NICHOLAS J. REO, Ph.D.

 
 

RESEARCH

I conduct participatory research with American Indian tribes and their neighbors, addressing questions about the management and use of natural resources. My formal training links applied ecology and the human dimensions of natural resource management. My research interests focus on the ecological, social and political dimensions of ecosystem management, subsistence harvests and tribal guardianship of culturally significant resources.


PUBLICATIONS

Reo, NJ and Whyte, KP (2012) Morality and Hunting as Elements of Traditional Ecological Knowledge. Human Ecology 40(1).


Reo, NJ (2011) The Importance of Belief Systems in Traditional Ecological Knowledge Initiatives. International Indigenous Policy Journal 2(4).


McConnell, William J., James D.A. Millington, Nicholas J. Reo, Marina Alberti, Heidi Asbjornsen, Lawrence A. Baker, Nicholas Brozović, Laurie E. Drinkwater, Scott A. Drzyzga, José Fragoso, Daniel S. Holland, Claire A. Jantz, Timothy A. Kohler, Herbert D.G. Maschner, Michael Monticino, Guillermo Podestá, Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr., Charles L. Redman, David Sailor, Gerald Urquhart, and Jianguo Liu (2011) “Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): Approach, Challenges and Strategies.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 92: 218–228. [doi:10.1890/0012-9623-92.2.218]


Reo, NJ and JW Karl (2010) Tribal and state ecosystem management regimes influence forest regeneration. Forest Ecology and Management 260 (5).


Kazmierski, J, M Kram, E Mills, D Phemister, N Reo, C Riggs, R Tefertiller, D Erickson (2004) Conservation planning at the landscape scale: a landscape ecology method for regional land trusts. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 47 (5).


PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS

Reo, NJ, JW Karl and MB Walters. Northern red oak regeneration following competitor removal and low white-tailed deer densities (submitted)


Reo, NJ, D Kramer, J Liu and S Yaffee. From conflict to cooperation: evolution of a successful tribal-state resource management relationship


CURRENT PROJECTS

Eastern Upper Peninsula Fire Project: an initiative that facilitates restoration of integrated human and natural systems and evaluates its results for ecosystems, wildlife and tribal communities. The project aims to restore fire to fire-dependent ecosystems, rebuild fire-management knowledge within an Ojibwe community and strengthen relationships between tribal, federal and other parties, facilitating cross-boundary management.


Tribal Land Acquisition and Forest-Based Business Planning: a School of Natural Resources and Environment Masters Group Project working with the Hannahville Indian Community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.


Nick Reo CV 2012

REsearch Fellow, school of natural resources and environment

SEE YOU THERE:

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Connecticut June 2012


Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon Aug 2012

RESEARCH INTERESTS


   Tribal Natural Resource Management                                          


   Cross-Boundary Management Involving Tribes and First Nations


   The Nature of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)                                   


   Linking Restoration Ecology & TEK


   Guardianship of Culturally-Significant Species & Lands                   


   Using Historical Ecology, Ecological Science and TEK to Understand Socio-Ecological Systems