Research Interests
Agroecology in Latin America
Historical Geography of Latin America
Drug Production in Latin America
United States-Mexico Borderlands
Arab Exploration and Trade in the Indian Ocean

Current Research Projects
Black Market Trade in the Persian Gulf
Drug Trafficking in Tamaulipas, Mexico
New Commercial Strategies of Shifting Cultivators in Southwestern Mexico
Colonial Cacao Production in El Salvador

Internet Projects
Bringing Internet Mapping to the Humanities Project.  Utilization of ArcIMS map browsers to better understand the humanities.

Peoples, Places, Events, and Process. Collaborative project between historians and geographers.

The Global Character of Remittance Systems: The Hawala Money Transfer System.  An overview of the Hawala system.

Publications
2002, “Feeding a Growing Population on an Increasingly Fragile Planet.” In  Latin America in the 21st Century, edited by Gregory Knapp, pp. 45-75. Austin: University of Texas Press. (with William Doolittle, Andrew Sluyter, Eric Perramond, and Phil Crossley).

1997, Review of "Archaeology, Volcanism, and Remote Sensing in the Arenal Region, Costa Rica," edited by Payson D. Sheets and Brian R. McKee. In Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 87(2):401-403.

1996, "Crop Diversity and Fallow Management in a Tropical Dry Forest Shifting Cultivation System." Journal of Human Ecology. 24(4):427-453.

1996, Review of "GPS Satellite Surveying" (2nd ed.), by Alfred Leick. In Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 86(1):181-183.

1996, "The Global Positioning System and its Integration into College Geography Curricula." Journal of Geography. 95(5):186-193. (with Thomas Wikle).

1996, Review of "El Salvador," by Adam Kufeld, et. al. In Cultural Ecology Newsletter. 27:8.

1996, "Global Positioning System Instruction in Higher Education." Technological Horizons in Education Journal. 24(5):71-55. (with Thomas Wikle and Lawrence Gering).

1995, "Back to School:  Designing a GPS Curriculum." GPS World. 6(10):34-38. (with Thomas Wikle and Lawrence Gering).

1994, "Regional Core-Periphery Imbalance:  The Case of Guerrero, Mexico, Since 1821." Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. 20:59-71.

1992, Changes in a Tropical Dry Forest Shifting Cultivation System, Guerrero, Mexico. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.

1990, "Physical Environment." In Manor, Texas:  Comprehensive Plan. pp. 1.5-1.15. Edited by H. R. Balanoff. Austin, Texas.

1990, "Ambiente Agroecológico del Región Izalco, El Salvador." In Informe Preliminar Sobre el Proyecto Izalco, Temporada de 1990. Edited by W.R. Fowler. San Salvador, El Salvador: Adminstración del Patrimonio Cultural.

1987, Cultural Landscape as an Index to Tarascan Acculturation, 1940-1987. Master's Thesis, University of Texas at Austin.

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San Antonio College
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E-mail: dlambert@alamo.edu