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Professor, International Sustainable Development, Social Policy, and Earth System Science
Department of Earth and Biological Sciences and
Department of Social Work and Social Ecology
Loma Linda University, School of Science and Technology,
Griggs Hall Room 121
Loma Linda, CA 92350 USA
Phone: (909) 558-7507
Fax: (909) 558-0259
Email: rford@llu.edu
Applied Earth System Science (ESSE21), cultural/political ecology, poverty mapping and geoinformatics, spatial data infrastructure (GSDI), community-based natural resource management (CBNRM), land/water management in drylands (ethnobotany) (PDF), and ecoagriculture (Africa, Caribbean), international environmental governance, science and technology for sustainability, human-environment interaction (Rocky Mountain Province, Utah, USA, Mesoamerica).
Personal web page: http://rford.home.igc.org/
Research web page: http://resweb.llu.edu/rford/
Online courses (intranet): BIOL549, SPOL 554, SPOL 624, SPOL 665, ESSC5401-402, ESSC 541-542, ESSC 575
Curriculum vitae: http://rford.home.igc.org/ford2.html
BELIZE - HONDURAS: Hurricane Mitch Impacts, Mosquito Coast cultural ecology and work on CZM (Coastal Zone Management) with various partners - Honduras ESSE21 Project : manatees, herpetofauna, water resources.
Robert E. Ford, 2006. Learning Module-ESSE21 Project: Land use/Land Cover Change: Cases of Coastal Zone Change from
Robert E. Ford and Daniel Gonzalez, 2006. Final Report: Manatee Aerial Surveys,
Lovich, R.E., T.S. Akre, M. J. Ryan, N.J. Scott, and R.E. Ford. 2006. Censo de Herpetofauna de las areas protegidas de Cerro Guanacaure, Montana La Botija, e isla del Tigre en el sur de Honduras. Informe preparado para United States Agency for International Development (USAID). 40pp.
Lovich, R.E., T.S. Akre, M. J. Ryan, N.J. Scott, and R.E. Ford. 2006. Herpetofaunal survey of Cerro Guanacaure, Montaña La Botija and Isla Del Tigre protected areas in southern Honduras. Report prepared for the United States Agency for International Development. 33pp.
Gonzalez-Socoloske, Daniel, Bacchus, Marie-Lys C.; Ford, Robert E. "The Use of Side Imaging Sonar to Study Manatees in Cuero y Salado." Society for Marine Mammalogy. San Diego, California. 12/12/2005 to 12/16/2005.
Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske, Robert E. Ford,, Marie-Lys C. Bacchus, Stephen G. Dunbar, y Gustavo A. Cruz. "Nuevas observaciones de manatí Antillano, Trichechus manatus manatus, en la costa norte de Honduras." Society for Mesoamerican Biology and Conservation. La Ceiba Honduras. 11/22/2005 to 11/25/2005.
Ford, Robert E. 2005. Book review: Global Change and Local Places: Estimating, Understanding, and Reducing Greenhouse Gases." Economic Geography 01 Oct: Volume 81 No. 4.
Malone JB, Poggi E, Igualada FJ, Sintasath D, Ghebremeskel T, Corbett JD, McCarroll JC, Chinnici P, Shilulu J, McNally KL, Downer R, Perich M, Ford R. 2003. Environmental Risk Assessment of Malaria in Eritrea. IGARSS 2003 Proceedings, Toulouse.
James M. Hurley, James D. Proctor, and Robert E. Ford. 1999. Collaborative Inquiry at a Distance: Using the Internet in Geography Education. Journal of Geography, Vol 98(3):128-140.
Ford, Robert E. and James Hipple. 1999. GeoSystems Today : an Interactive Casebook. John Wiley & Sons . This publication combines both a printed volume and WWW digital publication.
Ford, Robert E. 1998. Settlement Structure and Landscape Ecology in the Sahel: the Case of Northern Yatenga, Burkina Faso. In Rural Settlement Structure and African Development. Edited by Marilyn Silberfein. Boulder: Westview Press. Pp. 129-165.
Ford, Robert E. 1998. Settlement Structure and Landscape Ecology in Humid Tropical Montane Rwanda. In Rural Settlement Structure and African Development. Edited by Marilyn Silberfein. Boulder: Westview Press. Pp. 169-205.
Ford, Ford, Robert E. 1996.The Greater Salt Lake Ecosystem: An Online Learning Module and Virtual Field Trip. URL: http://resweb.llu.edu/rford/docs/VGD/GSLVT/index.html
Ford, Robert E. 1996. Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World in the Late Twentieth Century. (Book Review) IN: Journal of Geography. 96(6): 287-289.
Ford, Robert E. 1996. The Rwanda Tragedy: A Personal Reflection. Hunger Notes. Summer 1996. Vol. 22, N0. 1 pp. 12-14. Brown University, World Hunger Program Special Issue .
Ford, Robert E. 1996. Lessons Learned from using GIS/RS and as Integrative Tool for Interdisciplinary Learning. Proceedings of IGARS ' 96. Lincoln, NE May 27-31, 1996. Presentation No. 96.0891 (Hardbound and CD-ROM versions).
Ford, Robert E. 1995. The Population-Environment Nexus and Vulnerability Assessment in Africa. GeoJournal. 35(2): 207-216.
Ford, Robert E. 1994a. A Geographer Comments on 'Sex and the Single Planet'. Human Ecology Forum. Summer/Autumn (1): 240-244.
_______________. 1994c. Book Review: IN Professional Geographer . 46(1):118-119. Rural Livelihoods: Crises and Responses. (edited by Harry Bernstein, Ben Crow and Hazel Johnson.)
Ford, Robert E. 1993. Marginal coping in extreme land pressures: Ruhengeri, Rwanda. In Population Growth and Agricultural Change in Africa. edited by B.L. Turner II, Robert Kates, and Goran Hyden. Center for African Studies, University Press of Florida. Gainesville, Florida.
Ford, Robert E. 1992. Humans and the Sahelian environment: Human-Environment Interaction in Sahelian North Yatenga, Burkina Faso. Research and Exploration. National Geographic Society. 8(4):460-475.
Ford, Robert E. and Valerie Hudson. 1992. The U.S. and Latin America at the end of the Columbian Age: how America 'cut the Atlantic umbilical cord' in 1992. Third World Quarterly. Vol. 13, No.3. pp. 441-462.
Valerie M. Hudson, Robert E. Ford, and David Pack with Eric R. Giordano. 1991. Why the Third World matters, why Europe probably won't; the geoeconomics of circumscribed engagement. Journal of Strategic Studies. Vol. 14(3):255-298.
Ford, Robert E. 1991. Toponymic generics, environment and culture history in Pre-Independence Belize. Names. Vol. 39 (1):1-25.
Ford, Robert E. 1990. The dynamics of human-environment interactions in the tropical montane agrosystems of Rwanda: implications for economic development and environmental stability. Mountain Research and Development. Vol 10(1):43-63.
Ford, Robert E. 1988. Demographic change in Rwanda: implications for economic and ecologic stability for tropical montane agro-ecosystems. Culture and Agriculture. Fall:5-9.
Ford, Robert E. 1982. Subsistence Farming Systems in the Semi-arid Northern Yatenga (Upper Volta). University of California, Riverside. University Microfilms: Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Gideon Mazinga - Third-year PhD student (social policy and social research) - research: Social Capital, HIV/AIDS, Orphans and Poverty Mapping/GIS in Tanzania and Malawi. Principal advisor.
Tom Rossi - First-year PhD student (social policy and social research) - research: Water resource policy and global sustainability. Principal advisor.
Eddie McField - Second-year PhD student (social policy and social research) - research: Social Capital, Sense of Place, and Sustainable Development-Northern Honduras. Principal advisor.
Adiel Uzabakiriho - Second-year PhD student (social policy and social research) - research: Demography and social policy issues of refugees in the US. Principal advisor.
Daniel Gonzalez - Second-year MS biology - research: Manatee conservation and behavior (North Coast of Honduras). Committee member.
Marie-Lys Bacchus - Second-year MS biology - research: Manatee conservation and behavior (North Coast of Honduras). Committee member.
Rob Lovich - Last-year PhD student (biology). Committee member.
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