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Tim Gray is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and specializes in Environmental Science. Their research spans several subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics of Tim Gray's work focus on marine and fisheries research, coastal and marine management, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, natural resources and economic development, international maritime law issues, and agricultural risk and resilience.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Marine Policy, Sustainability, Fishes, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), and the International Conference on Evolvable Systems.

Tim Gray has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, among whom are Nwamaka Okeke-Ogbuafor, Selina M. Stead, O. A. L. Paramor, Jenny Hatchard, and Knut H. Mikalsen.

Recent publications by Tim Gray include:

  • Principles and practical criteria for effective participatory environmental planning and decision-making, 2022, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
  • Oceanographic characteristics at fish aggregating device sites for tuna pole-and-line fishery in eastern Indonesia, 2020, Fisheries Research
  • Marine Pollution in Kuwait and Its Impacts on Fish-Stock Decline in Kuwaiti Waters: Reviewing the Kuwaiti Government's Policies and Practices, 2021, Frontiers in Sustainability
  • Is community-based management of small-scale fisheries in Sierra Leone the answer to their problems?, 2021, World Development Perspectives
  • Alleviating impacts of climate change on fishing communities using weather information to improve fishers' resilience, 2022, Frontiers in Environmental Science

Best Publications

  • The ‘Social Gap’ in Wind Farm Siting Decisions: Explanations and Policy Responses

    Derek Bell;Tim Gray;Claire Haggett

  • Re-visiting the ‘social gap’: public opinion and relations of power in the local politics of wind energy

    Derek Bell;Tim Gray;Claire Haggett;Joanne Swaffield

  • Fisheries science and sustainability in international policy: a study of failure in the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy

    Timothy Daw;Tim Gray

  • Discards in North Sea fisheries: causes, consequences and solutions

    T.L. Catchpole;C.L.J. Frid;T.S. Gray

  • Participation in fisheries governance

    Tim S. Gray

  • The concept of fisheries-dependent communities a comparative analysis of four UK case studies: Shetland, Peterhead, North Shields and Lowestoft

    Katherine Brookfield;Tim Gray;Jenny Hatchard

  • Water Politics in the Middle East: A Context for Conflict or Cooperation?

    Mostafa Dolatyar;Tim Gray

  • The 2002 reform of the Common Fisheries Policy's system of governance—rhetoric or reality?

    Tim Gray;Jenny Hatchard

  • Offshore wind farms and commercial fisheries in the UK: A study in Stakeholder Consultation

    Tim Gray;Claire Haggett;Derek Bell

  • From community-based to centralised national management—A wrong turning for the governance of the marine protected area in Apo Island, Philippines?

    E.J. Hind;M.C. Hiponia;T.S. Gray

  • Commodification of Volunteer Tourism: a Comparative Study of Volunteer Tourists in Vietnam and in Thailand

    Nathalie Coren;Nathalie Coren;Tim Gray

  • Introduction: Interaction between environment and fisheries-The role of stakeholder participation

    Riku Varjopuro;Tim Gray;Jenny Hatchard;Felix Rauschmayer

  • Reducing discards of fish at sea: a review of European pilot projects.

    Tom L. Catchpole;Tim S. Gray

  • Discarding in the English north-east coast Nephrops norvegicus fishery: the role of social and environmental factors

    T.L. Catchpole;C.L.J. Frid;T.S. Gray

  • Co-management and adaptive co-management: Two modes of governance in a Honduran marine protected area

    Natalie K. Bown;Tim S. Gray;Selina M. Stead

  • A complicated relationship: Stakeholder participation and the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management

    Tim Gray;Jenny Hatchard

  • Theorising about Participatory Fisheries Governance

    Tim S Gray

  • MPA policy: What lies behind the science?

    Alex J. Caveen;Tim S. Gray;Selina M. Stead;Nicholas V.C. Polunin

  • The challenges of the landing obligation in EU fisheries

    Thomas L. Catchpole;Ana Ribeiro-Santos;Stephen C. Mangi;Christopher Hedley

  • The new mode of marine planning in the UK: Aspirations and challenges

    Gavin Scarff;Clare Fitzsimmons;Tim Gray

  • EU marine strategy framework directive (MSFD) and marine spatial planning (MSP): Which is the more dominant and practicable contributor to maritime policy in the UK?

    Jonathon Brennan;Clare Fitzsimmons;Tim Gray;Laura Raggatt

  • Sandeels, sailors, sandals and suits: The strategy of the environmental movement in relation to the fishing industry

    Tim S. Gray;Mark J. Gray;Rod A. Hague

  • The so-called ‘moratorium’ on the licensing of new genetically modified (GM) products by the European Union 1998–2004: a study in ambiguity

    Sarah Lieberman;Tim Gray

  • The Ambiguous Role of the Environment Agency in England and Wales

    D. Bell;T. Gray

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Grant Burgess
J. Grant Burgess Newcastle University

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