ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DIANNE DRAPER, PH.D.

Dr. Dianne Draper has a B.Sc. (Hons) and M.A. from the University of Victoria and went on to earn her Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in 1977. She was a faculty member at Memorial University of Newfoundland from 1977 to 1988 at which time was appointed to the University of Calgary, where she still teaches. Recently, Dr. Draper was appointed Department Head of Geography.

Dr. Draper has diverse interests and teaches:

• Human Geography (Geog. 203),
• Environmental Problems and Resources Management (Geog. 321),
• Renewable Resources and Natural Environments (Geog. 421),
• Tourism and Recreation Geography (Geog. 427),
• Research and Planning for Tourism and Recreation Resources (Geog. 527), and
• Leisure, Tourism and Society (LTSO 409).

Prior to a 1995 change in Departmental graduate course structure, she offered two or three graduate courses per semester in the Environment, Resources and Tourism field (Geog. 721 and 727). Currently she supervises Ph.D. students, M.A. and M.Sc. students in the Geography Department, M.Sc. and M.A. students in the Resources and the Environment Program, and M.A. students in the Communications Studies Program. She is on the Supervisory Committee of graduate students from the Faculties of Social Sciences, Environmental Design, Management, and the CRE program. She has been on the Examining Committees of graduate students in the Faculty of Social Sciences (Departments of Geography, Economics, and Anthropology), the Faculty of Graduate Studies (Committee on Resources in the Environment Program), Faculty of General Studies (Department of Communications Studies), Faculty of Environmental Design (Planning, and Environmental Science), and Faculty of Management.

Dr. Draper's principal research interests in the environmental and resources field encompass planning and policy issues in water resources management, and coastal zone and fisheries management. In the tourism field, her research focuses on sustainable tourism (including ecotourism) and tourism growth management. Since 1993, among her major publications are chapters in six books, six refereed journal articles, and twelve papers presented at international and national conferences. In addition to Our Environment: A Canadian Perspective, she is co-author with Bruce Mitchell of Relevance and Ethics in Geography(1982).

She has served the academic community as a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Water Resources Association (Alberta Branch) since 1990, as research grant referee for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council since 1982, and as a member of the Advisory Board of Environment: Annual Editions (Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc.) since 1990. She has represented the University of Calgary on the Environmental Advisory Committee of Calgary City Council since 1994 and has been an Executive Member of the River Valleys Committee in Calgary since 1993. She has been a consultant with a variety of private companies, provincial government agencies, Parks Canada and other Canadian government agencies, and the World Tourism Organization.

Within the University context she has served as Coordinator of the Leisure, Tourism and Society Program of the General Studies Faculty since 1990, been a member of the University of Calgary Press Editorial Committee from 1992 to 1997, and served as a Member of the Executive Committee of the University of Calgary World Tourism Education and Research Centre since 1989. She is a member of the Canadian Association of Geographers, the Canadian Water Resources Association, the International Association of Scientific Experts in Tourism, the International Association for the Study of Common Property Resources, the Canadian Committee for IUCN (the World Conservation Society), and the Society for Applied Anthropology. In 1995 she was elected a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology.