Alan Kolata

University of Chicago, Anthropology, Faculty Member

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Alan L. Kolata is the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He holds his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University. He leads ongoing interdisciplinary research projects studying the long- term interactions of humans with their physical environment, including the effects of climate change on human communities. He has conducted research in Bolivia, Peru, Thailand and most recently in Cambodia where his research team is focusing on the physical, biological, and social impacts of large-scale hydroelectric development of the Mekong River Basin. He is the single author of 5 monographs, the editor of 6 books and has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.

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Universidad de Cantabria

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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / French National Centre for Scientific Research

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Kansas State University

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Vinogradov Russian Language Institute

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University of Groningen

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Valley of the Spirits: A Journey into the Lost Realm of the Aymara

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Chimú–Inka Segmented Agricultural Fields in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru: Implications for State-Level Resource Management – ERRATUM

Latin American Antiquity

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The urban concept of Chan Chan

The Northern Dynasties: Kingship and Statecraft in …, 1990

In the Realm of the Four Quarters

IN THE FALL oF I 4 9 2, as the fleet of Christopher Columbus approached landfall in the Caribbean... more IN THE FALL oF I 4 9 2, as the fleet of Christopher Columbus approached landfall in the Caribbean, far to the southwest a native lord of the Andes was preparing to take dominion over the largest empire ever forged in the Americas. In that year, the Inca Huayna Capac, the last independent heir to aremarkable Andean social tradition grounded in aggressive religious and cultural proselytism, found himself on the verge of coronation as the supreme lord of a domain of startling proportions. The Incas' name for their empire reflected their own belief that they had conquered the Andean world: Tawantinsuyu, the Realm of the Four Quarters. The lands of this realm incorporated a dazzling and sharply juxtaposed series of physical landscapes that ranged over the territories of five modern Andean republics: Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, and Ecuador. The world of the Inca contained an astonishing array of radically different environmental zones, replete with brusque contrasts in climate, v...

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World Development

Livelihood diversification strategies for households in developing countries are influenced by ac... more Livelihood diversification strategies for households in developing countries are influenced by access to financial credit, to markets and to forests. Understanding their interrelated impacts has important implications for development policy, including for market access, credit provision, and forest conservation. Using a two-round panel survey of 2,417 households in 64 villages in four Provinces in Cambodia and geospatial analysis, we analyze the influence of formal and informal financial credit, market and road access, and forest access on livelihood diversification strategies. Using econometric techniques to control for interrelated effects, we find credit utilization is significant with off-farm business and wage livelihood activities, land transactions, livestock activities, and remittances. Households below the poverty line use credit primarily for consumption and agricultural investments, but above the poverty line for business investment or for buying land, houses, or vehicles. Market access is significant with total income and expenditures, as well as portfolio shifts to off-farm business and wage activities. Forest access contributes significantly to both total income and expenditures in multivariable regressions controlling for credit and market access, and we find evidence that poverty alleviation is maximized when households have both high forest and market access. We do not find that, in aggregate, households near to forests are in a “poverty trap” due to market remoteness, but we do find that they are disadvantaged in pursuing agricultural livelihoods and households with both low forest and market access are poorest. Using the technique of dominance analysis, we find that financial credit contributes more than market or forest access to total income, expenditures, and livestock income. However, market access is more important than credit for off-farm, on-farm and crop incomes. Forest access contributes more to total income than road access when controlling for access to Phnom Penh and is more important than credit for crop livelihoods.