rates, soybean supply response, and deforestation in South America

    Peter D. Richards;Robert J. Myers;Scott M. Swinton;Robert T. Walker

  • Road building, land use and climate change: prospects for environmental governance in the Amazon

    Stephen Perz;Silvia Brilhante;Foster Brown;Marcellus Caldas

  • Modeling Land Use and Land Cover Change

    Daniel G. Brown;Robert Walker;Steven Manson;Karen Seto

  • Mapping Process to Pattern in the Landscape Change of the Amazonian Frontier

    Robert Walker

  • Spatially complex land change: The Indirect effect of Brazil's agricultural sector on land use in Amazonia

    Peter D. Richards;Robert T. Walker;Eugenio Yatsuda Arima

  • Loggers and Forest Fragmentation: Behavioral Models of Road Building in the Amazon Basin

    Eugenio Y. Arima;Robert T. Walker;Stephen G. Perz;Marcellus Caldas

  • Contentious Land Change in the Amazon's Arc of Deforestation

    Stephen Aldrich;Robert Walker;Cynthia Simmons;Marcellus Caldas

  • Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Brazilian Amazon: Smallholders, Ranchers and Frontier Stratification

    Stephen P. Aldrich;Robert T. Walker;Eugenio Y. Arima;Marcellus M. Caldas

  • Revisiting Theories of Frontier Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: A Survey of the Colonist Farming Population in Rondônia’s Post-Frontier, 1992–2002

    John O. Browder;Marcos A. Pedlowski;Robert Walker;Randolph H. Wynne

  • Protecting the Amazon with protected areas

    Robert Walker;Nathan J. Moore;Eugenio Yatsuda Arima;Stephen Perz

  • Linked migration systems: immigration and internal labor flows in the United States.

    Robert Walker;Mark Ellis;Richard Barff

  • Analysis Land use and land cover dynamics in the Brazilian Amazon: an overview

    Robert Walker;Alfredo Kingo;Oyama Homma

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen G. Perz
Stephen G. Perz University of Florida
Carlos M. Souza
Carlos M. Souza Amazon Institute of People and the Environment
Frederick N. Scatena
Frederick N. Scatena University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Pfaff
Alexander Pfaff Duke University
Emilio F. Moran
Emilio F. Moran Michigan State University
William F. Laurance
William F. Laurance James Cook University
Luc Anselin
Luc Anselin University of Chicago
David L. Skole
David L. Skole Michigan State University
William Solecki
William Solecki City University of New York
Britaldo Soares-Filho
Britaldo Soares-Filho Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

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