Journal ArticleMaritime Studies · September 1, 2024
Unpacking the dynamics of policy mobility is critical to understanding what happens when global environmental policies are implemented, including why equity goals remain unmet. In this paper, we ‘follow the policy’ focusing on two policies with ocean equit ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironment and Planning E: Nature and Space · September 1, 2023
After years of informal efforts, the parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) are negotiating an international legally binding instrument to address governance gaps that have impeded attempts to conserve biodiversity in areas ...
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Journal ArticleMarine 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 ...
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Journal ArticleEcology and Society · April 1, 2023
Biodiversity conservation is at a crossroads. A number of trends are converging with the potential to transform our understanding of nature and how we conserve it. First, conservation policy makers are advocating increasingly ambitious global biodiversity ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Communication · January 1, 2023
In this paper we explore the potential of academic podcasting to effect positive change within academia and between academia and society. Building on the concept of “epistemic living spaces,” we consider how podcasting can change how we evaluate what is le ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Marine Science · January 1, 2023
Introduction: The article describes and analyzes the emergence of the field of global marine biodiversity conservation over the past fifteen years. We draw on collaborative research at international meetings, which we position as ‘field’ sites, places wher ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Qualitative Nursing Research · January 1, 2023
As the number of transgender older adults increases, the need for respectful and inclusive end-of-life (EOL) care for this population is becoming more apparent. Aging transgender adults often face discrimination, inadequate access to care, and poor quality ...
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Journal ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD · December 2022
PurposeThe current study examined experienced weight stigma (EWS), internalized weight bias (IWB), and maladaptive eating patterns (ME) among sexual minority (SM) and heterosexual individuals.MethodsThe sample consisted of cisgender heter ...
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Journal ArticleGeoJournal · August 1, 2022
Stakeholders in natural resource management decisions are also multifaceted individuals and members of communities; as such, they bring complex histories, experiences, values, aspirations, and relationships to public participation processes. When these pro ...
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Journal ArticleEarth 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 ...
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Journal ArticleEarth System Governance · April 1, 2022
The oceans are regarded as both relatively under-governed and understudied, especially at the global and regional scales. By mobilizing data with the express goal of improving oceans governance, ocean data science initiatives (ODSIs) are positioned to play ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of the American Association of Geographers · January 1, 2022
Knowledge and scientific practice have largely been backdrops to examinations of scale and rescaling processes, including studies of rescaling environmental management. The growing use of new data technologies in environmental management highlights the nee ...
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Report · November 11, 2021
The purpose of this report is to inform the EDF-Bezos Earth Fund Blue Carbon Pathways Working Group in its exploration of ‘blue carbon’ as a natural climate solution (NCS) in offshore ocean ecosystems. The report addresses one of the challenges in pursuing ...
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Journal ArticleOne Earth · May 21, 2021
Attention to firms in the ocean economy is growing as oceans face rapid ecological change as well as surges in investment and governance efforts under a “blue economy” paradigm. Concepts and methods that can “make sense” of firms and their positioning with ...
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Dataset · March 18, 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 variou ...
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Journal ArticleBiological conservation · March 2021
Target-based governance holds the promise of accountability by measuring progress towards objectives set within global environmental agreements. This approach has been widely adopted at multiple scales of governance in conservation and sustainability secto ...
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Journal ArticleMarine 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 ...
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Journal ArticleConservation Letters · January 1, 2021
Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs) have proliferated in recent years, now accounting for most of the world's MPA coverage. However, little is known about LSMPA outcomes and the factors that affect them. Here we argue that policy interactions—the c ...
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Journal ArticlePloS 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 ...
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Journal ArticleMaritime Studies · September 1, 2024
Unpacking the dynamics of policy mobility is critical to understanding what happens when global environmental policies are implemented, including why equity goals remain unmet. In this paper, we ‘follow the policy’ focusing on two policies with ocean equit ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironment and Planning E: Nature and Space · September 1, 2023
After years of informal efforts, the parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) are negotiating an international legally binding instrument to address governance gaps that have impeded attempts to conserve biodiversity in areas ...
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Journal ArticleMarine 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 ...
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Journal ArticleEcology and Society · April 1, 2023
Biodiversity conservation is at a crossroads. A number of trends are converging with the potential to transform our understanding of nature and how we conserve it. First, conservation policy makers are advocating increasingly ambitious global biodiversity ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Communication · January 1, 2023
In this paper we explore the potential of academic podcasting to effect positive change within academia and between academia and society. Building on the concept of “epistemic living spaces,” we consider how podcasting can change how we evaluate what is le ...
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Journal ArticleFrontiers in Marine Science · January 1, 2023
Introduction: The article describes and analyzes the emergence of the field of global marine biodiversity conservation over the past fifteen years. We draw on collaborative research at international meetings, which we position as ‘field’ sites, places wher ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Qualitative Nursing Research · January 1, 2023
As the number of transgender older adults increases, the need for respectful and inclusive end-of-life (EOL) care for this population is becoming more apparent. Aging transgender adults often face discrimination, inadequate access to care, and poor quality ...
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Journal ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD · December 2022
PurposeThe current study examined experienced weight stigma (EWS), internalized weight bias (IWB), and maladaptive eating patterns (ME) among sexual minority (SM) and heterosexual individuals.MethodsThe sample consisted of cisgender heter ...
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Journal ArticleGeoJournal · August 1, 2022
Stakeholders in natural resource management decisions are also multifaceted individuals and members of communities; as such, they bring complex histories, experiences, values, aspirations, and relationships to public participation processes. When these pro ...
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Journal ArticleEarth 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 ...
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Journal ArticleEarth System Governance · April 1, 2022
The oceans are regarded as both relatively under-governed and understudied, especially at the global and regional scales. By mobilizing data with the express goal of improving oceans governance, ocean data science initiatives (ODSIs) are positioned to play ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of the American Association of Geographers · January 1, 2022
Knowledge and scientific practice have largely been backdrops to examinations of scale and rescaling processes, including studies of rescaling environmental management. The growing use of new data technologies in environmental management highlights the nee ...
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Report · November 11, 2021
The purpose of this report is to inform the EDF-Bezos Earth Fund Blue Carbon Pathways Working Group in its exploration of ‘blue carbon’ as a natural climate solution (NCS) in offshore ocean ecosystems. The report addresses one of the challenges in pursuing ...
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Journal ArticleOne Earth · May 21, 2021
Attention to firms in the ocean economy is growing as oceans face rapid ecological change as well as surges in investment and governance efforts under a “blue economy” paradigm. Concepts and methods that can “make sense” of firms and their positioning with ...
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Dataset · March 18, 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 variou ...
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Journal ArticleBiological conservation · March 2021
Target-based governance holds the promise of accountability by measuring progress towards objectives set within global environmental agreements. This approach has been widely adopted at multiple scales of governance in conservation and sustainability secto ...
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Journal ArticleMarine 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 ...
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Journal ArticleConservation Letters · January 1, 2021
Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs) have proliferated in recent years, now accounting for most of the world's MPA coverage. However, little is known about LSMPA outcomes and the factors that affect them. Here we argue that policy interactions—the c ...
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Journal ArticlePloS 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 ...
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Journal ArticleMaritime Studies · September 1, 2020
We apply theories of environmental governance, assemblage, and geo-epistemology to critically reflect on ocean planning in federal waters of the USA. US ocean planning was initiated in July 2010 when President Obama issued Executive Order 13547; this set i ...
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Dataset · August 12, 2020
This document provides data collected using Q-method as part of the Human Dimensions of Large Marine Protected Areas project (visit https://humansandlargempas.com/). We conducted a Q-sort with stakeholders associated with large marine protected areas (or e ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Evidence · May 13, 2020
Background: Tropical coastal marine ecosystems (TCMEs) are rich in biodiversity and provide many ecosystem services, including carbon storage, shoreline protection, and food. Coastal areas are home to increasing numbers of people and population growth is e ...
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Journal ArticleGeographical Review · January 2, 2020
Although increasingly common in the academy, collaboration is not yet the norm in human geography. Drawing on insights from ten years of experience with collaborative event ethnography (CEE), we argue that strong approaches to collaborative fieldwork offer ...
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Journal ArticlePloS one · January 2020
Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs), MPAs greater than 100,000km2, have proliferated in the past decade. However, the value of LSMPAs as conservation tools is debated, in both global scientific and policy venues as well as in particular sites. To a ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of the Commons · January 1, 2020
Scale is a powerful concept, a lens that shapes how we perceive problems and solutions in common-pool resource governance. Yet, scale is often treated as a relatively stable and settled concept in commons scholarship. This paper reviews the origins and evo ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2020
Environmental geopolitics are always premised on particular ways of knowing the environment, scientific and otherwise. This chapter considers how scientific modes of observation, measurement, interpretation, and visualization influence the territorializati ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironment and Society: Advances in Research · September 1, 2019
Marine spatial planning (MSP) seeks to integrate traditionally disconnected oceans activities, management arrangements, and practices through a rational and comprehensive governance system. Th is article explores the emerging critical literature on MSP, fo ...
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Journal ArticleGeoforum · July 1, 2019
As the configuration of global environmental governance has become more complex over the past fifty years, numerous scholars have underscored the importance of understanding the transnational networks of public, private and nonprofit organizations that com ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space · June 1, 2019
We are currently in what might be termed a “third phase” of ocean enclosures around the world. This phase has involved an unprecedented intensity of map-making that supports an emerging regime of ocean governance where resources are geocoded, multiple and ...
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Journal ArticleMarine Policy · February 1, 2019
This paper draws on the published literature on marine protected areas (MPAs) and marine protected areas targets to argue that the MPA target (14.5) will dominate in the pursuit, measurement, and evaluation of the much broader ‘oceans’ Sustainable Developm ...
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Journal ArticlePolitical Geography · January 1, 2019
The political boundaries used to territorialize ocean spaces are often negotiated as largely social relations, with little attention to material aspects. Material aspects of ocean spaces include physical forces, interacting life, and constant transformatio ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of the Commons · January 1, 2019
Common-pool resource theory (CPR theory) emerged to understand the limitations of the tragedy of the commons narrative, and the theory of human behavior underlying it. Over time, diverse critiques of CPR theory have also emerged. Prominent critiques includ ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Social Science Journal · September 1, 2018
Marine turtles have complex life histories and make expansive migrations over their long lifetimes, often through multiple states’ exclusive economic zones and areas beyond national jurisdiction. This complexity makes it difficult to “know” marine turtles ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of the American Association of Geographers · January 2, 2018
Research on enclosure has often examined the phenomenon as a process and outcome of state, neoliberal, and hybrid territorial practices with detrimental impacts for those affected. The proliferation of increasingly complex environmental governance regimes ...
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Journal ArticleCoastal Management · November 2, 2017
There has been an assumption that because many large marine protected areas (LMPAs) are designated in areas with relatively few direct uses, they therefore have few stakeholders and negligible social outcomes. This article challenges this assumption with d ...
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Journal ArticleORYX · July 1, 2017
We question whether the increasingly popular, radical idea of turning half the Earth into a network of protected areas is either feasible or just. We argue that this Half-Earth plan would have widespread negative consequences for human populations and woul ...
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Journal ArticleDeep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers · July 1, 2017
The apparent prevalence of rare species (rarity) in the deep sea is a concern for environmental management and conservation of biodiversity. Rare species are often considered at risk of extinction and, in terrestrial and shallow water environments, have be ...
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Journal ArticleAnnual Review of Environment and Resources · October 17, 2016
Increased interest in oceans is leading to new and renewed global governance efforts directed toward ocean issues in areas of food production, biodiversity conservation, industrialization, global environmental change, and pollution. Global oceans governanc ...
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Journal ArticleGeoforum · October 1, 2016
Governance projects to measure and organize socio-natural spaces have often resulted in the marginalization of human communities (e.g., national parks) or in the destruction of environmental resources (e.g., mining). In the United States, new marine spatia ...
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Journal ArticleConservation Letters · May 1, 2016
Large marine protected areas (LMPAs) are a high-profile trend in global marine conservation. Although the social sciences have become well integrated into marine protected area research and practice, human dimensions considerations have not been an early p ...
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Journal ArticleEndangered Species Research · January 1, 2016
In 2010, an international group of 35 sea turtle researchers refined an initial list of more than 200 research questions into 20 metaquestions that were considered key for management and conservation of sea turtles. These were classified under 5 categories ...
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Journal ArticleCurrent eye research · January 2016
Purpose/aimsTo examine the feasibility, patient acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a culturally informed, health promotion program designed to improve glaucoma medication adherence among African American's (AA's) with glaucoma.Mat ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Library Administration · October 3, 2015
ABSTRACT: In this article, three librarians from Santa Fe College, the community college winner of the 2015 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award, share their successful work in information literacy instruction. While the ACRL award is given for over ...
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Journal ArticleCoastal Management · September 3, 2015
We explore how marine ecosystem–based management (EBM) is translated from theory to practice at six sites with varying ecological and institutional contexts. Based on these case studies, we report on the goals, strategies, and outcomes of each project and ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Environment and Development · June 4, 2015
In this article, we track a relatively new term in global environmental governance: “blue economy.” Analyzing preparatory documentation and data collected at the 2012 UN Conference on Sustainable Development (i.e., Rio + 20), we show how the term entered i ...
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Journal ArticleEcology and Society · June 1, 2015
Faced with strict regulations, rising operational costs, depleted stocks, and competition from less expensive foreign imports, many fishers are pursuing new ways to market and sell their catch. Direct marketing arrangements can increase the ex-vessel value ...
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Chapter · September 15, 2014
Collaboration between policy makers and resource users in the coastal and marine realm are evolving rapidly. This chapter analyses two cases of collaborative stewardship in the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Philippines, using process and outcomes metric ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Politics · August 2014
This special issue introduces readers to collaborative event ethnography (CEE), a method developed to support the ethnographic study of large global environmental meetings. CEE was applied by a group of seventeen researchers at the Tenth Conference of the ...
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Journal ArticleSociety and Natural Resources · 2014
Community-supported fisheries (CSF) projects show signs of rapid growth. Modeled on community-supported agriculture (CSA) projects, CSFs share objectives of reducing social and physical distance between consumers and producers and re-embedding food systems ...
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Journal ArticleSociety and Natural Resources · January 1, 2014
Community-supported fisheries (CSF) projects show signs of rapid growth. Modeled on community-supported agriculture (CSA) projects, CSFs share objectives of reducing social and physical distance between consumers and producers and re-embedding food systems ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Politics · January 1, 2014
Biodiversity targets were prominent at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Having failed to reach the CBD's 2010 target, delegates debated the nature of targets, details of specific targets, and how to avoid ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Politics · January 1, 2014
This special issue introduces readers to collaborative event ethnography (CEE), a method developed to support the ethnographic study of large global environmental meetings. CEE was applied by a group of seventeen researchers at the Tenth Conference of the ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Politics · January 1, 2014
In this article we elaborate on how we use collaborative event ethnography to study global environmental governance. We discuss how it builds on traditional forms of ethnography, as well as on approaches that use ethnography to study policy-making in multi ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Politics · January 1, 2014
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) continues to promote marine protected areas (MPAs) as a preferred tool for marine biodiversity conservation, in spite of concerns over their effectiveness and equity. However, explanations for this consensus on ...
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Journal ArticleConservation and Society · January 1, 2014
For decades, conservationists have remained steadfastly committed to protected areas (PAs) as the best means to conserve biodiversity. Using Collaborative Event Ethnography of the 10 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biologic ...
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Journal ArticleConservation Letters · November 1, 2013
In this article, we examine oceans outcomes from the Third United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (or Rio+20) in relation to how ocean problems and solutions were defined and by whom. We highlight the extent to which problem and solution defi ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironment and Planning A · September 26, 2013
This paper examines the process through which a region was enacted and politically mobilized at the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). We draw on concepts from scalar politics and new reg ...
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Journal ArticleOptometry and vision science : official publication of the American Academy of Optometry · August 2013
PurposeTo elucidate barriers and facilitators related to glaucoma medication adherence among African Americans (AA) with glaucoma and to elicit input from a community-based participatory research team to guide the development of a culturally infor ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Change · February 1, 2013
Although there is widespread concern over degrading marine environments, there is debate within the global marine conservation agenda about the nature of the problem and appropriate solutions. At the center of this debate lie questions about the appropriat ...
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Journal ArticleConservation and Society · October 1, 2012
The Red List of Threatened Species™ (hereafter Red List) is the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's most recognisable product. The Red List categorises the conservation status of species on a global scale using 'the most objective, scienti ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Environmental Change · August 1, 2012
The relationship between climate change and biodiversity was a central issue at the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). In this paper we draw from participant observation data collected at COP 10, and re ...
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Journal ArticleGlobal Networks · July 1, 2012
In this article, we examine the response of three indigenous communities in western Suriname to the proposed establishment of a protected area on their traditional lands. In particular, we focus on how the transnational, national and sub-national networks ...
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Journal ArticleConservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · April 2012
Despite its necessity, integration of natural and social sciences to inform conservation efforts has been difficult. We examined the views of 63 scientists and practitioners involved in marine management in Mexico's Gulf of California, the central Californ ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Studies of Science · February 1, 2012
In this paper we examine a volunteer-based sea turtle management project run by the state of North Carolina, USA, to explore collaborative conservation and citizen science. Through this case study, we unpack assumptions from the volunteerism literature and ...
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Journal ArticleGeoJournal · February 1, 2012
This paper contributes to ongoing discussions about the implications of rural change and amenity migration for members of diverse rural communities. We engage with recent amenity migration and political ecology literature that focuses on social constructio ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Rural Studies · July 1, 2011
In 2006, land use planning emerged as a contested issue in the rural area known as 'Down East', Carteret County, in eastern North Carolina, USA. Down East is experiencing a transition from a commercial fishing to an amenity economy and concerns about relat ...
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Journal ArticleEcology and Society · January 1, 2011
Marine historical ecology provides historic insights into past ocean ecosystems that are crucial to effectively confronting the declining health and resilience in marine ecosystems. A more 'peopled' approach to marine historical ecology is necessary, given ...
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Journal ArticleConservation Letters · January 1, 2011
Two of the priority objectives in the new U.S. National Ocean Policy are "ecosystem-based management" (EBM) and "coastal and marine spatial planning" (CMSP). Drawing from several studies demonstrating these concepts in practice in the United States and els ...
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Journal ArticleConservation and Society · January 1, 2010
Many conservation practitioners and scholars have called for increasing involvement of the social sciences in conservation and better integration among the various disciplines engaged in conservation practice. This research uses the International Union for ...
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Journal ArticleChelonian Conservation and Biology · December 1, 2009
This study reviews the status of marine turtles in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) using data gathered during a multidisciplinary study involving field surveys, questionnaire-based interviews, and molecular genetics between 2002 and 2006. Large aggregat ...
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Journal ArticleAntipode · September 17, 2009
We contribute to the diversification of environmental justice (EJ) by using it to frame ecotourism-related solid waste management problems. Ecotourism is a service industry portrayed as benevolent (providing benefits), and benign (reducing negative impacts ...
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Journal ArticleConservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · April 2009
Much has been written in recent years regarding whether and to what extent scientists should engage in the policy process, and the focus has been primarily on the issue of advocacy. Despite extensive theoretical discussions, little has been done to study a ...
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Journal ArticleConservation and Society · January 1, 2009
In response to a widespread decline in fisheries, scientists and policy makers have constructed models outlining the biological and social drivers that cause changes in fishing intensity and methods identified with overfishing. The models also address the ...
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Journal ArticleMARINE POLICY · January 2009
Co-management between local communities and government agencies is promoted as a strategy to improve fisheries management. This paper considers the potential for co-management of sea turtle fisheries within four UK Overseas Territories (OTs) in the Caribbe ...
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Journal ArticleEcology and Society · January 1, 2009
In 1995, Daniel Pauly identified a shifting baselines syndrome (SBS). Pauly was concerned that scientists measure ecosystem change against their personal recollections of the past and, based on this decidedly short-term view, mismanage fish stocks because ...
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Journal ArticleEndangered Species Research · December 1, 2008
Bycatch reduction technology (BRT) modifies fishing gear to increase selectivity and avoid capture of non-target species, or to facilitate their non-lethal release. As a solution to fisheries-related mortality of non-target species, BRT is an attractive op ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Sustainable Tourism · November 6, 2007
Volunteer ecotourism has been described as an 'ideal' form of decommodified ecotourism that overcomes problems associated with tourism in general, and ecotourism specifically. Using a case study of volunteer ecotourism and sea turtle conservation in Costa ...
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Journal ArticleHuman Ecology · October 1, 2007
This paper examines small-scale fish vending in a southern African floodplain from two perspectives: as a link between natural resource use and consumption, and as a livelihood in itself. We used a combination of observation, surveys and semistructured int ...
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Journal ArticleCanadian Geographer · September 1, 2007
This article examines the recent convergence of community-based and transboundary natural resource management in Africa. We suggest that both approaches have potential application to common-pool resources such as floodplain fisheries. However, a merging of ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of the Association of American Geographers · June 1, 2007
This article employs political ecology and common property theory to examine sea turtle conservation, how it is articulated and executed at different sociopolitical and geographic scales, and the consequences for local rights of access to resources. It dra ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Conservation · June 1, 2007
In 1995, a study found that the socioeconomic benefits from a legalized commercial harvest of sea turtle eggs in Ostional (Costa Rica) were substantial and widely recognized by Ostional residents. Legal and administrative structures ensured community parti ...
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Journal ArticleConservation and Society · January 1, 2007
In response to growing interest in accessing traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) for conservation purposes, we discuss some of the complexities involved in doing TEK research. Specifically, we consider the issues of power and politicisation, ethics and ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental management · July 2006
As charismatic mega-fauna, sea turtles attract many volunteers to conservation programs. This article examines the ways in which volunteers value sea turtles, in the specific context of volunteers working with the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, at Tor ...
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Journal ArticleGeographical Review · January 1, 2006
This article contributes to a recent and growing body of literature exploring the nature of fieldwork in human geography. Specifically, we critically examine the role of gatekeepers in providing access to "the field," based on existing conceptualizations o ...
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Journal ArticleOcean and Coastal Management · January 1, 2005
Fisher participation in fisheries research and management is common practice. However, more consideration must be given to the appropriateness of using participation in situations where changes to fishing policy are possible. This study evaluates fisher re ...
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Journal ArticleFinal Project Report for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office · 2004
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Journal ArticleHuman Ecology · January 1, 2003
This paper traces the evolution as well as key elements, and provides examples of implementation of participatory development and community-based conservation, two concepts that resemble distant cousins in the intersecting worlds of development assistance ...
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Journal ArticleEcological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · August 2002
Sustainable use is central to contemporary conservation policy as espoused by many of the major wildlife conservation organizations and is one indicator of a shift in policy away from exclusionary practices restricting access toward more inclusive ones tha ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Forum · January 1, 2002
Toxicogenomics - an emerging science that studies the interaction between peoples' genes, toxic chemicals in the environment, and disease - has the potential to revolutionize risk assessments and the regulatory actions that rely on them, as well as to grea ...
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Journal ArticleInternational Journal of Sustainable Development · January 1, 2002
Ecotourism can be considered to be the 'dictated solution' of a conservation counter-narrative that calls for both sustainable use of wildlife and community-based conservation. This paper addresses the promotion of ecotourism by a specific group of wildlif ...
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Journal ArticleDevelopment and Change · January 1, 2002
This article examines narratives about nature conservation in Costa Rica, specifically those related to wildlife and biodiversity, and their evolution with the growth of tourism and bioprospecting industries. It outlines a traditional conservation narrativ ...
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Journal ArticleCanadian Geographer · January 1, 2000
'Sustainable use' and 'community-based conservation' are two contemporary concepts in wildlife conservation policy. Their rise represents a shift away from traditional conservation techniques, and a merging of narratives about conservation and development. ...
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Journal ArticleAnnals of Tourism Research · July 1, 1999
This paper considers the ad hoc development of ecotourism at Qstional, Costa Rica, and the potential benefits for the local community in the absence of government planning or intervention. In 1995, only four percent of Ostional households identified touris ...
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Journal ArticleEnvironmental Conservation · December 1, 1998
'Sustainable use' of wildlife resources and 'community based conservation' are two themes recurrent in contemporary statements of wildlife conservation policy, and their use is in response to a perceived 'deep conservation crisis' which has in part arisen ...
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