BDEI 3 - Participant Details: Charles M. Schweik

Name:

Charles M. Schweik

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Bio

I have a computer science undergraduate degree, I programmed for IBM for 6 years after graduation, and have a PhD from Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs (1998). Areas of interest include: public sector information technology, geographic information systems, remote sensing, and natural resources management and policy.

One research stream integrates "institutional analysis" (a subfield of political science that looks at the incentive structures and rule systems governing environmental resources) with the study of land-cover change using Geographic Information Systems and multi-spectral satellite (Landsat) remote sensing.

A second, more recent stream of research focuses on understanding Internet-based collaboration, or more specifically, the Open Source (OS) software "movement" in computer science. I have argued that collaborative paradigm could have important implications for how humans collaborate on any complex problem. I am now actively studying how this might work in general and in the context of land-use change modeling.

Work:

Open source collaboration - relevant to Policy, Human Centeredness, Modeling/Simulation, possibly Integration

Remote sensing and study of environmental institutions - data gaps, tools, data quality

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