Browsing by Author "Finkbeiner, Elena M."

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    Anticipating trade-offs and promoting synergies between small-scale fisheries and aquaculture to improve social, economic, and ecological outcomes
    (2024) Mansfield, Elizabeth J.; Micheli, Fiorenza; Fujita, Rod; Fulton, Elizabeth A.; Gelcich Crossley, Stefan; Battista, Willow; Bustamante, Rodrigo H.; Cao, Ling; Daniels, Benjamin N.; Finkbeiner, Elena M.; Gaines, Steven; Peckham, Hoyt; Roche, Kelly; Ruckelshaus, Mary; Salomon, Anne K.; Sumaila, U. Rashid; White, Crow; Naylor,Rosamond
    Blue food systems are crucial for meeting global social and environmental goals. Both small-scale marine fisheries (SSFs) and aquaculture contribute to these goals, with SSFs supporting hundreds of millions of people and aquaculture currently expanding in the marine environment. Here we examine the interactions between SSFs and aquaculture, and the possible combined benefits and trade-offs of these interactions, along three pathways: (1) resource access and rights allocation; (2) markets and supply chains; and (3) exposure to and management of risks. Analysis of 46 diverse case studies showcase positive and negative interaction outcomes, often through competition for space or in the marketplace, which are context-dependent and determined by multiple factors, as further corroborated by qualitative modeling. Results of our mixed methods approach underscore the need to anticipate and manage interactions between SSFs and aquaculture deliberately to avoid negative socio-economic and environmental outcomes, promote synergies to enhance food production and other benefits, and ensure equitable benefit distribution.
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    Untangling social-ecological interactions: A methods portfolio approach to tackling contemporary sustainability challenges in fisheries
    (2022) Lindkvist, Emilie; Pellowe, Kara E.; Alexander, Steven M.; O'Neill, Elizabeth Drury; Finkbeiner, Elena M.; Giron-Nava, Alfredo; Gonzalez-Mon, Blanca; Johnson, Andrew F.; Pittman, Jeremy; Schill, Caroline; Wijermans, Nanda; Bodin, Orjan; Gelcich, Stefan; Glaser, Marion
    Meeting the objectives of sustainable fisheries management requires attention to the complex interactions between humans, institutions and ecosystems that give rise to fishery outcomes. Traditional approaches to studying fisheries often do not fully capture, nor focus on these complex interactions between people and ecosystems. Despite advances in the scope and scale of interactions encompassed by more holistic methods, for example ecosystem-based fisheries management approaches, no single method can adequately capture the complexity of human-nature interactions. Approaches that combine quantitative and qualitative analytical approaches are necessary to generate a deeper understanding of these interactions and illuminate pathways to address fisheries sustainability challenges. However, combining methods is inherently challenging and requires understanding multiple methods from different, often disciplinarily distinct origins, demanding reflexivity of the researchers involved. Social-ecological systems' research has a history of utilising combinations of methods across the social and ecological realms to account for spatial and temporal dynamics, uncertainty and feedbacks that are key components of fisheries. We describe several categories of analytical methods (statistical modelling, network analysis, dynamic modelling, qualitative analysis and controlled behavioural experiments) and highlight their applications in fisheries research, strengths and limitations, data needs and overall objectives. We then discuss important considerations of a methods portfolio development process, including reflexivity, epistemological and ontological concerns and illustrate these considerations via three case studies. We show that, by expanding their methods portfolios, researchers will be better equipped to study the complex interactions shaping fisheries and contribute to solutions for sustainable fisheries management.