• Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Missouri

Richard Pollnac has conducted research among coastal peoples in almost all world regions. Prior to 2005 research and consulting concerning fishery and coastal development projects was carried out in East and West Africa, South and Central America, the Azores, the Middle East, India, New England & Alaska, USA, and Southeast Asia. In 2005 he participated in an Evaluation of distribution of community development quota shares from the Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation where he conducted fieldwork in coastal communities in Norton Sound, Alaska. Also in 2005 he conducted an initial rapid assessment and set up a tsunami recovery project monitoring and evaluation system in Ranong Province, Thailand. Current projects include (2006-2008) fieldwork in Central America and the Caribbean evaluating factors influencing success of marine protected areas. (NSF funded, Co-PI); (2005-2008) preparation of fishery community profiles and methods for social impact assessment for the Northeast Region (NOAA, CMER funded, PI); (2007-2008) fieldwork concerning networking of marine protected areas, Cebu, Philippines July-August, 2007. (Governance Feasibility of marine ecosystem-based management: A comparative Analysis; National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis, Co-PI); and (2007-2008) an examination of job satisfaction in capture fisheries, a world-wide comparative study funded by the project for Ecosystems, Societies, Consilience and the Precautionary Principle: Development of an assessment method for societal cost for best fishing practices and efficient public policies (European Commission).

Prior to 2004, 106 publications.

• J.E. Cinner and Pollnac, R.B. 2004 Poverty, perceptions and planning: why socioeconomics matter in the management of Mexican Reefs. Ocean and Coastal Management 47: 479-493.


• Pollnac, R.B. and J.C. Johnson 2005 Folk management and conservation of marine resources: Towards a theoretical and methodological assessment. in ( Kishigami, N. and J.M. Savelle, eds) Indigeneous Use and Management of Marine Resources. Senri Ethnological Studies 67:33-50. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology.


• Pollnac, R.B. and R.S. Pomeroy 2005 Factors influencing the sustainability of integrated coastal management projects in the Philippines and Indonesia. Ocean & Coastal Management 48 (3-6):233-251.


• Sievanen, L., B. Crawford, R.B. Pollnac & C. Lowe 2005 Weeding through assumptions of livelihood approaches in ICM: Seaweed farming in the Philippines and Indonesia. Ocean & Coastal Management 48 (3-6):297-313.


• Pomeroy, R., E.G. Oracion, R.B. Pollnac, & D.A. Caballes 2005 Perceived economic factors influencing the sustainability if integrated coastal management projects in the Philippines. Ocean & Coastal Management 48 (3-6):360-377.


• Thiele, R.B. Pollnac, & P. Christy 2005 Relationships between coastal tourism and ICM sustainability in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. Ocean & Coastal Management 48 (3-6):378-392.


• Christy, P., K. Lowry, A.T. White, E.G. Oracion, L. Sievanan, R.S. Pomeroy, R.B. Pollnac, J.M. Patlis, R.-LL.V. Eisma 2005 Key findings from a multidisciplinary examination of integrated coastal management process sustainability. Ocean & Coastal Management 48 (3-6):468-483.


• Crawford, B., M. Kasmidi and F. Korompis & R.B. Pollnac 2006 Factors influencing progress in establishing community-based marine protected areas in Indonesia. Coastal Management 34: 39-64


• Pollnac, R.B. , J.J. Poggie 2006 Job satisfaction in the fishery in two Southeast Alaskan towns. Human Organization 65(3).


• Pomeroy, R. John Parks, R.B. Pollnac, et al 2007 Fish wars: Conflict and collaboration in fisheries management in Southeast Asia. Marine Policy 31:645-656.


• Pollnac, R.B. 2007 Cooperation and conflict between large and small-scale fisheries: A Southeast Asian example. In W.W. Taylor, ed. Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources. Pp 228-243 Cambridge University Press.


• Pollnac, Richard B. 2007 Editor, Theme Section on the “Aspects of interactions between humans and coral reefs.” Coral Reefs 26(4):913-1056.


• Pollnac, Richard B., Susan Abbott-Jamieson, Courtland Smith, Marc L. Miller, Patricia M. Clay, and Bryan Oles. 2006 (2008). Toward a model for fisheries social impact assessment. Marine Fisheries Review 68(1-4):1–18.


• Pollnac, R.B. and J.J. Poggie. 2008 Happiness, Well-being and Psychocultural Adaptation to the Stresses Associated with Marine Fishing. Human Ecology Review Vol. 15(2):194-200.