Dr. Lovette Miller is a post doctoral fellow in coupled human and natural systems. She is the project manager for the HARC/UNT Freshwater Aquarium Hobbyists and Invasive Species in the Houston-Galveston Region project. She uses quantitative and qualitative research methodologies such as population surveys, statistics, and GIS to study socio-ecological systems. Her most recent projects focused on the potential ecological impact of tourism expansion on western Jamaica's wet forest, and the socio-ecological impact of changes in natural resource use among the fishing, sugar and tourism populations in the Negril Environmental Protection Area, western Jamaica. Dr. Miller obtained a PhD in Geography from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Expertise
- Socio-ecological assessments
- Natural resource management
- Population dynamics
- Public policy