Rinku Roy Chowdhury | Faculty
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Office: SB 204
TEL: 855-3854
Email: rroychow@indiana.edu
Education
Ph.D., Geography, Clark University, 2003
M.S., Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, University of Georgia, 1996
B.A., Computer Science and Environmental Science, Wellesley College, 1994
Research
- Land Change Science
- Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
- Cultural and Political Ecology
- GIS/RS
- Landscape and Conservation Ecology
Representative Publications
- Roy Chowdhury, R. 2007. Household Land Management and Biodiversity: Secondary Succession in a Forest-Agriculture Mosaic in Southern Mexico. Ecology and Society 12 (2): 31. [online]
- Roy Chowdhury, R. 2006. Driving forces of tropical deforestation: The role of remote sensing and spatial models. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27(1): 82-101.
- Roy Chowdhury, R. 2006. Landscape change in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico: Modeling the driving forces of smallholder deforestation in land parcels. Applied Geography 26(2): 129-152.
- Roy Chowdhury, R. and B. L. Turner II. 2006. Reconciling agency and structure in empirical analysis: Smallholder land use in the southern Yucatán, Mexico. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 96(2): 302-322.
- Keys, E. and R. Roy Chowdhury. 2006. Cash crops, smallholder decision making and institutional interactions in a closing frontier, Calakmul, Campeche, Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography 5(2): 75-90.
- Fuller, D.O and R. Roy Chowdhury. 2006. Monitoring and modelling tropical deforestation: Introduction to the special issue. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 27(1): 1-3.
