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2026

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105
Citations
88444
World Ranking
258
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award
  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences

Overview

Fikret Berkes is affiliated with the University of Manitoba in Canada and has a focused research profile spanning environmental science and social sciences. Their work covers interdisciplinary fields with significant contributions in sociology and political science, global and planetary change, ecology, general health professions, and geography, planning, and development.

The scientist's research topics include:

  • Indigenous Studies and Ecology
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Fikret Berkes has published extensively, contributing to various academic journals. Their frequent publication venues are:

  • Sustainability
  • Environmental Science & Policy
  • Ecology and Society
  • Pacific Conservation Biology
  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Among recent notable papers are:

  • "Working with Indigenous, local and scientific knowledge in assessments of nature and nature's linkages with people," 2020, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
  • "Indigenous knowledge: From local to global," 2021, AMBIO
  • "Community science: A typology and its implications for governance of social-ecological systems," 2020, Environmental Science & Policy
  • "Ecomimicry in Indigenous resource management: optimizing ecosystem services to achieve resource abundance, with examples from Hawaiʻi," 2020, Ecology and Society
  • "Adapting to climate change in small-scale fisheries: Insights from indigenous communities in the global north and south," 2020, Environmental Science & Policy

Collaborations form a distinct aspect of their academic endeavors, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Natalie Kurashima
  • C. Emdad Haque
  • Derek Armitage
  • Kāwika B. Winter
  • Puaʻala Pascua

Fikret Berkes was recognized with the award of Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015 under the Academy of Social Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience

    Fikret Berkes;Carl Folke;Johan Colding

  • REDISCOVERY OF TRADITIONAL ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE AS ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT

    Fikret Berkes;Johan Colding;Carl Folke

  • Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change

    Fikret Berkes;Johan Colding;Carl Folke

  • RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: BUILDING ADAPTIVE CAPACITY IN A WORLD OF TRANSFORMATIONS

    Carl Folke;Steve Carpenter;Thomas Elmqvist;Lance Gunderson

  • Evolution of co-management: role of knowledge generation, bridging organizations and social learning.

    Fikret Berkes

  • Rethinking Community‐Based Conservation

    Fikret Berkes

  • Scale and Cross-Scale Dynamics: Governance and Information in a Multilevel World

    David W. Cash;W. Neil Adger;Fikret Berkes;Po Garden

  • Adaptive comanagement for building resilience in social-ecological systems.

    Per Olsson;Carl Folke;Fikret Berkes

  • The tragedy of the commons: twenty-two years later.

    David Feeny;I Fikret Berkes;Bonnie J. McCay;James M. Acheson

  • Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management

    Fikret Berkes

  • Indigenous Knowledge for Biodiversity Conservation

    Madhav Gadgil;Fikret Berkes;Carl Folke

  • Community Resilience: Toward an Integrated Approach

    Fikret Berkes;Helen Ross

  • Common property resources : ecology and community-based sustainable development

    Fikret Berkes

  • Adaptive co-management for social–ecological complexity

    Derek R Armitage;Ryan Plummer;Fikret Berkes;Robert I Arthur

  • Co-management : concepts and methodological implications

    Lars Carlsson;Fikret Berkes

  • Community-based conservation in a globalized world

    Fikret Berkes

  • Understanding uncertainty and reducing vulnerability : lessons from resilience thinking

    Fikret Berkes

  • Combining Science and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Monitoring Populations for Co-Management

    Henrik Moller;Fikret Berkes;Philip O'Brian Lyver;Mina Kislalioglu

  • Managing small-scale fisheries : alternative directions and methods

    Fikret Berkes;Robin Mahon;Patrick McConney;Richard Pollnac

  • Adapting to Climate Change: Social-Ecological Resilience in a Canadian Western Arctic Community

    Fikret Berkes;Dyanna Jolly

  • Ecosystem stewardship: sustainability strategies for a rapidly changing planet

    F. Stuart Chapin;Stephen R. Carpenter;Gary P. Kofinas;Carl Folke;Carl Folke

  • Co-management and the co-production of knowledge: Learning to adapt in Canada's Arctic

    Derek Armitage;Fikret Berkes;Aaron Dale;Erik Kocho-Schellenberg

  • Navigating Social–Ecological Systems: Synthesis: building resilience and adaptive capacity in social–ecological systems

    Carl Folke;Johan Colding;Fikret Berkes

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University
Johan Colding
Johan Colding Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Anthony Charles
Anthony Charles Saint Mary's University
Per Olsson
Per Olsson Stockholm Resilience Centre
Derek Armitage
Derek Armitage University of Waterloo
Madhav Gadgil
Madhav Gadgil Indian Institute of Science
Nancy J. Turner
Nancy J. Turner University of Victoria
Helen Ross
Helen Ross University of Queensland
Brian Walker
Brian Walker Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Robert S. Steneck
Robert S. Steneck University of Maine

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