Marine and coastal ecosystems provide important benefits and services to coastal
communities across the globe, but assessing the diversity of social relationships with oceans …

Highlights•Transboundary fisheries have complex legal plural arrangements.•Improving
horizontal and vertical linkages is important but not sufficient.•Power imbalances and …

When assessing future changes in fishing, research has focused on changes in the
availability of the resource. Fishers' behaviour, however, also defines fishing activity, and is …

Small-scale fisheries are critical for securing livelihoods for millions of people around the
world, yet are increasingly vulnerable to external drivers of change such as globalization …

Global marine ecosystems are increasingly understood as complex social-ecological
systems (SESs), and indicate that anthropogenic impacts are a main driver of global …

Abstract Marine Areas for Responsible Artisanal Fishing (AMPR) have emerged as a new
model for co-managing small-scale fisheries in Costa Rica, one that involves collaboration …

There is convergence at the international level that conserving biodiversity can contribute to
poverty alleviation, but empirical evidence for this relationship is scarce. In this thesis I …