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Catherine Tucker is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida and Associate Director of Academic Affairs at the Center for Latin American Studies. Her research focuses on human-environment interactions, with a particular emphasis on environmental governance, institutional analysis, and sustainability in Latin America.
- Economic and Environmental Anthropology
- Community-Based Conservation
- Coffee Production & Value Chains
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Belief Systems and Sustainability
Recent publications highlight transdisciplinary approaches to global mountain sustainability, social-ecological system governance, and climate change adaptation in agricultural communities. Her work spans methodological innovations in modeling, comparative analysis of forest management, and socio-cultural dimensions of conservation.
She has secured significant grants including a 2018–2019 Slovenian-USA Bilateral Cooperation Grant, a 2016–2019 National Park Service grant for ethnobotanical research, and a 2014–2020 NSF Research Coordination Network Grant for mountain sustainability studies.
