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Jennifer J. Silver

Jennifer J. Silver

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Political Science

D-Index
24
Citations
2899
World Ranking
1684
National Ranking
57

Overview

Jennifer J. Silver is affiliated with the University of Guelph in Canada and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Global and Planetary Change; Ecology; General Health Professions; and Geography, Planning and Development.

Their work addresses a range of topics centered on Coastal and Marine Management, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Indigenous Studies and Ecology, Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management, Geographies of human-animal interactions, International Maritime Law Issues, and Marine and fisheries research.

Jennifer J. Silver has published several papers in a variety of academic venues. Recent publications include:

  • The Politics of Ocean Governance Transformations, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Fish, People, and Systems of Power: Understanding and Disrupting Feedback between Colonialism and Fisheries Science, 2022, The American Naturalist
  • Disrupting and diversifying the values, voices and governance principles that shape biodiversity science and management, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Making global oceans governance in/visible with Smart Earth: The case of Global Fishing Watch, 2022, Environment and Planning E Nature and Space
  • Indicators are Relational: Navigating Knowledge and Power in the Development and Implementation of Coastal-Marine Indicators, 2022, Environmental Management

The frequent publication venues for Jennifer's work include:

  • Environment and Planning E Nature and Space
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • The American Naturalist
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Management

Collaborative research is a component of Jennifer's output, with several frequent co-authors including:

  • Derek Armitage
  • Ella-Kari Muhl
  • Roberta Hawkins
  • Daniel K. Okamoto
  • Lynn C. Lee

Best Publications

  • The Dark Side of Transformation: Latent Risks in Contemporary Sustainability Discourse

    Jessica Blythe;Jennifer Silver;Louisa Evans;Derek Armitage

  • Blue Economy and Competing Discourses in International Oceans Governance

    Jennifer J. Silver;Noella J. Gray;Lisa M. Campbell;Luke W. Fairbanks

  • Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy

    Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor;Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor;Jessica Blythe;Jennifer J. Silver

  • Global Oceans Governance: New and Emerging Issues

    Lisa M. Campbell;Noella J. Gray;Luke Fairbanks;Jennifer J. Silver

  • Gatekeepers and Keymasters: Dynamic Relationships of Access in Geographical Fieldwork*

    Lisa M. Campbell;Noella J. Gray;Zoe A. Meletis;James G. Abbott

  • Fisher participation in research: Dilemmas with the use of fisher knowledge

    Jennifer J. Silver;Lisa M. Campbell

  • The Politics of Ocean Governance Transformations

    Jessica L. Blythe;Derek Armitage;Nathan J. Bennett;Jennifer J. Silver

  • Conservation, development and the blue frontier: the Republic of Seychelles’ Debt Restructuring for Marine Conservation and Climate Adaptation Program

    Jennifer J. Silver;Lisa M. Campbell

  • Finding "Space" for Comanagement of Forests within the Neoliberal Paradigm: Rights, Strategies, and Tools for Asserting a Local Agenda

    Evelyn Pinkerton;Robyn Heaslip;Jennifer J. Silver;Kira Furman

  • Weighing in on Scale: Synthesizing Disciplinary Approaches to Scale in the Context of Building Interdisciplinary Resource Management

    Jennifer J. Silver

  • Co-management of sea turtle fisheries: Biogeography versus geopolitics

    Lisa M. Campbell;Jennifer J. Silver;Noella J. Gray;Sue Ranger

  • From selfie to #sealfie: Nature 2.0 and the digital cultural politics of an internationally contested resource

    Roberta Hawkins;Jennifer J. Silver

  • A heuristic model of socially learned migration behaviour exhibits distinctive spatial and reproductive dynamics

    Alec D MacCall;Tessa B Francis;André E Punt;Margaret C Siple

  • Attending to spatial social–ecological sensitivities to improve trade‐off analysis in natural resource management

    Daniel K. Okamoto;Melissa R. Poe;Melissa R. Poe;Tessa B. Francis;André E. Punt

  • Oceans at Rio+20

    Lisa M. Campbell;Noella J. Gray;Luke W. Fairbanks;Jennifer J. Silver

  • Neoliberalizing coastal space and subjects: On shellfish aquaculture projections, interventions and outcomes in British Columbia, Canada

    Jennifer J. Silver

  • Recommendations for marine herring policy change in Canada: Aligning with Indigenous legal and inherent rights

    Suzanne von der Porten;Dana Lepofsky;Deborah McGregor;Jennifer Silver

  • Marine turtles in the Turks and Caicos Islands: remnant rookeries, regionally significant foraging stocks, and a major turtle fishery.

    Peter B. Richardson;Peter B. Richardson;Michael W. Bruford;Marta C. Calosso;Lisa M. Campbell

  • Integrating Governance and Quantitative Evaluation of Resource Management Strategies to Improve Social and Ecological Outcomes

    Derek R Armitage;Daniel K Okamoto;Jennifer J Silver;Tessa B Francis

  • Human conflict over wildlife: exploring social constructions of African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in Botswana

    Valli-Laurente Fraser-Celin;Alice J Hovorka;Jennifer J Silver

  • Cadastralizing or coordinating the clam commons: Can competing community and government visions of wild and farmed fisheries be reconciled?

    Evelyn Pinkerton;Jennifer Silver

  • From fishing to farming: Shellfish aquaculture expansion and the complexities of ocean space on Canada's west coast

    Jennifer J. Silver

  • “I’m not trying to save fish, I’m trying to save dinner”: Media, celebrity and sustainable seafood as a solution to environmental limits

    Jennifer J. Silver;Roberta Hawkins

  • Complex context: Aboriginal participation in hosting the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

    Jennifer J. Silver;Zoë A. Meletis;Priya Vadi

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek Armitage
Derek Armitage University of Waterloo
Lisa M. Campbell
Lisa M. Campbell Duke University
Nathan J. Bennett
Nathan J. Bennett University of British Columbia
André E. Punt
André E. Punt University of Washington
Philippe Le Billon
Philippe Le Billon University of British Columbia
Xavier Basurto
Xavier Basurto Duke University
U. Rashid Sumaila
U. Rashid Sumaila University of British Columbia
Thomas L. Frölicher
Thomas L. Frölicher University of Bern
Evan D. G. Fraser
Evan D. G. Fraser University of Guelph
Frank Asche
Frank Asche University of Florida

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