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University of Technology Sydney
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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Political Science Not Elsewhere Classified | Environmental Science and Management | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge | Anthropology | Social and Cultural Geography | Other Studies in Human Society | Anthropology of Development | Natural Resource Management | Environment Policy | Fisheries Sciences Not Elsewhere Classified | Studies In Human Society Not Elsewhere Classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
International relations not elsewhere classified | International trade issues not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Fisheries—commercial | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Marine Environments | Coastal and Estuarine Water Management |
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Publications
Industrial and small-scale fisheries relations in Ghana: A political ecology perspective on blue economy exclusion
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2023
Heat distribution in the Tropical Indian Ocean during the prolonged La-Nina events during 1958–2017
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
Date: 04-03-2021
DOI: 10.5194/EGUSPHERE-EGU21-15083
Abstract: & & In the present study, heat distribution in the Tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) associated with the prolonged La-Nina events during 1958& #8211 is examined using reanalysis/observations. A detailed analysis revealed that in response to prolonged La-Nina forcing, prominent east-west thermocline gradient in the equatorial Indian Ocean and the eastward extension of thermocline ridge in the southwestern TIO (TRIO) are noted. Anomalous subsurface warming, thermocline deepening, and sea-level increase are also evident in the eastern and southeastern TIO and Bay of Bengal (BoB) during the prolonged La-Nina events. Cross equatorial volume transport near the eastern boundary during the prolonged La-Nina years especially at 50m-150m depth levels indicates the pathways of Pacific water entering the north Indian Ocean (NIO), a feature that has a strong impact on the BoB dynamics and thermodynamics. Intense cooling of TRIO and the Arabian Sea and the eastward extension of TRIO are some of the characteristic features of the prolonged La-Nina years. These may have strong implications on the air-sea interaction associated with inter-annual and intra-seasonal variability over this region. Further, the subsurface heat content (50m& #8211 m) in the eastern and southeastern TIO in general dominated by interannual variability whereas the TRIO region experienced the decadal variability. Subsurface heat content variations associated with prolonged La Ni& #241 a years are discussed. This study shows that the warming and cooling events of TIO are very closely tied to the internal dynamics of the IO driven remotely by the Pacific through modulation of surface winds.& &
Tuna is women's business too: Applying a gender lens to four cases in the Western and Central Pacific
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-12-2022
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12634
Abstract: The USD6 billion Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) tuna fisheries produce over half the world's tuna and are important for coastal countries. Tuna fisheries policy, management and research currently focus on fisheries resources and industrial fishing on offshore vessels with all male crews, although women, as much as men, are employed in tuna processing and trading in domestic, informal and export value chains. We apply a gender lens to four WCPO case‐study tuna industries: Suva and Levuka in Fiji, Bitung in Indonesia, General Santos City in the Philippines and Western Province including Noro in Solomon Islands. The gender isions of labour, livelihood opportunities and social impacts vary greatly across the value chain nodes, depending on the size, quantity and quality of fish handled, and the scale of operations. The gender lens also reveals the social impacts of fishing when husbands/fathers/sons are killed or injured, absent for long periods and engage in sex, drugs and alcohol behaviours in port. Despite the centrality of women in tuna industries, and the gendered social impacts, regional and national policies largely omit gender. The tuna discourse should be broadened from that of male‐dominated industrial fishing to whole of value chains including domestic and informal enterprises in which women are equally involved. Progress on gender equity needs collaboration by multiple stakeholders including industrial firms employing people in factories, offices and on fishing vessels, regional bodies and national governments responsible for policy, monitoring and regulation, and research agencies to build knowledge.
Advanced producers or moral polluters? China's bureaucrat-entrepreneurs and sexual corruption
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-06-2008
Introduction: The International Politics of Resources
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
Asia-Pacific Fishing Livelihoods
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2022
A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 02-2008
Measuring Consumer Satisfaction with Mental Health Services in Metropolitan New South Wales
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 02-1998
The sustainable seafood movement is a Governance concert, with the audience playing a key role
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 12-01-2018
DOI: 10.3390/SU10010180
Abstract: Private standards, including ecolabels, have been posed as a governance solution for the global fisheries crisis. The conventional logic is that ecolabels meet consumer demand for certified “sustainable” seafood, with “good” players rewarded with price premiums or market share and “bad” players punished by reduced sales. Empirically, however, in the markets where ecolabeling has taken hold, retailers and brands—rather than consumers—are demanding sustainable sourcing, to build and protect their reputation. The aim of this paper is to devise a more accurate logic for understanding the sustainable seafood movement, using a qualitative literature review and reflection on our previous research. We find that replacing the consumer-driven logic with a retailer/brand-driven logic does not go far enough in making research into the sustainable seafood movement more useful. Governance is a “concert” and cannot be adequately explained through in idual actor groups. We propose a new logic going beyond consumer- or retailer/brand-driven models, and call on researchers to build on the partial pictures given by studies on prices and willingness-to-pay, investigating more fully the motivations of actors in the sustainable seafood movement, and considering audience beyond the direct consumption of the product in question.
Shaming to 'green': Australia-Japan relations and whales and tuna compared
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 26-12-2012
DOI: 10.1093/IRAP/LCS019
Using a well-being approach to develop a framework for an integrated socio-economic evaluation of professional fishing
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2017
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12229
Gender‐based violence: Relevance for fisheries practitioners
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-03-2023
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12747
Abstract: Attention to human dimensions of capture fisheries involves understanding how harms and benefits are experienced and distributed among different groups or people. Yet, not all harms are well understood or adequately addressed. There is a general (mis)conception that gender‐based violence (GBV) is not of relevance for fisheries management or a topic within the remit of practitioners. Through a global review of capture fisheries, we illustrate how five types of GBV—physical, sexual, psychological, economic and cultural—are pervasive and can be reinforced by fisheries policies, practices and institutions. Our synthesis shows a variety of activities associated with these forms of violence, such as labour and human rights abuses, unsafe working and living conditions for children, women and men, and the cultural acceptance of various forms of discrimination. We argue GBV cannot be disentangled from other actions taken to achieve equitable social outcomes through fisheries management. We provide seven recommendations to help practitioners understand and work towards addressing GBV in capture fisheries: (1) removing gender blindness and bias by investing in gender‐sensitisation of the sector (2) forming strategic partnerships (3) improving policy and coordination between regulatory bodies (4) increasing investments in labour rights and laws (5) gender integrative programme design and implementation (6) investing in specific programs for the empowerment of women and (7) investing in specific programs for men seeking healthy models of masculinity.
Strategic Planning in Perinatal Mental Health
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 1998
DOI: 10.1071/PY98009
Abstract: This article presents the story of the beginning of a movement to improve the perinatal mental health of families in the South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service. The movement is made up of practitioners and consumers who want to improve services. An early initiative was to provide information on appropriate referral procedures for postnatal depression, for General Practitioners (GPs), early childhood nurses and others who may be asked for help by women. A second project was a submission for inpatient accommodation for women with acute psychoses or depression and their infants. The key theme that has emerged is that perinatal mental health is an issue with many disparate causes and effects, some of which health systems can address. The promotion and maintenance of perinatal mental health requires a great deal of collaboration between health professionals from various disciplines. Existing levels of collaboration between services are insufficient and approaches to perinatal mental health should be re-oriented in order to facilitate a move from fragmented care to continuity of care. Primary care is the most appropriate starting point for co-ordinating collaborative efforts. Currently, the focus is completing a Perinatal Mental Health Strategic Plan to be considered in planning mental health services for the South Eastern Sydney Area Health Service.
China’s approach to global fisheries: power in the governance of anti-illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-06-2023
'It's not just about fish': Assessing the social impacts of marine protected areas on the wellbeing of coastal communities in New South Wales
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 30-12-2020
DOI: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0244605
Abstract: Managing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is about managing human behaviours, but decision-making processes have traditionally focussed on ecological aspects, treating social aspects as secondary. It is now becoming more evident that an equal focus on the ecological and social aspects is required. Without the collection of information about social aspect such as impacts and sharing this as well as ecological information with communities, MPAs are at higher risk of opposition and social acceptability problems. This paper explores the development of a wellbeing framework to understand the social aspects, including the impacts of MPAs on the wellbeing of local communities. This research investigates two case study MPAs: Cape Byron and Port Stephens-Great Lakes Marine Parks in New South Wales, Australia. The MPAs are multiple-use and were implemented in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The research began with a review of the literature, followed by fieldwork, including semi-structured qualitative interviews with community members. Through thematic coding of the interview transcripts in light of the literature on assessing the social impacts of MPAs, a community wellbeing framework of domains and associated attributes was developed to investigate social impacts. Our analysis shows first, local perspectives are crucial to understanding social impacts. Second, understanding social impacts gives insight into the nature of trade-offs that occur in decision-making regarding MPAs. Third, the intangible social impacts experienced by local communities are just as significant as the tangible ones for understanding how MPAs operate. Fourth, governance impacts have been the most influential factor affecting the social acceptability of the case study parks. We argue that failure to address negative social impacts can undermine the legitimacy of MPAs. We propose that the framework will support policymakers to work towards more effective, equitable and socially sustainable MPAs by employing much-needed monitoring of human dimensions of conservation interventions at the community level to shape adaptive management.
Transforming coastal and marine management: Deliberative democracy and integrated management in New South Wales, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2022
Maximising community wellbeing: Assessing the threats to the benefits communities derive from the marine estate
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Early discharge and risk for postnatal depression
Publisher: AMPCo
Date: 04-1998
Impacts of tuna industries on coastal communities in Pacific Island countries
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2010
Prolonged La Niña events and the associated heat distribution in the Tropical Indian Ocean
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-10-2021
Social equity is key to sustainable ocean governance
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-08-2022
DOI: 10.1038/S44183-022-00001-7
Abstract: Calls to address social equity in ocean governance are expanding. Yet ‘equity’ is seldom clearly defined. Here we present a framework to support contextually-informed assessment of equity in ocean governance. Guiding questions include: (1) Where and (2) Why is equity being examined? (3) Equity for or amongst Whom ? (4) What is being distributed? (5) When is equity considered? And (6) How do governance structures impact equity? The framework supports consistent operationalization of equity, challenges oversimplification, and allows evaluation of progress. It is a step toward securing the equitable ocean governance already reflected in national and international commitments.
Preface
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2013
Collateral damage? Small‐scale fisheries in the global fight against IUU fishing
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-04-2020
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12462
China’s Blue Economy: A State Project of Modernisation
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 22-04-2021
Abstract: The blue economy is a globally emerging concept for ocean governance that seeks to tap the economic potential of the oceans in environmentally sustainable ways. Yet, understanding and implementation of particular visions of the blue economy in specific regions erge according to national and other contexts. Drawing on a discourse analysis of Chinese language documents, this article assesses how the blue economy has been conceptualised in Chinese state policy and discourse. Part of a state ideology and practice of modernisation that is defined in terms of rejuvenation under a strong state, the blue economy in China is seen as an opportunity to promote modernisation from overlapping economic, geopolitical and ecological perspectives and actions. China’s distinctive model for the blue economy presents emerging challenges for global ocean governance.
Local Capitalisms and Sustainability in Coastal Fisheries: Cases from Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2013
Governability of High-Value Fisheries in Low-Income Contexts: a Case Study of the Sea Cucumber Fishery in Papua New Guinea
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-2019
Psychosocial costs of transferring indigenous women from their community for birth
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2000
Abstract: To describe the psychosocial effect of transferring Canadian Inuit women out of their communities for birth. Semi-structured interviews. Two communities in the central Canadian arctic. Postnatal women and their partners, Inuit community members. Women face many stressors as a result of being transferred from their community for the birth of their baby, not least of which is the lack of a partner and family support. Stressors were categorised as emotional, physical and economic, and women were given little choice or support for the place of birth and method of delivery. Midwives need to be aware of the psychosocial disruption and stress faced by women and their families as a result of being transferred from their community for birth. Maternal/child policies and care need to focus more on the psychosocial aspects of labour, such as family and professional support, and less on the physical aspects which cannot be adequately addressed without culturally sensitive care. Consumers must be involved in the development of maternity services.
The importance of qualitative social research for effective fisheries management
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
From sociological imagination to ‘ecological imagination’
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-08-2015
Insights on Capitalism from Oceania
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Date: 2013
The Social in Assessing for Sustainability. Fisheries in Australia.
Publisher: University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
Date: 05-11-2012
Abstract: The notion that sustainability rests on three pillars – economic, environmental and social – has been widely accepted since the 1990s. In practice, however, the economic and environmental aspects have tended to dominate the sustainability agenda, and social aspects have been sidelined. Two reasons for this are: 1) there is a lack of data collected about which to build meaningful pictures of social aspects of sustainability for populations over time, and 2) there is a lack of recognition of the role of social factors in sustainability, and a related lack of understanding of how to analyse them in conjunction with economic and environmental factors. This paper surveys the literature about sustainability in fisheries, focussing on Australia, and focussing on the way social aspects have been treated. The paper finds that the problems that have been identified for assessing the social in sustainability in general are certainly manifest in fisheries. Management of Australian fisheries has arguably made great improvements to biological sustainability over the last decade, but much remains to be done to generate similar improvements in social sustainability for fishing communities. This is the case for government-run resource management as well as for initiatives from the private sector and conservation organizations as part of movements for corporate social responsibility and ethical consumerism. A significant challenge for improving sustainability in Australian fisheries, therefore, lies in improving data collection on social factors, and in bridging disciplinary ides to better integrate social with economic and biological assessments of sustainability.
Small-scale fisheries in the blue economy: Review of scholarly papers and multilateral documents
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2022
Connections or conflict? A social and economic analysis of the interconnections between the professional fishing industry, recreational fishing and marine tourism in coastal communities in NSW, Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
Lagoon livelihoods: gender and shell money in Langalanga, Solomon Islands
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2018
Securing Fish for the Nation: Food Security and Governmentality in Japan
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2013
'It's part of me'; understanding the values, images and principles of coastal users and their influence on the social acceptability of MPAs
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2014
Neo-liberal reforms in Japan's tuna fisheries? A history of government-business relations in a food-producing sector
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-06-2008
Blue economy: industrialisation and coastal fishing livelihoods in Ghana
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-01-2023
China at a Crossroads: An Analysis of China's Changing Seafood Production and Consumption
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2020
Governance interactions in small-scale fisheries market chains: Examples from the Asia-Pacific
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-05-2019
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12370
Social harvest control rules for sustainable fisheries
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-06-2023
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12769
Abstract: Fisheries are supposed to be for the benefit of society, producing food, providing livelihoods and enabling cultural continuity. Biological productivity goals for fish stocks operationalised through Harvest Control Rules (HCRs) are central to contemporary fisheries management. While fisheries policies often state socio‐economic objectives, such as enhancing the livelihoods of coastal communities, those are rarely, if ever, incorporated into operationalised management procedures. The lack of articulation of social objectives and lack of monitoring of social outcomes around HCRs amounts to poor public policy. In this article, we explore the potential for social HCRs (sHCRs) with reference points and agreed predefined actions to make the social dimensions of fisheries explicit. sHCRs cannot cover all social dimensions, so should be considered as one tool within a broader framework of fisheries governance. Moreover, successful sHCRs would require sound deliberative and participatory processes to generate legitimate social objectives, and monitoring and evaluation of fisheries management performance against those objectives. We introduce two potential types of sHCRs, one based on allocation of catch within biological limit reference points, and one for when fishing exceeds biological limit reference points. The application of sHCRs, we argue, can foster accountability and help avoid non‐transparent negotiations on size and distribution of the catch. Our proposal is a call to action for policy makers and fisheries managers to properly integrate social criteria into fisheries governance, and for both biophysical fisheries scientists and social scientists to do better in practical collaboration for methods and knowledge development to support this integration.
Can anti-illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing trade measures spread internationally? Case study of Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Global Incidence Study
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 19-12-2013
DOI: 10.1111/IJS.12244
Coral restoration in the Philippines: Interactions with key coastal sectors
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2023
Between modernity and primitivity: Okinawan identity in relation to Japan and the South Pacific*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 26-01-2006
Chinese Trader Perceptions on Sourcing and Consumption of Endangered Seafood
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 15-06-2017
Development and Negative Constructions of Ethnic Identity: Responses to Asian Fisheries Investment in the Pacific
Publisher: Project MUSE
Date: 2012
DOI: 10.1353/CP.2012.0003
Water, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 21-01-2009
Governance of tuna industries: The key to economic viability and sustainability in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2007
Environmental Change and the World's Futures
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 27-08-2015
History of Industrial Tuna Fishing in the Pacific Islands
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2014
Corrigendum: Chinese trader perceptions on sourcing and consumption of endangered seafood [Front. Mar. Sci. 4, (2017), (181)] doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00181
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 02-04-2019
Historical Perspectives of Fisheries Exploitation in the Indo-Pacific
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Date: 2014
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