Research Lines
There is growing evidence that current management of marine resource systems may no longer be effective in the future under climate change. This will translate not only into important ecological impacts at local and global scales, but also into increasing livelihood vulnerability and inequalities. We believe these threats pose one of the major challenges humanity faces nowadays.
Our research looks for adaptation solutions in marine systems that allow for sustainable management in the long run, as well as helping achieve equitable resource sharing and livelihood support. We apply a large set of social and natural sciences methodologies to understand climate change impacts and adaptation in marine systems and work on smart solutions for future oceans sustainability.
Our work focuses along 3 main lines of research:
Social-ecological systems
We use the social ecological systems approach to understand how systems react to climate change. We develop adaptation solutions based on the interconnections of ecological, social and institutional components of the system.
Spatial management
Developing solutions for natural resource management under climate change.
Institutional arrangements
Analyzing the consequences of shifts in
species distribution in institutional fisheries arrangements.
Our Publications
Journal articles
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- 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.
Book chapters
- 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.
Assessing the adaptive capacity of Galician shellfisheries
Alba presents her work on bioeconomic models at the University of California
