I identify myself as an environmental geographer who studies the interaction of social, economic, and environmental processes. My conceptual framework is derived from an economic and social perspective that considers the behavioral attitudes of agents, and implications for the environment. My teaching has been a bit more diverse, given my earlier training and the departmental requirements where I have taught.
As an environmental geographer who addresses human-environment interactions, I pay special attention to the behavioral attitudes of agents and implications of the environment. The research strategy I employ combines both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, utilizing data and insight gained from field investigation involving household surveys and key informant interviews. I have interest in Land Reform, Land Cover and Land Use Change (LCLUCC), and Applications of GIS and Remote Sensing to LCLUC. My experience in this line of inquirity has focused primarily on Latin America.
MARCELLUS MARQUES CALDAS
caldasma_ksu.edu
118 Seaton Hall
Department of Geography
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS, 66506
Phone #: 785-532-1244
Professional Preparation
2008: PhD in Geography, Michigan State University
2001: D.Sc. in Applied Economics, University of São Paulo, Brazil
1988: M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil
1984: Bachelors of Sciences in Economics, Pontificie Catholic University, Brazil
Appointments
2008 - present: Kansas State University, Department of Geography
2002 - 2003: Post Doctoral Fellow, Center for International Development, Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University
1998 - 2000: Visiting Scholar at Michigan State University Dept. of Geography-Center for Earth
Observation and Remote Sensing (Former Basic Science and Remote Sensing Initiative)
1990 - 1998: Assistant Professor, Economics, Federal University of Bahia, Bahia-Brazil.
1989 - 1990: Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Santa Cruz, Bahia - Brazil.
Teaching
Kansas State University Department of Geography Undergraduate Students
GIS I GEOG 508
GIS II GEOG 708
Human Geography GEOG 200
Geography of South America GEOG 622
Federal University of Bahia, School of Agronomy Undergraduate & Graduate Students
Introduction to Microeconomics
Environmental and Natural Resources Economics
Santa Cruz State University, Department of Economics Undergraduate Students
Agricultural Production Economics
Econometrics
Michigan State University Department of Geography Undergraduate Students
Introduction to Economic Geography - GEO 113
Introduction to Geographic Information - GEO 221
Remote Sensing of the Environment - GEO 324
Spatial Data Analysis GEO866
Refereed Journal Articles
C. Simmons, R. Walker, S. Perz, S. Aldrich, Marcellus M. Caldas, R. Pereira, Luiz C. Fernandes. Doing it for thesemselves: Direct Action Land Reform in the Brazilian Amazon. World Development.
R. Walker, N. Moore, E. Arima, S. Perz, C. Simmons, Marcellus M. Caldas, D. Vergara, C. Boher. Can Protected Areas Protect the Amazon? Proceedings of National Academy of Science.
R. Walker, J. Messina, E. Arima, S. Perz, Marcellus M. Caldas, D. Vergara. "The Human Drivers of
Forest Fragmentation in Amazônia: The Case of Logging." Landscape Ecology.
R. T. Walker, J. Browder, E. Arima, C. Simmons, R. Pereira, Marcellus M. Caldas, R. Shirota, S. de
Zen. Saying Goodbye to the Amazonian Forest: Ranching and the New Global Range. GeoForum
(Elsevier Editorial System)
E. Brondizio, A. Cak, Marcellus M. Caldas, R. Bilsborrow, E. Moran, C. Mena. T. Ludewigs, C.
Futemma, M. Batistela. Deforestation and Small Holders in Amazonia. In : Amazonia and Global
Change, Eds. Michael Keller, John Gash, Pedro Silva Dias. LBA/NASA (Book).
C. Simmons, R. Walker, E. Arima, S. Aldrich, Marcellus M. Caldas (Press). A Guerra Amazônica pela Terra no Sul do Pará. In: A Guerra Amazônica pela Terra no Sul do Pará. Sociedade, Territórios and conflitos: BR 163 em questão. Eds. Edna Castro. Universidade Federal do Pará Press/NAEA (Book).
Walker, R., M. Diniz, Marcellus M. Caldas, L. Chermont. In: Amazônia: natureza e sociedade em
transformação Ed.s M. Batistella, E.F.Moran, D.S. Alves. University of São Paulo Press: EDUSP (Book).
S. G. Perz, Marcellus M. Caldas, R. T. Walker, E. Arima, and C. Souza Jr. 2008. Road Networks and Forest Fragmentation in the Amazon: Explanations for Local Differences with Implications for
Conservation and Development. Journal of Latin American Geography 7(2): 85-104.
Perz, S., S. Brilhante, F. Brown, Marcellus M. Caldas, et al. 2008.Road Building, land use and climate change: prospects for environmental governance in the Amazon. Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society B. Volume 363, Number 1498 / May 27.
Marcellus M. Caldas, Walker, R.T., Arima, E., Perz, S., Aldrich, S., Simmons, C., Wood, C. 2007.
Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation. Annals of the Association of American Geographer 97 (1): 86-110.
S. G. Perz, C. Overdevest, E. Y. Arima, Marcellus M. Caldas, and R. T. Walker. 2007.Unofficial Road Building in the Brazilian Amazon: Dilemmas and Models of Road Governance. Environmental
Conservation 34(2): 112-121.
S. G. Perz, Marcellus M. Caldas, E. Arima, and R. T. Walker. 2007. Socio-spatial Processes of
Unofficial Road-building in the Amazon: Socioeconomic and Biophysical Explanations. Development and Change 38(3): 529-551.
G. R. Pontius, R. Walker, R. Yao-Kumah, E. Arima, S. Aldrich, Marcellus M. Caldas. 2007. Quantitative assement for a model of Amazonian deforestation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 97 (4):677-695.
C. Simmons, R. Walker, E. Arima, S. Aldrich, Marcellus M. Caldas, M. 2007. Amazon Land War in the South of Pará. Annals of the Association of American Geographers Vol. 97(3): 567 - 592.
M. Scouvart, R.T. Adams, Marcellus M. Caldas et al. 2007. Causes of Deforestation in the Amazon: a qualitative comparative analysis. Journal of Land Use Science. Vol. 2(4): 257-282.
A. Pfaff, J. Robalino, R. Walker, E. Reis, S. Aldrich, Marcellus M. Caldas, S. Perz, C. Boher, E. Arima, W. Laurence, and K. Kirby. 2007. Road Investments, Spatial Spillovers & Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Regional Science Vol. 47(1): 109-123.
C. Simmons, Marcellus M. Caldas, S. Aldrich, R. Walker, and S. G. Perz. 2007. Spatial Processes in Scalar Context: Development and Security in the Brazilian Amazon. Journal of Latin American
Geography 6(1): 125-148.
Perz, S., Walker, R.T., Marcellus M. Caldas. 2006. Beyond Population and Environment: Household Demographic Life Cycles and Land Use Allocation among Small Farmers in the Amazon. Human Ecology 34(6): 829-849.
Aldrich, S., Walker, R., Arima, E., Marcellus M. Caldas. Browder, J., and Perz, S. 2006. Land Cover and Land Use Change: Processes of Social Stratification in Agricultural Expansion. Economic Geography Vol. 82 (3): 265-288.
Arima, E. Walker, R., Perz, S., Marcellus M. Caldas. 2005. Loggers and Forest Fragmentation: behavioral models of road building in the Amazon basin. Annals of the Association of the American Geographers. Vol. 95(3): 525-542.
Perz, S., Souza Jr., C., Arima, E., Marcellus M. Caldas, Brandão, A., Kennedy, F., Walker, R. 2005. O Dilema das estradas não-oficiais na Amazônia. Ciência Hoje. Vol. 37 (222): 56-58.
Pereira, R.J., Vieira, W.C., Lima, J.E., Marcellus M. Caldas. 2004. Determinantes do Desmatamento em Pequenas Propriedades na Amazônia: um estudo de caso em Uruara PA. Revista de Economia e Agronegocio. Vol 2 (3):409-428.
Walker, R.T., Drzyzga, S., Li, Y., Qi, J., and Marcellus M. Caldas, Qi, J., Arima, E., and Vergara, D.
2004. A Behavioral Model of Landscape Change in the Amazon Basin: The Colonist Case. Ecological Applications. Vol. 14 (4) Supplement: S299-S312.
Marcellus M. Caldas, et al. 2003. Ciclo de Vida da Familia e Desmatamento na Amazônia: Combinando Informações de Sensoriamento Remoto com Dados Primários. Revista Brasileira de Economia. Vol. 57(4):683-711.
Marcellus M. Caldas, Walker, R. T. and Perz, S. 2002. Small Producer Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Integrating Household Structure and Economic Circumstance in Behavioral explanation. CID Working Paper No. 96. Harvard University Press.
Walker, R. T., Perz, S., Marcellus M. Caldas, Texeira da Silva, L.G. 2002. Land uses and land cover change in forest frontier: the rolls of household life cycle. International Journal Regional of Science 25(2):169-199.
Wood, C., Walker, R., Perz, S., Silva, L.G.T., Toni, F., and Marcellus M. Caldas. 1999. Segurança na Propriedade da Terra e a Conservação de Florestas Tropicais na Amazônia Oriental: O
caso da Fronteira Agrícola de Uruará, PA. EMBRAPA, Comunicado Técnico, No 16,
3pp. (Belém: EMBRAPA/CPATU. Refereed technical series).
Published Proceedings
Caldas, M., Walker, R.T., Skole, D., Chomentowisk, W., Shirota, R. 2001. A dinâmica de uso da terra e o desmatamento na Amazônia: Uma análise descritiva combinando informações de sensoriamento remoto com dados primários. In: Anais do XXXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Economia e Sociologia Rural.
Santos, J.A.G., Cardoso, C.E.L., Caldas, M. 1996. Análise da Distribuição de Crédito de custeio Agrícola no Nordeste: o caso da mandioca In: Anais do XXXIV Congresso da Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural, Aracajú-Sergipe.
Pereira Filho, C. A. and Caldas, M. 1995. O Efeito de Políticas Públicas e as Mudanças na Estrutura do Comércio Internacional sobre o Crescimento da Produção de Cacau no estado da Bahia In: Anais do XXXIII Congresso Brasileiro de Economia e Sociologia Rural, Curitiba-Paraná.
Mesquita, A. S. and Caldas, M. 1994. A Política Estatal e o Crédito Rural. In: Anais do XXXII Congresso Brasileiro de Economia e Sociologia Rural, Brasília-DF.
Alger, K. and Caldas, M. 1993. A Decadência da Economia Cacaueira na Mata Atlântica Baiana In: Anais do XXXI Congresso Brasileiro de Economia e Sociologia Rural, Ilhéus-Bahia.
Caldas, M. 1986. Análise Estacional de Produtos Selecionados para o Estado de Minas Gerais: Milho, Leite e Carne de Boi Gordo In: Anais do XXIV Congresso Brasileiro de Economia e Sociologia Rural, São Luis-Maranhão.
Talks
Caldas, M. 2007 (January). Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation. Department of Geography and Environment-Boston University.
Caldas, M. 2007 (January). Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change and the Role of The Peasant Economy in the Amazon Deforestation. Department of Geography-Portland State University.
Caldas, M. 2007 (February). Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of Amazonian Deforestation. Department of Geography-Kansas State University
Papers and Posters Presented
Caldas, M. et al. 2008. Land Reform Settlements in the Brazilian Amazon: New drivers of LCLUC.
Presented at International Scientific Conference Amazon in Perspective Integrated Science for a
Sustainable Future. Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Project in the Amazon (LBA/NASA). Nov 17-21, 2008 in Manaus, Brazil. (Paper).
Caldas, M. et al. 2008. Land Reform in the Brazilian Amazon: Does Economic Development Lead to Social Justice and Environmental Degradation? Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers Boston Session: Negotiating Development in the Brazilian Amazon: Responding to Global Markets, Appeasing Local Demands (Paper)
Caldas, M. et al. 2006. Settlement Formation, Land Use and Land Cover Change: a case study in the Brazilian Amazon. AAG Chicago Session: A View from the field II: Agrarian Reform, Development and Land Cover Change in the Eastern Amazônia. (Paper)
Caldas, M. et al. 2005. Theorizing Land Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant Economy of
Amazonian Deforestation. AAG Denver - Session: Amazon and Environment II. (Paper)
Caldas, M. 2005. Thirty Years of Development and Destruction in the Amazon. AAG Denver. (Paper)
Caldas, M. et al. 2005. Scenarios for econometric projections: the future of the Amazon. Large Biosphere,Atmosphere Experiment in the Amazon 9th LBA Science Team Meeting. São Paulo, Brazil. November 10-12, 2005. (Poster)
Walker, R. T., Pfaff, A., Reis, E., Arima, E.,Robalino, J.,Caldas, M., Aldrich, S., Bohrer, C., Souza,C. 2005. Roads and Deforestation in the Amazon Basin. 9th LBA Science Team Meeting. São Paulo, Brazil. November 10-12, 2005. (Paper)
Pfaff, A., Robalino, J., Walker, R., Reis, E., Perz, S., Bohrer, C., Laurance, W., Aldrich, S., Arima, E.,Caldas, M. 2005. Road Investments, Spatial Intensification and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. 9th LBA Science Team Meeting. São Paulo, Brazil. Nov.10-12, 2005 (Paper)
Perz, S., Caldas, M., Walker, R., Souza Jr., C. 2004. Socio-spatial Processes of Road-building and Cover Change: The Case of SINOP, Mato Grosso. Poster presentation for the seventh LBA-ECO Science Team Meeting. Sponsor: NASA. Brasilia, Brazil. July 27-29. 2004 (Poster)
Caldas, M., Walker, R. Perz, S. Arima, E., Reis, E., Pfaff, A. 2004. Socio-spatial processes of forest
fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon: the case of Uruará. Sponsor: NASA. Brasilia, Brazil. July 27-29 (Paper)
Walker, R., Arima, E., Reis, E., Perz, S., Caldas, M., Souza Jr., C., Pfaff, A., Boher, C., Qi, J. 2003.
Roads: Cause or Consequence of Land Use Change? A Poster reporting on the project, A Basin-Scale Econometric Model for Projecting Future Amazonian Landscapes. The seventh LBA-ECO Science Team Meeting. Sponsor: NASA. Fortaleza, Brazil. November 5-8. 2003 (Poster)
Caldas, M. et al. 2001. Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon. In: Global Change Open Science
Conference Challenges of a Changing Earth, Annals of The Global Change Open Science Conference, Amsterdam-Holland (Paper)
Caldas, M. et al. 2001. Spatial Evolution on Farm Properties: A Histogram Analysis. AAG - New York City (Paper)
Caldas, M. et al. 2000. Land Use and Land Cover Change in the Colonization Settlements along the Transamazon Highway. AAG Pittsburg (Paper).
Caldas, M. et al. 2000. Deforestation and Land Cover Change at Household Level: Evidences from the Brazilian Amazon. In: First Scientific Conference of the Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia-LBA, Belém, Brazil (Poster)
Alger, K., Caldas, M. 1992. The Declining of the Cocoa Economy in the Atlantic Forest of Southern
Bahia, Brazil. In: XII Annual Meeting of the Latin American Association, 1992, Los Angeles (paper).
Fieldwork Coordinator and Collaborative Research
a) Collaborative Research: Brazils Direct Action Land Reform Movement: Environmental
Impacts and Socio-spatial Dynamics. Principal Investigator: Dr. Cynthia Simmons
(Michigan State University), Sponsor: National Science Foundation, summer 2006. Fieldwork
Coordinator
b) Collaborative Research: Patterns and Processes of Landscape Change in the Brazilian
Amazon. Principal Investigator: Professor Robert Walker (Michigan State University),
Sponsor: National Science Foundation, summer 2004. Fieldwork Coordinator
c) Collaborative Research: Socio-spatial processes of road extension and forest fragmentation
in the Amazon. Principal Investigator: Professor Robert Walker (Michigan State University),
Sponsor: National Science Foundation, summer 2002. Fieldwork Coordinator
d) Collaborative Research: Determinants of Land Use Change in Latin America: the economics
and ecology of land use change in Brazil. Principal Investigator: Professor Theodore
Panayoutos (Harvard University), Sponsor: AVINA Foundation, 2002.
e) Plan for Sustainable Development of Land Reform Settlements: Land Reform Settlements in
the State of Bahia, Sponsor: National Institute of Colonization and Land Reform (INCRA),
2001. Fieldwork coordinator
f) Land Use and Land Cover Project: Fieldwork coordinator in the Atlantic Forest, State of
Bahia. Principal Investigator: Dr. Keith Alger, Sponsor: Conservation International and
Instituto Social Ambiental do Sul da Bahia (IESB), 1991.
Workshops
a) Collaborative Workshop: "Land Cover Dynamics in the Amazon: Social Science Debates
and the Struggle for Synthesis. Organizers: Professor Robert Walker (Michigan State
University), Dr. Stephen Perz (University of Florida), and Dr. Marcellus Caldas (Federal
University of Bahia). Symposium at Second Science Meeting, Sponsor: NASA. Manaus,
Brazil. July 11-12, 2002.
b) The Special sessions - Managing Forest Resources in the Amazon: the Terra do Meio.
Convened at the XLI Conference - Brazilian Society of Rural and Agricultural Economists
(SOBER). Organizer: Dr. Marcellus Caldas (Federal University of Bahia) and Professor
Robert Walker (Michigan State University). Sponsor: Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa
(CNPq) and the US National Science Foundation. Juiz de Fora, Brazil. July 27-30, 2003
Training of Brazilian Students
- Fieldwork/surveys (2006, 2005, 2004, 2000)
Journal Reviewer
- Brazilian Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Environment and Development Economics
- Journal of the American Association of Geographers
- Journal of Land Use Policy
- Journal of Political Geography
- Journal of Applied Geography
Collaborators and other affiliation
. Professor John Browder, Virginia Polytechnic University
. Professor Theodore Panayotou, Harvard University
. Dr. Ricardo Shirota, Universidade de São Paulo
. Dr. Stephen Perz, University of Florida
. Dr. Gil Pontius, Clark University
. Dr. Alex Pfaff, Columbia University
. Dr. Eugenio Arima, IMAZON
Geographic Information System I
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are tools for the production, storage, representation, and analysis of digital spatial information. This course will consider each of these tasks, survey the rapidly growing GIS industry, cover many important principles guiding GIS use and development, and provide you with much hands-on experience with applications. Upon successful completion of the course, you should understand the components of GIS, how they are used in research as well as in public and private sectors projects, and what principles support the employment of general GISystems on specific spatial applications.
Geographic Information System II
GEOG 708 is a 3-credit course consisting of 220 minutes laboratory per week (110 each). Assigned readings will be given every week to help understand GIS theory and function. Lab sessions must be completed prior to the next lab meeting. Lab exercises are small in some cases and time-consuming in others. However, students have different GIS skills that can speed or delay labs. Students will perform many different labs in every session. Lab assignments must be completed independently to maximize hands-on experience. Students are expected to begin class already having both a conceptual and technical competence in cartography principles, thematic map design, and GIS basic skills. This course will exclusively use ArcGIS 9.3 software. Upon successful completation of the course, you should understand the components of GIS, how they are used in research as well as in public and private sector projects.
Political Ecology of Land Change
This course will review the sub-field of political ecology within geography by looking specifically at political ecologic research of land use and land cover change. We will start by examining theories and frameworks in people-environment geography, their origins and their applications to contemporary issues of land Use and Land Cover Change.
Geography of South America
The basic objective of this course is to provide you with a general introduction to Geography of South America. More specifically, this course will explore the dynamic region of South America from a geographic, economic and political perspective. The first objective is to introduce students to the regions physical geography, including major landforms, climate, and natural regions. We focus in particular on forces that shape the eastern highlands of Brazil, the four great lowlands, and the Andean highlands. The second aspect of this course emphasizes the political, cultural, and economic landscapes of South America. We emphasize topical themes to understand the region, such as the geography of religion, agriculture, race, conservation, and everyday life. We will delve into contemporary issues such as poverty, the drug wars, rainforest conservation, sustainability and energy.
Human Geography
The basic objective of this course is to provide you with a general introduction to human geography. More specifically, I want to lead you into the geographic way of thinking about concepts and issues. We will study patterns and processes of human activity from a geographic perspective. The course is designed for student interested in the social and behavioral sciences.
