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CURRICULUM VITAE                 
 
John Camblin Cordell, PhD
 
Director, The Ethnographic Institute
URL: http://www.ethnographic.org
 
 
P.O. Box 7896
Berkeley, CA 94707 USA
Ph: 1-510-543-3168 / 1-510-527-6621
Email: jcordell@ethnographic.org
 
Thematic Specialization
                       
Environmental Anthropology
Political Economy and Political Ecology
Integrated Coastal Management
Sustainable Fishing Communities
Tropical Health and Human Ecology
Indigenous Peoples / Culture Heritage Protection
Socio-Environmental Impact Assessment
Marine Policy and Protected Areas
Qualitative Research Methods
Common Property Resources / Tenure Systems


 

Geographic Concentration / Country Experience: Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile,
Dominica, Indonesia, Mexico, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
 
Languages:   Portuguese, Spanish, French, Melanesian Pidgin
 
Citizenship:  USA and Australian
 
Education:  Stanford University, PhD, Anthropology (1973);
B.A. Archeology, University of Oregon (1966); Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Policy Program (1973-74);
National Institutes of Health Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Genetics, Stanford U;  
Tinker Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Conservation and Resource Studies,
College of Natural Resources, U. of Calif. Berkeley (1980-81)
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University Teaching Experience: Stanford University (Anthropology Dept.

and Center for Latin American Studies); University of California, Berkeley

(Dept. of Conservation and Resource Studies and Dept. of Geography);

University of Queensland, Australia (Dept. of Anthropology and Sociology);
Sonoma State University (Dept. of Anthropology); University of Sao Paulo,
Center for Research on Human Populations and Wetlands Tropics in Brazil (NUPAUB).
 
Course Offerings:  Protected Area Management; Peoples of Latin America;
Anthropology of Melanesia; Applied Anthropology; Marine Policy; Fisheries Management;
Development Anthropology; Political Ecology; Tropical Health and Human Ecology;
Ethnobiology; Environmental Anthropology; Maritime Anthropology;
Qualitative Research Methods; Expository Writing; Traditional Knowledge
and Management of Common Property Resources and Tenure Systems
(Mini-Course Series, University of Sao Paulo / NUPAUB\
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Key International Development, Program Management, and Research Experience
 
Sr. Environment and Social Development Consultant.  LAC Region.  The World Bank.
Developing Sustainable Coastal-Marine Management in Brazil:
Integrating Social Inclusion, Culture Heritage and Biodiversity Protection. (Mar. – June 2008)
.Marine Management Area Science (MMAS) Project:  Planning Consultant,
Cultural Roles Study, Brazil Node. Conservation International / CI-Abrolhos.  (Jan. – March 2007)
 
Environmental Sector Work (ESW) Sr. Consultant and Team Leader:  Environment Department,
The World Bank Scaling Up Marine Management--The Role of Marine   Protected Areas.  Co-editor. (Dec. 2005 – June, 2006)
 
Brazilian Fisheries and Aquaculture (SEAP). Sr. Technical Advisor and Team Leader: GEF Coastal Biodiversity and Artisanal Fisheries Sustainability Initiative UNDP-Brazil (April 2004 – March 2005)
 
Establishing Networks of Marine Protected Areas: International MPA Workshop / CZ05 New Orleans. NOAA / WCPA/IUCN. (July 2005)
 
The Nature Conservancy:  Transforming Marine Conservation in the 21st Century.  Consultant and Working Group Member.  “Capacity-building for Long-term Management.   Honolulu (Mar. 2002).
 
Ford Foundation / Rio: Principal Investigator, Brazil’s Marine Extractive Reserve System  (Jan. –Jun. 2002).
 
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Center for Research on Human Population and Wetlands in Brazil.  (NUPAUB). (Curso de Difusao - Conhecimento e Manejo Tradicional de Recursos de Uso Comum).  April-May, 2002.
 
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Center for Research on Human Population and Wetlands in Brazil.  (NUPAUB). Short Course and Workshop Coordinator:  Traditional Knowledge and Management of Fishery Resources.   Ilha Comprida Inter-cultural Conference: “Povos do Vale do Ribeira.” (Sept. 2001).
 
Environment Consultant: Global Marine Conservation Needs Assessment and Scoping Study. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, San Francisco (July – Sept. 2001).
 
Project Coordinator: Protected Area Resource Centers (PARC) Network. (2001-2003) A cooperative technical and social assistance program of The Ethnographic Institute in Berkeley, and the Center for Research on Human Populations and Wetlands (NUPAUB), U. of Sao Paulo, Brazil, to support indigenous peoples and small-scale fishers in managing coastal marine areas and aquatic resources. 
 
World Bank Peer Reviewer:  Comparative Study of Coastal Resources in the Pacific Island Region. (1998)
 
World Bank Peer Reviewer:  Plan for Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund. Environment Dept. (1996)
 
Coordinator: stakeholder negotiations, project design and feasibility studies to involve Aboriginal Communities in the Great Artesian Basin Strategic Management Plan.  For the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) Brisbane, Australia (1998).
 
 Community Area Specialist & Social Impact Assessment Consultant:  Chevron Asiatic’s Papua New GuineGas Project.  For Torres Strait Regional Authority, Queensland Government, and Island Coordinating Council (1999-2000)
 
Socioeconomic Advisor: Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, Townsville, Australia (1996-1998).
 
Director: Community Resource Management Center at University of Queensland, an indigenous resource management capacity-building, and conservation field program supported by MacArthur Foundation, AusAID, Cultural Survival, and other agencies. (1991 -1997).
 
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation World Environment and Resources Program (Foundation Grant). Tenure and Conservation of Aquatic Systems in the Torres Strait Region (1992-1996)
 
Indigenous Resource Rights and Social Policy Studies;  Stakeholder Processes in Regional Land-Use Planning; and Indigenous Protected Area Projects:  Queensland Government, Office of Coordinator General and Dept. of Environment (1993-1998)
 
Coordinator:  Indigenous Marine Protected Area Feasibility Study and Pilot Project: Torres Strait (1997). Environment Australia (Indigenous Protected Areas Section)
 
 
Director, Torres Strait Culture Site Documentation Project (1997-98).  Torres Strait Island Coordinating Council (ICC), and Torres Strait Regional Authority. Australian National Estate Grants Program
 
Project Director, Managing Remote Cultural Landscapes (1996-97). Torres Strait Marine Strategy and Community Resource Management Center, U. of Queensland, St. Lucia.
 
Project Co-Manager (with Australian Marine Science and Technology Ltd & Griffith University)  Papua New Guinea Western and Gulf Coastal Zone Management Plan, Feasibility Study, AusAID  (1995-1996).
 
Aboriginal Sense of Place:  A Computer-Assisted Ethno-biology Project for the Kowanyama Aboriginal Community, Cape York Peninsula, Australia.  Community Resource Management Program, U. of Queensland (1994-1995)
 
Project Director:  Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy (CYPLUS) Indigenous Management of Land and Sea Project (1994), Queensland Government (Office of Coordinator General)
 
Project Director: Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy (CYPLUS). Survey of Traditional (Non-Market) Activities (1994), Queensland Government (Office of Coordinator General)
 
Team Leader:  Project Design for PNG Western & Gulf Coastal Zone Management Plan.  Pre-feasibility and Feasibility Studies. Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (1993-94)
 
Australian Commission on Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD), Fisheries Working Group, Indigenous Fisheries Consultancy:  Managing Sea Country: Tenure and Sustainability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fisheries (1991-1992)
 
Supervised multidisciplinary teams to develop Papua New Guinea’s first coastal zone management plan (for Western Province), funded by AusAID.(1993-1996).
 
    Scientific Advisor: Island Coordinating Council (ICC) Torres Strait Marine Strategy (MASTS), aand
    Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) Program, a series of local initiatives to unify cultural heritage    
    And biodiversity conservation. (1991-1996)
 
Planning and coordination of People and Protected Areas Workshop
(with IUCN and WWF-Intl.) :IV World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas, Caracas.
 
Aboriginal Sense of Place:  A Computer-Assisted Ethno-biology Project for the Kowanyama Aboriginal Community, Cape York Peninsula, Australia.  Community Resource Management Program, U. of Queensland (1994-1995)
 
Project Director:  Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy (CYPLUS) Indigenous Management of Land and Sea Project (1994), Queensland Government (Office of Coordinator General)
 
Project Director: Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy (CYPLUS). Survey of Traditional (Non-Market) Activities (1994), Queensland Government (Office of Coordinator General)
 
Team Leader:  Project Design for PNG Western & Gulf Coastal Zone Management Plan.  Pre-feasibility and Feasibility Studies. Australian International Development Assistance Bureau (1993-94)
 
Australian Commission on Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD), Fisheries Working Group, Indigenous Fisheries Consultancy:  Managing Sea Country: Tenure and Sustainability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Fisheries (1991-1992)
 
Supervised multidisciplinary teams to develop Papua New Guinea’s first coastal zone management plan (for Western Province), funded by AusAID.(1993-1996).
 
Scientific Advisor: Island Coordinating Council (ICC) Torres Strait Marine Strategy (MASTS), aand Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) Program, a series of local initiatives to unify cultural heritage and biodiversity conservation. (1991-1996)
 
Planning and coordination of People and Protected Areas Workshop (with IUCN and WWF-Intl.): IV World Congress on National Parks and Protected Areas, Caracas.
 
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Project Coordinator: Mitchell River Delta Mapping Project. Kowanyama Aboriginal Land and Natural Resource Office (1992-1993)
 
Rockefeller Foundation project:  Co-evolutionary Terrain, A Study of Ecology, Economic History and Agricultural Systems in Western Province, Kenya, Ethnographic Institute (1986-89)
 
Extensive field research on poverty and social marginality in Brazil, especially impacts of development and technical innovation programs on traditional fishing communities, estuarine, and inshore fisheries (1969-1985)
 
With support from WWF-US, Social Science Research Council, American Philosophical Society, and Tinker Foundation, carried out field research and feasibility studies to develop Brazil’s first marine park, the Parque Nacional dos Abrolhos. (1979-1982)
 
Assisted the U.S National Research Council (BOSTID) in 1984-85 in developing case studies and workshops leading to the formation of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP)
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§         Appointments
 
Visiting Professor, Postgraduate Program in Environmental Science (Procam), U.of Sao Paulo
Sr. Consultant, LAC/Social Development, World Bank
Director, The Ethnographic Institute, Berkeley, California
Sr. Consultant, Environment Dept., World Bank, ESW/MPA Project
Sr. Technical advisor and GEF consultant, Environment Unit, UNDP-Brazil
Visiting Professor, University of Sao Paulo / NUPAUB
Coordinator, Protected Area Resource Centers Project (PARC), Ethnographic Institute Berkeley, California
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Sonoma State University (spring semester)
Principal Environmental and Socioeconomic Advisor, Torres Strait Island Coordinating
Council, Marine Strategy Program, Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia
Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Adjunct Professor, Bureau of Applied Research, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson
Director & Principal Research Fellow, Community Resource Management Center, University of Queensland, St. Lucia
Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Griffith University
Pacific Program Coordinator, Cultural Survival, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Director, The Ethnographic Institute, Berkeley, CA
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Culture and Communication, East-West Center,  Honolulu
Visiting Lecturer, Dept. of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Conservation and Resource Studies, U. of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Genetics, Stanford Medical Center
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, International Center for Medical Research (ICMR), Cali, Colombia
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Center for Latin American Studies, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellow, Marine Policy Program, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
 
§                     Selected Writing and Presentations (1990-2008)
 

2009  Review of Climate Change in the Coral Triangle (for University of Queensland and WWF Australia)
2008. Climate Change: A 21st Century Triste Tropique ? Aix en Provence 7th International Conference on Climate Change. June. Max Falque (ed.).
 
2008.  Journeys Across Sacred Seas:  Culture and Nature on Tropical Coasts. Nupaub (book proposal).
 
2007. “Marginalidade Social e Appropriacao Territorial Maritima na Bahia.”  Nas Redes da Pesca Artesanal. Serie 2, Caminhos para Sustentabilidade.  UNDP-Brazil / IBAMA / SEAP (A. Lobo and J.H. Suleiman eds.).
 
2007.  A Sea of Dreams:  Valuing Culture In Marine Conservation.  In: Environment, Development, And Sustainability. Special Issue on Diversity and Management of Extractive Systems.  XV Society for Human Ecology. (L.Hens and A. Begossi, eds.).  Brussels. (forthcoming).
 
2007.  A Cultural Roles Study To Support Marine Protected Area Projects in the Abrolhos Region, Bahia, Brazil. Consultancy Report / MMAS Project / Conservation International. March.
 
2006. “Trends and Challenges in Marine Protected Area Design and Management.” Fall Colloquium Series (Sept.). Energy and Resources Group. U. of California, Berkeley.
 
2006. Scaling Up Marine Management:  The Role of Marine Protected Areas. The World Bank (ESSD) Report No. 36635-CLB (Cordell co-editor).
 
2006. Brazil: Dynamics and Challenges of Marine Protected Area Development and Coastal Protection.  In: Scaling Up Marine Management:  The Role of Marine Protected Areas. (chapter 6). The World Bank (ESSD Report No. 36635-CLB).
               
2005.  “Missing Links: Challenges of Synchronizing and Connecting Social and Spatial Scales in MPA Networks.”  Invited speaker: Coastal Zone 05 International Workshop:  Establishing Networks of Marine Protected Areas:  Making it happen New Orleans, Louisiana July 15 – 17.
 
2005. “Turf in Surf: Brazilian Experiences Transplanting Extractive Reserves to the Sea.” Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings. Session: Strengthening Stakeholder Participation in Fisheries Management. Santa Fe.
 
2002. Brazil’s Coastal Marine Extractive Reserves Initiative:  Protected Area Management Capacity-Building, Social Policy, and Technical Assistance Needs Assessment. Consultancy Report.  The Ford Foundation (Rio Office) and IBAMA/CNPT (Centro Nacional de Desenvolvimento Sustentado das Populacoes Tradicionais). Brasilia. July.  
 
2002. “Remapping the Waters:  The Significance of Sea Tenure-Based Protected Areas.”  In:  Marine Resources, Property Rights, Economics and Environment. (M. Falque, M. de Alessi and H. Lamotte, eds.) Vol. 14, International Review of Comparative Public Policy.  pp. 265-493. Centre d’Analyse Economique de l’Universite d’ Aix-Marseille.   Elsevier Science Amsterdam.
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2001. (with Ian McNiven) . An Islander World:  Managing the Archaeological Heritage of Torres Strait . Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Cultural Heritage Series. Special Issue:  Torres Strait Archaeology and Material Culture.  Queensland Museum.  Brisbane, Queensland.               
 
1999. Torres Strait Community Area Socio-Cultural interests and Heritage Study.  PNG Gas Project Social Impact Assessment Consultancy Report. Island Coordinating Council & Torres Strait Regional Authority.
 
1998.“Between a Reef and a Hard Place:  The Question of a 'Fatal Flaw' Offshore in the Papua New Guinea Gas Project.”  Seminar Series on Common Property Resource Management and the World Bank.  CPRNet. (Sept).
 
1998. Managing Culture Sites and Marine Protected Areas in Melanesia.  Presentation for International Symposium on Natural Sacred Sites, Cultural and Biological Diversity.  UNESCO. Paris. (Sept).
               
1997.Torres Strait Culture Site Documentation and Cultural Studies Project.  Final Consultancy Report.  136pp.  Queensland Environment Department (Coastal Branch). Brisbane.
 
1996.Culture and Conservation Planning in Torres Strait.  Consultancy Report on Intellectual Property Rights and Conservation Uses of Indigenous Cultural Information.  Queensland Environment Department. 84 pp. Brisbane.
 
1995.Indigenous Management of Land and Sea on Cape York Peninsula.  Cape York Peninsula Land Use Strategy (CYPLUS) J. Cordell, ed. Office of Coordinator General. Brisbane. 430 pp.
 
1994.“Indigenous Domains in Regional Marine Strategies.”  Presentation to Environment Department, World Bank.  (June).               
               
1993.  Indigenous Peoples' Coastal‑Marine Domains: Some Matters of Cultural Documentation. In: Turning the Tide (Conference on Indigenous Peoples and Sea Rights). pp 159-174. Law Faculty and Centre for Aboriginal and Islander Studies. Northern Territory University. Darwin.
 
1993. Boundaries and Bloodlines: Tenure of Indigenous Homelands and Protected Areas. In: Part II. Law of the Mother: Protecting Indigenous Peoples in Protected Areas. E. Kemf (ed.), pp.61‑68. WWF International & Sierra Club Books. San Francisco.
 
1993. Who Owns the Land? Indigenous Involvement in Australian Protected Areas. In: Part II. Law of the Mother: Protecting Indigenous People and Protected Areas. E. Kemf (ed.), pp.104‑113. WWF International & Sierra Club Books. San Francisco
 
1992. Sea Tenure in Bahia, Brazil (with Margaret A. McKean).  In: Making the Commons Work, Theory, Practice, and Policy.  Daniel Bromley (ed.). pp. 183-207.  Institute for Contemporary Studies Press.
 
1991. Caring for the Ancestral Domain: Western Oceania. (J. Cordell, Guest Editor). Cultural Survival Quarterly. Vol. 15 (2). “Negotiating Sea Rights.” pp. 5‑10.               
 
1991.Managing Sea Country: Tenure and Sustainability of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Marine Resources.   Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) Fisheries Working Group, Report on Indigenous Fishing. Australian Fisheries Management Authority & Australian Conservation Foundation.  Canberra. 148 pp.
 
1990. A Sea of Small Boats: Customary Law, Tenure, and Territorial Rights in the World of Inshore Fishing.  Cambridge: Cultural Survival. 418 pp.
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References
Marea E. Hatziolos
Senior Coastal and Marine Specialis
Environment Department
The World Bank
MC5-51
1818 H St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433
Tel: 1-202-473-1061
Fax: 1-202-522-036
Email: mhatziolos@worldbank.org


Dr. Tundi Agardy
Sound Seas
 Bethesda, MD 2081
 Email: tundiagardy@earthlink.net
 
Tel: 1- 301-229-9105

 Prof. Antonio Carlos Diegues
Director, Research Center on Tropical Human
Ecology and the Coastal Zone in Brazil (NUPAUB)                                          
University of Sao Paulo                                               
Rua do Anfiteatro, 181 – Colmeias – Favo 6
CEP 05508-900 Sao Paulo, Brasil                                                     
Tel: ++55-11-3091-3307
Email: adiegues@usp.br
 
Patrick Christie
Assistant Professor
School of Marine Affairs /
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
3707 Brooklyn Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98105-6715
Tel: 206-685-6661
Emailpatrickc@u.washington.edu
 
 
 
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