Salto Kama in Venezuela's Gran Sabana
Research Interests
- Land-use and land-cover change (LUCC) particulary as related to nonrenewable resource extraction, using geospatial analysis-- remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS), and the Global Positioning System (GPS).
- The ecological footprint created by petroscape expansion in eastern Venezuela's heavy oil belt (HOB).
- Energy and environment.
- Environmental management
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Sustainable development
Business and the environment.
- Energy policy.
Other research interests include:
- Analyzing land use land cover changes resulting from the extraction of gold, both large and small scale, through remote sensing and fieldwork in Brazil and southeastern Venezuela.
- A comparative study of the development of two planned cities in South America: Ciudad Guayana in southeastern Venezuela and Boa Vista in northern Brazil, to better understand growth management policies in frontier regions, industrial development based on natural resource exploitation and the use of physical features to divide socioeconomic classes.
- The new connectivity arising from the completion of the second Orinoco River Bridge in Venezuela and the implications for regional development in this area of petroleum, tree plantations, iron and aluminum mining, and hydroelectric production.
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