Featuring Our Faculty

Outdoor Recreation Development

Community Outreach Interests

For the past twenty years, I have been working with rural communities in Alaska, Montana, eastern North Carolina, Costa Rica and Malaysia. As a facilitator, I assist communities with the transformation from a natural resource based extractive community into a sustainable community that focuses on wise use of natural resources while protecting the human experience, environment, and culture. I am especially interested in working with minority populations and specialize in developing partnerships with American Indians. My ultimate goal is to build greater awareness around the themes of global citizenship and responsible development.

Research Interests

Managing for quality visitor experience opportunities; policy issues in parks and recreation; developing risk management plans; re-forestation; ecotourism; creating partnerships in natural resource management; environmental education/interpretation; managing conflicts in natural resource settings; and group facilitation; tourism and ecotourism planning; facilitating stakeholder meetings, rural community planning; outdoor recreation and wilderness management; restoration ecology.

Notable Publications

Wendling, Robert, Joseph P. Flood, Karl Wuensch, and C. Cabral. In press. "A recreation profile of eastern North Carolinians in eighteen selected counties and municipalities." North Carolina Journal.

Flood, Joseph P. 2007. "Limiting Liability: Prepare your agency with a risk management plan." Parks and Recreation Magazine. September: 28-31.

Flood, Joseph P. and Leo H. McAvoy. 2007. "Use of National Forests by North American Tribal Members: Traditional Recreation vs. a Legacy of Cultural Values." Leisure/Loisir Journal of the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies. 31(1): 191-216.

Flood, Joseph. P. and Leo H. McAvoy. 2007. "Voices of My Ancestors, Their Bones Talk to Me: How to Balance US Forest Service Rules and Regulations with Traditional Values and Culture of American Indians." Human Ecology Review. 14(1): 76-89.

Flood, Joseph P. and C. M. Colistra "Change in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters: When Is Too Much Change Unacceptable To Visitors?" International Journal of Wilderness. 11(3): 39-41.

Flood, Joseph P. 2003. "Wilderness Benchmarking: Is visitor acceptability creep a concern or not"? International Journal of Wilderness. 9(3): 35-38 & 27.

Flood, Joseph P. 2007 "Sustainable ecotourism: balancing preservation and economic growth" In Edgell, D., Allen DelMastro, M., Swanson, J., & Smith, G. (Eds) Tourism policy and planning: yesterday, today and tomorrow. St. Louis: Elsevier Publishing.

Flood, J. P. 2008. Eastern North Carolina OHV System Project. A Cooperative Research Project Between East Carolina University and the USDA Forest Service, National Forests in North Carolina.

Flood, J. P., Parker, C., Schrader, G., & Ridgley, H. 2006. Stakeholder meeting on red wolf ecotourism in North Carolina. Eastern 4-H Environmental Education Conference Center, Columbia, North Carolina, May 10.

Courses

RCLS 4702/6803: Field Studies Course in Costa Rica Formulating a Bridge between Reforestation, Ecotourism & Park Management.

RCLS 6100: Risk Management and Legal Practices in Recreation, Leisure and Sport.