Sciences, Humanities and Researching Problems of the Environment (SHARPEN)
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Today it is widely recognised that ‘the environment’ consists of systems both natural and cultural. Understanding and affecting these systems successfully will require collaboration across the sciences / humanities divide. This is urgent in areas like species conservation: despite 40 years of concerted international conservation action and advocacy, rates of biodiversity loss today are higher than ever...
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Social-ecological system dynamics
One of the main barriers to the application of ecosystem services as a concept for understanding human relationships with nature is that current practice in the face of ecological and social complexity, service inter-dependencies and uncertainty is to build static, pattern-based maps of service provision, which cannot be predictive in...
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Sarah Martin
Research associate
My main research interests lie in the use of social and ecological research to improve fisheries management. I am particularly interested in small-scale fisheries, and have been involved in projects ranging from the south-east Asian fisheries of...
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