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J. Christopher Brown Office Hours: Spring 08 Sabbatical
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| Research Interests and Current Projects |
| Social relations in Amazonian rural development. |
| Expansion of soybean production in Amazonia. |
| Development and the Politics of Scale. |
| More information on Dr. Brown's research projects is available here. |
| Courses Taught and Teaching Awards |
| GEOG 571: Environmental Issues of Latin America |
| GEOG 597: Geography of Brazil |
| GEOG 379: Environment and Society |
| GEOG 771: Graduate seminar on environment and development |
| Awards |
| 2006 - W. T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence |
| 2003 - H.O.P.E. (Honor for an Outstanding Progressive Educator) award nominee |
| 2003 - Center for Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow |
| Publications During the Last 5 Years |
J. Christopher Brown. In press (expected 2008). NGOs and ongoing changes in Latin American society. In Placing Latin America. (eds. Ed Jackiewicz and Fernando Bosco). Lanham, MD., Rowman and Littlefield. |
Jepson, Wendy, J. Christopher Brown, and Matthew Koeppe. In press (expected 2008). “Agricultural intensification on Brazil’s soybean frontier in southern Rondônia” In Andrew Millington and Wendy Jepson (Eds.) Land Change Science in the Tropics. Boston: Springer Publications. |
| David Brown, J. Christopher Brown, and Scott Desposato. 2008. Who gives, who receives, and who wins? Transforming capital into political change through non-governmental organizations. Comparative Political Studies 41:24-47. |
Brown, J. Christopher, Wendy Jepson, Jude Kastens, Brian Wardlow, John Lomas, and Kevin Price. 2007. Multi-temporal, moderate spatial resolution remote sensing of modern agricultural production and land modification in the Brazilian Amazon. GIScience and Remote Sensing 44(2): 117-148. |
Brown, J. Christopher., Kastens, J. H., Wardlow, B. D., Jepson, W., Coutinho, A. C., Venturieri, A., Lomas, J., Price, K. (2007). Using MODIS to detect cropping frequency variation in mechanized agriculture in Amazonia. Anais XIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto, Florianópolis, Brasil, 21-26 abril 2007, INPE, p. 99-101 |
Brown, David, J. Christopher Brown, and Scott Desposato. 2007. Promoting and preventing political change through internationally-funded NGO activity. Latin American Research Review, 42 (1): 126-138. |
Brown, J. Christopher. 2006. Productive conservation and its representation: the case of beekeeping in the Brazilian Amazon. In Globalization and New Geographies of Conservation. (Ed. Karl Zimmerer) Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Pp. 92-115. |
Brown, J. Christopher. 2006. Placing local environmental protest within global environmental networks: colonist farmers and sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon. In Shades of Green. (Eds. Christof Mauch, Nathan Stoltzfus, Doug Weiner). Lanham Md., Rowman and Littlefield. Pp. 197-218. |
Brown, J. Christopher, Matthew Koeppe, Benjamin Coles, and Kevin Price. 2005. Soybean production and conversion of tropical forest in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Vilhena, Rondonia. Ambio 34(6): 456-463. |
Brown, J. Christopher and Mark Purcell. 2005. There's nothing inherent about scale: political ecology, the local trap, and the politics of development in the Brazilian Amazon. Geoforum 36(5): 607-624. |
Purcell, Mark and J. Christopher Brown. 2005. Against the local trap: scale and the study of environment and development. Progress in Development Studies, 5(4): 279-297. |
Brown, J. Christopher, David Brown, Scott Desposato. 2005. Paving the way to political change: decentralization of development in the Brazilian Amazon. Political Geography 24: 39-52. |
Brown, J. Christopher, Wendy Jepson, and Kevin Price. 2004. FORUM: Expansion of mechanized agriculture and land-cover change in southern Rondônia, Brazil. Journal of Latin American Geography 3(1): 96-103. |
| David Brown, J. Christopher Brown, and Scott Desposato. 2002. Left turn on green?: unintended consequences of international funding for sustainable development in Brazil. Comparative Political Studies 35 (7): 814-838. |
| Brown, J. Christopher and Christian Albrecht. 2001. The effect of tropical deforestation on stingless bees of the genus Melipona (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) in central Rondonia, Brazil. Journal of Biogeography 28: 623-634. |
Brown, J. Christopher. 2001. Responding to deforestation: productive conservation, the World Bank, and beekeeping in Rondonia, Brazil. The Professional Geographer 53(1): 106-119. |
Brown, J. Christopher. 2001. Beekeeping and sustainable development among colonist farmers in Rondonia, Brazil. Sustainable Development: Myth or Reality [In Spanish]. (Eds. M. Hiraoka and F. Kahn). Quito, Editorial Abya-Yala. Pp. 61-72. |
Brown, J. Christopher, Mark Purcell, and Nathaniel Brunsell. (In Press). Scale, Problems of. Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Ed. by Paul Robbins. SAGE Publications. |
