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0000-0001-8801-413X
Current Organisations
Heriot-Watt University
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University of Tasmania
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Research Topics
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Aquaculture | Ecological Applications | Ecological Applications not elsewhere classified | Environmental Impact Assessment |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Environmentally Sustainable Animal Production not elsewhere classified | Aquaculture Fin Fish (excl. Tuna) | Fisheries - Aquaculture not elsewhere classified
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Publications
A practical framework for implementing and evaluating integrated management of marine activities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2019
Mismatches in spatial scale of supply and demand and their consequences for local welfare in Scottish aquaculture
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2019
Abstract: Mismatches in spatial scales, or spatial disconnections between causes and effects of ecosystem degradation, can reduce resilience in social–ecological systems. These mismatches can be particularly disruptive in coastal and marine areas, where multiple social and ecological systems are multi-layered. Scotland’s Western Isles have a history of local resource exploitation to meet extra-regional, larger-scale demands, which has resulted in a long process of socio-demographic decline. Salmon aquaculture is a major and expanding industry in the area, often linked to “Blue Growth”. The expansion of this industry operates within and contributes to create several scale mismatches. Combining a systems approach across nested scales with a classification of scale mismatches, this work analyses the characteristics of the Western Isles salmon aquaculture industry, and it explores effects on social–ecological resilience. An extent scale mismatch between the global stocks of fishmeal species and the local capacity to respond to fluctuations is identified. The implications for this mismatch for the Western Isles are discussed. Some potential policy arrangements for incorporating matched spatial scales are considered.
Navigating uncertain waters: European public perceptions of integrated multi trophic aquaculture (IMTA)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
Future Seas 2030
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 21-02-2022
First port of call: a horizon scanning workshop for sustainable Arctic marine infrastructure
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-01-2023
Challenges of achieving Good Environmental Status in the Northeast Atlantic
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2015
Interactive Marine Spatial Planning: Siting Tidal Energy Arrays around the Mull of Kintyre
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 11-01-2012
Understanding an emerging economic discourse through regional analysis: Blue economy clusters in the U.S. Great Lakes basin
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2019
Reducing socio-ecological conflict using social influence modelling
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-12-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S41598-022-26570-8
Abstract: Polarisation of opinions across communities can lead to social conflict, reputational damage and the disruption of operations and markets. Social influence models have been widely used to better understand processes driving conflict from a theoretical perspective. Using aquaculture as a case study, we demonstrate how such models can be extended to accurately hindcast the transition from population consensus to high conflict, including observed catastrophic tipping points. We then use the model to quantitatively evaluate strategies aimed at reducing aquaculture conflict. We found that persuasive advocacy was ineffective and often counterproductive, whereas meaningful engagement, collaborative learning and improving scientific literacy targeted broadly across the population was effective in moderating opinions and reducing conflict. When such messaging was targeted too narrowly or too infrequently, it tended to be negated by ongoing exchange of misinformation within the population. Both the modelling approach and lessons on effective communication strategies are relevant to a broad range of environmental conflicts.
Ocean resource use: building the coastal blue economy
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-03-2021
Equity of our future oceans: practices and outcomes in marine science research
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-05-2021
Food for all: designing sustainable and secure future seafood systems
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-05-2022
The human side of marine ecosystem-based management (EBM): ‘Sectoral interplay’ as a challenge to implementing EBM
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Improving sustainability of aquaculture in Europe: Stakeholder dialogues on Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture (IMTA)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Design options, implementation issues and evaluating success of ecologically engineered shorelines
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: 02-08-2019
What and who is an Antarctic ambassador?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-2019
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247420000194
Abstract: The term “Antarctic ambassadorship” is increasingly used to represent an in idual’s connection to Antarctica and their subsequent advocacy. However, there is little clarity regarding the concept. To address this, we combined a literature review with an expert elicitation workshop. We argue that (i) the concept of Antarctic ambassador has been understood in myriad ways (ii) Antarctic ambassadors have a connection to, knowledge of and passion for Antarctica (iii) they also have a commitment to defending and advancing Antarctic values and (iv) Antarctic ambassadorship is about more than advocacy. We propose the first comprehensive definition of Antarctic ambassadorship. We hope this will provide a cornerstone upon which future research, and a more informed governance of Antarctic tourism, can be built.
Public attitudes and decision making in environmental resource planning — a perception gap
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Conflicts over marine and coastal common resources: Causes, governance, and prevention
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 09-07-2019
Marine and coastal ecosystem stewardship
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date: 29-06-2017
Offshore Energy and Marine Spatial Planning
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-03-2018
Big, bold and blue: lessons from Australia's marine protected areas, edited by James Fitzsimons and Geoff Westcott, Melbourne, CSIRO Publishing, 2016, 402 pp
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-2016
Comparing instrumental and deliberative paradigms underpinning the assessment of social values for cultural ecosystem services
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2014
Producer perceptions of the incentives and challenges of adopting ecolabels in the European finfish aquaculture industry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Oceans and society
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-08-2022
Marine and coastal places: wellbeing in a blue economy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
A critique of the participation norm in marine governance: Bringing legitimacy into the frame
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Emerging functions of the wellbeing concept in regional development scholarship: A review
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Bringing harbours alive: assessing the importance of eco-engineered coastal infrastructure for different stakeholders and cities
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
'`Social stuff' and all that jazz: understanding the residual category of social sustainability
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2020
Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 28-09-2018
The many sizes and characters of the Blue Economy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2022
Siting offshore energy arrays
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 29-03-2018
Progress in integrating natural and social science in marine ecosystem-based management research
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.1071/MF17248
Abstract: Climate change, in combination with population growth, is placing increasing pressure on the world’s oceans and their resources. This is threatening sustainability and societal wellbeing. Responding to these complex and synergistic challenges requires holistic management arrangements. To this end, ecosystem-based management (EBM) promises much by recognising the need to manage the ecosystem in its entirety, including the human dimensions. However, operationalisation of EBM in the marine environment has been slow. One reason may be a lack of the inter-disciplinary science required to address complex social–ecological marine systems. In the present paper, we synthesise the collective experience of the authors to explore progress in integrating natural and social sciences in marine EBM research, illustrating actual and potential contributions. We identify informal barriers to and incentives for this type of research. We find that the integration of natural and social science has progressed at most stages of the marine EBM cycle however, practitioners do not yet have the capacity to address all of the problems that have led to the call for inter-disciplinary research. In addition, we assess how we can support the next generation of researchers to undertake the effective inter-disciplinary research required to assist with operationalising marine EBM, particularly in a changing climate.
Antarctic representation in print media during the emergence of COVID-19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 14-03-2022
DOI: 10.1017/S0954102022000049
Abstract: Like every other continent in the world, Antarctica has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, in an imagined as well as a practical sense. Antarctica is a mediated experience that is, most of us experience the place through films, novels, music, visual arts and the media. We present an analysis of media articles from eight countries over three time periods - pre-COVID-19 outbreak (October–December 2019), shortly after the pandemic hit the headlines (March–May 2020) and when the virus was established (October–December 2020) - to discover how COVID-19 may have changed Antarctic discourse. Our study shows that representations of Antarctica have been affected by the pandemic, in some instances reinforcing existing ideas and in other cases bringing new ideas to the fore. Based on our findings, we believe that COVID-19 has begun to change representations of Antarctica, stepping us away from the prevailing Antarctic hero narrative and providing a more contemporary understanding of the Antarctic experience. We argue that this may increase our motivation to engage with Antarctic issues, with associated implications for future global stewardship of the region.
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Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-01-2022
Connecting to the oceans: supporting ocean literacy and public engagement
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-02-2021
Developing achievable alternate futures for key challenges during the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-01-2022
A problem shared: Technology transfer and development in European integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2017
Marine spatial planning and Good Environmental Status: a perspective on spatial and temporal dimensions
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2015
Investigating the recent decline in gadoid stocks in the west of Scotland shelf ecosystem using a foodweb model
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 05-09-2015
Abstract: Abundance and biomass of cod, haddock, and whiting in the waters off of the west coast of Scotland (wcoS) have undergone large changes in recent years, most notably a recent decline. These three species contribute a considerable part of Scottish demersal landings from this area and as such it is important to understand why these stocks are behaving the way they are. A number of explanations for the decline have been proposed, including: seal predation, pressure from Nephrops trawls, and fishing pressure more generally. We used an ecosystem model of the wcoS continental shelf (& m depth) to investigate whether these proposed explanations for declining gadoid stocks are feasible. Results suggest that the rise in the grey seal population over recent years has not led to the decline in gadoid stocks there is insufficient bycatch by the Nephrops fleet to have a large impact on gadoid stocks however, fishing, as a key driver of the west of Scotland shelf ecosystem, has impacted stocks and by decreasing fishing levels to maximum sustainable yield cod biomass may increase slightly though not returning to previous levels. Although this means we are little further forward in understanding the cause of recent gadoid declines in the area, the development of this model has enabled us to further our knowledge and understanding of aspects of trophic structure and the impacts of fishing on the wcoS.
Rücktitelbild: Unidirectional Presentation of Membrane Proteins in Nanoparticle‐Supported Liposomes (Angew. Chem. 29/2019)
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-06-2019
The long-term evolution of news media in defining socio-ecological conflict
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2022
The operationalisation of sustainability: Sustainable aquaculture production as defined by certification schemes
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-03-2023
Environmental and socio-political shocks to the seafood sector: What does this mean for resilience? Lessons from two UK case studies, 1945–2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2018
Urban blue: A global analysis of the factors shaping people's perceptions of the marine environment and ecological engineering in harbours
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2018.12.285
Abstract: Marine harbours are the focus of a erse range of activities and subject to multiple anthropogenically induced pressures. Support for environmental management options aimed at improving degraded harbours depends on understanding the factors which influence people's perceptions of harbour environments. We used an online survey, across 12 harbours, to assess sources of variation people's perceptions of harbour health and ecological engineering. We tested the hypotheses: 1) people living near impacted harbours would consider their environment to be more unhealthy and degraded, be more concerned about the environment and supportive of and willing to pay for ecological engineering relative to those living by less impacted harbours, and 2) people with greater connectedness to the harbour would be more concerned about and have greater perceived knowledge of the environment, and be more supportive of, knowledgeable about and willing to pay for ecological engineering, than those with less connectedness. Across twelve locations, the levels of degradation and modification by artificial structures were lower and the concern and knowledge about the environment and ecological engineering were greater in the six Australasian and American than the six European and Asian harbours surveyed. We found that people's perception of harbours as healthy or degraded, but not their concern for the environment, reflected the degree to which harbours were impacted. There was a positive relationship between the percentage of shoreline modified and the extent of support for and people's willingness to pay indirect costs for ecological engineering. At the in idual level, measures of connectedness to the harbour environment were good predictors of concern for and perceived knowledge about the environment but not support for and perceived knowledge about ecological engineering. To make informed decisions, it is important that people are empowered with sufficient knowledge of the environmental issues facing their harbour and ecological engineering options.
Attitudes of Scottish fishers towards marine renewable energy
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Decision support tools for collaborative marine spatial planning: identifying potential sites for tidal energy devices around the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-03-2014
Spatial ecosystem modelling of marine renewable energy installations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
The future of ocean governance
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-01-2021
Building blue infrastructure: Assessing the key environmental issues and priority areas for ecological engineering initiatives in Australia's metropolitan embayments
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2018.09.047
Abstract: Ecological engineering principles are increasingly being applied to develop multifunctional artificial structures or rehabilitated habitats in coastal areas. Ecological engineering initiatives are primarily driven by marine scientists and coastal managers, but often the views of key user groups, which can strongly influence the success of projects, are not considered. We used an online survey and participatory mapping exercise to investigate differences in priority goals, sites and attitudes towards ecological engineering between marine scientists and coastal managers as compared to other stakeholders. The surveys were conducted across three Australian cities that varied in their level of urbanisation and environmental pressures. We tested the hypotheses that, relative to other stakeholders, marine scientists and coastal managers will: 1) be more supportive of ecological engineering 2) be more likely to agree that enhancement of bio ersity and remediation of pollution are key priorities for ecological engineering and 3) identify different priority areas and infrastructure or degraded habitats for ecological engineering. We also tested the hypothesis that 4) perceptions of ecological engineering would vary among locations, due to environmental and socio-economic differences. In all three harbours, marine scientists and coastal managers were more supportive of ecological engineering than other users. There was also greater support for ecological engineering in Sydney and Melbourne than Hobart. Most people identified transport infrastructure, in busy transport hubs (i.e. Circular Quay in Sydney, the Port in Melbourne and the Waterfront in Hobart) as priorities for ecological engineering, irrespective of their stakeholder group or location. There were, however, significant differences among locations in what people perceive as the key priorities for ecological engineering (i.e. bio ersity in Sydney and Melbourne vs. pollution in Hobart). Greater consideration of these location-specific differences is essential for effective management of artificial structures and rehabilitated habitats in urban embayments.
Marine renewable energy and Scottish west coast fishers: Exploring impacts, Opportunities and potential mitigation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2013
The implications of aquaculture policy and regulation for the development of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture in Europe
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
Polarised perspectives in salmon aquaculture warrant a targeted long-term approach to communication
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
Implementing a blueprint for greener and more efficient ports
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 17-01-2023
Time-dynamic food web modeling to explore environmental drivers of ecosystem change on the Kerguelen Plateau
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 11-09-2020
Related Organisations
Heriot-Watt University
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Scottish Association For Marine Science
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
University Of Manchester
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
University Of Aberdeen
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
University Of Strathclyde
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Related Funding Activities
Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP200100404
Start Date: 08-2021
End Date: 08-2025
Amount: $720,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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