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Full Research Anthropologist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology

Ph.D, Anthropology, University of Kentucky, 1972

Research interests: Human society and adaptation, Risk and Resilience Theory, local settlement responses to Marine Protected Areas in the Bahamas, natural resource management, cultural resource studies

Area studies courses: Native Peoples of the Southwest, Ecological Anthropology, Ethnology of North America

Selected Publications

Stoffle, Richard.  2003.  Toward Developing a Complete Understanding: A Social Science Research Agenda for Marine Protected Areas. Fisheries 28(12): 22-26. (By P. Christie, B. McCay M. Miller, C. Lowe, A. White and R. Stoffle as 6th author out of 17 authors) [www.fisheries.org]

Stoffle, Richard, R. Toupal and N. Zedeno.  2003.  Landscape, Nature, and Culture: A Diachronic Model of Human-Nature Adaptations. In Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures, ed. H. Selin, 97-114. Great Britain: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Stoffle, Richard.  2001.  Marine Protected Areas: Tools for Sustaining Ocean Ecosystems. Washington, D.C.: Ocean Studies Board, National Research Council, and National Academy Press.