Robert t. Walker


CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS



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CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS




International

“The Sustainability Bridge,” presented at the FAO-IPCC Experts Meeting, Rome, Italy, January 23-25, 2017


“Valuing natural resources: a reconsideration,” paper presentation at the 5th International Ecosummit, Montpellier, France. August 29-September 1.
“Desmatamento Indireto: o Caso de Soja e Pecuaria na Amazônia.”[Indirect Deforestation: the Case of Soy and Ranching in Amazonia], by Robert Walker, Pete Richards and Eugenio Arima. Talk presented at the Federal University of Pará, NUMA. Belém, Brazil, March 13, 2012.
“Desmatamento Indireto na Fronteira Amazonica.” [Indirect Deforestation on the Amazon Frontier], by Robert Walker, Pete Richards and Eugenio Arima. Talk presented at the University of the Amazon (UNAMA). Belém, Brazil, March 27, 2012.
“Modelagem de Desmatamento Indireto.”[Modelling Indirect Deforestation], by Robert Walker, Pete Richards and Eugenio Arima. Talk presented at the Federal University of Pará, ICSA. Belém, Brazil, April 13, 2012.
“Fragmentação Florestal como processo de Desenvolvimento: Impactos da Rodovia Transamazônica na Amazônia Oriental.” [Forest Fragmentation as a Development Process: Impacts of the Transamazon Highway on the Eastern Amazon]. Talk presented at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Department of Geography and Graduate Student Seminar. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 22, 2011.
“Ciência das Mudanças da Terra no Brasil: Desafios empíricos e questões teóricas.” [Land Change Science in Brazil: Empirical challenges and theoretical issues]. Presented at the 15th Brazilian Remote Sensing Symposium. Keynote Speaker at Sessão Especial, Mudanças de Uso da Terra: Visões Multi-disciplinares, Problemas do Mundo Real (Special Session, Land Use Change: Multidisciplinary Visions, Real World Problems), Curitiba, Brazil, May 2, 2011.
“A Fronteira Verde.” [The Green Frontier]. Seminar presented at the Federal University of Pará, Belém, Brazil, March 10, 2010.
“Forest Transition: Fact or Fiction.” Paper presented at the IHDP Open Meetings, Bonn, Germany, April 26-30, 2009.
“Land Reform Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon: new drivers of LCLUC” by Caldas, M., Simmons, C., Walker, R., Perz, S., Aldrich, S. and Arima, E. Conferencia Científica Internacional LBA,GEOMA & PPBio. Manaus, Brazil, Nov 19, 2008.
“The Fragmentation of Space in the Brazilian Amazon: Emergent Road Networks” by Arima, E.,

Walker, R., Sales, M., Souza Jr., C. and Perz. S. Conferencia Cientifica Internacional LBA, GEOMA



&PPBio. Manaus, Brasil, Nov 20, 2008.
“Can Protected Areas Protect the Amazon?” (Poster) by Walker, R., Moore, N., Arima, E., Simmons, C., Perz, S., Caldas, M., Vergara, D. and Bohrer, C. Conferencia Científica Internacional LBA,GEOMA & PPBio. Manaus, Brazil, Nov 17-20, 2008.
“Agent-Based Models of Deforestation in the Amazon.” (Poster) by Vergara, D. and Walker, R. Conferencia Científica Internacional LBA,GEOMA & PPBio. Manaus, Brazil, Nov 17-20, 2008.
Road Investments, Their Contexts and Deforestation Impacts,” by Pfaff, A., Robalino, J. and Walker, R. Conferencia Científica Internacional LBA,GEOMA & PPBio. Manaus, Brazil, Nov 17, 2008.

“Revisiting the Avissar Hypothesis: Climate Modeling of Extreme Deforestation in Amazônia,” by Moore N., Walker, R., Arima, E. and Ramos da Silva, R. Conferencia Científica Internacional LBA,GEOMA & PPBio. Manaus, Brazil, Nov 20, 2008.


“Modelling Land-Climate Interactions in Amazônia under Uncertainty,” by Nathan Moore, Robert Walker, Eugenio Arima, Alex Pfaff, A. and Juan Robalino. NASA LBA meetings. Salvador, Brazil, September 26-28, 2007.
“Settlement Formation and Land Cover and Land Use Change: A Case Study in the Brazilian Amazon. Caldas, C., Walker, R., Simmons, C., Aldrich, S. and Matricardi, E. NASA LBA meetings. Salvador, Brazil, September 26-27, 2007.
“Desmatamento e Agricultura Familiar na Amazônia.” [Deforestation and Family Agriculture in the Amazon]. Seminar at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil, March 8, 2007.
“Projecting Future Amazonian Landscape: An Econometric Approach,” by Robert Walker, Alex Pfaff, Stephen Perz, Eustaquio Reis, Marcellus Caldas, Eugenio Arima, Claudio Bohrer, Juan Robalino, and Stephen Aldrich. NASA LBA meetings. Brasilia, Brazil, Oct 4-6, 2006.
“An Econometric Approach to Amazon Landscapes and Assessing their Hydroclimatological Impacts,” by Nathan Moore, Eugenio Arima, Robert Walker, Alex Pfaff, Eustáquio Reis, Marcellus Caldas, Claudio Bohrer, and Juan Robalino. NASA LBA meetings. Brasilia, Brazil, Oct 4-6, 2006.

“Econometric Estimation of Deforestation Impacts from Roads and Other Drivers,” Alex Pfaff, Eustaquio Reis, Juan Robalino, Robert Walker. NASA LBA meetings. Brasilia, Brazil, Oct 4-6, 2006.


“Socioeconomic Development and Forest Fragmentation in the State of Mato Grosso, in the 1986-2000 Period,” (Poster) by Marcia Mello, Simone Freitas, Claudio Bohrer, Alex Pfaff, Eustaquio Reis, and Robert Walker. NASA LBA meetings. Brasilia, Brazil, Oct 4-6, 2006.

“Teorias de desmatamento na Amazônia.” [Theories about Amazonian Deforestation]. Invited seminar presentation in the Department of Geography, University of São Paulo, February 17, 2006.

“Roads and Deforestation in the Amazon Basin.” NASA LBA meetings. São Paulo, Brazil, Nov 7-9, 2005.
“Scenarios for econometric projections: The future of the Amazon.” (Poster). NASA LBA meetings. São Paulo, Brazil, Nov 7-9, 2005.

“Amazônia, o passado e hoje em dia: Manejando mudanças no ambiente global.” [The Amazon,

Yesterday and Today: Mangaging Global Environmental Change]. Invited seminar presentation at Escola

Superior de Agricultura “Luiz de Queiroz” (College of Agriculture), University of São Paulo, Brazil. July

8, 2005.
“Social Science Data for Northern Eurasia Earth Science Research: Availability and Limitations.” Presentation at workshop, “Observations of land cover and needs of research projects in the Boreal zone of northern Eurasia.” Sponsored by NASA, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 18-19, 2005.
"Socio-spatial Processes of Road-building and Cover Change: The Case of SINOP, Mato Grosso" (Poster) by S. Perz, M. M. Caldas, R. Walker,and C. Souza Jr., IMAZON. Seventh LBA-ECO Science Team Meeting. Sponsored by NASA. Brasilia, Brazil. July 27-29. 2004.
"Socio-spatial processes of forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Uruará colonization site" by Marcellus Caldas, Michigan State University, Walker, R.T., Michigan State University, Perz, S., University of Florida, Arima, E. Michigan State University, Reis, E., IPEA, Pfaff, A., Columbia University. Poster presentation for the seventh LBA-ECO Science Team Meeting. Sponsored by NASA. Brasilia, Brazil. July 27-29. 2004.
“Roads: Cause or Consequence of Deforestation in the Amazon Basin?” presented by Marcellus Caldas for Robert Walker. Presentation at Brasilia, Brazil. July 27-29. 2004.
“Roads: Cause or Consequence of Land Use Change?” (Poster) by E. Arima, R. Walker, E. Reis, S. Perz, M. Caldas, C. Souza Jr., A. Pfaff, C. Bohrer, J. Qi. Seventh LBA-ECO Science Team Meeting. Sponsored by NASA. Fortaleza, Brazil. November 5-8. 2003.
“The Spatial Evolution of Road Systems.” (Poster) by E. Arima, R. Walker, E. Reis, S. Perz, M. Caldas, C. Souza Jr., A. Pfaff, C. Bohrer, J. Qi, Poster presentation for the seventh LBA-ECO Science Team Meeting. Sponsored by NASA. Fortaleza, Brazil. November 5-8. 2003.
“A Progress Report on the Basin-Scale Econometric Model.” (Poster) by R. Walker, E. Arima, E. Reis, S. Perz, M. Caldas, C. Souza Jr., A. Pfaff, C. Bohrer, J. Qi. Seventh LBA-ECO Science Team Meeting. Sponsored by NASA. Fortaleza, Brazil. November 5-8. 2003.
“Conservation and Development: Some Historical Considerations.” Presentation for workshop, Managing Forest Resources in the Amazon: the “Terra do Meio.” Special sessions convened at the XLI Congresso da SOBER. Sponsored by CNPq and the US National Science Foundation. Juiz de Fora, Brazil. July 27-30, 2003
Organizer for workshop, Managing Forest Resources in the Amazon” Sessions convened at the XLI Congresso da SOBER. US National Science Foundation. Juiz de Fora, Brazil. July 27-30, 2003.

Session Chair for workshop, Managing Forest Resources in the Amazon: the “Terra do Meio.” XLI Congresso da SOBER. National Science Foundation. Juiz de Fora, Brazil. July 27-30, 2003.


“What Drives Tropical Deforestation in the Amazon Basin.” Invited workshop presentation in symposium, Land Cover Dynamics in the Amazon: Social Science Debates and the Struggle for Synthesis. Second Science Meeting of the NASA-LBA Program. Manaus, Brazil. July 11, 2002.
Co-convenor, with Berta Becker, of Human Dimensions Session, Second Science Meeting of the NASA-LBA Program. Manaus, Brazil. July 7, 2002.
“Can We Explain Tropical Deforestation.” Presentation, Human Dimensions Session, 2nd Science Meeting of the NASA-LBA Program. Manaus, Brazil. July 7, 2002.
“Land Titles, Tenure Security and Resource Use among Small Farmers in the Brazilian Amazon.” Panel presentation. Co-author with Wood, C. XXIVth General Population Conference of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, August 18-24, 2001,
“Desmatamento na Amazônia: uma análise econométrica de autocorrelação espacial combinando informaçoes de sensoriamento remoto com dados primários.” [Amazonina Deforestation: An Econometric Analysis of Spatial Autocorrelation Combining Remote sensing and Primary Data]. Co-author with Caldas, M., Skole, D., Chomentowskii, W. and Shirota, R. Open Science Conference "The Challenges of a Changing Earth". Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July, 2001.
“Household Life Cycles and Secondary Forest Growth among Smallholders in the Amazon,” co-author for presentation, International Rural Sociology Association (IRSA) meetings, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 2, 2000.



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