Scholars@Duke
Grant Daniel Murray

Grant Daniel Murray

Associate Professor of Marine Policy
Marine Science and Conservation
grant.murray@duke.edu
135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, NC 28516

Selected Publications

Framing, Values, and (in)Tractable Conflict in Maine Aquaculture

Journal Article Society and Natural Resources · January 1, 2025 As the aquaculture sector grows in U.S. coastal waters, so too does related social conflict. Aquaculture is often characterized by competing, polarizing frames that position aquaculture as either a sustainable development ‘silver bullet’ or as catastrophic ... Full text Cite

Seafood consumption and the management of shellfish aquaculture

Journal Article Marine Policy · April 1, 2023 As aquaculture has expanded, researchers and governing authorities have increasingly considered the nature and distribution of the environmental, economic, and social impacts of the industry. Much of that consideration, however, has focused primarily on ar ... Full text Cite

Corrigendum: Integrating information from semi-structured interviews into management strategy evaluation: a case study for Southeast United States marine fisheries, (Front. Mar. Sci, (2022), 9, (1063260), 10.3389/fmars.2022.1063260)

Journal Article Frontiers in Marine Science · January 1, 2023 Error in Figure Table Legend In the published article, there was an error in the legend for Figure 1 as published. Conceptual objectives group “F” was labeled “E”. The corrected legend appears below. In the published article, there was an error in the lege ... Full text Cite

Integrating information from semi-structured interviews into management strategy evaluation: A case study for Southeast United States marine fisheries

Journal Article Frontiers in Marine Science · December 7, 2022 Management strategy evaluation (MSE) has become a more common tool for engaging stakeholders in fisheries management, and stakeholder participation in MSE is increasingly recognized as a vital component of the process. The participation of stakeholders, sp ... Full text Cite

Architecture and agency for equity in areas beyond national jurisdiction

Journal Article Earth System Governance · August 1, 2022 The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade) bring increased attention to various aspects of ocean governance, including equity. One of the Ocean Decade's identif ... Full text Cite

Spatial social value distributions for multiple user groups in a coastal national park

Journal Article Ocean and Coastal Management · May 1, 2022 Managing public lands to maximize societal benefits requires spatially explicit understanding of societal valuation, and public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) are increasingly used in coastal settings to accomplish this task. Social V ... Full text Cite

Consumer seafood preferences related to alternative food networks and their value chains

Journal Article Marine Policy · September 1, 2021 Alternative food networks (AFNs) for seafood employ different approaches along their diverse value chains, yet typically share five common attributes – supporting small-scale and place-based fishing operations through the provision of traceable, sustainabl ... Full text Cite

Using Forecasting Methods to Incorporate Social, Economic, and Political Considerations Into Marine Protected Area Planning

Journal Article Frontiers in Marine Science · August 13, 2021 As the global environmental crisis grows in scale and complexity, conservation professionals and policymakers are increasingly called upon to make decisions despite high levels of uncertainty, limited resources, and insufficient data. Global efforts to pro ... Full text Cite

Relationships Matter: Assessing the Impacts of a Marine Protected Area on Human Wellbeing and Relational Values in Southern Tanzania

Journal Article Frontiers in Marine Science · June 17, 2021 The push to meet global marine conservation targets has significantly increased the scope and scale of marine protected areas (MPAs) worldwide. While the benefits derived from MPA establishment are often optimistically framed as a “win-win” for both marine ... Full text Cite

Knowledge Pluralism in First Nations’ Salmon Management

Journal Article Frontiers in Marine Science · May 4, 2021 There is growing interest in the “integration” of knowledge and values held by Indigenous peoples with Western science into natural resource governance and management. However, poorly conducted integration efforts can risk harming Indigenous communities an ... Full text Open Access Cite

From Blue Economy to Blue Communities: reorienting aquaculture expansion for community wellbeing

Journal Article Marine Policy · February 1, 2021 Efforts to expand the marine aquaculture industry often draw on a discourse of opportunity that highlights untapped potential for economic growth. This discourse also underlies the more general concept of Blue Economy in which oceans are a frontier for eco ... Full text Cite

Fishing for food: Values and benefits associated with coastal infrastructure.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2021 While there is substantial literature about the socio-cultural characteristics and values associated with recreational and commercial fisheries in the U.S., studies directed at those who 'fish for food'-those who depend on consuming their catch to various ... Full text Cite

Applying community-based and Indigenous research methodologies: lessons learned from the Nuxalk Sputc Project

Journal Article Ecology and Society · January 1, 2021 In the face of ecological depletion on a global scale, Indigenous knowledges, priorities, and perspectives are increasingly applied in community and academic research intended to inform social-ecological decision making. Many academic researchers and decis ... Full text Cite

Informing protected area decision making through academic-practitioner collaborations

Journal Article Land · October 1, 2020 This study examined knowledge mobilization and collaboration practices of practitioners in a Canadian provincial park agency, BC Parks. Data was collected through four focus groups, an on line survey (N = 125), and a follow up workshop. Results showed that ... Full text Cite

The Nuxalk Sputc (Eulachon) Project: Strengthening Indigenous management authority through community-driven research

Journal Article Marine Policy · September 1, 2020 Indigenous peoples and their leadership remain steadfast in their commitment to manage and protect ancestral lands and waters throughout the world. In this regard, the landscape currently known as the central coast of British Columbia, Canada represents a ... Full text Cite

Differential impacts of dam construction on livelihoods in Ghana

Journal Article African Geographical Review · July 2, 2020 Debates about the benefits and costs of hydro-electric dams have provoked this study, which examines how the Bui Dam in Ghana impacts on 13 nearby communities. Impacts were assessed using the capital assets framework, embracing seven types of capital asset ... Full text Cite

Alternative Seafood Marketing in a Small-Scale Fishery: Barriers and Opportunities in South Africa’s Southern Cape Commercial Linefishery

Journal Article Maritime Studies · June 1, 2020 Faced with competition from large-scale fisheries and other pressures, many small-scale fisheries are looking to ‘alternative’ seafood marketing options to enhance livelihoods. Based on the findings of participant observation and action research, we discus ... Full text Cite

Learning for change: Integrated teaching modules and situated learning for marine social-ecological systems change

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Education · January 1, 2020 Access to science-based environmental education is critical to improve rural coastal communities’ adaptive capacity and resilience. Based on research in two rural, underprivileged schools in South Africa’s southern Cape coastal region, we describe the proc ... Full text Cite

Devolution, coordination, and community-based natural resource management in Ghana’s community resource management areas

Journal Article African Geographical Review · October 2, 2019 Two key trends in efforts to deliver linked social and ecological protected area outcomes are (1) the development of governance models that devolve decision-making authority and responsibility to the local level and (2) linking protected area ‘islands’ to ... Full text Cite

Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development, and environment

Journal Article Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · August 1, 2019 Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are needed to support Sustainable Development ... Full text Cite

Religion and perceptions of community-based conservation in Ghana, West Africa.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2018 Adapting community-based protected areas to local context and evaluating their success across a range of possible socio-economic and ecological outcomes depends, in part, on understanding the perceptions of local actors. This article presents results from ... Full text Cite

Governance and the making and breaking of social-ecological traps

Journal Article Ecology and Society · January 1, 2018 Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have areas of significant ecological importance that overlap with pressing development needs and high levels of natural resource dependence. This makes the design of effective natural resource governance and management ... Full text Cite

Understanding Power in Indigenous Protected Areas: the Case of the Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks

Journal Article Human Ecology · December 1, 2017 This article draws on concepts of power from political ecology and political sociology to describe the ways that the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation (a Canadian indigenous people) have attempted to realize their goals under the broad rubric of their Tribal Park ... Full text Cite

Concerns and benefits of park-adjacent communities in Northern Ghana: the case of Mole National Park

Journal Article International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology · July 4, 2017 Protected areas are increasingly becoming islands of habitat surrounded by seas of cultivation and development. Communities experience both costs and benefits associated with nearby PAs, and perception of these influence support for PAs and subsequent cons ... Full text Cite

Community perceptions of the contributions of parks to sustainability in Canada

Journal Article Leisure Loisir · July 3, 2017 National Parks are thought to contribute to sustainability by addressing conservation, social values and local tourism economies. However, some studies challenge these claims, suggesting that parks can create inequitable flows of costs and benefits to loca ... Full text Cite

Measuring what we value: The utility of mixed methods approaches for incorporating values into marine social-ecological system management

Journal Article Marine Policy · November 1, 2016 Recent shifts towards ecosystem-based management and other holistic and participatory forms of oceans governance and management have come with demands for ways to better incorporate social data into decision-making processes such as integrated ecosystem as ... Full text Cite

Evaluating 'good governance': The development of a quantitative tool in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem.

Journal Article Journal of environmental management · October 2016 Protected areas (PAs) can provide important benefits to conservation and to communities. A key factor in the effective delivery of these benefits is the role of governance. There has been a growth in research developing frameworks to evaluate 'good' PA gov ... Full text Cite

Seeing shellfish from the seashore: The importance of values and place in perceptions of aquaculture and marine social-ecological system interactions

Journal Article Marine Policy · December 1, 2015 In increasingly crowded and contested marine and coastal spaces, there is a pressing need to identify the values, context, culture and other factors that shape what activities will be resisted, tolerated, or desired in those spaces. The concept of wellbein ... Full text Cite

Vulnerability of coastal livelihoods to shrimp farming: Insights from Mozambique

Journal Article Ambio · November 13, 2015 © 2014, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Millions of people around the world depend on shrimp aquaculture for their livelihoods. Yet, the phenomenal growth of shrimp farming has often given rise to considerable environmental and social damage. This artic ... Full text Cite

Adaptation in a time of stress: A social-ecological perspective on changing fishing strategies in the Canadian snow crab fishery

Journal Article Marine Policy · August 4, 2015 Recent scholarship has focused attention on the dynamics and management of marine social ecological systems and on the need for developing a deeper understanding of the fishing strategies of fish harvesters. This includes an understanding of how a broad ra ... Full text Cite

Considering social values in the seafood sector using the Q-method

Journal Article Marine Policy · 2015 © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Ecosystem based ocean management processes seek to manage intricately linked social-ecological systems. These processes are intended to include and integrate appropriate economic, environmental, and social input into decision-making. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Understanding inter-community performance assessments in community-based resource management at Avu Lagoon, Ghana

Journal Article Environment, Development and Sustainability · 2015 © 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Community-based natural resources governance (CBNRG) is becoming increasingly important as a means to achieve both conservation and sustainable livelihood goals. Assessing the performance of such approaches ... Full text Link to item Cite

Perceptions of shellfish aquaculture in British Columbia and implications for well-being in marine social-ecological systems

Journal Article Ecology and Society · 2015 © 2015 by the author(s). Shellfish aquaculture is often positioned as an adaptive alternative to traditional resource industries, but the social and cultural effects of expanding production on coastal/marine social-ecological systems are unclear. Reportin ... Full text Link to item Cite

Conservation in Context: Variability in Desired and Perceived Outcomes of Community Based Natural Resources Governance in Ghana

Journal Article Society and Natural Resources · 2015 2015 Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Community resource management areas (CREMAs) in Ghana are protected areas managed under a community-based governance regime. This study examined five CREMAs to understand how desired outcomes and perceived ... Full text Link to item Cite

Cooperatives, concessions, and co-management on the Pacific coast of Mexico

Journal Article Marine Policy · 2014 Ten fishery cooperatives of the Pacific coast of Mexico were studied to examine reasons for successful community-based management of the fishery commons. The cooperatives hold exclusive rights to 'concession' territories for major fisheries and are linked ... Full text Link to item Cite

Strengthening threatened communities through adaptation: Insights from coastal Mozambique

Journal Article Ecology and Society · 2014 Change is a defining characteristic of coastal social-ecological systems, yet the magnitude and speed of contemporary change is challenging the adaptive capacity of even the most robust coastal communities. In the context of multiple drivers of change, it ... Full text Link to item Cite

The capacity to adapt?: Communities in a changing climate, environment, and economy on the northern Andaman coast of Thailand

Journal Article Ecology and Society · 2014 The health and productivity of marine ecosystems, habitats, and fisheries are deteriorating on the Andaman coast of Thailand. Because of their high dependence on natural resources and proximity to the ocean, coastal communities are particularly vulnerable ... Full text Link to item Cite

Vulnerability of coastal livelihoods to shrimp farming: Insights from Mozambique

Journal Article Ambio · 2014 © 2014 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Millions of people around the world depend on shrimp aquaculture for their livelihoods. Yet, the phenomenal growth of shrimp farming has often given rise to considerable environmental and social damage. This articl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Historical perspectives and recent trends in the coastal Mozambican fishery

Journal Article Ecology and Society · 2013 Historical data describing changing social-ecological interactions in marine systems can help guide small-scale fisheries management efforts. Fisheries landings data are often the primary source for historical reconstructions of fisheries; however, we argu ... Full text Link to item Cite

The fisherwomen of Ngazidja island, Comoros: Fisheries livelihoods, impacts, and implications for management

Journal Article Fisheries Research · 2013 Resarch on women in fisheries tends to focus on their roles as processors and vendors, but rarely on their direct engagement in fishing and harvesting activities. As such, the contribution of fisherwomen to household income, food security, and even marine ... Full text Link to item Cite

The effectiveness of community-based governance of small-scale fisheries, Ngazidja island, Comoros

Journal Article Marine Policy · 2013 © 2012 Elsevier Ltd. Conventional top-down, exogenous approaches to fisheries management have been ineffective in more traditional and small-scale fisheries. Yet, there remains little understanding of the effectiveness of alternative approaches. This case ... Full text Link to item Cite

First Nations Values in Protected Area Governance: Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks and Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

Journal Article Human Ecology · 2012 Over the past few decades there has been increasing attention paid to 'shared' forms of governance and to the creation of new protected areas (PAs) that are designed to address 'non-biological' goals and values. The rationale for these initiatives has, in ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social-ecological dynamism, knowledge, and sustainable coastal marine fisheries

Journal Article Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability · 2012 To understand and mitigate the increasingly rapid and complex global and local changes of coastal marine social-ecological systems in such a manner as to ensure their sustainability requires both recognising the dynamic nature of the interactions within an ... Full text Link to item Cite

"We Want Our Children to Grow Up to See These Animals:" Values and Protected Areas Governance in Canada, Ghana and Tanzania

Journal Article Human Ecology · 2012 Environmental governance research has paid insufficient attention to scholarship on values even though environmental values is a well-studied field. This paper begins to unpack the relationship between values and governance with a particular focus on prote ... Full text Link to item Cite

Social-Ecological Restructuring and Implications for Social Values

Journal Article World Fisheries: A Social-Ecological Analysis · 2011 Designing appropriate coping strategies for North American traditional fishing communities in the face of global climate change demands, among other things, that we: identify, characterize, and document the full range of values and services flowing from an ... Full text Link to item Cite

Conceptual and practical issues in defining protected area success: The political, social, and ecological in an organized world

Journal Article Journal of Sustainable Forestry · 2010 Placed within the people-park debates, the authors explore the complexities in defining protected area success. It is argued the selective focus on biodiversity as the only criterion for success often found in the broader literature has limited current dis ... Full text Link to item Cite

Using expert judgment to estimate marine ecosystem vulnerability in the California Current

Journal Article Ecological Applications · 2010 As resource management and conservation efforts move toward multi-sector, ecosystem-based approaches, we need methods for comparing the varying responses of ecosystems to the impacts of human activities in order to prioritize management efforts, allocate l ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lessons from a multi-scale historical reconstruction of newfoundland and labrador fisheries

Journal Article Coastal Management · 2008 In this article we use a multi-scale, multi-method historical reconstruction of post- World War II social-ecological interactions within fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador to explore the dynamics of intensification, expansion, and resource degradation ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mapping cod: Fisheries science, fish harvesters' ecological knowledge and cod migrations in the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence

Journal Article Human Ecology · 2008 Some recent scholarship has focused on integrating local and/or traditional knowledge with conventional scientific information in fisheries management to improve the factual foundation of and strengthen support for management decisions. This article compar ... Full text Link to item Cite

Opening the black box: Methods, procedures, and challenges in the historical reconstruction of marine social-ecological systems

Journal Article Making and Moving Knowledge: Interdisciplinary and Community-based Research in a World on the Edge · 2008 Link to item Cite

Constructing paradise: The impacts of big tourism in the Mexican coastal zone

Journal Article Coastal Management · 2007 Although coastal tourism is often looked to as a way of generating foreign revenue, it can also engender a range of social and environmental impacts. From an historical perspective, this article examines the growth of Cancün in the Mexican state of Quintan ... Full text Link to item Cite

Communities, knowledge and fisheries of the future

Journal Article International Journal of Global Environmental Issues · 2007 The 'human dimension' in fisheries management has historically been incorporated via a specific economic understanding of fisheries wedded to a single-species approach. Meeting the challenge of fisheries, however, will require a broadening of fisheries sci ... Full text Link to item Cite

Lessons learned from reconstructing interactions between local ecological knowledge, fisheries science, and fisheries management in the commercial fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Journal Article Human Ecology · 2006 Questions centered on the development of local and traditional ecological knowledge and the relationship of that knowledge to the development of conservation and management practices have recently attracted critical attention. We examine these questions wi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Multifaceted measures of success in two Mexican marine protected areas

Journal Article Society and Natural Resources · 2005 An emerging trend within the international conservation community suggests that the "success" of protected areas should be measured by strictly biological and/or ecological indicators. These "objective" measures, however, may only represent the objectives ... Full text Link to item Cite