Upcoming Events
Brown-Bag Lunch Hour Seminar: Internal Tides and Mixing on the Oregon Continental Slope Kim Martini
Cruise ships and community effects: two cases from Southeast Alaska
Thursday, 29 October, 3:40 pmLee Cerveny
U.S. Forest Service
Juneau—101 Lena Point • Fairbanks—Room 138 Irving II
ee Cerveny is a research social scientist in the Human and Natural Resources Interactions Program at the Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service. Since 2000, she has actively explored tourism and its implications for human-environment relations in coastal communities. She recently completed Nature and Tourists in the Last Frontier: Local Encounters with Global Tourism in Coastal Alaska (Cognizant Communication, 2008). Based on more than 200 interviews with residents of three southeast Alaska communities, the book explores relations between rural communities and the tourism industry and how the expansion of commercial tourism affects the lifestyles and livelihoods of Alaskans. Her current work focuses on natural resources governance, with an emphasis on policy and decision-making in federal land management agencies. She has conducted ethnographic research throughout the United States, particularly Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest.