Publications

Elizabeth Drury O'Neill, Tim M. Daw, Rosemarie N. Mwaipopo, Emilie Lindkvist. 2024. The complexity of compliance—Diverse responses to octopus fishery closures in Zanzibar. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10742

Marine protected areas like periodic closures are increasingly used to improve both fisheries management and biodiversity conservation, and often secondarily, human well-being. Yet rule breaking, whether formal regulations, or community-agreed norms, continues to negate expected management and conservation outcomes, remaining a major challenge. Although compliance scholarship today is expanding beyond non-economic explanation...

Elizabeth Drury O'Neill, Tim Daw, Lorna Slade, Fatma Khamis, Salim Nassor Mbarouk, Jineth Berrío-Martínez, Andrew Wamukota, Rosemarie N. Mwaipopo, Emilie Lindkvist. 2024. Multidimensional human wellbeing in periodic octopus closures in Zanzibar. Ecosystems and People. https://doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2024.2412616

Our study of periodic octopus closures helps to fill an empirical gap in community-based marine protected area (MPA) research on socially-diverse multidimensional wellbeing impacts. Human wellbeing provides a more meaningful and holistic measure of social impacts than previous economic measures while recognising equity- evidence that ultimately ensures support and enables long-term success in conservation. We trace the flow of...

María Mancilla García, Caroline Abunge, Salomão Olinda Bandeira, Christopher Cheupe, Dadivo José Combane, Tim Daw, Elizabeth Maria Drury O’Neill, Tilman Hertz, Marlino Mubai, Nyawira Muthiga, Taís Sonetti González, Halimu Shauri. 2024. Exploring a process‐relational approach to qualitative research methods for sustainability science. People and Nature. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10667

As sustainability scientists increasingly put forward the relevance of process-relational approaches to make sense of social-ecological phenomena, an inquiry on which methods would fit a process-relational approach is necessary. This paper discusses how a process-relational approach can be applied to traditional qualitative research methods, namely interviews and coding and the tensions associated with it. Process-relational p...

Tim M. Daw, Nicole J. Reid, Sarah Coulthard, Tomas Chaigneau, Vilma Machava António, Christopher Cheupe, Geoff Wells, Edgar Bueno. 2023. Life satisfaction in coastal Kenya and Mozambique reflects culture, gendered relationships and security of basic needs: Implications for ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2023.101532

Life satisfaction is both a desirable ‘end’ for sustainable development, and a means to understand the priorities, and behaviour of people towards local ecosystems. Ecosystem-services research on life satisfaction has focused on cultural services in wealthy, Western contexts, although ecosystem services are essential for poor people’s livelihoods in the Global South. We examined reported life satisfaction from a survey of over...

Beatrice I. Crona, Emmy Wassénius, Malin Jonell, J. Zachary Koehn, Rebecca Short, Michelle Tigchelaar, Tim M. Daw, Christopher D. Golden, Jessica A. Gephart, Edward H. Allison, Simon R. Bush, Ling Cao, William W. L. Cheung, Fabrice DeClerck, Jessica Fanzo, Stefan Gelcich, Avinash Kishore, Benjamin S. Halpern, Christina C. Hicks, James P. Leape, David C. Little, Fiorenza Micheli, Rosamond L. Naylor, Michael Phillips, Elizabeth R. Selig, Marco Springmann, U. Rashid Sumaila, Max Troell, Shakuntala H. Thilsted, Colette C. C. Wabnitz. 2023. Four ways blue foods can help achieve food system ambitions across nations. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05737-x

Blue foods, sourced in aquatic environments, are important for the economies, livelihoods, nutritional security and cultures of people in many nations. They are often nutrient rich, generate lower emissions and impacts on land and water than many terrestrial meats, and contribute to the health, wellbeing and livelihoods of many rural communities. The Blue Food Assessment recently evaluated nutritional, environmental, economic ...

Elizabeth Drury O'Neill, Tim M. Daw, Emilie Lindkvist, MWAMBAO, Rosemarie Mwaipopo. 2023. Compliance, Complexity and Cephalopods- Disaggregated Responses to Participatory Marine Conservation and Management. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3395205/v1

Breaking of rules, whether formal regulations, or community agreed norms, remains one of the most widespread challenges to sustainable use of marine ecosystems. Non-compliance is especially difficult in small-scale fisheries as it can undermine the provision of nutrition and livelihoods to the many millions dependent worldwide. Although fishery compliance scholarship today is expanding beyond non-economic explanations of (non)...

Elizabeth Drury O'Neill, Tim M. Daw, Emilie Lindkvist, MWAMBAO, Jineth Berrío Martínez, Andrew Wamukota, Rosemarie Mwaipopo. 2023. Multidimensional human wellbeing in periodic octopus closures. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3395112/v1

This paper investigates multidimensional human wellbeing in periodic octopus closures, a common type of marine protected area (MPA) in the western Indian ocean. We trace the perceived flow of benefits, costs and trade-offs from closures at three sites in Zanzibar. We specifically explore how different types of fishers and traders perceive the impacts of closures on wellbeing from a personal, livelihood group and village or com...

Giri, S., Daw, T., Hazra, S., Troell, M., Samanta, S., Basu, O., Marcinko, C., Chanda, A.. 2022. Economic incentives drive the conversion of agriculture to aquaculture in the Indian Sundarbans: Livelihood and environmental implications of different aquaculture types. Ambio. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-022-01720-4

Expansion of aquaculture in the Sundarbans Biosphere Reserve (SBR) is irreversibly replacing agricultural land and the drivers of this change are disputed. Based on in-depth interviews with 67 aquaculture farmers, this paper characterizes major aquaculture types in the SBR, their impacts, and identifies drivers of conversion from agricultural land. Aquaculture types included traditional, improved-traditional, modified-extensiv...

Marcinko, C.L.J., Nicholls, R., Daw, T., Hazra, S., Hutton, C., et.al. 2021. The Development of a Framework for the Integrated Assessment of SDG Trade-Offs in the Sundarban Biosphere Reserve. Water 2021, 13(4), 528; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13040528

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their corresponding targets are significantly interconnected, with many interactions, synergies, and trade-offs between individual goals across multiple temporal and spatial scales. This paper proposes a framework for the Integrated Assessment Modelling (IAM) of a complex deltaic socio-ecological system in order to analyze such SDG interactions. We focused on the Sun...

Lindkvist, E., Wijermans, N., Daw, T.M., Gonzalez-Mon, B., et.al. 2020. Navigating Complexities: Agent-Based Modeling to Support Research, Governance, and Management in Small-Scale Fisheries. Front. Mar. Sci., 17 January 2020, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00733

The sustainable governance and management of small-scale fisheries (SSF) is challenging, largely due to their dynamic and complex nature. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a computational modeling approach that can account for the dynamism and complexity in SSF by modeling entities as individual agents with different characteristics and behavior, and simulate how their interactions can give rise to emergent phenomena, such as over...