Vaughan Mehana
Assistant Professor
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management
University of Hawaii
United States of America
Biography
Education: Ph.D. Environment and Natural Resources Stanford University, 2012 M.Ed. Education and Curriculum Studies, University of HawaiÊ»i at MÄnoa, 2003 B.A. Sociology and Certification to Teach Secondary Social Studies Harvard University, 1998
Research Interest
Extension/Research Interests: I study interactions between people and the environment, particularly how people use, care for and make decisions about natural resources at the local level. I work with a consortium of scholars across the university who focus on inter-disciplinary solutions to natural and cultural resource management, food security and sustainability. Our efforts aim to enhance capacity of local communities to care for the resources that sustain them.
Publications
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Vaughan, M., & A. Ayers. (2016). Customary Access: Sustaining Local Control of Fishing and Food on Kaua ‘i’s North Shore. Food, Culture & Society, 19(3), 517-538.
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Vaughan, M. KaiÄulu – Community, the Growing Sea; Lessons from Lives Lived in Place. Oregon State University Press. Submitted June 2017
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Sato, A, Vaughan, M and Price, M. “Indigenous Ecological Knowledge and the Preservation of KÄhuli, an Endangered Family of Hawaiian Tree Snails.†Society and Natural Resources. Submitted February 2017.
