David M. Cochran, Jr., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
E-mail: David.Cochran@usm.edu
Office: Arthell Kelley Hall, Room 101
Phone : (601) 266-6014
Fax : (601) 266-6219
Personal Webpage
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David M. Cochran, Jr., Ph.D.
E-mail: David.Cochran@usm.edu |
Education B.A. 1990 University of Texas |
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I consider myself a Latin Americanist cultural geographer and cultural ecologist. My research and teaching emphasizes the interrelatedness of humans and their environments, particularly the role of social, cultural, political, and economic processes in shaping resource use and landscape change through time. My current research interests in the Mosquitia region of eastern Honduras include shifting cultivation and tropical forest resource management, impacts of non-agricultural economic activities on land-based livelihoods, and conservation management in the Río Plátano Biosphere. My research also involves the use of geographic information systems for conservation management and the diffusion of such technologies to indigenous groups and other marginalized rural peoples of Central America in their efforts to conserve their lands and resources.
URL: http://www.usm.edu/geog/faculty/cochran.htm |