Professor Dr. Keith Tidball

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Keith Tidball is an environmental anthropologist and naturalist focused on understanding and amplifying recruitment of citizen conservationists and the development of a 21st-century land ethic. His work features efforts to locate and explore portals and pathways for conservation behaviors. Grounded in cultural anthropology, disturbance ecology, and environmental psychology, his integrated research and extension work explores the dynamics of natural resource management in contexts of trauma, disturbance, and disaster, shaped by experiences in military fields and international disaster response. Tidball's doctoral research examined the role of community-based natural resource management in post-Katrina resilience in New Orleans and continues to focus on post-disaster contexts globally, including disaster readiness and recovery. He studies how outdoor recreation contributes to resilience and recovery for trauma-affected individuals, particularly combat-wounded veterans and disaster survivors. Additionally, he investigates questions related to human-nature relationships and the motivations behind conservation activities, aiming to engage citizens in developing a new land ethic that connects to local organic food and sustainable practices.

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