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Christopher Brown
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Current Research
Social relations in Amazonian rural development.
 
Current Projects

Expansion of soybean production in Amazonia

Development and the Politics of Scale

 
Research Interests
Culture, kinship, gender in the Amazon Basin, medical anthropology
 
Selected Publications
David Brown, J. Christopher Brown , and Scott Desposato. (in press). Who gives, who receives, and who wins? Transforming capital into political change through non-governmental organizations. Comparative Political Studies . 

Brown, J. Christopher , Mark Purcell, and Nathaniel Brunsell. Scale, Problems of. Encyclopedia of Environment and Society . Ed. by Paul Robbins. SAGE Publications. In Press.

Brown, J. Christopher . In press. NGOs and ongoing changes in Latin American society. In Placing Latin America . (eds. Ed Jackiewicz and Fernando Bosco). Baton Rouge, LSU Press.

Brown, J. Christopher , Jepson, W. E., Kastens, B. D., Lomas, J. M. and K. P. Price. (in press). Multi-temporal, moderate spatial resolution remote sensing of modern agricultural production and land modification in the Brazilian Amazon. GIScience and Remote Sensing. Expected June 2007.

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. Proceedings of the XIII Brazilian Symposium of Remote Sensing, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina.

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.

 
Courses Taught
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
 
Education
PhD UCLA (1999)