HOLLAND, STEPHEN, PH. D.
Associate Professor and Associate Director
Ph.D. in recreation resources development (minors in sociology and research
methodologies), Texas A&M (1985)
M.S. in recreation resources development, Texas A&M (1979)
B.S. in agriculture (conservation management), University of Maryland (1976)
B.S. in arts and sciences (psychology), University of Maryland (1973)
Curriculum Vitae

Office:		FLG 190B
Address:		P.O. Box 118208 Gainesville, FL 32611-8208
Contact:		(352) 294-1669 sholland@hhp.ufl.edu

Biography:

Stephen Holland, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport Management. Holland is one of the premier research professors at UF, receiving the University of Florida Research Foundation Research Professorship Award. Holland has generated more than $1.7 million in externally funded projects.  He was appointed to UF’s Oil Spill Task force in 2010.

Holland is currently engaged in two funded research projects. The first is a river user study for a popular recreational and tourist attraction river in North Florida.  He is also documenting the business and economic aspects of the charter boat industry in four South Atlantic states. He recently completed assessing the recreational facilities and programs of the Suwannee River Water Management District, and mapping, characterizing and writing summaries about the ~ 800 public beach access points for 23 Florida Gulf coast counties.

Other funded project s in the last few years include  developing  a waterways master plan for Alachua County, FL. with an interdisciplinary team from the UF Levin College of Law, Florida Sea Grant and Natural Resources Leadership Institute, and a Recreation and Park Master Plan for Putnam County, FL. He has led week long field trip classes for students in the Smoky Mountain National Park, Queensland and Sydney, Australia and on the Great Barrier Reef.  He has served on more than 100 graduate student committees at the University of Florida.

In addition to his teaching and research, Holland is an invited expert participating in NRPA’s online Park Resources Network and is a voting member on the Gulf of Mexico Fishing Management Council Socio-Economic Panel.  He has also served as Recreational Fisheries Specialist with the Florida Sea Grant Program and is an affiliate faculty member in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at UF. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Alternative Fuels Institute. In addition, he received the distinguished service award for service as director on the Board for the National Society of Park Resources.  In October 2004, Holland was awarded the National Society for Park Resources William Penn Mott Jr. Award for Excellence, one of two people nationally who received the award in 2004.

Research Interests:

• • Water-based activity participation and demand, especially coastal and marine fishing, beaching, boating and coastal parks.
• • Ecotourism, park management, economic impact studies and visitor behavior.
• • Sustainable tourism and toursim impacts
• • Health aspects of outdoor recreation activities and facilities

Courses:

LEI 3180 Current Trends in Leisure Services
LEI 3250 Outdoor Recreation Trends and Issues
LEI 3546 Park Planning
LEI 3831 Tourism Development
LEI 4833 Ecotourism
LEI 4880 Evaluation of Leisure Services
LEI 4955 Humans and the Environment (Study Abroad Course in Australia)
LEI 5255 Outdoor Recreation Management
LEI 6557 Recreation Management and Development in the Coastal Zone
LEI 6834 Ecotourism
HLP 6345 Research Methods in Recreation, Parks & Tourism