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Christopher Costello is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on global and planetary change, ecology, economics and econometrics, management, monitoring, policy and law, and safety research.

Their work encompasses several main topics, including marine and fisheries research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, coastal and marine management, economic and environmental valuation, climate change policy and economics, and experimental behavioral economics studies.

Christopher Costello has published in a variety of venues, frequently contributing to the SSRN Electronic Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Science, and PLoS ONE.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Costello include:

  • The future of food from the sea (2020, Nature)
  • Effective fisheries management instrumental in improving fish stock status (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate (2021, Nature)
  • Realistic fisheries management reforms could mitigate the impacts of climate change in most countries (2020, PLoS ONE)
  • Governance challenges for tropical nations losing fish species due to climate change (2020, Nature Sustainability)

Frequent collaborators include Reniel B. Cabral, Steven D. Gaines, Juan Mayorga, Darcy Bradley, and Gavin McDonald, with multiple coauthored works.

Christopher Costello has authored book publications with various publishers, including:

  • Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks - "A Fish Cartel for Africa" (2023) and "Global Expansion of Marine Protected Areas and the Redistribution of Fishing Effort" (2025)
  • World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks - "Input Subsidies and the Depletion of Natural Capital: Chinese Distant Water Fishing" (2023)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - "Ocean Decade Vision 2030 White Papers - Challenge 3: Ocean Contributions to Nourishing the World's Population." (2024)

Best Publications

  • Rebuilding Global Fisheries

    Boris Worm;Ray Hilborn;Julia K. Baum;Trevor A. Branch

  • Can catch shares prevent fisheries collapse

    Christopher Costello;Steven D. Gaines;John Lynham

  • Tracking the global footprint of fisheries

    David A. Kroodsma;Juan Mayorga;Timothy Hochberg;Nathan A. Miller

  • Status and Solutions for the World’s Unassessed Fisheries

    Christopher Costello;Daniel Ovando;Ray Hilborn;Steven D. Gaines

  • The future of food from the sea.

    Christopher Costello;Ling Cao;Stefan Gelcich;Miguel Á. Cisneros-Mata

  • Effective fisheries management instrumental in improving fish stock status.

    Ray Hilborn;Ricardo Oscar Amoroso;Christopher M. Anderson;Julia K. Baum

  • Global fishery prospects under contrasting management regimes

    Christopher Costello;Daniel Ovando;Tyler Clavelle;C. Kent Strauss

  • Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate

    Enric Sala;Juan Mayorga;Darcy Bradley;Reniel B. Cabral

  • The stochastic nature of larval connectivity among nearshore marine populations.

    D. A. Siegel;S. Mitarai;C. J. Costello;S. D. Gaines

  • Dynamic reserve site selection

    Christopher Costello;Stephen Polasky

  • Evaluating tradeoffs among ecosystem services to inform marine spatial planning

    Sarah E. Lester;Christopher Costello;Benjamin S. Halpern;Steven D. Gaines

  • The economics of fishing the high seas

    Enric Sala;Juan Mayorga;Christopher Costello;David Kroodsma

  • Fishery Management Under Multiple Uncertainty

    Gautam Sethi;Christopher Costello;Anthony C. Fisher;W. Michael Hanemann

  • Improved fisheries management could offset many negative effects of climate change

    Steven D. Gaines;Christopher Costello;Brandon Owashi;Tracey Mangin

  • Optimal harvesting of stochastic spatial resources

    Christopher Costello;Stephen Polasky

  • Evolving science of marine reserves: New developments and emerging research frontiers

    Steven D. Gaines;Sarah E. Lester;Kirsten Grorud-Colvert;Christopher Costello

  • Eco-Label Conveys Reliable Information on Fish Stock Health to Seafood Consumers

    Nicolás L. Gutiérrez;Sarah R. Valencia;Trevor A. Branch;David J. Agnew

  • Science in support of ecosystem-based management for the US West Coast and beyond

    Sarah E. Lester;Karen L. McLeod;Heather Tallis;Mary Ruckelshaus

  • Avoiding invasives: trade-related policies for controlling unintentional exotic species introductions☆

    Carol McAusland;Christopher Costello

  • Marine spatial planning makes room for offshore aquaculture in crowded coastal waters.

    S. E. Lester;J. M. Stevens;R. R. Gentry;C. V. Kappel

  • ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON

    Christopher J. Costello;Charles D. Kolstad

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Ray Hilborn
Ray Hilborn University of Washington
Sarah E. Lester
Sarah E. Lester Florida State University
David A. Siegel
David A. Siegel University of California, Santa Barbara
Trevor A. Branch
Trevor A. Branch University of Washington
Laura E. Dee
Laura E. Dee University of Colorado Boulder
U. Rashid Sumaila
U. Rashid Sumaila University of British Columbia
Francisco P. Chavez
Francisco P. Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Dirk Zeller
Dirk Zeller University of Western Australia
Jeff Dozier
Jeff Dozier University of California, Santa Barbara

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