Pollnac, Richard

September 22, 2016

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Research Professor
Email: pollnac3@gmail.com
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  • Biodata

    Education

    Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Missouri
    B.A., Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University

  • Research

    Research Interest

    Richard Pollnac has conducted research among coastal peoples in almost all world regions. Prior to 2005 research and consulting concerning fishery and coastal development projects was carried out in East and West Africa, South and Central America, the Azores, the Middle East, India, New England & Alaska, USA, and Southeast Asia. In 2005 he participated in an Evaluation of distribution of community development quota shares from the Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation where he conducted fieldwork in coastal communities in Norton Sound, Alaska. Also in 2005 he conducted an initial rapid assessment and set up a tsunami recovery project monitoring and evaluation system in Ranong Province, Thailand. Recent projects include 2006-2009  Fieldwork in Central America and the Caribbean evaluating factors influencing success of marine protected areas. (NSF funded, Co-PI); 2005-2009  Preparation of fishery community profiles for the Northeast Region (NOAA, CMER funded, PI); 2007-2009  Fieldwork ground-truthing fishery community profiles and  numerical taxonomies of fishing communities for the Northeast Region (NOAA, CMER funded, PI); 2007-2009  Fieldwork concerning networking of marine protected areas, Cebu, Philippines July-August, 2007. (Governance Feasibility of marine ecosystem-based management: A comparative Analysis; National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis Co-PI with Patrick Christie); 2007-2009  Job Satisfaction in Capture Fisheries: A Comparative Study. Ecosystems, Societies, Consilience and the Precautionary Principle: Development of an assessment method for societal cost for best fishing practices and efficient public policies, (European Commission through U. of Amsterdam); 2009  Job satisfaction, well-being & change in New England Fishing Communities (funded by NOAA Fisheries & the RI Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation); 2010  Fieldwork for Post evaluation of Population, Health, Environment project in the Visayas, Philippines (Funded by USAID); 2010-2011  Job satisfaction, well-being & change in Northeast Region Fishing Communities (funded by NOAA Fisheries); 2010  Fieldwork for evaluation of sociocultural aspects of marine reserve governance in Puget Sound (funded by Washington Sea Grant; P. Christie, PI); 2011-2012  Fieldwork for evaluation of introduction of turtle excluder devices and ring hooks into the Ecuador shrimp and pelagic fin-fish fisheries (Funded by NSF: Kiki Jenkins and P. Christie CoPIs); 2011-2013 Fieldwork for the establishment of a baseline and monitoring system for a new Population, Health and Environment project in Bohol, Batangas, and Mindoro Occidental & Oriental the Philippines (Co-PI with Brian Crawford, Funded by BALANCED Project, funded by USAID); 2011-2012  Social Indicators Study: Improving the Conduct of Social Impact Assessments (SIAs) in the Northeast Region with a Focus on Community Resilience and Vulnerability (Funded by NOAA Fisheries); 2012-2013  A Multi-Scale Network Analysis of the Cumulative Effects of Fishery Management Regulations on Fishing Communities in the Northeastern U.S. (Funded by NOAA Fisheries); 2012-2013  Analysis of networks between inshore scientists in Puget Sound, WA (Funded by Puget Sound Partnership, Patrick Christie Co-PI); 2013 Fieldwork for monitoring Population, Health and Environment project in the Philippines (Co-PI with Brian Crawford, Funded by BALANCED Project, funded by USAID; 2013 Fieldwork in Philippines related to the Coral Triangle Initiative Learning Project (Co-PI with Patrick Christie (funded by USAID, WWF); 2014-2015 Evaluating Puget Sound Marine Protected Areas to Increase Social Ecological Resilience (PI Patrick Christie, funded by Washington Sea Grant); 2015-2018  Fieldwork setting up a project for evaluating aspects of the human and natural environment influencing marine conservation attitudes, beliefs and behavior among Small Scale Fishermen in Rayong, Thailand.  2016-2018 Assessing socioeconomic impacts of climate change on Puerto Rico’s coral reef fisheries through a participatory approach. (PI Tarsila Seara, U New Haven.  Funded by NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program).

    RECENT RESEARCH AND CONSULTING EXPERIENCE SINCE 2014:

    Prior to 2014 research and consulting concerning fishery and coastal development projects was carried out in East and West Africa, South and Central America, the Azores, the Middle East, India, New England, USA, SE & NW Alaska, and Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand  & Vietnam).

    2014 Field work ground-truthing numerical taxonomy of Alaskan coastal fishing villages.

    2014-2017 Evaluating Puget Sound Marine Protected Areas to Increase Social Ecological Resilience (Field work 2014) PI Patrick Christie, funded by Washington Sea Grant).

    2015-2018 Aspects of the human and natural environment influencing marine conservation attitudes, beliefs and behavior among Small Scale Fishermen in Rayong and Trat Provinces, Thailand (field work 2015 & 2017).

    2016-2018 Assessing socioeconomic impacts of climate change on Puerto Rico’s coral reef fisheries through a participatory approach. (PI Tarsila Seara, U New Haven.  Funded by NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program).

  • Publications

    COASTAL DEVELOPMENT RELATED PUBLICATIONS SINCE 2014

    Prior to 2014, 134 publications.

    1. Christie, P., D. Fluharty, H. Kennard, R. Pollnac, B. Warren, T. Williams 2018 Policy pivot in Puget Sound: Lessons learned from marine protected areas and tribally-led estuarine restoration. Ocean and Coastal Management 163: 72–81.

    2. Leon, S., D. Bidwell, & R. Pollnac 2018 Factors Influencing Environmentally Responsible Behavior among Coastal Recreationists. Coastal Management (IN PRESS).

    3. Aswani, S., Basurto, X., Ferse, S., Glaser, M., Campbell, L., Cinner, J.E., Dalton, T., Jenkins, L.D., Miller, M.L., Pollnac, R. and Vaccaro, I., 2018. Marine resource management and conservation in the Anthropocene. Environmental Conservation 45:192-202

    4. Twichell, J., R. Pollnac & P. Christie 2018 Lessons from Philippines MPA Management: Social Ecological
    Interactions, Participation, and MPA Performance. Environmental Management https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-018-1020-y.

    5. Graziano, K., R. Pollnac, P. Christie 2018 Wading past assumptions: Gender dimensions of climate change adaptation in coastal communities of the Philippines. Ocean & Coastal Management 162:24-32.

    6. Pollnac, R., K.W. Hagos, B. Crawford, Et al. 2018 Chaos, conflict and change: The reemergence and evolution of fishery governance in the small scale fisheries of Somalia. Ocean and Coastal Management 162:193-201

    7. T. Seara, R. Pollnac, J. Poggie, C. Garcia-Quijano, I. Monnereau and V. Ruiz. 2017 Fishing as therapy: Impacts on job satisfaction and implications for fishery management. Ocean & Coastal Management 141: 1-9.
    8. Tarsila Seara, Richard B. Pollnac and John J. Poggie 2017 Changes in job satisfaction through time in two major New England ports. Journal of Happiness Studies 18:1625–1640.

    9. A. Diedrich, N. Stoeckl, G. Gurney, M. Esparon, and R. Pollnac. 2017 Social capital as a key determinant of perceived benefits of community-based marine protected areas. Conservation Biology 31, (No. 2): 311–321.

    10. S. Satumanatpan and R. Pollnac. 2017 Factors influencing the well-being of small-scale fishers in the Gulf of Thailand. Ocean & Coastal Management 142: 37-48.

    11. McNally, C. G., A. J. Gold, R. B. Pollnac and H. R. Kiwango. 2016. Stakeholder perceptions of ecosystem services of the Wami River and Estuary. Ecology and Society 21 (3):34. URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss3/art34/

    12. Amber Himes-Cornell, Conor Maguire, Stephen Kasperski , Kristin Hoelting, Richard Pollnac 2016 Understanding vulnerability in Alaska fishing communities: A validation methodology for rapid assessment of indices related to well-being. Ocean & Coastal Management 124: 53-65

    13. Patrick Christie, Diana M Pietri, Todd C Stevenson, Richard Pollnac, Maurice Knight and Alan T White 2016 Improving human and environmental conditions through the Coral Triangle Initiative: progress and challenges. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 19:169–18.

    14. Gurney, G., R. Pressey, J. Cinner, R. Pollnac, C. Stuart 2015 Integrated conservation and development: evaluating a community-based marine protected area project for equity of socioeconomic impacts. Philosophical Transactions Royal Society 370: 20140277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0277

    15. Pollnac, R., T. Seara, L. Colburn, M. Jepson 2015 Taxonomy of USA East Coast Fishing Communities in Terms of Social Vulnerability and Resilience. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 55: 136-143.

    16. Dalton, T., R. Pollnac & G. Forrester 2015 Investigating Causal Pathways Linking Site-Level Characteristics, Compliance, and Ecological Performance in Caribbean MPAs. Coastal Management 43:3, 329-341.

    17. Richard Pollnac, T. Seara & L Colburn 2015 Aspects of Fishery Management, Job Satisfaction, and Well-Being among Commercial Fishermen in the Northeast Region of the United States, Society & Natural Resources 28:75-92

    18. Dalton, T., G. Forrester, R. Pollnac. 2015. Are Caribbean MPAs making progress toward their
    goals and objectives? Marine Policy. 54: 69-76.

    19. Hoelting, Kristin, Beth Moore, Richard Pollnac & Patrick Christie 2014 Collaboration within the Puget Sound Marine and Nearshore Science Network, Coastal Management, 42:4, 332-354.

    20. Gurney, J Georgina G., Joshua Cinner, Natalie C. Ban, Robert L. Pressey, Richard Pollnac, Stuart J. Campbell, Sonny Tasidjawa d, Fakhrizal Setiawan 2014 Poverty and protected areas: An evaluation of a marine integrated conservation and development project in Indonesia. Global Environmental Change 26: 98–107.

    PAPERS DELIVERED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS SINCE 2014

    Selected from papers delivered from 2013-2018. Prior to 2014, 116 papers were presented.

    2018 Aspects of the coastal small-scale fishery and well-being in Puerto Rico.  Paper presented at Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 2018.

    2018 Caribbean fisheries in a changing natural, socioeconomic and cultural environment.  Session co-chairs & organizers Tarsila Seara & Richard B Pollnac. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, April 2018.

    2017 Relationships between subjective wellbeing and environmental concern in coastal fishing communities of Rayong Province, Thailand. Richard Pollnac (U Rhode Island) and Suvaluck Sathumanusphan (Mahidol U, Bangkok, Thailand)  Paper presented at Coastal Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) 24th Biennial Conference, 5-9 November 2017.

    2017 Systemic approaches toward understanding estuarine and coastal resilience and sustainability.  Session organizers: Tarsila Seara, Richard Pollnac & Dawn Kotowicz.  Coastal Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) 24th Biennial Conference, 5-9 November 2017.

    2017  Exploring Paths to Resilient and Sustainable Coastal Social-Ecological Systems Under Uncertain Future Scenarios Session co-chairs & organizers Tarsila Seara & Richard B Pollnac) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico March-April 2017.

    2017 Subjective Well-Being and Environmental Concern in Coastal Fishing Communities of Rayong Province, Thailand (Pollnac, Richard & Sathumanusphan, Suvaluck). Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico March-April 2017.

    2016  Attitudes, Beliefs and Values Related to Perceptions of Marine Resources and Their Management and Use in Puget Sound (Session chair & organizer Richard B Pollnac) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, March 2016.

    2016 Factors Influencing Perceptions of Impacts of Marine Reserves in Puget Sound and Their Implications for Marine Policy (Richard Pollnac & Patrick Christie) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, March 2016.

    2016 Recreation-Tourism-Fishing Interactions in Marine Protected Areas in Puget Sound, Washington State (MILLER, Marc L., POLLNAC, Richard & CHRISTIE, Patrick) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, March 2016.

    2016 Exploring the Gender Dimensions of Climate Change Perceptions in Puget Sound (GRAZIANO, Kathryn and LUNA, Melissa & POLLNAC, Richard) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, March 2016.

    2016 Maintaining Livelihoods and Well-Being in the Fishery during Social-Ecological Transformations  (Parts I and 2 Session Chairs and Organizers  Tarsila Seara & Richard Pollnac) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, March 2016.

    2016 Post-Tsunami Fishing and Non-Fishing Household Views of Well-Being and Participation in Livelihood Projects (KOTOWICZ, Dawn and POLLNAC, Richard) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, March 2016.

    2016 Relationships between Perceptions of Resilience and Well-being in Rayong Province, Gulf of Thailand (POLLNAC, Richard and SATHUMANUSPHAN, Suvaluck) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, March 2016.

    2015  The Impacts of Changes in Coastal Use on Fishing Communities  (Part I and II, Session Chairs and Organizers Carlos Garcia-Quijano & Richard Pollnac) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2015.

    2015  Social Unrest and the Coastal Fisheries of Somalia.  Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2015.

    2014 Social Science and Fishery Management: Applying Social Research (Part I and II, Session Chair and Organizer) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, March 2014.

    2014  Fishing as Therapy: Implications for Fishery Management (with Carlos Garcia-Quijano & J.J. Poggie) paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, MD. March 2014.