TRANSBOUNDARY GOVERNANCE WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS

Edward Allison
Director
Policy, Economics & Social Science
The WorldFish Center - Malaysia (Headquarters)
P.O. Box 500, GPO 10670 Penang, MALAYSIA
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Eddie has spent half his career working on fishery assessment issues and the other half in rural development. This has given him broad experience working with both natural and social scientists, as well as resource users, managers and other stakeholders. His research and policy advisory work over the last decade has aimed to make development issues more prominent in fisheries and aquaculture policy. Examples of this work include the analysis of livelihoods and the dynamics of poverty in African fishing communities, HIV and AIDS in fishing communities, climate change adaptation, and the governance of marine and inland fisheries. Eddie moved to WorldFish in 2007 from the School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, in the UK, where he was a senior lecturer in Environment and Development. Prior to that, he worked for the UK Department for International Development in Malawi. Eddie has published 36 articles in refereed journals, several book chapters, and over fifty reports and policy briefs for government agencies and international development organisations.

 

Neil Andrew
Director
Natural Resources Management
The WorldFish Center - Malaysia (Headquarters)
P.O. Box 500, GPO 10670 Penang, MALAYSIA
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Neil has participated in a wide range of fisheries and ecological research globally, including assessing stocks in shellfish fisheries, rocky reef ecology, fishery observer programs, prawn trawl by-catch, invasion ecology, echinoderm population biology, ecological effects of fishing, stock enhancement, population biology of seaweeds, and experimental design and analysis. He is skilled at liaising with community and stakeholder groups to design and execute fisheries research programs, and at translating research outputs into management outcomes. He moved to WorldFish from New Zealand’s National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in 2005. Neil’s publishing credits include 48 articles in refereed journals, two books as editor and six book chapters, and dozens of refereed reports on New Zealand fisheries.

 

Natalie Ban
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University
Townsville, QLD 4811, AUSTRALIA
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Natalie has been involved in marine conservation planning and research for the past 10 years. Her research interests span conservation biology, marine spatial planning, and conservation planning and implementation. Her love for the outdoors and concern for the future of the planet prompted her to develop research programs that focus on options for the conservation of biodiversity whilst respecting people’s needs and uses of resources. Her research (past and present) covers three themes; patch dynamics and conservation planning on the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea; marine protected area design in British Columbia, Canada, and the Coral Sea Heritage Park; and human uses and impacts on the marine environment. Natalie is interested in mapping anthropogenic impacts, devising ways to incorporate human uses into marine conservation planning, and exploring the concept of marine ecosystem services for conservation planning.

 

Beatrice Crona
Assistant Professor
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm, SWEDEN
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Beatrice’s work investigates knowledge systems used for management of natural resources as well as the factors that affect how resource users (and managers) build their knowledge of the resource. She also assesses the role of social networks for this knowledge production, how structural characteristics of social networks affect the outcomes of management initiatives and collective action, and issues related to small-scale fisheries, with a particular focus on East Africa and the western Indian Ocean. Beatrice previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity (CSID) at Arizona State University. At CSID Beatrice studied how a Boundary Organization (designed to straddle the divide between science and policy for water management in metropolitan Phoenix) used different strategies to achieve the goal of knowledge co-production and knowledge transfer between the scientific and policy realms. She also studied the role that the structure of social networks, boundary players, and leadership had on the success of this endeavor. Beatrice also participated in a study to assess the public’s perception of water quality in Phoenix, using innovative methods for understanding local ecological knowledge (LEK). This project has since been expanded to also investigate perceptions of water sources and scarcity, and to compare perceptions of water quality between English and Spanish-speakers in Phoenix.

 

Dr. Louisa Evans
Postdoctoral Fellow
Natural Resources Management
The WorldFish Center - Malaysia (Headquarters)
P.O. Box 500, GPO 10670 Penang, MALAYSIA
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Louisa is a social scientist with interests in governance of marine systems in developing countries. Her PhD, completed through the University of East Anglia (UK), used institutional analysis to explore issues of inclusion, knowledge and complexity in marine social-ecological systems in Kenya. Following this, Louisa moved to the WorldFish Center in Malaysia to continue work in resilience thinking and how these concepts can be applied to small-scale fisheries in the developing world. In May 2010, Louisa will commence a postdoctoral fellowship at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.

 

Carl Folke
Director
The Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Box 50005 SE-104 05 Stockholm, SWEDEN
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Professor Carl Folke is the Director of the Beijer Institute and Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Carl has extensive experience in transdisciplinary collaboration between natural and social scientists, and has worked with ecosystem dynamics and services as well as the social and economic dimension of ecosystem management and proactive measures to manage resilience. The work of his research group in Stockholm emphasizes the role that living systems, at different scales, play in social and economic development and how to govern and manage for resilience in integrated social-ecological systems. Carl is an elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and serves on its Environmental Research Committee. He is currently on the Board of the Stockholm Environment Institute, the Scientific Advisory Board of the South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies (SARAS), the Science Advisory Committee of IIASA, Vienna, the Steering Committee of the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, Leeds University/London School of Economics, the Scientific Committee of the Program on Ecosystem Change and Society (PECS), ICSU and the Volvo Environment Prize.

 

Lance Gunderson
Emory University
400 Dowman Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Professor Lance Gunderson worked for over a decade as a botanist with the US National Park Service in the Big Cypress and the Everglades regions of southern Florida. He then spent a decade as a research scientist in the Department of Zoology at the University of Florida. Lance was the founding chair of the Department of Environmental Studies at Emory University from 1999-2005. He has served as the executive director of the Resilience Network, as Vice Chair of the Resilience Alliance and on the Science Advisory Board of the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. Lance is also Co-Editor in Chief of the online journal Ecology and Society. In 2007 he was named a Beijer Fellow, of the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His ongoing research interests are in two major categories: 1) understanding how ecosystem processes and structures interact across space and time scales and 2) how scientific understanding influences resource policy and management. His interests are in the human and institutional dimensions to resource ecology.

 

Terry Hughes
Director
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University
Townsville, QLD 4811, AUSTRALIA
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Professor Terry Hughes is the Director of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, based at James Cook University in Townsville. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences in 2001 in recognition of “a career which has significantly advanced the world's store of scientific knowledge”.  In 2002 and 2007 he was awarded two 5-year ARC Federation Fellowships, enabling him to work fulltime on research and to establish, in 2005, the Centre for Coral Reef Studies. Terry has served on the editorial Board of Coral Reefs for 10 years as an Advisory, Topic and Managing Editor. He has published over 100 influential scientific papers that have focused mainly on population biology, community ecology, climate change, evolution, biogeography, and reef management.  Terry has also led field studies in many countries, including Australia, French Polynesia, Indonesia, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Samoa.

 

Agneta Karlsson
Director
Åland International Institute of Comparative Island Studies
Ålandsvägen 26, AX - 22 100 Mariehamn, ÅLAND
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Agneta Karlsson is the Director of the Åland International Institute of Comparative Island Studies (AICIS). She holds a MS and PhD in Business Administration from Lund University, Sweden. Her recent research has centred on the governance and economies of subnational island jurisdictions. Agneta has held associate professorships and directorships at Lund University, Copenhagen Business School, and the Norwegian School of Management. She is a board member of the Bank of Åland, Viking Line Abp, the Åland Chamber of Commerce and Åland Polytechnics. She has also acted as an advisor/consultant to many leading companies, corporations, and organisations throughout Scandinavia. Agneta has authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed papers, including contributions to the Scandinavian Journal of Organizational Psychology, Journal of Nordregio, and Islands Studies Journal. She has also co-authored reports and working papers for the Copenhagen Business School, Nordregio, and Statistics and Research Åland. Agneta’s research interests include island studies, strategic management, competitive analysis, and leadership.

Per Olsson
Theme Leader
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm, SWEDEN
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Per Olsson´s primary research interest is in linked social-ecological system dynamics and resilience. He has worked extensively in the field of ecosystems management and also has eight years of field work in Sweden, Belize and Australia. His current research is in adaptive governance of social-ecological systems. This includes identifying social factors, knowledge, and organizations for ecosystem management and focuses on dynamic interaction among key individuals, social networks, organizations and institutions. It also deals with adaptive capacity and transformability for dealing with uncertainty and change in social-ecological systems. Dr. Olsson has a fellowship with James Cook University in Townsville, Australia where he works with Professor Terry Hughes´ research group on adaptive governance of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Per maintains an extensive international scientific network with whom he collaborates, including the Natural Resources Institute at the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Henrik Österblom
Theme Leader
Stockholm Resilience Centre
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm, SWEDEN
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Henrik Österblom is a joint theme leader for Governance and ecosystem management of coastal and marine systems at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is also a researcher at the Baltic Nest Institute and is responsible for developing strategies for efficient communication between these two research institutions and policy makers. The Baltic Nest Institute has a mission to provide management with decision support for adaptive management of eutrophication and fisheries in the Baltic Sea, using the Baltic Nest model. Henrik has a background in marine ecology and also in working for the Swedish Ministry of Environment. His research focuses on food-web interactions, trophic cascades and ecosystem regime shifts, as well as governance of marine resources. Since 2009, he has been a member of the Swedish Council for Biological Diversity, a council that functions as a link between the scientific community and policy makers, primarily in relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity. Between April 2009 and June 2010, Henrik is undertaking a post-doc at the Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada, supervised by Professor Rashid Sumaila.

Marten Scheffer
Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group
Wageningen University
P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, Netherlands
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Professor Marten Scheffer currently leads the Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management group at Wageningen University. He is interested in unraveling the mechanisms that determine the stability and resilience of complex systems. Although much of his work has focused on the ecosystems of lakes, he has also worked with a range of scientists from other disciplines to address issues of stability and shifts in natural and social systems. Examples include the feedback between atmospheric carbon and the earth temperature, the collapse of ancient societies, inertia and shifts in public opinion, evolutionary emergence of patterns of species similarity, the effect of climatic extremes on forest dynamics and the balance of facilitation and competition in plant communities. He is a member of the editorial board of Ecosystems and Ecology and Society, and he has written two scientific books (Ecology of Shallow Lakes and  Critical Transitions in Nature and Society), and a popular science book (Vijver, Sloot en Plas with Jan Cuppen). Marten is also on the Scientific Boards of the Resilience Alliance, the Beijer Institute and the European Santa Fe institute Para Limens. He is currently working with a team from ten countries to establish the South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies, SARAS.

Robert Steneck
Darling Marine Center
The University of Maine
193 Clarks Cove Rd, Walpole, ME 04573, USA
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Professor Robert Steneck studies the structure and function of coastal marine ecosystems. He investigates the organisms important to these ecosystems and the people who depend on them. Bob has explored the kelp forest ecosystems of Maine for over 20 years and he has also worked extensively throughout the Caribbean and tropical Pacific studying coral reefs from both biological and geological perspectives. Bob’s experiments focus on the food webs, structure, and dominant organisms of coastal marine communities. His laboratory is the Gulf of Maine's subtidal zone, in which he employs SCUBA diving, underwater video systems, manned submersibles and the University of Maine's remotely operated vehicle as primary research tools. Bob is currently studying lobsters, sea urchins, and kelp in Maine and he also works on the ecology of coral reefs in the Caribbean. Bob’s focus is on in situ ecology - observing organisms and processes first hand, in their habitat. His work is at the organism level and integrates small scale patterns (i.e. behavioural phenomena) with large scale (oceanographic) processes. By applying basic ecology to human marine resource and management questions, Bob conducts studies that are both interesting and enormously useful for people who make their living from the sea.