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John Virdin

Associate Professor of the Practice in the Division of Marine Science and Conservation
Marine Science and Conservation

Scholarly Works - Reports


Assessing the Financial Services Sector’s Leverage in Advancing a Sustainable Ocean Economy

Report · June 6, 2025 Prior research suggests that the global financial services sector could influence the sustainability of the ocean economy, particularly with better information on companies’ externalities (Barbier 2023; Sumaila et al. 2021; Jouffray et al. 2019). This brie ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Initial Assessment of Gender Considerations in Plastics Policy

Report · August 31, 2023 Globally, women are disproportionately burdened and impacted by the harmful effects of plastic across the life cycle of products. These burdens vary across cultural, socioeconomic, and political contexts, and based on how women engage with plastic, but bro ... Open Access Link to item Cite

2023 Annual Trends in Plastics Policy: A Brief

Report · August 31, 2023 In the first annual update of Annual Trends in Plastics Policy, Nicholas Institute researchers find that plastics policy enactment continues to surge and was not negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, researchers found more than 300 additio ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Annual Trends in Plastics Policy: A Brief

Report · February 23, 2022 In 2020, the Plastics Policy Inventory and accompanying report, 20 Years of Government Responses to the Global Plastic Pollution Problem, were published, providing a baseline for the trends in government responses to the plastic pollution problem, as well ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Assessing the Potential for Transferability of Access Rights to Enhance Sustainability in Large Pacific Tropical Fisheries

Report · September 8, 2020 This study was conducted in order to identify options for the transferability of fishing rights in the context of Pacific Island commercial longline and purse seine tuna fisheries (where the rights are denominated in units of fishing effort, i.e., fishing ... Open Access Link to item Cite

20 Years of Government Responses to the Global Plastic Pollution Problem: The Plastics Policy Inventory

Report · May 15, 2020 Plastic pollution in the ocean is a global problem that requires cooperation from a wide range of groups (e.g., governments, producers, consumers, researchers, civil society). This study aims to synthesize the policy response of governments to the global p ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Analysis of Policies Related to the Protection of Coral Reefs

Report · August 15, 2019 This analysis identifies at least four potential pathways by which international policy responses can help coral reef states address local drivers of reef loss and enhance coral reef resilience (and potential for survival) in the face of climate change: Ma ... Link to item Cite

Toward a Blue Economy: A Pathway for Sustainable Growth in Bangladesh

Report · June 14, 2018 This report aims to synthesize current theory and practice of the blue economy concept to govern economic activity linked to the ocean, and to provide a framework for the Government of Bangladesh to analyze its potential. ... Link to item Cite

Contribution of Fisheries to Food and Nutrition Security: Current Knowledge, Policy, and Research

Report · April 14, 2018 In the context of the recently agreed-on United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which includes the goal to end hunger, achieve food security, and improve nutrition, this report synthesizes the current understanding of capture fisheries’ co ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Tuna Fisheries: Pacific Possible Background Paper No. 3

Report · August 17, 2016 This World Bank paper outlines a best-case scenario whereby improved management of tuna fisheries allows Pacific Island countries to gain as much as US$344 million per year in additional sustainable revenues and create 7,500 to 15,000 jobs by 2040. The pap ... Link to item Cite