Socio-economics

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Network Coordinator
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Marine Governance, Networking and stakeholder engagement, Results Based Management

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Environmental Social Scientist
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Michael is a social scientist with an interest in understanding why people work together for sustainable resource use. He specializes in ocean governance, co-management, fisheries conflict, and science-policy engagement on complex social-ecological challenges. He uses inquiry-based techniques inform research, management and policy on global environmental change.

 

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Africa Marine, Programme Manager
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Design, management and delivery of marine projects within the Africa programme with FFI. Our work is taking place mainly via partnerships with local organisations and is centred on a set of community-centred approaches to empower locally-led management and conservation, and related relevant policies' engagement.

Previous professional experiences in development and CBNRM in the Western Indian Ocean region (Madagascar, european overseas territories, Comoros) and with humanitarian NGOs in Central Africa. Educational background on tropical agronomy and rural development.

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Associate Professor at Sokoine University of Agriculture
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Prof. Japhet J.

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Senior Lecturer in Spatial Information Science, Department of Environmental Sciences
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I am a spatial scientist with interests in a wide range of environmental and ecological questions, and have predominantly focused on coastal and marine environment. My ultimate goals are to understand and predict the impacts of environmental variability and change on marine and coastal social-ecological systems at local and global scales in-order to support local adaptation planning and management.

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Since his doctoral research between 2012 and 2016, Gildas has been working on coral farming and coral bio-ecology within the Polyaquaculture Research Unit (PRU) of the Fishery and Marine Science Institute of the University of Toliara, Madagascar.

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Associate Professor
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Aquatic Science; coastal resources management and deep sea ecology; biodiversity and taxonomy

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Research Fellow
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Human Geography, Political Ecology, EnvironmALmental Law and Policy, Marine Policy, Fisheries Management, Ocean Governance

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Researcher
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I specialise in the physical dynamics of estuaries; estuarine condition assessments; environmental flow requirements; climate change impacts on estuaries; and estuary management and policy. I am part of a core team that developed environmental flow requirements technologies for South Africa, e.g. Version 1, 2 and 3 of the eflows methods for estuaries. I have been involved in over 40 freshwater flow requirement (EFR) studies on estuaries in Southern Africa as project leader  or hydrodynamics / physical process specialist.

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Deputy Chief Education Specialist in Maritime Studies
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Subject planner for Maritime Economics and Nautical Sciences.