Speaker: Noel Healy
Assistant Professor,
Department of Geography,
Salem State University
Email: nhealy@salemstate.edu

Time: 2013-09-06, 13:30 p.m.
Location: Room 128, Former Geology Building, Peking University. (老地学楼128室)

Noel Healy is Assistant Professor in Geography at Salem State University, Massachusetts, USA. Dr. Healy studied at the University of California, Berkeley and the National University of Ireland, Galway. His dissertation - Interpretation, Governance and Conflict: A Critique of Protected Area Planning in Ireland - was funded by the EPA and involved a multi-layered analysis of Irish tourism development and its protected area planning and governance systems. From 2010-2011 Noel lectured at NUIG whilst also conducting consultancy work for Irish NGO's. Between 2005 and 2013 Noel secured $130,000 in research funding, published peer-reviewed journal articles, and presented his research extensively across Europe, North and South America. His research interests include sustainable tourism development; cultural heritage management; protected area governance; participatory processes and planning in environmental resource management; community based natural resources management; social justice, interpretative tourism planning, visitor experience and UNESCO World Heritage.