A5063234971- Coastal and Marine Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Community Health and Development
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Forest Management and Policy
University of Exeter
2014-2025
Sustainability Institute
2016-2025
Hudson Institute
2019
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2019
University of East Anglia
2014
Norwich Research Park
2014
University of York
2009
Daw, T. M., C. Hicks, K. Brown, Chaigneau, F. Januchowski-Hartley, W. Cheung, S. Rosendo, B. Crona, Coulthard, Sandbrook, Perry, Bandeira, N. A. Muthiga, Schulte-Herbrüggen, J. Bosire, and R. McClanahan. 2016. Elasticity in ecosystem services: exploring the variable relationship between ecosystems human well-being. Ecology Society 21(2):11.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08173-210211
Rising inequalities and accelerating global environmental change pose two of the most pressing challenges twenty-first century. To explore how these phenomena are linked, we apply a social-ecological systems perspective review literature to identify six different types interactions (or “pathways”) between inequality biosphere. We find that research so far has only considered one-directional effects on biosphere, or vice versa. However, given potential for complex dynamics socioeconomic...
Chaigneau, T., and K. Brown. 2016. Challenging the win-win discourse on conservation development: analyzing support for marine protected areas. Ecology Society 21(1):36.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08204-210136
This article assesses the extent to which our conceptualisation, understanding and empirical analysis of ecosystem services are inherently gendered; in other words, how they might be biased unbalanced terms their appreciation gender differences. We do this by empirically investigating women men able benefit from across eight communities coastal Kenya Mozambique. Our results highlight different dimensions wellbeing affected services, these valued differently women. However, it is not just...
The long-term provision of ocean ecosystem services depends on healthy ecosystems and effective sustainable management. Understanding public opinion about marine coastal is important to guide decision-making inform specific actions. However, available data perceptions the interlinked effects climate change, human impacts value management are rare. This dataset presents raw from an online, self-administered, awareness survey conducted between November 2021 February 2022 which yielded 709...
Galafassi, D., T. M. Daw, Thyresson, S. Rosendo, Chaigneau, Bandeira, L. Munyi, I. Gabrielsson, and K. Brown. 2018. Stories in social-ecological knowledge cocreation. Ecology Society 23(1):23. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09932-230123
Tourism development has been promoted as an alternative livelihood to reduce the dependence of small island communities on declining marine resources. It is often central emerging agendas around planning and blue economy. However, relatively little known about how perceive tourism potentially sustainable in their area its implications. This qualitative study tracks a governance system transition analyzes factors perceived by stakeholders be driving hindering adoption tourism-based...
A key aim of sustainable development is the joint achievement prosperity, equality, and environmental integrity: in other words, material living standards that are high, broadly-distributed, low-impact. This has often been called "triple bottom line". But instead, what if there a "trilemma" inhibits simultaneous these three goals? We analysed international patterns trends relationships between per-capita gross national income, Gini coefficient for income distribution, ecological footprint...
Conservation managers frequently face the challenge of protecting and sustaining biodiversity without producing detrimental outcomes for (often poor) human populations that depend on ecosystem services their well-being. However, mutually beneficial solutions are often elusive can mask trade-offs negative people. To deal with such trade-offs, ecological social thresholds need to be identified determine acceptable solution space conservation. Although well-being as a concept has recently...
Despite extensive recent research elucidating the complex relationship between ecosystem services and human wellbeing, little work has sought to understand how contribute wellbeing poverty alleviation. This paper adopts concepts from "Theory of Human Need" "Capability Approach" both identify multitude links occurring domains, mechanisms through which wellbeing. Focus Group Discussions (N = 40) were carried out at 8 sites in Mozambique Kenya elicit how, why, what extent benefits derived...
Abstract Estimating thresholds to distinguish between good and degraded ecosystem states is key for assessing managing marine environments. Numerous methods are used estimate thresholds; however, there no standardized framework evaluate their accuracy reliability, which reduces the consistency transparency of estimated ‘good’ status. Statistical robustness four was evaluated by varying stochastic noise, sample size, shape pressure-state relationship simulated indicator data. Range natural...
Life satisfaction is both a desirable 'end' for sustainable development, and means to understand the priorities, behaviour of people towards local ecosystems. Ecosystem-services research on life has focused cultural services in wealthy, Western contexts, although ecosystem are essential poor people's livelihoods Global South. We examined reported from survey over 2000 rural urban settings coastal Kenya Mozambique. coded respondents' open-ended reasons their satisfaction, used multiple...
Here we describe an interdisciplinary and multi-country initiative to develop rapid, participatory methods assess the vulnerability of coastal communities facilitate adaptation climate change in data-poor regions. The were applied Madagascar as a case study. centred on exploratory research exercise two south-west Madagascar, workshop held Antananarivo June 2016, combined with component communicating ocean science stakeholders. It utilised innovative rapid approaches combine global local...
Non-technical summary We argue that the ways in which we as humans derive well-being from nature – for example by harvesting firewood, selling fish or enjoying natural beauty feed back into how behave towards environment. This feedback is mediated institutions (rules, regulations) and individual capacities to act. Understanding these relationships can guide better interventions sustainably improving alleviating poverty. However, more attention needs be paid experience-related benefits...
Environmental governance systems are expanding in size and complexity as they become more integrated ecosystem-based. In doing so, transitions often involve actors knowingly or unknowingly alter the autonomy of to make decisions, thereby ability system self-organise. other words, these becoming increasingly polycentric, moving towards an institutional structure that is reported confer a number benefits social-ecological systems. This article adds growing body evidence on polycentric...
There is a pressing need to reduce inequalities and bring everyone above foundational level of well-being whilst simultaneously staying within planetary boundaries. Yet, there limited understanding how moving into maintaining such 'safe just' spaces affect environmental behaviours. To fill this gap, we argue for integrating human behaviour research. In particular, 1) implement social thresholds when investigating behaviours; 2) investigate the impact on behaviours directly 3) incorporate...
Abstract Mounting evidence suggests that win‐wins are elusive and trade‐offs the norm in marine conservation development practice. The status quo involves trade‐offs, any change brought to ecosystems, economies societies will alter distribution of costs benefits, creating other winners losers among ecosystem services, sectors people. While studies increasingly acknowledging prevalence this article analyses how practitioners working for agencies consider, facilitate make trade‐off decisions a...
The 2015-2016 El Niño had large impacts globally. effects were not as great anticipated in Kenya, however, leading some commentators to call it a 'non-event'. Our study uses novel combination of participatory Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis tools, new existing social biophysical data, analyse vulnerability to, the multidimensional of, episode southern coastal Kenya. Using social-ecological systems lens unique dataset, our reveals overlooked by conventional analysis. We show how...
Interventions to address climate adaptation have been on the rise over past decade. Intervention programmes aim build resilience of local communities shocks, and ultimately their wellbeing by helping them better prepare, adapt recover. Resilience, similar human wellbeing, is a multidimensional construct grounded in realities lived experiences. Yet current evaluation frameworks used programming rarely consider what means contexts prior implementation. This policy designs risk failing improve...
Non-technical summary We argue that the ways in which we as humans derive well-being from nature – for example by harvesting firewood, selling fish or enjoying natural beauty feed back into how behave towards environment. This feedback is mediated institutions (rules, regulations) and individual capacities to act. Understanding these relationships can guide better interventions sustainably improving alleviating poverty. However, more attention needs be paid experience-related benefits...
Zoning is an important tool in marine spatial planning (MSP) for balancing the multi-uses of environment. Whilst mainly developed conceptually and implemented Europe North America, zoning becoming a popular addressing diverse coastal issues tropics. However, we know little about how it being practice that context. In this study, analysed factors strategies enable hinder establishment low-income tropics through case study 26-year history development Environmental Critical Areas Network (ECAN)...