About Eugenio Arima

I am Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin since 2011. I usually teach the GIScience courses at the undergraduate level and Land Change Science and Quantitative Methods for graduate students. Broadly, I am interested in understanding the motivations that drive humans to act upon and transform tropical landscapes and how that manifests spatially in terms of patterns. This link between human agency and landscape pattern is based on conceptual and theoretical approaches derived from behavioral theory and political economy. My work typically employs mixed-methods such as interview-based fieldwork, computer simulation, econometrics and spatial statistics, geographic information systems, and remote sensing.