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Alex Zvoleff

SDSU/UCSB Joint Doctoral Student, Geography, San Diego State University
M.A. Climate and Society, Columbia University, 2008
B.S. Earth Sciences, University of California, San Diego, 2006

Research Interests
Alex Zvoleff is a student in the Joint Doctoral Program in Geography at San Diego State University and University of California, Santa Barbara. He is working on new approaches for understanding coupled human-natural systems. Alex began his work on the PIRE project in fall of 2008, and is developing an agent-based model to investigate reciprocal connections between social and environmental change in the Chitwan Valley. A preliminary version of the model has been completed, and was disussed at the 2009 PIRE meeting (see links below to download the model). The finished model will incorporate both extensive research by PIRE collaborators and others, as well as new data that Alex will be collecting in the field.

Related Publications/Presentations

Zvoleff, Alex. “Biomass Resources and Population Change in the Western Chitwan Valley, Nepal.” Under review.

Zvoleff, Alex. 2009. “Impacts of Climate Change in the Western Chitwan Valley, Nepal.” Poster presented at the 2009 US-IALE Symposium.

Zvoleff, Alex and Li An. 2009. “Exploring Land Use Change in Southern Nepal Using an Agent-Based Model.” Paper presented at the American Association of Geographers, 2009 Annual Meeting, Session 2151.

Zvoleff, Alex. 2009. “An Agent-Based Model for the Western Chitwan Valley, Nepal.” Paper presented at the SDSU 2009 Student Research Symposium.

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