Richard Hasler
Richard Hasler is an environmental anthropologist with a Ph.D from Michigan State University (1993). His area of interest is the social dimensions of natural resources management, particularly community based wildlife and fisheries management in Southern and Eastern Africa. His theoretical interests are in common pool resource management and political ecology.
He completed a doctorate on the
inception phase of the Communal Areas Management Program for Indigenous
Resources and undertook extensive field research in the Zambezi
Valley, the Okavango Delta and elsewhere. He received a 2003 Global
Development Award Medal from the Global Development Network and is
author of book entitled "Agriculture, Foraging and Wildlife Resource
Use in Africa". In 2003 he received a Rockefeller Humanities
International Resident Fellowship at the University of Kentucky. Other
interests include the analysis of ecotourism and agriculture. He
is currently working on three small scale fisheries compliance projects
and a water management project.