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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
My research group focuses on the interface between social science and ecology to develop solutions for a wide range of issues facing coral reefs and the millions of people who depend on them. We integrate theories and methods from geography, economics, political science, ecology, and modeling to explore issues at the forefront of applied conservation. Our social science research is rigorous, quantitative, comparative in nature, and often conducted at extremely large scales.
A large focal point of our research examines the role of socioeconomic factors in the collective management of common pool resources. We examine a broad range of governance arrangements, including customary management, co-management, marine protected areas, and international governance.
Here is an open-access link to our Science paper “Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world.”
Our recent work of compliance was featured on the cover of Nature Sustainability.
In 2017 Prof Joshua Cinner won the Ostrom Award on collective governance of the commons.
A young boy fishes at dusk, Papua New Guinea. Photo by: Josh Cinner
We examine how societies and ecosystems respond to environmental change. This research is highly interdisciplinary, and links social, ecological and environmental systems. The theoretical foundation for this work is largely grounded in resilience and vulnerability.
In the face of major climate-induced threats to coastal systems, such as the recent global coral bleaching events in 2016 and 2017, we investigate how coastal communities can build their adaptive capacity to deal with these changes in the future.
In our 2018 paper published in Nature Climate Change, we propose an approach to build adaptive capacity to climate change across five key domains:
1) the assets that people can draw upon in times of need, 2) the flexibility to change strategies, 3) the ability to organize and act collectively, 4) learning to recognize and respond to change, and 5) the agency to determine whether to change or not.
Societies and ecosystems are linked in complicated ways. My group uses rigorous social science and ecological theory to explore dynamics, thresholds, and feedbacks between social and ecological systems. We use large-scale field data to examine the specific conditions under which different human-environment interaction models (e.g., Malthusian, ecological modernization, political economy) best explain ecosystem conditions at different scales. The current centrepiece of this research theme is my global “Bright Spots” project, which seeks to identify and learn from the outliers- in this case, places with more fish than expected, given the socioeconomic and environmental conditions they are exposed to. We published our first paper on the idea in July 2016, and it was the cover feature of Nature! Our follow-up paper in PNAS explores how the benefits from different types of management changes within the socio-economic context.
Our bright spots research uses an approach for informing coral reef conservation that is focused on identifying and learning from outliers. Specifically, outliers that are doing well, despite difficult conditions. By their very nature, outliers deviate from expectations, and consequently can provide novel insights on confronting complex problems where conventional solutions have failed. We use this ‘bright spot’ analysis to uncover local actions and governance systems that work in the context of widespread failure, and holds much promise in informing conservation. We used this approach to examine reefs that for all intents and purposes, should be degraded, but aren’t and see what we could learn about what they were doing differently.
We identified 15 bright spots and 35 dark spots among the world’s coral reefs:
Our bright spots were not simply comprised of remote areas with low fishing pressure. They include localities where human populations and use of ecosystems resources is high, potentially providing novel insights into how communities have successfully confronted strong drivers of change.
Detailed analysis of why bright spots can evade the fate of similar areas facing equivalent stresses will require a new research agenda gathering detailed site-level information on ecological processes, social and institutional conditions, technological innovations, external influences that are simply not available in a global-scale analysis.
To this end we are now conducting fieldwork on bright spots in Karkar Island, PNG.
Researcher Cristian Rojas interviewing local fishermen on Karkar Island, Papua New Guinea in 2017. Credits: ARC CoE for Coral Reef Studies/ Joshua Cinner
A young boy fishes at dusk, Papua New Guinea. Photo by: Josh Cinner
I grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. I completed a Master’s degree in Marine Affairs from the University of Rhode Island in 2000, and received a PhD from James Cook University in 2006. My research focuses on using social science to improve coral reef management. My interest in this field began in 1996 while working as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in the Montego Bay Marine Park in Jamaica. I witnessed first hand how conventional conservation strategies were failing because they did not understand or reflect the social, economic, and cultural needs of resource users. I have since worked with various coastal peoples in the Pacific Islands, South East Asia, East Africa, and the Caribbean to better understand how socioeconomic factors influence the ways in which people use, perceive, and govern coral reefs. My work draws together a wide range of social science disciplines (including human geography, common property, anthropology, and conservation policy) and I often work closely with ecologists on interdisciplinary research topics. Increasingly, my research is moving beyond the case study approach toward a ‘big picture’ comparative exploration of human-environment interactions.
Iain is a Research Associate focused on Quantitative Social-Ecological Systems. He grew up in Canada where he completed his BSc (Mount Allison University), MSc (Dalhousie University), and a PhD focused on “Habitat use, movement, and vulnerability of sedentary fishes in a dynamic world” (The University of British Columbia). He then spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher in the United States, associated with the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology (University of Hawaii), University of California Santa Barbara, and Stanford University. Iain is broadly interested in why fish and other marine organisms end up where they do and what that can mean for their future, and the future of people that depend on those organisms, given predicted changes in global climate and increasing human impacts to many of the world’s coastal ecosystems. Trained as a quantitative ecologist and interested in intersections among ecology, social science, and behavioural economics, Iain uses a variety of analytical approaches to (1) understand what drives distribution and movement of organisms across time and space, (2) predict what changes in those drivers could mean for the future of biodiversity, and (3) improve management and conservation strategies to minimize negative effects on ecosystems and the people that depend on them.
Originally from Melbourne, Jacqui is a post-doctoral research fellow with the CoE for Coral Reef Studies and WorldFish. Previously, Jacqui studied sociology at the Australian National University (2012), and an MPhil in Environment, Society and Development at the University of Cambridge (2014). During her MPhil she studied the role of identity in an artisanal oyster fishery in The Gambia, which inspired her to pursue a PhD in environmental social science at James Cook University (2019). Under the supervision of Joshua Cinner, Christina Hicks, and Georgina Gurney, her project investigated the multiple values of ecosystem services and environmental justice in coastal communities in Papua New Guinea. Her current research examines issues of justice and climate change resilience in small-scale fisheries and coastal communities in the Pacific.
Cristian is from the south of Chile. After finishing college, he received a Fulbright scholarship to continue his studies in the United States where he obtained a PhD in Environmental Economics from the University of Wyoming (2016). In 2017 he moved to the CoE for Coral Reef Studies as a Research Fellow. Cristian is interested in incorporating psychological insights into economic analysis. His research focuses in the study of coupled human and natural systems using tools from behavioural and experimental economics, aiming to develop mechanisms that increase resource efficiency and environmental sustainability. His current research uses economic field and laboratory experiments to understand how markets—and market structure—can affect people’s preferences for sustainability.
Cristina is from Sevilla, Spain. She studied Biology at the University of Sevilla and an International Master of Science in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (EMBC) at Bremen University and the University of Oviedo. During her MSc, she became very interested in social-ecological systems and fisheries management. For her master thesis, she went to Chile to study how fishers perceive the abundance of resources and evaluate whether these perceptions could be used as a source of information to assess data-poor small-scale fisheries. Then, after working as a research assistant in projects on ecological aspects of marine systems at the Marine Conservation Center of Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, she decided to focus her work on the human dimensions of environmental management. She joined the Marine Energy Research and Innovation Center (MERIC) to study the human dimensions of marine renewable energies. Her studies and work experience in Chile inspired her to start a PhD in the human dimensions of fisheries management and conservation. Under the supervision of Joshua Cinner and Georgina Gurney, she will be investigating fisher’s perceptions of equity and its implications in fisheries management and conservation.
Sarah was born in Melbourne, then lived on a boat travelling around Australia for a while, before moving to Townsville. She has spent her life around the ocean, taking every opportunity to get in the water and explore. Her love of science and marine life lead her to studying a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Marine Biology-Advanced at JCU. During her degree, she discovered a passion for the people who depend on marine systems, as well as the marine life itself. She did an honours project looking at media representations of the contribution of fish to food security in Solomon Islands. She is currently doing her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Josh Cinner, Dr. Michele Barnes, Dr. Pip Cohen and Dr. Andrew Song, looking at the impact of changing fish availability and consumption on nutritional security.
Since young, Jessica has been fascinated by the immensity of the oceans and the creatures within them. This fascination grew with time, making Jessica complete a Bachelor’s degree in Marine Science (Oceanography) at the University of Vigo (Spain), and undertake internships at the University of Baja California (Mexico) and at the Algarve University (Portugal). During these learning adventures, Jessica decided she wanted to focus on contributing towards the ecologic, social and economic sustainability of the world’s fisheries. For her Honours, Jessica studied the impact of human development on marsh and seagrass ecosystems from the North Atlantic Spanish coast. Then, she completed a Master’s degree in Fisheries Biology and Management at James Cook University (Australia) where she used mathematical models and network theory to increase our knowledge on how marine reserve networks should be designed to promote the persistence of metapopulations. Currently, Jessica is at James Cook University and the ARC Centre of Excellence of Coral Reef Studies completing her PhD under the supervision of Professors Sean Connolly, Joshua Cinner and Aaron Macneil. Her research aims to further our understanding on the current functional state of the world´s coral reef ecosystems, how this state is influenced by environmental and socio-economic factors, and provide tangible management recommendations that allow to achieve sustainable targets.
Brock hails from the beautiful, but typically frozen tundra of Minnesota in the northern United States. A childhood of wandering the woods fostered a healthy appreciation of the natural world, and guided his desire for further education in biology, ecology and natural resource management. During this time, Brock increasingly noticed that effective management of natural resources was more dependent on managing people rather than the resources themselves. This garnered further interest in understanding people’s environmental behaviour and decision-making processes, ultimately culminating in a PhD which focused on user compliance in marine protected areas. During this project, Brock investigated people’s compliance behaviour by applying techniques and methodologies from a range of disciplines, including behavioural ecology, criminology, and social psychology. While his research focused on marine protected areas, outputs from this research are widely applicable to resource management and policy in numerous social-ecological systems.
Tom worked on understanding interaction between social and ecological systems to improve human welfare. Within this broad research theme were two dominant research strands. First, for his Ph. D. under the supervision of Assoc. Professor Cinner, he worked towards understanding social phenomena that drive the exploitation and management of ecological systems. He conducted this research in Solomon Islands using coral reefs as his model ecological system. Second, he was interested in both the theory and application of understanding the links between human welfare (including health and well-being) and ecosystem states across different spatial, temporal and socio-political scales. A better understanding of the links helped target investments toward conserving dimensions of natural systems that we derive the greatest benefit from. His papers and résumé can be found at: http://jamescook.academia.edu/TomBrewer
Georgina is from Tasmania, where she completed her BSc in Marine, Freshwater and Antarctic Science. Preferring tropical rather than Antarctic waters for diving, she headed north to do her Honours research in the Philippines, where she used bio-physical simulation modelling to explore potential reef futures under multiple management and climatic scenarios. Georgina’s experiences in the Philippines inspired her to pursue a PhD in understanding the human dimensions of marine resource management. Supervised by Bob Pressey, Josh Cinner, Natalie Ban and Nadine Marshall, her research focused on how social factors can be incorporated into several stages of systematic conservation planning with two key aims. First, she was investigating how to explicitly integrate fisheries livelihood objectives into spatial prioritization procedures to enable MPA designs to be better aligned with the needs of local stakeholders. Second, to inform the selection of contextually appropriate conservation actions, she explored the social impacts of MPA management, and the relative role of multiple-scale factors in influencing stakeholders’ engagement in collective MPA management.
Christina is an interdisciplinary social scientist working to develop sustainable, equitable, and efficient approaches to managing coastal resources. Her research integrates theory and methods from economics, psychology, political science, and fisheries science to examine the way people’s values relate to and change, depending on their social context. Her PhD was jointly supervised by Josh Cinner, Terry Hughes, Natalie Stoeckl and Bob Pressey. She worked directly with managers and NGOs to improve our understanding of how people are likely to develop and/or respond to resource management initiatives.
Born in Edinburgh, Fraser grew up in the UK and Malawi. Having completed both his BSc (Hons) in Marine Biology and an MSc in Tropical Coastal Management at Newcastle University, he departed for Papau New Guinea in 2006 and worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society on coral reef conservation for the next three years. During this time, he realized that the human dimension of ecological systems was much more interesting than previously thought. In his PhD, he investigated the effects of traditional fishing and marine management on fish behaviour, and how changes in this impinge on fishery and conservation goals, under the supervision of Josh Cinner, Nick Graham and Garry Russ.
Emmanuel has over seven years experience working on the small scale marine fisheries, with a special emphasis on fishing gear technology innovations as well as stock assessment. Besides working on the small scale fisheries, he has participated in various research initiatives including ship surveys, FAD fisheries, dropline fisheries and satellite applications in fisheries research. His research work was supported by scientific outputs inform of publications, presentations in international conferences and short-course training programs on fisheries research, telemetry and ocean governance. Previously, he was working towards developing ecosystem based fisheries management tools for the Kenyan small scale fisheries through his PhD studentship at JCU with the ARC-CoE Coral Reef Studies Australia. He is now affiliated to Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI) working as a Research Scientist.
Eva grew up in a small Mediterranean town in the South of France. Eva decided to nourish her fascination for marine ecosystems by undergoing a 6 months internship with David Mouillot in Montpellier and Joshua Cinner in Australia, working on a global-scale assessment of coral reefs accessibility, based on travel time from human settlements. Currently, Eva was a PhD candidate at the University of Montpellier (France) and James Cook University/ARC Centre of Excellence of Coral Reefs Studies under the supervision of Professors David Mouillot and Joshua Cinner. Her research focused on defining key drivers of reef fish biodiversity, biomass and functions, in order to understand how fish communities are shaped by both socio-economic drivers and larval dispersal patterns on coral reefs.
Jan left the UK on a short expedition almost 15 years ago and still hasn’t found his way back. This may have something to do with the fact that beer tastes better in warm climates. Having completed a BSc in Marine Biology at University College of Swansea, Wales, and then a master’s degree in Applied Marine Science at the University of Plymouth, Jan joined the Royal Geographical Society Shoals of Capricorn programme and went to Seychelles. The allure of tropical seas proved irresistible and he went on to become the manager of the Fisheries Research Unit of the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA). In 10-years working at SFA, Jan developed research interests focusing on a broad spectrum of tropical fish, ranging from rabbitfish to tunas. His research included studies on the effects of fishing on reef fish spawning aggregations, the impacts of climate change on small-island developing state economies, and the effects of coral bleaching on reef fisheries. He also held numerous responsibilities with regional fisheries management organisations (RFMOs) and is currently vice-chair of the Scientific Committee of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC). Jan joined ARC to study for a PhD in April 2012. Under the wise guidance of Nick Graham, Josh Cinner and Glenn Almany, Jan focused on how the social behaviour of reef fish influences their vulnerability to fishing.
Peter is interested in integrating contemporary ecosystem-based management programs into existing customary marine tenure systems, drawing on partnerships with international research institutions, NGOs, government departments and local communities. His work is focused on commercially important grouper spawning aggregations in Papua New Guinea – investigating relevant biological spatial scales for management (e.g. larval dispersal patterns and home ranges) alongside the spatial scales of existing governance systems (i.e. customary marine tenure systems). Peter’s PhD is supervised by Glenn Almany, Joshua Cinner, Richard Hamilton and John Pandolfi.
Eddie Allison, University of Washington
Katrina Brown, University of Exeter
David Feary, University of Nottingham
Stefan Gelcich, University Católica de Chile
Nick Graham, Lancaster Environment Centre
, Conservation International
Aaron MacNeil, Dalhousie University
Tim McClanahan, Wildlife Conservation Society
McClanahan TR and J. Cinner. (2012). Adapting to a Changing Environment: confronting the consequences of climate change. Oxford University Press. New York.
Barnes, M. L., Wang, P., Cinner, J. E., Graham, N. A., Guerrero, A. M. Jasny, L., … & Zamborain-Mason, J. (2020). Social determinants of adaptive and transformative responses to climate change. Nature Climate Change, 1-6.
Cinner, J. et al. (2020). Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world. Science 368: 307-311
Cinner et al. (2020). Markets and the crowding out of conservation-relevant behavior. Conservation Biology
Lau, J.D., J.E. Cinner, M. Fabinyi, G. Gurney, C.H. Hicks. (2020). Access to Marine Ecosystem Services: Examining Entanglement and Legitimacy in Customary Institutions. World Development. 126: 104730
Maire. E. et al. (2020). Disentangling the complex roles of markets on coral reefs in northwest Madagascar. Ecology & Society
MacNeil, MA…Cinner, JE. (2020). Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks. Nature
Mbaru. E. K., N.A.J. Graham, T.R. McClanahan, J.E. Cinner. (2020) Functional traits illuminate the selective impacts of different fishing gears on coral reefs. Journal of Applied Ecology. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.13547
MacKeracher, T., Mizrahi, M., Bergseth, B. et al. Understanding non-compliance in small-scale fisheries: Shark fishing in Myanmar’s Myeik Archipelago. Ambio (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-020-01400-1
Lau, J. 2020. Three Lessons for Gender Equity in Biodiversity Conservation. Conservation Biology. Early view. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13487
Grantham, R., Lau, J. & Kleiber, D. 2020. Gleaning: Beyond the Subsistence Narrative. Journal of Maritime Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-020-00200-3
Brown, K., N.W. Adger, J. Cinner (2019). Moving climate change beyond a tragedy of the commons. Global Environmental Change, 54, 61-63. Link to full text or pdf
Cinner, J. E and M.L. Barnes (2019) Social dimensions of resilience in social-ecological systems. One Earth. 1: 51-56
Cinner, J.E., J.D. Lau, A.G. Bauman, D.A. Feary, F.A. Januchowski-Hartley, M.L. Barnes, B. Bergseth, E. Shum, R. Lahari, J. Ben, N.A.J. Graham (2019). Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining the commons. PNAS
Cohen, P., Allison, E. H., Andrew, N. L., Cinner, J. E., Evans, L. S., Fabinyi, M. et al. (2019). Securing a just space for small-scale fisheries in the blue economy. Frontiers in Marine Science, 6, 171. Link to full text or pdf
Gelcich, S., Martínez‐Harms, M. J., Tapia‐Lewin, S., Vasquez‐Lavin, F., & Ruano‐Chamorro, C. (2019). Comanagement of small‐scale fisheries and ecosystem services. Conservation Letters, 12(2), e12637. Link to full text or pdf
Jones, J. P.G., J. Ratsimbazafy, A.N. Ratsifandrihamanana, J.E. Watson, H.T. Andrianandrasana, M. Cabeza, J.E. Cinner, S.M. Goodman, F. Hawkins, R.A. Mittermeier et al. (2019). Madagascar: Crime threatens biodiversity. Science. 363: 825
Jones, J. P., Ratsimbazafy, J., Ratsifandrihamanana, A. N., Watson, J. E., Andrianandrasana, H. T., Cabeza, M. et al. (2019). Last chance for Madagascar’s biodiversity. Nature Sustainability, 2(5), 350. Link to full text or pdf
Lau, J. D., Hicks, C. C., Gurney, G. G., & Cinner, J. E. (2019). What matters to whom and why? Understanding the importance of coastal ecosystem services in developing coastal communities. Ecosystem services, 35, 219-230. Link to full text or pdf
McClanahan, T. R., Schroeder, R. E., Friedlander, A. M., Vigliola, L., Wantiez, L., Caselle, J. E. et al. (2019). Global baselines and benchmarks for fish biomass: comparing remote reefs and fisheries closures. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 612, 167-192. Link to full text or pdf
Thiault, L., S. Gelcich, J.E. Cinner, S. Tapia-Lewin, F. Chlous, J. Claudet (2019). Generic and specific facets of vulnerability for analysing trade-offs and synergies in natural resource management. People and Nature. 00:1-17. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10056
Thiault, L., C. Mora, J.E. Cinner, W.W.L Cheung, N.A.J. Graham, F.A. Januchowski-Hartley, D. Mouillot, U.R. Sumaila, J. Claudet (2019). Escaping the perfect storm of simultaneous climate change impacts on agriculture and marine fisheries. Science Advances. 5:eaaw9976
Darling, E.S., T.R. McClanahan, J.M. Maina, G.G. Gurney, N.A.J. Graham, F. Januchowski-Hartley, J.E. Cinner, C. Mora, C.C. Hicks, E. Maire et al. (2019). Social-environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1-10
Barneche, D. R., Rezende, E. L., Parravicini, V., Maire, E., Edgar, G. J., Stuart‐Smith, R. D. et al. (2019). Body size, reef area and temperature predict global reef‐fish species richness across spatial scales. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 28(3), 315-327. Link to full text or pdf
Bergseth, B.J. (2018). Counterpoint to Claudet. ICES Journal of Marine Science 75(3): 1181-1182. Link to full text or pdf
Bergseth, B.J. (2018). Effective marine protected areas require a sea change in compliance management. ICES Journal of Marine Science 75(3): 1178-1180. Link to full text or pdf
Bergseth, B.J., Gurney, G.G., Arias, A., Barnes, M. L., Cinner, J.E. (2018) Addressing poaching in marine protected areas through voluntary surveillance and enforcement. Nature Sustainability 1(8): 421-426. Link to full text or pdf
Zamborain‐Mason, J., Russ, G. R., Abesamis, R. A., Bucol, A. A., & Connolly, S. R. (2018). Node self‐connections and metapopulation persistence: reply to Saura. Ecology letters, 21(4), 605-606. Link to full text or pdf
Bergseth, B.J. & Roscher, M. (2018) Discerning the culture of compliance through recreational fishers perceptions of poaching. Marine Policy, 89: 132-141. Link to full text or pdf
Sutcliffe, S. and Barnes, M. (2018). The role of shark ecotourism in conservation behaviour: Evidence from Hawaii. Marine Policy 97: 27-33. Link to full text or pdf
Beyer, H. L., Kennedy, E. V., Beger, M., Chen, C. A., Cinner, J. E., Darling, E. S. et al. (2018). Risk‐sensitive planning for conserving coral reefs under rapid climate change. Conservation Letters, 11(6), e12587. Link to full text or pdf
Lau, J. D., Hicks, C. C., Gurney, G. G., & Cinner, J. E. (2018). Disaggregating ecosystem service values and priorities by wealth, age, and education. Ecosystem services, 29, 91-98. Link to full text or pdf
Maire, E., Villéger, S., Graham, N. A., Hoey, A. S., Cinner, J., Ferse, S. C. et al. (2018). Community-wide scan identifies fish species associated with coral reef services across the Indo-Pacific. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1883), 20181167. Link to full text or pdf
Marshall, N., Barnes, M. L., Birtles, A., Brown, K., Cinner, J., Curnock, M. et al. (2018). Measuring what matters in the Great Barrier Reef. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 16(5), 271-277. Link to full text or pdf
Teel, T. L., Anderson, C. B., Burgman, M. A., Cinner, J., Clark, D., Estévez, R. A. et al. (2018). Publishing social science research in Conservation Biology to move beyond biology. Conservation Biology, 32(1), 6-8. Link to full text or pdf
Cinner, J. E., Adger, W. N., Allison, E. H., Barnes, M. L., Brown, K., Cohen, P. J. et al. (2018). Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities. Nature Climate Change, 8(2), 117. Link to full text or pdf
Cinner, J. E., Maire, E., Huchery, C., MacNeil, M. A., Graham, N. A., Mora, C. et al. (2018). Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(27), E6116-E6125. Link to full text or pdf
Cinner, J. (2018) How behavioral science can help conservation. Science 362(6417): 889-890. Link to full text or pdf
Bergseth, BJ, Williamson, DH, Russ, GR, Sutton, SG and Cinner, JE (2017). A social–ecological approach to assessing and managing poaching by recreational fishers. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 15(2): 67-73 Link to full text or pdf
Blythe, J, P. Cohen, H. Eriksson, JE Cinner, D. Boso, A. Schwarz, N. Andrew (2017). Strengthening post-hoc analysis of community-based fisheries management through the social-ecological systems framework. Marine Policy. 82: 50-58. Link to full text or pdf
Gelcich, S, Cinner, J, Donlan, CJ, Tapia-Lewin, S, Godoy, N and Castilla, JC (2017). Fishers’ perceptions on the Chilean coastal TURF system after two decades: problems, benefits, and emerging needs. Bulletin of Marine Science 93(1): 53-67 Link to full text or pdf
Graham, NAJ, TR McClanahan, MA MacNeil, SK Wilson, JE Cinner, C Huchery, TH Holmes (2017) Human disruption of coral reef trophic structure. Current Biology, 23: 231-236 Link to full text or pdf
Hughes, TP, M. Barnes, D. Bellwood, JE Cinner, GS Cumming, JBC Jackson, J Kleypas, I van de Leemput, J Lough, TH Morrison, SR Palumbi, E van Ness, M Scheffer (2017) Coral Reefs in the Anthropocene. Nature 546: 82-90
Mbaru, EK and Barnes, ML (2017). Key players in conservation diffusion: Using social network analysis to identify critical injection points. Biological Conservation 210: 222-232. Link to full text or pdf
Russ, GR, Lowe, JR, Rizzari, JR, Bergseth, BJ and Alcala, AC (2017). Partitioning no-take marine reserve (NTMR) and benthic habitat effects on density of small and large-bodied tropical wrasses. PLoS One 12(12): e0188515 Link to full text or pdf
Villéger, S., Maire, E., & Leprieur, F. (2017). On the risks of using dendrograms to measure functional diversity and multidimensional spaces to measure phylogenetic diversity: a comment on Sobral et al.(2016). Ecology letters, 20(4), 554-557. Link to full text or pdf
Zamborain-Mason, J, Russ, GR, Abesamis, RA, Bucol, AA and Connolly, SR (2017). Network theory and metapopulation persistence: incorporating node self-connections. Ecology Letters 20(7): 815-831 Link to full text or pdf
Arias, A., RS Pressey, R. Jones, J. Alvarez-Romero, J Cinner (2016). Optimizing enforcement and compliance in offshore marine protected areas: A case study from Coco’s Island, Costa Rica Oryx 50(1): 18-26 Link to full text or pdf
Cinner, J et al. (2016). Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs. Nature 535: 416-419. Link to full text or pdf
Cinner J, MS Pratchett, NAJ Graham, V Messmer , MMPB Fuentes, T Ainsworth , NC Ban, LK Bay, JL Blythe, D Dissard, S Dunn, LS Evans, M Fabinyi, P Fidelman, J Figueiredo, AJ Frisch, CJ Fulton, CC Hicks, V Lukoschek, J Mallela, A Moya, L Penin, JL Rummer, S Walker, DH Williamson (2016). A framework for understanding climate change impacts on coral reef social-ecological systems. Regional Environmental Change. 16: 1133-1146 Link to full text or pdf
Gelcich et al. (2016). Fishers’ perceptions on the Chilean coastal TURF system after two decades: problems, benefits and emerging needs. Marine Pollution Bulletin Link to full text or pdf
Gurney, G, JE Cinner, J Sartin, RL Pressey, NC Ban, N. Marshall, D. Prabuning (2016). Participation in devolved commons management: Multiscale socioeconomic factors related to individuals’ participation in community-based management of marine protected areas in Indonesia. Environmental Science & Policy. 61: 212-220
Maina, J., Kithiia, J., Cinner, J., Neale, E., Noble, S., Charles, D. & Watson, J.E.M. (2016) Integrating social-ecological vulnerability assessments with climate forecasts to improve local climate adaptation planning. Regional Environmental Change 16(3): 881-891
Maire, E., JE Cinner, L. Velez, C. Huchery, C. Mora, S. Dagata, L. Vigliola, L. Wantinez, M. Kulbicki, D. Mouillot. (2016). How accessible are reefs to people? A global assessment based on travel time. Ecology Letters. 19: 351-360.
McClanahan, T., JE Cinner, S. Ruiz (2016). Simulating the outcomes of resource user- and rule-based regulations in a coral reef fisheries-ecosystem model. Global Environmental Change. 38: 58-69
Pendleton et al. (2016). Coral Reefs and People in a High-CO2 World: Where Can Science Make a Difference to People? PLoS ONE 11(11): e0164699
Waldie, P., GR. Almany, TH Sinclair-Taylor, RJ Hamilton, T Potuku, MA. Priest, KL Rhodes, J Robinson, JE Cinner, ML Berumen (2016). Restricted grouper reproductive migrations support community-based Management. Royal Society Open Science 3: 150694
Aguilera, S.E., Cole, J., Finkbeiner, E.M., Le Cornu, E., Ban, N.C., Carr, M.H., Cinner, J.E., Crowder, L.B., Gelcich, S., Hicks, C.C., Kittinger, J.N., Martone, R., Malone, D., Pomeroy, C., Starr, R.M., Seram, S., Zuercher, R., Broad, K. (2015) Managing small-scale commercial fisheries for adaptive capacity: Insights from dynamic social-ecological drivers of change in Monterey Bay. PLoS One 10: e0118992
Arias, A., J. E. Cinner, R. E. Jones and R. L. Pressey. (2015) Levels and drivers of fishers’ compliance with marine protected areas. Ecology and Society 20(4):19
Bergseth B, Cinner J, Russ G. (2015). Measuring and monitoring compliance in no-take marine reserves. Fish & Fisheries 16: 240-258
Biggs et al. (2015) Marine tourism in the face of global change: the resilience of enterprises to crises. Ocean and Coastal Management 105: 65-74
Cinner et al. (2015) Changes in adaptive capacity of Kenyan fishing communities. Nature Climate Change 5: 872-876
Cortesi, F., Feeney, W.E., Ferrari, M.C.O., Waldie, P.A., Phillips, G.A.C., McClure, E.C., Sköld, H.N., Salzburger, W., Marshall, N.J., Cheney, K.L. (2015) Phenotypic plasticity confers multiple fitness benefits to a mimic. Current Biology 25: 1–6
Cinner J, MS Pratchett, NAJ Graham, V Messmer , MMPB Fuentes, T Ainsworth , NC Ban, LK Bay, JL Blythe, D Dissard, S Dunn, LS Evans, M Fabinyi, Fidelman, J Figueiredo, AJ Frisch, CJ Fulton, CC Hicks, V Lukoschek, J Mallela, A Moya, L Penin, JL Rummer, S Walker, DH Williamson. (2015) A framework for understanding climate change impacts on coral reef social-ecological systems. Regional Environmental Change 16(4): 1133-1146
Eckstrom et al. (2015). Vulnerability and adaptation of US shellfisheries to ocean acidification. Nature Climate Change 5: 207–214
Gurney, G., R. Pressey, J. Cinner, R. Pollnac, and S. Campbell. (2015) Integrating Conservation and Development: evaluating a community-based marine protected area project for equity of socioeconomic impacts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 370: 20140277
Hicks CC, JE Cinner, N. Stoeckl, TR McClanahan. (2015). Linking ecosystem services and human values theory. Conservation Biology 29: 1471-1480
Januchowski-Hartley, F., NAJ Graham, JE Cinner. G Russ. (2015) Local fishing influences coral reef fish behavior inside protected areas of the Indo-Pacific. Biological Conservation 182: 8-12
MacNeil et al. (2015) Recovery potential of the world’s coral reef fishes. Nature 520: 341-344
McClanahan TR, Cinner J, Alison EH. (2015). Managing fisheries for human and food security. Fish & Fisheries 16(1): 78-103
McClanahan, TR, MA MacNeil, NAJ Graham, J Cinner (2015). Biomass-based targets and the management of multispecies coral reef fisheries.Conservation Biology 29: 409-417
McClanahan TR, Cinner J, Alison EH. (2015). Managing fisheries for human and food security. Fish & Fisheries 16: 78-103
Robinson et al. (2015). Fish and fisher behaviour influence the susceptibility of groupers to fishing at a multispecies spawning aggregation site. Coral Reefs 34: 371-382
Arias, A., RS Pressey, R. Jones, J. Alvarez-Romero, J Cinner. (2014). Optimizing enforcement and compliance in offshore marine protected areas: A case study from Coco’s Island, Costa Rica. Oryx 50: 18-26
Campbell SJ, Mukminin A, Kartawjaya T, Huchery C, Cinner J. (2014). Changes in a coral reef fishery along a gradient of harvesting intensity in an Indonesian marine protected area. Aquatic Conservation: marine and freshwater ecosystems 24: 92-103
Cinner J. Coral reef livelihoods. (2014). Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 7:65-71
Cinner, J and TR McClanahan. (2014) A sea change on the African coast: Preliminary social and ecological outcomes of a governance transformation in Kenyan fisheries. Global Environmental Change 30: 133-139
Cinner J, et al. (2014). Winners and losers in marine conservation: Fisher’s experiences of displacement and perceptions of spillover from marine protected areas in Seychelles and Kenya. Society & Natural Resources 27: 994-1005
Condy M, J Cinner, TR McClanahan, DB Bellwood (2014). Projections for the recovery of fish catch and ecosystem function by gear modifications in an impoverished fishery. Aquatic Conservation 25: 396-410
Graham, NAJ, J Cinner, A Norström, M Nyström (2014). Coral reefs as novel ecosystems: embracing new futures. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 7: 9-14
Gurney et al. (2014). Poverty and protected areas: an evaluation of a marine integrated conservation and development project in Indonesia.Global Environmental Change. 26: 98-107
Hicks CC and JE Cinner (2014). Social, institutional, and knowledge mechanisms mediate diverse ecosystem service benefits from coral reefs.PNAS 111: 17791-17796
Hicks CH, Stoeckl N, Cinner J, Robinson J. (2014) Fishery benefits and stakeholder priorities associated with a coral reef fishery and their implications for management. Environmental Science & Policy 44: 258-270.
Januchowski-Hartley FA, Cinner J, Graham NAJ. (2014). Fisheries benefits attained from behavioural modification of fishes in periodically harvested fisheries closures in Melanesia. Aquatic Conservation 24: 777-790.
Kittinger et al. (2014). A practical approach for putting people in ecosystem-based ocean planning. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 12: 448-456
McClanahan et al. (2014). Perceived benefits of management benefits in Madagascar. Ecology & Society 19(1): 5.
Robinson J, Cinner JE, Graham NAJ (2014) The Influence of Fisher Knowledge on the Susceptibility of Reef Fish Aggregations to Fishing. PLoS ONE 9(3): e91296.
Albert S, M Love, TD Brewer (2013) Contrasts in social and ecological assessments of coral reef health in Melanesia. Pacific Science 67(3) 409-424
Arias, A. and Sutton, S.G. (2013) Understanding recreational fishers’ compliance with no-take zones in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Ecology and Society 18(4): 18
Ban N.C., Mills M., Tam J., Hicks C.C., Klain S., Stoeckl N., Bottrill M.C., Levine J., Pressey R.L., Satterfield T., Chan K.M.A. (2013) A social-ecological approach to conservation planning: embedding social considerations. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 11(4): 194-202
Bijoux JP, Dagorn L, Berke G, Cowley PD, Soria M, Gaertner J-C, Robinson J (2013) Temporal dynamics, residency and site fidelity of spawning aggregations of a herbivorous tropical reef fish, Siganus sutor. Marine Ecology Progress Series 475: 233-247
Brewer T, Cinner J, Green A, Pressey R. (2013). Market access and socioeconomic development explain patterns of exploitation on coral reefs. Conservation Biology 27: 443-452
Cinner J, MA MacNeil, X. Basutro, S. Gelcich. (2013). Looking beyond the fisheries crisis: Cumulative learning from small-scale fisheries through diagnostic approaches.Global Environmental Change 6: 1359-1365
Cinner J, Graham NAJ, Huchery C, MacNeil MA. (2013). Global impacts of local human population density and distance to markets on the condition of coral reef fisheries. Conservation Biology 27: 453-458
Cinner J, Huchery C. (2013). A comparison of social outcomes associated with different fisheries co-management institutions. Conservation Letters 7(3) 224-232
Cinner J, Huchery C, Darling ES, Humphries AT, Graham NAJ, Hicks CH, Marshall N, McClanahan TR. (2013) Evaluating social and ecological vulnerability of coral reef fisheries to climate change. PLoS One. 8(9): e74321. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074321
Cohen P, Cinner J, Foale SJ. (2013). Fishing dynamics associated with periodically harvested marine closures. Global Environmental Change 6: 1702-1713
Cvitanovic C. et al. (2013). Critical research needs for managing coral reef Marine Protected Areas: perspectives of academics and managers. Journal of Environmental Management 114: 84-91
Graham NAJ, Bellwood DR, Cinner J, TP Hughes, Norström AV, Nyström M. (2013). Managing resilience to reverse phase shifts in coral reefs. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 11(10) 541-548
Grüss A, Kaplan DM, Robinson J (2013) Evaluation of the effectiveness of marine reserves for transient spawning aggregations in data-limited situations. ICES Journal of Marine Science DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fst028
Hicks CH, Graham, NAJ, Cinner J (2013). Synergies and tradeoffs in how managers, scientists, and fishers value coral reef ecosystem services. Global Environmental Change 6: 1444-1453
Januchowski-Hartley FA, Graham NAJ, Cinner J, Russ GR. (2013). Spillover of fish naïveté from marine reserves. Ecology Letters 16:191-197
Johnson AE, Cinner J, Hardt M, Jacquet J, McClanahan TR, Sanchirico J. (2013). Trends, current understanding, and future directions for artisanal coral reef fisheries research. Fish & Fisheries DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2012.00468.x
MacNeil A, Cinner J. (2013). Hierarchical livelihood outcomes among co-managed fisheries. Global Environmental Change http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.04.003
McClanahan TR, Cinner J, Abunge C (2013). Identifying management preferences, institutional organizational rules, and attributes, and their capacity to improve fisheries management in Pemba, Mozambique. African Journal of Marine Science 35(1)
Pietri D, Gurney G, Benitez-Vina N, Kuklok A, Maxwell S, Whiting L, Vina M, Jenkins L. (2013) Practical recommendations to help students bridge the “research-implementation gap” and promote conservation. Conservation Biology 27(5): 958-967
Ban, NC. J Cinner, V Adams, M Mills, GR. Almany, S Ban, LJ. McCook, A White. (2012) The glass as half full: Emerging trends and opportunities for marine protected areas through adaptive management. Aquatic Conservation 22: 262–271
Bohensky E, A Smajgl, TD Brewer (2012). Patterns in household engagement with climate change in Indonesia. Nature Climate Change doi:10.1038/nclimate1762
Brewer TD. (2013). Dominant discourses, among fishers’ and middlemen, of the factors affecting coral reef fish stocks in Solomon Islands. Marine Policy 37: 245-53
Brewer, T., J. Cinner, R. Fisher, A. Green, SK Wison. (2012). Market access, population density, and socioeconomic development explain diversity and functional group biomass of coral reef fish assemblages. Global Environmental Change 2: 399-406
Bruggeman et al. (2012). Wicked social-ecological problems forcing unprecedented change on the latitudinal margins of coral reefs: the case of southwest Madagascar. Ecology & Society 17(4): 1-17
Campbell et al. (2012) Avoiding conflicts and protecting coral reefs: Customary management protects habitat and fish biomass. ORYX 46: 486-494
Campbell SJ, Hoey AS, Maynard J, Kartawijaya T, Cinner J, Graham NAJ, Baird AH. (2012). Weak compliance undermines the success of no-take zones in a large government controlled marine protected area. PLOS One 7(11): e50074. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050074
Cinner, J., TR. McClanahan, MA MacNeil, NAJ. Graham, TM. Daw, A Mukminin, DA Feary, AL Rabearisoa, A. Wamukota, N Jiddawi, SJ Campbell, AH Baird, FA Januchowski-Hartley, S Hamed, R Lahari, T Morove, J Kuange. 2012. Comanagement of coral reef social-ecological systems. Proceedings of the US National Academies of Sciences (PNAS): 109: 5219-5222.
Cinner, J., T .M. Daw, T.R. McClanahan, N. Muthiga, C. Abunge, S. Hamed, B. Mwaka, A. Rabearisoa, A. Wamukota, E. Fisher, N. Jiddawi. (2012) Transitions toward co-management: the process of marine resource management devolution in three east African countries. Global Environmental Change 22:651-658
Cinner, J, T.R. McClanahan, N.A.J. Graham, T.M. Daw, J. Maina, S.M. Stead, A. Wamukota, K. Brown, Ö. Bodin (2012). Vulnerability of coastal communities to key impacts of climate change on coral reef fisheries. Global Environmental Change. 22: 12–20
Cinner, J., X. Basurto, P. Fidelman, J. Kuange, R. Lahari and A. Mukminin. (2012) Institutional designs of customary fisheries management arrangements in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Mexico. Marine Policy. 36: 278-285
Cinner, J. and RS Pomeroy (2012). People and the Sea. Coastal Management 40: 235-238
Daw TM, Cinner JE, McClanahan TR, Brown K, Stead SM, Graham NAJ and Maina J (2012). To Fish or Not to Fish: Factors at Multiple Scales Affecting Artisanal Fishers’ Readiness to Exit a Declining Fishery. PLoS One 7(2): e31460.
Fidelman, P, L. Evans, M. Fabinyi, S. Foale, J. Cinner, F. Rosen (2012). Governing large-scale marine commons: contextual challenges in the Coral Triangle. Marine Policy. 36:42-53
Guillotreau P, Campling L, Robinson J (2012) Vulnerability of small island fishery economies to climate and institutional changes. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4: 287-291
Hicks .C.C., McClanahanT.R., (2012) Assessing gear modifications needed to optimize yields in a heavily exploited, multi-species, seagrass and coral reef fishery. PloS ONE 7: e36022. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036022
Hughes, S., A Yaua, L Max, N Petrovicc, F Davenport, M Marshall, TR McClanahan, EA Allison, JE Cinner (2012). A Framework to Assess National Level Vulnerability from the Perspective of Food Security: The Case of Coral Reef Fisheries. Environmental Science and Policy 23: 95-108
Januchowski-Hartley FA, Nash KL, Lawton RJ. (2012) Influence of spear guns, dive gear and observers on estimating fish flight initiation distance on coral reefs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 469: 113-119.
McClanahan, T., C.A. Abunge, J. Cinner. (2012). Heterogeneity in fishers’ and managers’ preferences towards management restrictions and benefits in Kenya. Environmental Conservation. doi:10.1017/S0376892912000197
McLoed L, A Green, E Game, K Anthony, J Cinner, S Heron, J Kleypas, C Lovelock, J Pandolfi, R Pressey, R Salm, S Schill, C Woodroffe. (accepted). Integrating climate and ocean change vulnerability into conservation planning. Coastal Management 40: 651-667
Nash KL, Graham NAJ, Januchowski-Hartley FA, Bellwood DR. (2012) Influence of habitat condition and competition on foraging behaviour of parrotfishes. Marine Ecology Progress Series 457: 113-124.
Setiawan, A., J Cinner, S Sutton, A Mukim. (2012). The perceived impact of customary marine resource management on household and community welfare in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Coastal Management. 40: 239-249
Wamukota, A., JE Cinner and TR McClanahan (2012). Co-management of coral reef fisheries: A critical evaluation of the literature. Marine Policy. 36: 481-488
2011
Ban, NC, V Adams, GR Almany, S Ban, J Cinner, LJ McCook, M Mills, RL Pressey and A White. (2011) Designing, implementing and managing marine protected areas: emerging trends and opportunities for coral reef nations. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 408: 21-31
Cinner, J Social-ecological traps in coral reef fisheries (2011). Global Environmental Change. 21: 835-839
Cinner, J. and G. David (2011). Human dimensions of coastal and marine ecosystems in the western Indian Ocean. Coastal Management. 39: 351-357
Cinner, J., C. Folke, T. Daw and C. Hicks. (2011) Responding to change: using scenarios to understand how socioeconomic factors may influence amplifying or dampening exploitation feedbacks among Tanzanian fishers. Global Environmental Change. 21: 7-12
Daw, TM., J Cinner, TR McClanahan, NAJ Graham, SK Wilson. (2011) Design factors & socioeconomic variables associated with ecological responses to fishery closures in the western Indian Ocean. Coastal Management. 39: 412-424
Graham et al. From Microbes to People: Tractable benefits of no-take areas for coral reefs.(2011). Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review: 46: 251-296
Hicks C.C. (2011) How do we value our reefs? Risks and trade-offs across scales in ‘biomass based’ economies. Coastal Management 39:358-376
Feary, D., JE Cinner, N.A.J Graham, F.A. Januchowski-Hartley. (2011). Effects of Customary Marine Closures on Fish Behavior, Spear-Fishing Success, and Underwater Visual Surveys. Conservation Biology. 25: 341-349
Januchowski-Hartley, F., N.A.J. Graham, D. Feary, T. Morove; J. E. Cinner. Fear of Fishers: Human Predation Explains Behavioral Changes in Coral Reef Fishes. PLoS ONE. 6(8): e22761.
McClanahan, TR, NAJ Graham, MA MacNeil, N. Muthiga, J Cinner, H. Bruggeman, SK WIlson (2011). Critical thresholds and tangible targets for ecosystem-based management of coral reef fisheries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) doi/10.1073/pnas.1106861108
McClanahanT.R., Hicks .C.C., ( 2011) Changes in life history and ecological characteristics of the fish catch community with increasing fishery management. Fisheries Management and Ecology 18: 50-60
Mora, C. O Aburto-Oropeza, A Ayala Bocos, P Ayotte, S Banks, A Bauman, M Beger, S Bessudo, D Booth, E Brokovich, A Brooks, P Chabanet, J Cinner, J Cortés, J Cruz-Motta, AC Magaña, E DeMartini, G Edgar, D Feary, S Ferse, A Friedlander, K Gaston, C Gough, N Graham, A Green, H Guzman, M Hardt, M Kulbicki, Y Letourneur, AL Perez, M Loreau, Y Loya, C Martinez, I Mascareñas-Osorio, T Morove, MO Nadon, Y Nakamura, G Paredes, N Polunin, M Pratchett, HR Bonilla, F Rivera, E Sala, S Sandin, G Soler, R Stuart-Smith, E Tessier, D Tittensor, M Tupper, P Usseglio, L Vigliola, L Wantiez, I Williams, S Wilson, and F Zapata. (2011) Global human footprint on the linkage between diversity and function in reef fishes. PLoS Biology. 9(4): e1000606
Skinner, M. P., Brewer, T.D., Johnstone, R., Fleming, L. E., Lewis, R.J. 2011. Ciguatera fish poisoning in the Pacific Islands (1998 to 2008). PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 5: e1416
Steneck, R.S. T.P. Hughes, J. Cinner, N. Adger, S. Arnold, S. Boudreau, K. Brown, F. Berkes, C. Folke, L. Gunderson, P. Olsson, M. Scheffer, B. Walker, J. Wilson, B. Worm. (2011) Creation of a gilded trap by the high economic value of the Maine lobster fishery. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01717.x
Stoeckl, N., Hicks, C.C, Mills M, Fabricius K, Esparon, M, Kroon F, Kaur, Costanza, R. (2011) The economic value of ecosystem services in the Great Barrier Reef: State of knowledge and information gaps. in “Ecological Economics Reviews” Costanza R., Limburg K., Kubiszewski I., Eds. Annals of the New York Academy of Science. 1219:113-133
2010
Cinner, J. (2010) Poverty and the use of destructive fishing gear near east African marine protected areas. Environmental Conservation.(4): 321–326.
Cinner, J and Ö. Bodin. (2010). Livelihood diversification in tropical coastal communities: a network-based approach to analyzing ‘livelihood landscapes’ PLoS ONE. 5(8): e11999
Cinner, J TR. McClanahan, A. Wamukota. (2010). Differences in livelihoods, socioeconomic characteristics, and environmental perceptions between fishers and non-fishers living near and far from marine parks on the Kenyan coast. Marine Policy: 34:22-28
Feagan R.A., N. Mukherjee, K. Shanker, AH. Baird, J. Cinner, AM. Kerr, N Koedam, A. Sridhar, R. Arthur, L.P. Jayatissa, DL Seen, M Menon, S. Rodriguez, Md. Shamsuddoha, F. Dahdouh-Guebas. Shelter from the storm? The use and misuse of ‘bioshields’ in managing for natural disasters on the coast. Conservation Letters. 3: 1-11
Fuentes MMPB, JE Cinner (2010) Using expert opinion to prioritize impacts of climate change on sea turtles’ nesting grounds. Journal of Environmental Management: 91: 2511-2518
Hicks C.C., Fitzsimmons C., Polunin N.V.C. (2010) An analysis of Interdisciplinarity within the environmental sciences. Environmental Conservation37: 464-477
MacNeil, A. NAJ Graham, JE Cinner, PA Loring, S Jennings, NK Dulvy, AT Fisk, TR McClanahan. (2010). Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 365: 3753-3763
Pollnac, R., P. Christie, J. Cinner, T. Dalton, T. Daw, G. Forrester, N. Graham, T. McClanahan (2010). Marine reserves as linked social-ecological systems. Invited article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 107: 18262-18265
Wilson, S.K. et al. (2010). Critical knowledge gaps in current understanding of climate change impacts on coral reef fishes. Journal of Experimental Biology: 213: 894-900
2009
Bartlett C.Y., C. Manua, J. Cinner, S. Sutton, R. Jimmy, R. South, J. Nilsson, J. Raina. (2009). Comparison of outcomes of permanently closed and periodically harvested coral reef reserves. Conservation Biology: 23:1475-1484
Brewer, T. J. Cinner, A. Green, J. Pandolfi. (2009) Thresholds and multiple scale interactions of environment, resource use, and market proximity on reef fishery resources in the Solomon Islands. Biological Conservation 142: 1797–1807
Cinner, J. (2009). Migration and Coastal Resource Use in Papua New Guinea. Ocean & Coastal Management 51: 411-416
Cinner, J, T.M. Daw, T.R. McClanahan (2009). Socioeconomic factors that affect artisanal fishers’ readiness to exit a declining fishery. Conservation Biology: 23: 124-130
Cinner, J, M.M.P.B. Fuentes, H. Randriamahazo. (2009). Exploring social resilience in Madagascar’s marine protected areas. Ecology & Society: 14(1): 41. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art41/
Cinner, J. T. McClanahan, T. Daw, N.A.J. Graham, J. Maina, S.K. Wilson, T.P. Hughes. (2009) Linking social and ecological systems to sustain coral reef fisheries. Current Biology: 19: 206-212
Cinner, J. T. McClanahan, N.A.J. Graham, M. Pratchett, S.K. Wilson, J.B. Raina. (2009). Gear-based fisheries management as a potential adaptive response to climate change and coral mortality. Journal of Applied Ecology: 46: 724-732
Cinner, J. A. Wamukota, H. Randriamahazo, A Rabearisoa. (2009) Toward community-based management of inshore marine resources in the Western Indian Ocean. Marine Policy: 33: 489-496
Hicks, C., TR McClanahan, J Cinner, and J Mills. (2009) Trade offs in ecological goods and services associated with different coral reef management strategies. Ecology & Society: 14:10.
Lokrantz, J., M. Nystrom, A. Norstrom, C. Folke, J. Cinner. (2009) Impacts of artisanal fishing on key functional groups and the potential vulnerability of coral reefs. Environmental Conservation. 36: 327-337
McClanahan T.R, J. Cinner, J Maina, N.A.J. Graham, T.M. Daw, S.M. Stead, A. Wamukota, K. Brown, M. Ateweberhan, V. Venus, & N.V.C. Polunin. (2009). Identifying reefs of hope and hopeful actions: Contextualizing environmental, ecological, and social parameters to effectively respond to climate change.Conservation Biology: 23: 662–671
Kritzer J, Hicks CC, Mapstone B, Pina F, Sale P, (invited submission) Ecosystem-based management of coral reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds. In The Sea. Ed. Fogerty M. Harvard University Press
Kittinger J, Cinner J, Aswani S, White A. (in press). Back to the Past? Integrating Customary Practices and Institutions into Co-Management of Small-Scale Fisheries. In “Historical Ecology of Marine Social-Ecological Systems” J. Kittinger et al (eds). University of California Press.
McClanahan T, Allison EH, Cinner J. (in press). Managing marine resources for food and human security. In C. Barrett et al. (eds) Food or Consequences: Food Security and Global Stability. Oxford University Press.
Pratchett, MS, JD Bell, PL Munday, M Kronen, NAJ Graham, SK Wilson, RJ Lawton, S Pinca, K Friedman, AJ Williams, L Chapman, F Magron, JE Cinner, T Brewer, and A Webb. (2011) Coastal Fisheries. Chapter 9. In: Bell J (Ed) Climate change and the vulnerability of Pacific fisheries. Secretariat for the Pacific Community, Noumea.
Pomeroy, R, J. Cinner and J. Raakjaer Nielsen. (2011) Conditions for Successful Fisheries and Coastal Resources Co-management: Lessons Learned in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the wider Caribbean. In Cutts, R (ed.) Small scale fisheries management: Frameworks and approaches for the developing world. CABI Publishing: pp. 256
Hicks C.C. Hills J.M., LeTissier M. (2010) Natural Capital- valuing the coast. In Coastal Zone Management, Ed. Green D. R. Thomas Telford, London. pp 92-118
Cinner, J, T. R. McClanahan, C. Abunge, and A. Wamukota (2009). Human dimensions of conserving Kenya’s coral reefs. in J. Hoorweg and N. A. Muthiga, editors. Advances in Coastal Ecology: People, processes and ecosystems in Kenya. African Studies Centre, African Studies Collection Volume 20, Leiden, Netherlands.
The Cinner Research Group is committed to using the best possible science to inform policy at various scales. We regularly work with local coastal communities, government agencies, and international organizations to provide policy advice. We have developed a series of policy briefs and videos on collaborative management in English, Portuguese, Swahili, French, and Indonesian.
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April 2012
February 2009
The majority of people who see poaching in marine parks say nothing– August 17, 2018
There are bright spots among the world’s coral reefs – the challenge is to learn from them – July 21, 2017
The world’s coral reefs are in trouble, but don’t give up on them yet – June 1, 2017
Poverty, not population, is ruining coral reef ecosystems – Sep 30, 2011
“Where to publish“ A Handbook of Scientific Journals for Contributors to Marine Conservation
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Today, the British Ecological Society announced Dr Renato Morais from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University as the winner of this year’s Haldane Prize. The
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Abstract: Research from the Pacific Islands during the past decade has linked watershed modification to degradation in downstream freshwater and coral reef communities. However, even creative communic
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