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Narriman Jiddawi is affiliated with the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a focus on various subfields including Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Oceanography.

Their research covers a diverse range of topics within marine and coastal environments. Main areas of work include:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration

Jiddawi has published extensively, contributing to journals such as Frontiers in Marine Science, Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science, Ocean & Coastal Management, PLoS ONE, and AMBIO. Some of their recent papers include:

  • Potential impacts of climate change on agriculture and fisheries production in 72 tropical coastal communities (2022, Nature Communications)
  • The small pelagic fishery of the Pemba Channel, Tanzania: What we know and what we need to know for management under climate change (2020, Ocean & Coastal Management)
  • Thresholds in seascape connectivity: the spatial arrangement of nursery habitats structure fish communities on nearby reefs (2020, Ecography)
  • Can innovation empower? Reflections on introducing tubular nets to women seaweed farmers in Zanzibar (2020, Gender Technology and Development)
  • Seagrass Structural Traits Drive Fish Assemblages in Small-Scale Fisheries (2021, Frontiers in Marine Science)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Per Berggren
  • Lina Mtwana Nordlund
  • Shankar Aswani
  • Sarah Taylor
  • Andrew J. Temple

Best Publications

  • Comanagement of coral reef social ecological systems

    Joshua E. Cinner;Tim R. McClanahan;M. Aaron MacNeil;Nicholas A. J. Graham

  • Marine fisheries in Tanzania.

    Narriman S. Jiddawi;Marcus C. Öhman

  • Middlemen, a critical social-ecological link in coastal communities of Kenya and Zanzibar

    Beatrice Crona;Magnus Nyström;Carl Folke;Carl Folke;Narriman Jiddawi

  • Transitions toward co-management: The process of marine resource management devolution in three east African countries

    J. E. Cinner;T. M. Daw;T. M. Daw;T. R. McClanahan;N. Muthiga

  • Economic value of marine ecosystem services in Zanzibar: Implications for marine conservation and sustainable development

    Glenn-Marie Lange;Narriman Jiddawi

  • Seagrass importance for a small-scale fishery in the tropics: the need for seascape management.

    Maricela de la Torre-Castro;Giuseppe Di Carlo;Narriman S. Jiddawi

  • Differences in macrofaunal and seagrass assemblages in seagrass beds with and without seaweed farms

    J.S. Eklöf;M. de la Torre Castro;L. Adelsköld;N.S. Jiddawi

  • Fish Traders as Key Actors in Fisheries: Gender and Adaptive Management

    Sara Fröcklin;Maricela de la Torre-Castro;Lars Lindström;Narriman S. Jiddawi

  • Fish, fishers and fisheries of the Western Indian Ocean: their diversity and status. A preliminary assessment.

    Rudy van der Elst;Bernadine Everett;Narriman Jiddawi;Gerald Mwatha

  • Gender analysis for better coastal management – Increasing our understanding of social-ecological seascapes

    Maricela de la Torre-Castro;Sara Fröcklin;Sanna Börjesson;Janine Okupnik

  • Procedural and distributive justice in a community-based managed Marine Protected Area in Zanzibar, Tanzania

    Madeleine Gustavsson;Lars Lindström;Narriman S. Jiddawi;Maricela de la Torre-Castro

  • Seaweed mariculture as a development project in Zanzibar, East Africa: A price too high to pay?☆

    Sara Fröcklin;Maricela de la Torre-Castro;Maricela de la Torre-Castro;Lars Lindström;Narriman S. Jiddawi

  • Marine megafauna interactions with small-scale fisheries in the southwestern Indian Ocean: a review of status and challenges for research and management

    Andrew J Temple;Jeremy J Kiszka;Selina M Stead;Nina Wambiji

  • Feeding ecology of the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) incidentally caught in the gillnet fisheries off Zanzibar, Tanzania

    Omar A. Amir;Per Berggren;Simon G.M. Ndaro;Narriman S. Jiddawi

  • Fishers' Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) on Connectivity and Seascape Management

    Charlotte Berkström;Charlotte Berkström;Myron Papadopoulos;Narriman Saleh Jiddawi;Lina Mtwana Nordlund

  • Potential impacts of climate change on agriculture and fisheries production in 72 tropical coastal communities

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  • The incidental catch of dolphins in gillnet fisheries in Zanzibar, Tanzania

    O.A. Amir;P. Berggren;N.S. Jiddawi

  • Homing and daytime tidal movements of juvenile snappers (Lutjanidae) between shallow-water nursery habitats in Zanzibar, western Indian Ocean

    Martijn Dorenbosch;Marieke C. Verweij;Ivan Nagelkerken;Narriman Jiddawi

  • A clash of values and approaches: A case study of marine protected area planning in Mozambique

    Sérgio Rosendo;Sérgio Rosendo;Katrina Brown;Alison Joubert;Narriman Jiddawi

  • Tracing value chains to understand effects of trade on coral reef fish in Zanzibar, Tanzania

    M. Thyresson;M. Thyresson;B. Crona;M. Nyström;M. de la Torre-Castro;M. de la Torre-Castro

  • Resource degradation of the sea cucumber fishery in Zanzibar, Tanzania: a need for management reform

    B. Hampus Eriksson;Maricela de la Torre-Castro;Maricela de la Torre-Castro;Johan Eklöf;Narriman Jiddawi

Frequent Co-Authors

Per Berggren
Per Berggren Newcastle University
Martin Gullström
Martin Gullström Södertörn University
Johan S. Eklöf
Johan S. Eklöf Stockholm University
Beatrice Crona
Beatrice Crona Stockholm University
Jeremy J. Kiszka
Jeremy J. Kiszka Florida International University
Nils Kautsky
Nils Kautsky Stockholm University
Tim M. Daw
Tim M. Daw Stockholm University
Matthias Wolff
Matthias Wolff Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology
Magnus Nyström
Magnus Nyström Stockholm Resilience Centre
Mats Björk
Mats Björk Stockholm University

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