Department Directory
Faculty
Interim Department Head, Dept. of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources
Collaborative planning, monitoring, and adaptive management for forest restoration and wildfire risk management; forest governance, policy, and administration
Assistant Professor
Political ecologies of conservation & development, climate change adaptation and mitigation, Indigenous rights, social dimensions of "natural" disasters, Latin America
Professor, Sustainable Tourism, Coordinator of Global Tourism Concentration
His research focus includes sustainable tourism development - linking tourism, nature conservation and protected areas; collaborative conservation and protected area management; and perceptions of landscape disturbance - implications for human dimensions of natural resources, recreation and tourism.
Assistant Professor
Behavior change, human processes of the coupled human-nature systems
Assistant Professor
Environmental governance, fisheries policy and management, gendered livelihoods, recreational fishing, decolonial feminist political ecology
Master Instructor | Undergraduate Coordinator | Internship Coordinator | Conference Coordinator
Internships, career preparation, event planning, natural resource ecology and measurements.
Associate Professor
Dr. Bear’s research areas include internal branding, service management and marketing, as well as destination brand marketing.