Erin Seekamp
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Goodnight Distinguished Professor, Director Coastal Resilience and Sustainability Initiative
Biltmore Hall (Robertson Wing) 4008H
elseekam@ncsu.eduBio
Education
Ph.D., Natural Resources, University of Idaho, June 2006
M.S., Forestry, Virginia Tech, December 2000
B.S., Anthropology, James Madison University, May 1998
Current Research Interests
- Partnerships, decision-making, capacity building
- Climate adaptation planning
- Community-based conservation
- Conservation behaviors
In the News
- USGS “Featured Story”: Safeguarding Our Cultural Past from Future Climate Change: Stories from Cape Lookout National Seashore
Tourism Extension
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Publications
- Assessing Pandemic Impacts to Collaborative Management in Parks and Protected Areas , ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (2025)
- Cultural Expressions of Climate: Art as a Tool for Change , (2025)
- Perspectives on Liberating and Deliberating Knowledge in Science , SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES (2025)
- Social capital as a predictor of collective environmental action in high school students , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (2025)
- Unveiling the Complexity of Tourists' Visual Attention and Emotions Toward Destination Pictures , JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH (2025)
- Conceptualizing community-level environmental literacy using the Delphi method , ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH (2024)
- Environmental and social impacts of shifting park-use patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from state and local park managers , JOURNAL OF OUTDOOR RECREATION AND TOURISM-RESEARCH PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT (2024)
- Gateway community stakeholders’ perceived impacts of protected area management actions: The case of North Carolina (U.S.) state parks , Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (2024)
- Multi-criteria decision approach for climate adaptation of cultural resources along the Atlantic coast of the southeastern United States: Application of AHP method , CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT (2024)
- Pushing toward systemic change in the Capitalocene: Investigating the efficacy of existing behavior prediction models on individual and collective pro-environmental actions in high school students , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION (2024)