Santiago Lopez publishes Socio-Environmental Research in Latin America: Interdisciplinary Approaches using GIS and Remote Sensing Frameworks
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Santiago Lopez publishes a new book, Socio-Environmental Research in Latin America: Interdisciplinary approaches using GIS and Remote Sensing Frameworks. The book presents relevant examples of socio-environmental research that highlight the challenges and opportunities of using geotechnologies in interdisciplinary settings across the vast, culturally, and ecologically mega-diverse region known as Latin America.
Each chapter prods deeply into relevant socio-environmental issues identified by researchers from Latin America and elsewhere doing applied empirical work in the region. Some chapters include Interdisciplinarity, GIScience, and Socio-Environmental Resarch in Latin America, New Insights on Water Quality and Land Use Dynamics in the Napo Region of Western Amazonia, and Challenges and opportunities: GIScience Research on Human-Environment Dynamics in Latin America.