Our Publications
Journal articles
- Eco-socio-economic vulnerability assessment of Portuguese fisheries to climate change. Miguel Pinto, Marta Albo-Puigserver, Juan Bueno-Pardo, João Nuno Monteiro, Maria Alexandra Teodósio, Francisco Leitão. Ecological Economics (2023)
- Research priorities for seafood-dependent livelihoods under ocean climate change extreme events. Elena Ojea, Xochitl Elias-Ilosvay, Diego Salgueiro-Otero, Iratxe Rubio, AlexanderTidd, Smit Vasquez Caballero, Juan Bueno-Pardo, Alba Aguión, Francesca Barazzetta, Julia Ameneiro. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (2023)
- The Role of Catch Portfolios in Characterizing Species’ Economic Linkages and Fishers’ Responses to Climate Change Impacts. Smit Vasquez Caballero, Diego Salgueiro-Otero, Elena Ojea. Ecological Economics (2023)
- Environmental variability and fishing effects on artisanal flatfish fisheries along the Portuguese coast. E Vânia Baptista, Ignacio Pérez Blasco, Juan Bueno-Pardo, Maria Alexandra Teodósio and Francisco Leitão. Frontiers in Marine Science (2022)
- Stronger adaptive response among small-scale fishers experiencing greater climate change hazard exposure. Xochitl Édua Elías Ilosvay, Jorge García Molinos & Elena Ojea. Commun Earth Environ 3, 246 (2022)
- Transformation in times of climate change: what makes a fisher diversify livelihoods?. Diego Salgueiro Otero, Michele L Barnes; Elena Ojea. Frontiers in Marine Science (2022)
- Climate adaptation pathways and the role of social-ecological networks in small-scale fisheries. Diego Salgueiro Otero, Michele L Barnes; Elena Ojea. Sci Rep12, 15526 (2022).
- Ecological sensitivity and vulnerability of fishing fleet landings to climate change across regions.Marta Albo-Puigserver, Juan Bueno-Pardo, Miguel Pinto, João N. Monteiro, Andreia Ovelheiro, Maria A. Teodósio & Francisco Leitão. Scientific reports, 12, 17360 (2022).
- Expanding ocean food production under climate change. Christopher M. Free, Reniel B. Cabral, Halley E. Froehlich, Willow Battista, Elena Ojea, Erin O’Reilly, James E. Palardy, Jorge García Molinos, Katherine J. Siegel, Ragnar Arnason, Marie Antonette Juinio-Meñez, Katharina Fabricius, Carol Turley, Steven D. Gaines. 2022. . Nature, 27 April 2022.
- Food security challenged by declining efficiencies of artisanal fishing fleets: a global country-level analysis. Tidd, Alexander; Rousseau, Yannick; Ojea, Elena; Watson, Reg A.; Blanchard, Julia L.Global Food Security, 32, 100598 (2022)
- Conservation-Status Gaps for Marine Top-Fished Commercial Species. Miqueleiz, I., R Miranda, AH Ariño, E Ojea. 2022. Fishes 7 (1), 2.
- Assessing countries’ social-ecological resilience to shifting marine commercial species. Ojea, E., Fontán, E., Fuentes-Santos, I. and Bueno-Pardo, Juan. Sci Rep 11, 22926 (2021).
- Establishing a governance threshold in small-scale fisheries to achieve sustainability. Aguión, Alba, Elena Ojea, Lucía García-Flórez, Teresa Cruz, Joxe Mikel Garmendia, Dominique Davoult, Henrique Queiroga, Antonella Rivera, José Luis Acuña-Fernández, and Gonzalo Macho. Ambio (2021): 1-14.
- A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change. Berrang-Ford, L., Siders, A. R., Lesnikowski, A., Fischer, A. P., Callaghan, M. W., Haddaway, N. R., … Ruiz-Diaz, R, … & Abu, T. Z. (2021). Nature Climate Change, 1-12.
- Global evidence of constraints and limits to human adaptation. Thomas, A., Theokritoff, E., Lesnikowski, A., Reckien, D., Jagannathan, K., Cremades, R., … & Raquel Ruiz-Diaz, Caitlin Grady, Matthias Garschagen, James Ford, Bowen, K. (2021). Regional Environmental Change, 21(3), 1-15.
- Climate change adaptation to extreme heat: A global systematic review of implemented action. Turek-Hankins, Lynée L., Erin Coughlan de Perez, Giulia Scarpa, Raquel Ruiz-Diaz, Patricia Nayna Shwerdtle, Elphin Tom Joe, Eranga K. Galappaththi et al. Oxford Open Climate Change (2021).
- Identifying policy approaches to build social–ecological resilience in marine fisheries with differing capacities and contexts. Kristin M Kleisner, Elena Ojea, Willow Battista, Merrick Burden, Erica Cunningham, Rod Fujita, Kendra Karr, Samuel Amorós, Julia Mason, Doug Rader, Nicolas Rovegno, Alice Thomas-Smyth. ICES Journal of Marine Science.
- Social connectivity and adaptive capacity strategies in large-scale fisheries. Iratxe Rubio, Jacob Hileman and Elena Ojea. 2021. Ecology and Society 26(2):42.
- Skippers’ preferred adaptation and transformation responses to catch declines in a large-scale tuna fishery. Iratxe Rubio, Alistair Hobday and Elena Ojea. 2021. ICES Journal of Marine Science, fsab065.
- A better understanding of social-ecological systems is needed for adapting fisheries to climate change. Diego Salgueiro-Otero and Elena Ojea. 2020. Marine Policy, 104123.
- Social-ecological vulnerability to climate change in small-scale fisheries managed under spatial property rights systems.Raquel Ruiz-Díaz, Xiaozi Liu, Alba Aguión, Gonzalo Macho, Maite de Castro, Moncho Gómez-Gesteira, Elena Ojea. 2020. Marine Policy, 104192.
- The future of food from the sea. Christopher Costello, Ling Cao, Stefan Gelcich, Miguel Á. Cisneros-Mata, Christopher M. Free, Halley E. Froehlich, Christopher D. Golden, Gakushi Ishimura, Jason Maier, Ilan Macadam-Somer, Tracey Mangin, Michael C. Melnychuk, Masanori Miyahara, Carryn L. de Moor, Rosamond Naylor, Linda Nøstbakken, Elena Ojea, Erin O’Reilly, Ana M. Parma, Andrew J. Plantinga, Shakuntala H. Thilsted & Jane Lubchenco. 2020. Nature, 19 August 2020.
- Adaptation of Fishing Communities to Climate-Driven Shifts in Target Species. Elena Ojea, Sarah Lester, Diego Salgueiro-Otero, 2020. OneEarth
- Realistic fisheries management reforms could mitigate the impacts of climate change in most countries. Christopher M. Free, Tracey Mangin, Jorge García Molinos, Elena Ojea, Merrick Burden, Christopher Costello, Steven D. Gaines, 2020. PLOS ONE, 0224347.
- Strategically designed marine reserve networks are robust to climate change driven shifts in population connectivity. A. Rassweiler, E. Ojea, C. Costello. 2020. Environmental Research Letters, 15, 034030.
- Southward re‐distribution of tropical tuna fisheries activity can be explained by technological and management change. Iratxe Rubio, Unai Ganzedo, Alistair J. Hobday and Elena Ojea. 2020. Fish and Fisheries, in press.
- Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories. K.J. Siegel, R.B. Cabral, J. McHenry, E. Ojea, B. Owashi and S.E. Lester. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 20 February 2019. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2365.
- Impacts and responses to environmental change in coastal livelihoods of south-west Bangladesh. Hossain, M.A.R., M. Ahmed, E. Ojea, J.A. Fernandes. 2018. Science of the Total Environment, 637-638, 954–970.
- Benefits From Water Related Ecosystem Services in Africa and Climate Change. Pettinotti, L., A. de Ayala, E. Ojea. 2018. Ecological Economics 149, 294-305.
- The role of non-natural capital in the co-production of marine ecosystem services. L. Outeiro, E. Ojea, J. G. Rodrigues, A. Himes-Cornell, A. Belgrano, Y. Liu, E. Cabecinha, C. Pita, G. Macho, S. Villasante. 2017. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Management, 13(3): 35-50.
- Fisheries regulatory regimes and resilience to climate change. E. Ojea, I. Pearlman, S.D. Gaines, S.E. Lester, 2017. Ambio, 1-14.
- Socioeconomic impacts of marine protected areas in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. M. Pascual, M. Rossetto, E. Ojea, N. Milchakova, S. Giakoumi, S. Kark, 2016. Ocean & Coastal Management 133, 1-10.
Scientific Posters
- Socioeconomic implications of the observed climate change distributional impacts in commercial marine species. Aguión, A., Salgueiro-Otero, D., Rubio, I., Ojea, E. 2017. Conference poster, ICES ASC Florida 2017
- Management solutions for shifting transboundary fish stocks under fixed catch shares. Xiaozi Liu, Elena Ojea and Mikko Heino, ECCWO 2018, Wshington DC.
- The socio-ecological vulnerability of artisanal fisheries to climate impact. Ruíz-Díaz, R., Liu, X., Ojea,E. IMBRSea 2018, Ostend
- Ecological, Socioeconomic and Institutional Resilience to shifting fish stocks. Ojea, E. and Fontán E. ICES ASC Hamburg 2018
Reports & book chapters
- Working Group on Resilience and Marine Ecosystem Services (WGRMES; outputs from 2020 meeting). ICES Scientific Reports. 3:93. 43 pp. ICES. 2021.
- The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy. S. Gaines, R. Cabral, C.M. Free, Y. Golbuu, R. Arnason, W. Battista, D. Bradley, W. Cheung, K. Fabricius, O. Hoegh-Guldberg, M.A. Juinio-Meñez, J. García Molinos, E. Ojea, E. O’Reilly and C. Turley. Blue Paper for the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.
- The future of food from the sea. C. Costello, L. Cao and S. Gelcich, M.A. Cisneros, C.M. Free, H.E. Froehlich, E. Galarza, C.D. Golden, G. Ishimura, J. Maier, I. Macadam-Somer, T. Mangin, M.C. Melnychuk, M. Miyahara, C. de Moor, R. Naylor, L. Nøstbakken, E. Ojea, E. O’Reilly, G.C. Osio, A.M. Parma, F. Pina Amargos, A.J. Plantinga, A. Tacon, and S.H. Thilsted. Blue Paper for the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.
- Socioeconomic Impacts of Networks of Marine Protected Areas. E. Ojea, M Pascual, D March, I Bitetto, P Melià, M Breil, J Claudet, 2017. Management of Marine Protected Areas: A Network Perspective, 103.
- Operationalizing the ecosystem approach to resolve mismatches in ocean governance. Garmendia, M., A. Markandya, E. Ojea, M. Pascual, 2016. In: Handbook on the economics and management of sustainable oceans. Edited by P.A.L.D. Nunes, L.E. Svenssonand and A. Markandya. Edward Elgar Publishing.
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The Biological Oceanography Group (GOB) and Future Oceans Lab (FOL) of the Marine Research Center (CIM) at the University of Vigo (Spain) will launch a call for a joint PhD student fellowship in September 2023.
09/08/2023Biological Oceanography Group (GOB) of the Marine Research Center (CIM) at the University of Vigo will be launching a joint PhD student position together with Future Oceans Lab (FOL) next September. At this moment, we are accepting expressions of interest from prospective students, that can share a motivation letter and a CV following the indication […]
Haritz Ayarza joins the FOL team to work as a research assistant
he works in research projects on marine social-ecological systems sustainability.
20/07/2023Haritz Ayarza is a graduate in Marine Sciences and Aquaculture Technician. Over the years, he has specialized in sustainable fisheries management and marine resources management, completing a Master in Sustainable Development Management. During his professional life he has collaborated with scientific centres such as AZTI, where he has studied the contribution of the code of […]
FOL participated in the MARE conference in Amsterdam
FOL members Oluwakemi and Xochitl presented their work at the People and the Sea conference on Blue Fear
05/07/2023The MARE conference was held last 26th – 30th of June 2023 in Amsterdam, Netherlands aimed at exploring ecological, social, and existential anxieties during the Anthropocene. The conference was co-organized by the University of Amsterdam, Wageningen University and Research Center, Aalborg University. Tromso University, Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, and the University of Gothenburg. […]