Eugenio Arima
Associate Professor — Ph.D., Michigan State University

Contact
- E-mail: arima@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-0714
- Office: RLP 3.428
Interests
Human-environment interactions, land change science, GIS/Science, applied quantitative methods, Latin America.
Biography
Dr. Arima received his bachelor degree in agricultural sciences from the University of Brasilia, Brazil, his masters in agricultural economics from PennState University and PhD in geography from Michigan State University.
His research lies in the intersection of land change science, spatial analysis, and landscape ecology. Broadly, he is a human-environmental geographer 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. His work typically employs mixed-methods such as interview-based fieldwork, computer simulation, econometrics and spatial statistics, geographic information systems, and remote sensing. As a result of this theoretical and methodological diversity, Dr. Arima has published in a range of journals within geography, ecology, economics, and sociology.
Selected Publications
Latrubesse, E. M., Arima, E. Y., Dunne, T., Park, E., Baker, V. R., d’Horta, F. M., Wight, C., Wittmann, F., Zuanon, J., Baker, P. A., & Ribas, C. C. (2017). Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin. Nature, 546(7658), 363-369.
Arima, E. A spatial probit econometric model of land change: the case of infrastructure development in Western Amazonia, Peru. PLOS One. 24 March 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152058.
Arima, E., P. Barreto, E. Araujo, B. Soares-Filho. Public policies can reduce tropical deforestation: lessons and challenges from Brazil. Land Use Policy 41 (2014): 465-473.
Richards, P., R. T. Walker, E. Arima. Spatially complex land change: the indirect effect of Brazil’s agricultural sector on land use in Amazonia. Global Environmental Change 29 (2014): 1-9.
Arima, E., Walker, R., & Vergara, D. (2013). Assessing the performance of linear feature models: an approach to computation inference. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 79(9), 847-855.
Arima, E. Y., R. T. Walker, C. Souza Jr., R. Pereira, O. Canto. 2013. Spontaneous colonization and forest fragmentation in the Central Amazon Basin. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103(3): 1485-1501.
Arima, E. Y., P. Richards, R. T. Walker M. Caldas. 2011. Statistical confirmation of indirect land use change in the Brazilian Amazon. Environmental Research Letters 6 (2011) 024010 doi:10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/024010.
Walker, R., N. Moore, E. Arima, S. Perz, C. Simmons, M. Caldas, D. Vergara, C. Bohrer. 2009. Protecting the Amazon with Protected Areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(26): 10582-10586.
Moore, N., E. Arima, R. Walker, and R. R. Silva. 2007. Uncertainty and the changing hydroclimatology of the Amazon. Geophysical Research Letters 34 (L14707):doi:10.1029/2007GL030157.