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Overview

Shankar Aswani is affiliated with Rhodes University in South Africa. Their research spans multiple areas within environmental science and social sciences, focusing primarily on marine and coastal ecosystems.

Their recent publication record includes work published between 2020 and 2022, contributing to journals such as Ocean & Coastal Management, Journal of Environmental Management, American Anthropologist, and PLoS ONE.

  • 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
  • Lessons from bright-spots for advancing knowledge exchange at the interface of marine science and policy, 2022, Journal of Environmental Management
  • Social capital reduces vulnerability in rural coastal communities of Solomon Islands, 2020, Ocean & Coastal Management
  • New Directions in Maritime and Fisheries Anthropology, 2020, American Anthropologist
  • Happy without money: Minimally monetized societies can exhibit high subjective well-being, 2021, PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Ekaterina Popova
  • Narriman Jiddawi
  • WHH Sauer
  • Sarah Taylor
  • Jack Coupland

Key publication venues where they have contributed the most include:

  • Ocean & Coastal Management
  • Sustainability
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • American Anthropologist
  • PLoS ONE

Aswani's main fields of study are Environmental Science and Social Sciences. Within these, their work covers several subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Their research focuses on a variety of topics related to marine and coastal environments, including:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Coastal and Marine Management
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine animal studies overview
  • Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
  • Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture

Best Publications

  • Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values

    Edward B. Barbier;Evamaria W. Koch;Brian R. Silliman;Sally D. Hacker

  • Integrating customary management into marine conservation

    Joshua E. Cinner;Shankar Aswani

  • Ecosystem services as a common language for coastal ecosystem-based management.

    Elise F. Granek;Stephen Polasky;Carrie V. Kappel;Denise J. Reed

  • Global trends of local ecological knowledge and future implications.

    Shankar Aswani;Anne Lemahieu;Warwick H. H. Sauer

  • Integrating indigenous ecological knowledge and customary sea tenure with marine and social science for conservation of bumphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum) in the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands

    Shankar Aswani;Richard J. Hamilton

  • Incorporating Fishermen' s Local Knowledge and Behavior into geographical information Systems (giS) for Designing marine Protected areas in Oceania

    Shankar Aswani;Matthew Lauer

  • Indigenous Ecological Knowledge as Situated Practices: Understanding Fishers’ Knowledge in the Western Solomon Islands

    Matthew Lauer;Shankar Aswani

  • Customary Sea Tenure in Oceania as a Case of Rights-based Fishery Management: Does it Work?

    Shankar Aswani

  • Customary management as precautionary and adaptive principles for protecting coral reefs in Oceania

    S. Aswani;S. Albert;A. Sabetian;T. Furusawa

  • Common Property Models of Sea Tenure: A Case Study from the Roviana and Vonavona Lagoons, New Georgia, Solomon Islands

    Shankar Aswani

  • The way forward with ecosystem-based management in tropical contexts: Reconciling with existing management systems

    Shankar Aswani;Patrick Christie;Nyawira A. Muthiga;Robin Mahon

  • Patterns of marine harvest effort in southwestern New Georgia, Solomon Islands : Resource management or optimal foraging?

    Shankar Aswani

  • Fishing in the dark-local knowledge, night spearfishing and spawning aggregations in the Western Solomon Islands

    R.J. Hamilton;M. Giningele;S. Aswani;J.L. Ecochard

  • Scientific Evaluation in Women’s Participatory Management: Monitoring Marine Invertebrate Refugia in the Solomon Islands

    Shankar Aswani;Pam Weiant

  • Indigenous Knowledge and Long-term Ecological Change: Detection, Interpretation, and Responses to Changing Ecological Conditions in Pacific Island Communities

    Matthew Lauer;Shankar Aswani

  • Assessing the effects of changing demographic and consumption patterns on sea tenure regimes in the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands.

    Shankar Aswani

  • Globalization, Pacific Islands, and the paradox of resilience

    Matthew Lauer;Simon Albert;Shankar Aswani;Benjamin S. Halpern

  • Implications of urbanization for artisanal parrotfish fisheries in the Western Solomon Islands.

    Shankar Aswani;Armagan Sabetian

  • Benthic mapping using local aerial photo interpretation and resident taxa inventories for designing marine protected areas

    Shankar Aswani;Matthew Lauer

  • Do Marine Protected Areas Affect Human Nutrition and Health? A Comparison between Villages in Roviana, Solomon Islands

    Shankar Aswani;Takuro Furusawa

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Wolanski
Eric Wolanski James Cook University
Sebastian C. A. Ferse
Sebastian C. A. Ferse University of Bremen
Edward B. Barbier
Edward B. Barbier Colorado State University
Gerardo M. E. Perillo
Gerardo M. E. Perillo Universidad Nacional del Sur
Stephen Polasky
Stephen Polasky University of Minnesota
Éva E. Plagányi
Éva E. Plagányi Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Alistair J. Hobday
Alistair J. Hobday Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Gretta T. Pecl
Gretta T. Pecl University of Tasmania
Jurgenne H. Primavera
Jurgenne H. Primavera Zoological Society of London
Denise J. Reed
Denise J. Reed University of New Orleans

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