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Multidimensional human wellbeing in periodic octopus closures in Zanzibar

Access the open article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26395916.2024.2412616 A new paper just published from my Postdoc with the OctoPINTS project https://octopints.wordpress.com/ Abstract: Our study of periodic octopus closures helps to fill an empirical gap in community-based marine protected area (MPA) research on socially-diverse multidimensional wellbeing impacts. Human wellbeing provides a more meaningful and holistic measure of social impacts than […]

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Gen(d)erating local responses to global market signals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvLDu4xTJQ In Philippine fishing communities, gender roles have a bigger influence than price on fishers’ business decisions. Story Highlights: 251 Philippine fisherwomen and fishermen participated in a behavioural economic experiment exploring the link between global market price and fishing behaviour. Gender roles were found to be a stronger predictor than price. Fishers’ will and capacity

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No place for Big Mamma

Ghana’s unique female intermediaries are increasingly squeezed out by global seafood companies. Story Highlights: Story highlights: Tuna has been exploited in Ghana for centuries but over the past 50 years it has developed into a global industry. Female traders called Big Mammies are responsible for sales of up to 25% of the landed tuna to

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Float a loan to weather the storm

Patron-client relations in the Philippines buffer fisheries against immediate impacts of natural disasters. But long-term sustainability may suffer due to the combination with current fishery conditions. Story Highlights: Patron-client relations buffer fisheries against immediate impacts of typhoons and filter aid interventions. This can have negative consequences for the long-term sustainability of livelihoods and the marine

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OctoPINTS

Navigating the complexity of small-scale fishery interventions: An intersection of agent-based modeling and participatory empirical research In this project we will dive into the octopus fisheries in the Western Indian Ocean and see how agent-based modeling can be combined with empirical participatory research to answer questions about trade-offs, benefit sharing, short- and long term social-ecological

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One Connected Ocean

Running 2022-2023 Based at: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University In collaboration with: Universeum, Gothenburg A formas (formas.se) funded communication project One Connected Ocean is a communication project where research from the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University (SRC) is presented at, and together with Universeum, Sweden’s national science center. Photo: SRC staff visit Universeum in

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