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Forest Transition and Fuzzy Environments in Neoliberal Mexico

SIMMONS, WALKER – Forest Transition and Fuzzy Environments in Neoliberal Mexico Cynthia Simmons, Marta Astier, Robert Walker, Jaime Fernando Navia-Antezana, Yan Gao, Yankuic Galván-Miyoshi, Dan Klooster Article first published online: 6 April 2023 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040840 ABSTRACT: Although deforestation remains a continuing threat to both the natural world and its resident human populations, a countervailing land […]

NAFTA’s Cartel Economy

WALKER – NAFTA’s Cartel Economy Robert Toovey Walker Article first published online: 25 JUN 2020 Annals of the American Association of Geographers DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1765727 ABSTRACT: This article combines elements of a personal essay with travel writing, in which geographers have expressed renewed interest. Constructed not through contemplations of the mind but from lived corporeal experience, […]

Post-NAFTA Changes in Peasant Land Use—The Case of the Pátzcuaro Lake Watershed Region in the Central-West México

SIMMONS, WALKER – Post-NAFTA Changes in Peasant Land Use—The Case of the Pátzcuaro Lake Watershed Region in the Central-West México Marta Astier, Quetzalcóatl Orozco-Ramírez, Robert Walker, Yankuic Galván-Miyoshi, Carlos González-Esquivel, Cynthia S. Simmons Article first published online: 5 MAR 2020 Land DOI: 10.3390/land9030075 ABSTRACT: Rural life in México has changed drastically over the past several […]

Dr. Robert Walker receives NSF Geography and Spatial Sciences award

Dr. Robert Walker has received an NSF award from the Geography and Spatial Sciences program, to fund a project entitled “International Trade Agreements, Globalization, Land Change, and Agricultural Food Networks” with a budget of $375,000. The research, to be conducted in Mexico, investigates links between spatial shifts in that country’s forest biomes, and neoliberal reforms […]