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Assistant Professor
Climate & environmental justice, political ecology of conservation & development, Indigenous rights, 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; Natural Resource Tourism
community-based tourism, sustainability, empowerment, poverty alleviation, tourism resilience
Assistant Professor
Gendered livelihoods, resource stewardship, and feminist political ecology
Instructor, Undergraduate Coordinator, and Internship and Outreach Coordinator
Internships, career preparation, event planning, natural resource ecology and measurements.
Assistant Professor
Human adaptation to environmental change
Assistant Professor
Human-Environment Interactions
Assistant Professor
Dr. Bear’s research areas include internal branding, service management and marketing, as well as destination brand marketing.