Dr. Lore Ruttan Senior Lecturer 400 Dowman Drive Atlanta, GA 30322 lruttan@emory.edu Telephone: 404-727-4217 Fax: 404-727-4448 Academic CV [PDF]

My educational background includes an A.B. in biology from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in behavioral ecology from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in human ecology from the University of California at Davis. Pete Richerson and Jim Wilen co-supervised my dissertation on the cooperative use and management of common pool resources. Included in my dissertation were studies of traditional marine resource management in Eastern Indonesia, a game theoretic analysis of pasture conservation in East Africa, and a study of information sharing among commercial fishers in Oregon.

After completing my Ph.D., I first joined the Sea Around Us Project at the University of British Columbia, and subsequently spent a year at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington. The Workshop annually hosts several scholars whose research interests focus on the management of common pool resources and on issues of self-governance. In the fall of 2001, I joined the faculty of the Department of Environmental Studies at Emory as an assistant professor.

During the 2006 and 2007 calendar years, I completed a certificate in Botanical Drawing from the Atlanta Botanical Gardens and also completed supplemental coursework in natural science illustration at the University of Santa Cruz. I subsequently chose to change rank from a tenure track faculty member to Senior Lecturer in order to facilitate my changing scholarly interests.

Research

My past research program has focused on understanding how and why humans cooperate so extensively, and in applying that understanding to problems of resource management both in the United States and in developing nations. My primary focus has been on the management of common pool resources, especially fisheries, with particular emphasis on understanding how diversity impacts our ability to cooperatively manage resources. 

My current interest is with the study and practice of scientific visualization, particularly natural science illustration. Taxonomic areas of primary interest to me are botanical subjects, marine invertebrates, and terrestrial arthropods. I am currently engaged in illustrating the flora of the Emory campus and other areas of particular interest in the Atlanta area. Students who wish to pursue independent study in related topics, e.g. natural science illustration, representations of nature and environmental policy, etc. are welcome to contact me.

Courses Taught

• ENVS 132 Integrative Methods in Environmental Studies with Laboratory
• ENVS 215 Human Ecology
• ENVS 385 Environment, Health, and Development
• ENVS 385 People and Conservation
• ENVS 390 Seminar on Environmental Issues
• ENVS 458 Fishers and Fisheries

Publications

• Yandle, T. Webb, P and L. Ruttan. The Effect of Heterogeneity on the Formation of Networked Governance Arrangements: Park Conservation Organizations in the City of Atlanta. (In preparation)
• Ruttan, L.M., Franzen, M., Bettinger, R. and P. J. Richerson. Analysis of a Sample of Ethnic Boundaries. (To be submitted to Current Anthropology)
• Ruttan, L. M. 2008. Economic Heterogeneity and the Commons: Effects on Collective Action and Collective Goods Provisioning. World Development, in press.
• Ahn, T. K., Lee, M., Ruttan, L. M. and J. Walker. 2007. Cooperation in Prisoners Dilemma Games: Experimental Evidence with Asymmetric Payoffs. Public Choice 132(3-4):353-366.
• Ruttan, L. M. and P. Tyedmers. 2007. Skippers, spotters and seiners: Analysis of the “skipper effect” in US menhaden (Brevoortia spp.) purse-seine fisheries. (Fisheries Research 83:73-80).
• Ruttan, L.M. 2006. Sociocultural Heterogeneity and the Commons. (Current Anthropology 47:843-853 ).
• Ruttan, L. M. 2003. Finding fish: grouping and catch per unit effort in the Pacific Hake (Merluccius productus) fishery. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60:1068-1077.
  
• Ruttan,, L. M., Gayanilo Jr., F. C., Sumaila, U. R. and D. Pauly. 2000.  Small Versus Large-scale Fisheries: A Multi-species, Multi-fleet Model For Evaluating Their Interactions And Potential Benefits. In Pauly, D. and Pitcher T.J. (eds) Methods for Evaluating the Impacts of Fisheries on North Atlantic Ecosytems. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 8(2):64-78.
• Ruttan, L. M. and M. Borgerhoff Mulder. 1999. Are East African pastoralists truly conservationists? Current Anthropology 40(5):621-652.
• Ruttan, L. M. 1998. Closing the commons: cooperation for gain or restraint? Human Ecology 26:43-66.Packer C. and L. Ruttan 1988. The evolution of cooperative hunting. American Naturalist 132:159-192.