The Changing Geography of National Parks and Protected Areas

About

Joe Weber is Professor at the University of Alabama. His research interests include the changing geography of the national park system and especially changing boundaries and names as well as the development of the American highway system. Selima Sultana is Professor at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Her research interests span various domains including urban and transportation studies and national parks.  Her research often delves into the interactions between physical environment of neighborhoods and social factors such as class race/ethnicity gender and daily mobility. The co-editors recently published the book The Parks Belong to the People: The Geography of the National Park System and have been carrying out research on the national park system for over a decade publishing a half dozen journal articles on the topic. They also co-founded the Protected Areas Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers the leading group of academic geographers in the U.S.