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Xavier Basurto

Adjunct Professor in the Division of Marine Science and Conservation
Marine Science and Conservation

Scholarly Works - Book sections


10. A brief conservationist’s guide to self-governance with illustrations from small-scale fisheries

Book section · January 30, 2025 Xavier Basurto outlines the current thinking and empirical data supporting this innovative field. He recently led Illuminating Hidden Harvests for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). This approach fully integrates nat ... Full text Cite

Diversification in small-scale fisheries beyond harvesting: the role of regional trade networks

Book section · January 1, 2025 Small-scale fisheries (SSF) are comprised of multiple types of actors organized in regional trade networks that are involved in activities from harvesting to exporting fisheries’ resources. Diversification, defined as how fishers and traders along these ne ... Full text Cite

The Vital Roles of Blue Foods in the Global Food System

Book section · January 1, 2023 Blue foods play a central role in food and nutrition security for billions of people and are a cornerstone of the livelihoods, economies, and cultures of many coastal and riparian communities. Blue foods are extraordinarily diverse, are often rich in essen ... Full text Cite

Comparative case study analysis

Book section · July 30, 2021 Full text Cite

BEYOND THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS

Book section · September 6, 2019 Cite

Beyond the tragedy of the commons

Book section · January 1, 2018 In this paper, we intend to demonstrate the feasibility and challenge of moving beyond “The Tragedy of the Commons” that Garrett Hardin presented in 1968. Hardin portrayed a set of pastoralists-who are inexorably led to overuse their common pasture-as an a ... Full text Cite

Marine Conservation as Complex Cooperative and Competitive Human Interactions

Book section · January 1, 2017 Globally, marine protected areas (MPAs) are prominent conservation tools. Yet, the understanding of their social effects remains limited. Our multimethod approach relied on lab-in-the-field economic experiments (n. =. 127) in two MPA and two non-MPA commun ... Full text Cite