Speaker: Dr. Brian Child
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
University of Florida
Thursday, October 21, 2021
2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8)
Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom
University of Florida
Biography: Dr. Brian Child is an associate professor in Geography and Center for African Studies at the University of Florida. He received his Ph.D. in wildlife and land use economics from Oxford in 1988, and a BSc (Hons) Agricultural Economics from University of Zimbabwe (1983). As a practitioner he managed park, community and private conservation in southern Africa, and as a scholar his interests lie in the economic sustainability of protected areas, and the governance and economics of wildlife by farmers and communities outside public lands. His role is to build a program in African conservation that bridges scholarship and practice. He is currently an African Councilor for IUCN.
All are welcome to attend.
For more information, email Dr. Joann Mossa at mossa@ufl.edu