Erin Seekamp
Area(s) of Expertise
- Individual, relational, institutional and programmatic capacity building for sustainable socio-ecological systems
- Environmental communications and behavior change
- Social capital exchange
- Collaborative decision-making
- Transboundary partnerships
- Information and normative influences during public/stakeholder involvement processes
- Climate-related tourism planning
Research Summary
My research focuses on building capacity for effective natural resource management to collectively construct and maintain vibrant and resilient socio-ecological communities.
Publications
- Assessing Pandemic Impacts to Collaborative Management in Parks and Protected Areas , Environmental Management (2025)
- Cultural Expressions of Climate: Art as a Tool for Change , Weather Climate and Society (2025)
- Perspectives on Liberating and Deliberating Knowledge in Science , Society & Natural Resources (2025)
- Social capital as a predictor of collective environmental action in high school students , The Journal of Environmental Education (2025)
- Unveiling the Complexity of Tourists’ Visual Attention and Emotions Toward Destination Pictures , Journal of Travel Research (2025)
- Conceptualizing community-level environmental literacy using the Delphi method , Environmental Education Research (2024)
- Environmental and social impacts of shifting park-use patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: Insights from state and local park managers , Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (2024)
- Gateway community stakeholders’ perceived impacts of protected area management actions: The case of North Carolina (U.S.) state parks , Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (2024)
- Multi-criteria decision approach for climate adaptation of cultural resources along the Atlantic coast of the southeastern United States: Application of AHP method , Climate Risk Management (2024)
- Pushing toward systemic change in the Capitalocene: Investigating the efficacy of existing behavior prediction models on individual and collective pro-environmental actions in high school students , The Journal of Environmental Education (2024)