Rebecca T. Richards
Ph.D., Utah State University
rebecca.richards@umontana.edu
Social Science 313
406-243-4061
Vita
Office Hours:
On Sabbatical Fall Semester 2009
Emphasis:
Rural Sociology, Environmental Sociology
Research Interests:
Rural restructuring and rural development, natural resource use, sociology of risk.
Current Projects:
I am currently working with our graduate students, Carly Phillips and Rebecca Goe, in helping National Park Service wildlife biologist, Jami Belt, evaluate the citizen science volunteer program for monitoring mountain goats, Clark nutcrackers, and pikas in Glacier National Park. I am also collaborating with Dr. Minna Piipponen of the University of Eastern Finland on a year long research study focused on the opportunities and constraints that the U.S./Canadian border communities poses for residents in northwest Montana and southeast British Columbia communities. This is a comparative study with work Dr. Piipponen has previously conducted in communities along the Finnish and Russian border in eastern Finland and northwestern Russia.
Selected Scholarly Work:
Richards, R.T. and O. Saastamoinen. (In press). "Everyman's gathering rights and social change in non-timber forest product traditions and markets in Finland." In A People and Plants International manual: Non-Timber Forest Products Policy: Frameworks for the Management, Trade, and Use of NTFPs. (Eds.) S. Laird, R. McClain, and R. Wynberg. Earthscan Books, London, UK.
Richards, R.T. (2007). "Regional rural development and energy reform: The case of electric deregulation in Montana and Alberta. Society and Natural Resources: Vol. 20 (7): pp. 647-658.
Richards, R.T. and S. Alexander. (2006). "A social history of wild huckleberry harvesting in the Pacific Northwest." General Technical Report PNW-GTR 657. USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR. 113 pp.
Pedrosa, Fantina and Rebecca T. Richards. (2005). “Vulnerability and resilience in disaster knowledge and response: Lessons from the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami” (pp. 65-75) in Proceedings of the 250th Anniversary of the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake International Conference 1-4 November 2005 Lisbon, Portugal. Lisbon : Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil. [In English].
Richards, R.T. and R.L. Brod (2004). “Community support for a gold cyanide process mine: Resident and leader differences in rural Montana.” Rural Sociology Vol 16 (4): pp. 552-575.
Current Courses
SOCI 345 Sociology of Organizations
WINTERSESSION: January 4-January 8, 2010
MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm; SS 362
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