Michael Tarrant
Michael Tarrant holds the post of Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor
in Natural resources Recreation and Tourism in the Warnell School of Forestry and
Natural Resources at the University of Georgia but resides in Christchurch, New
Zealand where he also directs a suite of study abroad programs in the South Pacific.
Contact Details
Michael Tarrant
Research Interests Related to CRR
- Natural resources recreation and ecotourism planning
- International protected area and wilderness management
- Geographic information systems applications in recreation and ecotourism
- Human dimensions of natural resources: Environmental values and attitudes
Selected Recent Publications
Books
- Tarrant, M.A. & Raychaudhuri, U. (in preparation). Concepts and applications in
international natural resource recreation and tourism planning: A user-interactive
DVD. Enfield, NH: Science Publishers, Inc.
- Cordell, H.K., Betz, C.J., English, D.B.K., Mou, S.H., Bergstrom, J.C., Teasley,
R.J., Tarrant, M.A., & Loomis, J. (1999). Outdoor recreation in American life. Champaign,
IL: Sagamore Publishing.
Chapters in Books
- Tarrant, M.A. (in press). A global studies abroad program in sustaining human societies
and the natural environment. In Fisher, R (Ed.), Probing the Boundaries/At the Interface
eBook. Oxford, UK: Interdisciplinary Press.
- Schuster, R., Tarrant, M.A., & Watson, A.E. (2005). The social values of wilderness.
In H.K. Cordell (Ed.), The multiple values of wilderness (pp. 113 – 142). State
College, PA: venture Publishing.
- Tarrant, M.A. & Porter, R. (2005). Spatial and temporal constraints to natural resource
recreation and tourism: A GIS perspective. In E. Jackson (Ed.), Constraints to leisure
(pp. 311 – 321). State College, PA: Venture Publishing.
- Tarrant, M.A. & Hull, R.B. (2005). Forest values and attitudes in the South: Past
and future research. In H. M. Rauscher and K. Johnsen (Eds.), Southern forest science:
Past, present, and future (pp. 231 – 241). USDA Forest Service, Asheville, NC.
- Tarrant, M.A. & Porter, R.P. (2004). Applications of geographic information systems
to recreation and leisure studies. In J. Jenkins & J.J. Pigram (Eds.), Encyclopedia
of leisure and outdoor recreation. London: Routledge.
For more information please visit the
University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forest Resources Website
