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ManagementJessica Spijkers
PhD candidate
James Cook University, Townsville
jessica.spijkers@my.jcu.edu.au
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
PhD Candidate
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University. Environmental Governance group
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Jessica Spijkers is a cotutelle PhD student enrolled at both the Stockholm Resilience Center and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (James Cook University, Australia). She holds a Master in European Studies (completed at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) and a Master in Social-Ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development (completed at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden).
Her project seeks to understand where, why and with what social-ecological consequences international conflicts over shared fish stocks occur. The project merges global-scale database analyses with case study approaches to combine the strength of global descriptive understandings of conflicts with in-depth analytical insights. The findings are combined with existing scenarios for climate change, will be used to explore high-risk areas for future conflict. This understanding will enable the development of recommendations on how to cope with and adapt to change, how to reduce the risk of conflict, and increase the prospects for sustainable, equitable use of shared marine resources.
Project Title
Navigating International Conflicts in the Governance of Shared Stocks
Supervisors
Dr. Tiffany Morrison (ARC), Dr. Henrik Österblom (SRC)
Professor Graeme Cumming (ARC), Dr. Matthew Osborne (SRC)
Publications
Blasiak, R., Spijkers, J., Tokunaga, K., Pittman, J., Yagi, N., Henrik, O., 2017. Climate change and marine fisheries : Least developed countries top global index of vulnerability 1–15. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0179632
Spijkers, J., Boonstra, W.J., 2017. Environmental change and social conflict: the northeast Atlantic mackerel dispute. Reg. Environ. Chang. doi:10.1007/s10113-017-1150-4
Österblom, H., Jouffray, J.-B., Spijkers, J., 2016. Where and how to prioritize fishery reform? Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 113, 201605723. doi:10.1073/pnas.1605723113
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au