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Research news | 2020-09-15

Making fisheries models more realistic

Diversity in fisher behaviours are often absent in current models of fisheries. A new study points out how to incorporate them

Research news | 2020-04-01

How craftsmanship connects people, nature and knowledge

What we can learn from a Samí crafts artist and a fisher from Stockholm about connections between local ecological knowledge, work, technology and sustainability

Research news | 2020-03-31

Inequity hampers ocean sustainability

Marine resources and the benefits from the ocean are not equitably distributed. Ocean economics is in need of a shift, report says

Research news | 2020-03-06

A long history of unsustainable fisheries

How Swedish archipelago fishers have come to depend on a species threatened by extinction

Research news | 2020-02-03

Development interventions fail to consider everyday practices and rituals

Why a narrow focus on poverty alleviation or conservation risk missing the mark

Research news | 2019-12-30

Case studies, models and complexity

Time to go from simply describing social-ecological systems to explaining how their complex interactions generate observed outcomes

Research news | 2019-10-16

Temporary refuge from an ocean of industry

How long will areas inaccessible to global fish industry remain refuges for small-scale fisheries?

Research news | 2019-02-13

No market without the state

Despite a variety of designs, the state plays a key role in all forms of policies around biodiversity offsetting

Research news | 2018-01-29

Broadening the definition of a povery trap

Review study of poverty traps examines the concept’s use across disciplines, and how it is defined and applied in a rural context

Research news | 2017-12-18

Don’t write them off just yet

The dismissal of growth in the fisheries sector in the Global North is premature

Research news | 2017-07-01

Holy mackerel, what a food fight!

New study examines how a change in migration patterns of the northeast Atlantic mackerel led to intergovernmental dispute

Research news | 2016-12-09

Bending rules or grudgingly accepting them

New study looks at commitment to fisheries regulations and why it is a matter of quality rather than quantity

Research news | 2016-07-21

Tame the flames, rule the world

New understanding of power shows important relations between humans and nature

Research news | 2016-07-13

It’s not all in your head

New study explores new ways of describing the connection between people and planet

Research news | 2015-12-17

Damned if they do, damned if they don’t

Adaptation to environmental change is not straightforward, struggling fishing communities in Vietnam show why

Research news | 2015-08-26

Quite a lot of that human touch

How humans matter for ecological regime shifts

Research news | 2015-07-03

A chain of fools?

New article asks why it is so hard to stop overfishing

Research news | 2015-03-11

Command-but-too-much-in-control

Rigid regulations, not marked dynamics or fish stocks, leave fishers more specialised and inflexible

Research news | 2014-10-31

Diversity in fishers' behaviour; a matter of style

Inefficient fisheries management can be effectivised by further classifying fishing practices and styles

Research news | 2014-05-08

Children of the involution

Why history matters in the creation of social-ecological traps

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