Outline: Christian Abizaid
| Assistant Professor (Joint with Centre for Environment) MA, PhD, McGill University Licenciatura (Honors Equivalent), Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico) Department of Geography and Program in Planning & Centre for Environment Mailing address: Department of Geography, Room 5025B, 100 St. George Street, U of T, M5S 3G3 Tel: 416.978.3373 Fax: 416.946.3886 Email: christian.abizaid@utoronto.ca |
| Research Interests |
| Human-environment interactions Peasant livelihoods in tropical forests Cultural/political ecology Environmental conservation and development Environmental change Vulnerability and human responses to environmental change Land use and land cover change Latin America Amazon & Mexico |
| Selected Publications |
| Abizaid, C., O.T. Coomes, Y. Takasaki and S. Brisson. 2011. “Social network analysis and peasant agriculture: Cooperative labor as relational networks” (under review). |
| Coomes, O., Y. Takasaki, C. Abizaid and B. Barham. 2010. Floodplain fisheries as natural insurance for the rural poor in tropical forest environments: evidence from Amazonia. Fisheries Management and Ecology 17:513-521. |
| Coomes, O., C. Abizaid and M. Lapointe. 2009. Human modification of a large meandering Amazonian river: genesis, ecological and economic consequences of the Masisea cutoff on the central Ucayali, Peru. Ambio 38(3):130-34. |
| Abizaid, C. 2005. An anthropogenic meander cutoff along the Ucayali River, Peruvian Amazon. The Geographical Review 95 (1): 122-134. |
| Abizaid, C. and O.T. Coomes, 2004. Land use and forest fallowing dynamics in seasonally dry tropical forest in the southern Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Land Use Policy 21(1):71-84. |
Teaching (2011-2012) |
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| ENV223H1 Fundamental Environmental Research Skills |
| GGR341H1 Changing Geography of Latin America |
| JGE321H1 Multicultural Perspectives on the Environment |
