Faculty

Rodrigo Sierra
Assistant Professor
Director, Center for Environmental Studies in Latin America (CESLA)

• Office: GRG 402
• Phone: 512-232-1592
• E-mail: rsierra@mail.utexas.edu





• Education: Ph.D. , Ohio State University
• Area(s): Geographic Information Science; Environmental Resource Management; Landscape Ecology and Biogeography
  
• Courses Taught:
  Introduction to GIS (GRG 360C), Advanced GIS (GRG 470C and GRG 396T), Principles of Environmental Conservation (GRG 339C), Environmental Planning and Management (GRG 339D)


• Research Interests:
  Environmental Conservation, Land Use/Cover Change, Tropical Latin America.


• Selected Publications:
  

  Sierra, R. and E. Russman. Forthcoming. (2005). "Environmental Service Payments: The long-term impact of payments on forest protection in the Osa Peninsula." Accepted for publication in Ecological Economics.

  World Bank. 2005. Beyond the City: The Rural Contribution to Development. Washinton, DC: World Bank. (R. Sierra Contributor).

  Sierra, R. Forthcoming. (2005). "From national to global planning for biodiversity conservation. Examining the regional efficiency of national protected area networks in the tropical Andes." In K. Zimmerer (Ed.) Geographies of Environmental Management and Globalization: Expanding Dimensions and Dilemmas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

  F. Baquero. R. Sierra, et al. 2004. Vegetaci³n de los Andes Ecuatorianos. Technical Report (Accompanies a map by same authors Scale 1:250.000). Quito, Ecuador: EcoCiencia, Ministry of Agriculture, Fundaci³n Jatun-Sacha, Centro de Datos para la Conservaci³n, PROBONA.

  Sarkar, S., A. Moffett, R. Sierra, T. Fuller, and J. Garson 2004. "Incorporating Multiple Criteria into the Design of Conservation Area Networks". Endangered Species Update 21(3):100-108.

  Sierra, R., M. Tirado, and W. Palacios. (2003). "Forest-Cover Change from Labor- and Capital-Intensive Commercial Logging in the Southern Choc³ Rainforests. The Professional Geographer 55(4):479-492.

  Sierra, R., Campos, F. and J. Chamberlin (2002). "Conservation Priorities in Continental Ecuador: An study based on landscape and species level biodiversity patterns." Landscape and Urban Planning 59:95-110.

  Sierra, R. (2001). "The role of domestic timber markets in tropical deforestation and forest degradation in Ecuador." Implications for conservation planning and policy. Ecological Economics 36(2):327-340.

  Sierra, R. (2000). "Dynamics and Patterns of Deforestation in the Western Amazon: The Napo Deforestation Front, 1986-1996." Applied Geography 20(1):1-16.

  Sierra, R. (1999). "Traditional resource use systems and tropical deforestation in a multi-ethnic region in Northwest Ecuador." Environmental Conservation 26(2):136-145.

  Sierra, R., R. Rodriguez and E. Lozos (1999). "Forest Resource Use Change During Early market Integration: Hypothesis and Empirical analysis of the Huaorani in Upper Amazonia." Ecological Economics 30(1):107-119.

  Sierra, R. (1999). Traditional resource use systems and tropical deforestation in a multi-ethnic region in Northwest Ecuador. Environmental Conservation 26(2):136-145.

  Sierra, R., Cer³n, C., Palacios W. and Valencia, R. (1999). Mapa de Vegetaci³n Remanente del Ecuador Continental. Scale 1:1.000.000. Proyecto INEFAN/GEF-BIRF, Wildlife Conservation Society and EcoCiencia. Quito, Ecuador.

  Sierra, R. and J. Stallings (1998). "The dynamics and human organization of tropical deforestation in Northwest Ecuador, 1983-1995." Human Ecology 26(1):135-161