About Eugenio's Work

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. He is currently associate professor in the Department of Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin.

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.