Professor
Turlington Hall 3135
(352)294-7503
bchild@geog.ufl.edu
ORCID ID: 0000-002-0532-2127
Focus Areas
- Focus Area 5: Catastrophes, Conservation, and Conflict
- Focus Area 6: Sustainability & Global Environmental Change
Areas of Specialization
- Protected Area management
- Conservation of Natural Resources
- Africa
Educational Background
- D. Phil. in Ecology/Economics of Wildlife/Livestock in Savannas, Oxford University, 1988
- Rhodes Scholar, 1984
- B.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, University of Zimbabwe, 1983
Recent Courses
- GEO 3930 The Political Economy of Conservation in Africa
- GEO 6938 The Political Economy of Conservation in Africa
- GEO 3930 Management of Protected Areas in Africa and the Americas
- GEO 6938 Community Forest Management
Current Graduate Students
Master’s
PhD
Recent Graduate Students
Recent Publications
Merz, L., Pienaar, E. F., Fik, T., Muyengwa, S., & Child, B. (2023). Wildlife institutions highly salient to human attitudes toward wildlife. Conservation Science and Practice, 5(2), e12879.
Chidakel, A., & Child, B. (2022). Convergence and divergence in the economic performance of wildlife tourism within multi-reserve landscapes. Land Use Policy, 120, 106252.
Mavah, G., Child, B., & Swisher, M. E. (2022). Empty laws and empty forests: Reconsidering rights and governance for sustainable wildlife management in the Republic of the Congo. African Journal of Ecology, 60(2), 212-221.
Herrero, H.V., Southworth, J., Bunting, E., and B. Child. 2017. Using Repeat Photography to Observe Vegetation Change Over Time in Gorongosa National Park. African Studies Quarterly, 17(2). 65-82.
Chidakel, A., Child, B., & Muyengwa, S. (2021). Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. Ecological Economics, 182, 106960.
Chidakel, A., Eb, C., & Child, B. (2020). The comparative financial and economic performance of protected areas in the Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa: Functional diversity and resilience in the socio-economics of a landscape-scale reserve network. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 28(8), 1100-1119.
Herrero, H., Southworth, J., Muir, C., Khatami, R., Bunting, E., & Child, B. (2020). An evaluation of vegetation health in and around Southern African National Parks during the 21st Century (2000–2016). Applied Sciences, 10(7), 2366.