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The center is committed to cross-disciplinary approaches to research on resource extraction, with a particular focus on theory and methodology coming from political ecology, development studies, landscape ecology, and geographic information science and remote sensing. Principle researchers include&nbsp;<strong>Tony Bebbington<\/strong>&nbsp;(Geography),&nbsp;<strong>Denise Humphreys Bebbington<\/strong>&nbsp;(IDCE), and&nbsp;<strong>John Rogan<\/strong>&nbsp;(Geography). 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