Theses & Dissertations

Doctoral Dissertations

Name	Year	Department	Institution	Title / Topic
Jason Bremner	In progress	City & Regional Planning	UNC-CH	Population Mobility and Livelihood Diversification among Indigenous Peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon
Christine M. Erlien	2008	Geography	UNC-CH	Household and community effects on land use/land cover dynamics in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon.
Clark Gray	2008	Geography	UNC-CH	Out-Migration, Rural Livelihoods, and Environmental Change in the Southern Ecuadorian Andes
Carlos F. Mena	2007	Geography	UNC-CH	Characterizing and modeling agricultural and forest trajectories in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon: spatial heterogeneity, socioeconomic drivers, and spatial simulations
Alisson Barbieri	2005	City & Regional Planning	UNC-CH	People, Land, and Context: Multi-scale Dimensions of Population Mobility in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
William K. Pan	2003	Biostatistics	UNC-CH	A Multilevel Statistical and Spatial Analysis to Examine the Relationship Between Population and Environment: A Case Study of the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Joseph P. Messina	2001	Geography	UNC-CH	A Complex Systems Approach to Dynamic Spatial Simulation Modeling: LandUse and LandCover Change in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Flora E-Shen Lu	1999	Curriculum in Ecology	UNC-CH	Changes in Subsistence Patterns and Resource Use of the Huaorani Indians in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Name	Year	Department	Institution	Title
Patricia E. Polo	2008	Geography	UNC-CH	Nature-culture interactions: understanding the prevalence of malaria in the northern Ecuadorian Amazon.
Carlos F. Mena	2001	Environmental Studies	Florida International University	Deforestation Rates in the Napo Basin: Spatial Patterns and Socioeconomic Factors.
Philip M. McDaniel	2000	Geography	UNC-CH	Household and Community Drivers of Land Clearing: Human-Environment Interactions in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
Gabriela Valdivia	1999	Geography	UNC-CH	Colonization, comunas and reserves: the ecology of land use and land cover change in indigenous communities of northeastern Ecuador.

Name	Year	Department	Institution	Title
Francis Baquero	2001	Geographic & Environmental Engineering	Escuela Politécnica del Ejército	Determinación de la Ecoregion en el Nororiente de la Provincia de Esmeraldas - Fase Piloto.
Luis Alonso Vallejo	2001		Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo	Diagnóstico Agroeconómico de los Cultivos de Café (Coffea canephora) y Cacao (Theobroma cacao) en la Provincia de Sucumbíos.
Bolier Torres	2000		Universidad Técnica Estatal de Quevedo	Análisis de los Impactos del Proyecto Agroforestal PROFORS sobre el Uso de Tierras en la Provincia de Sucumbíos, 1991-99.