Nathan J. Bennett
About
Nathan J. Bennett is currently cross-appointed as a research associate in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington and a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability at the University of British Columbia.
Nathan graduated from the University of Victoria with a PhD in Geography from the University of Victoria in 2013, a MS in Environmental Studies from Lakehead University in 2009 and a BEd from the University of Victoria in 2002. His work has been supported by a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (2010-2013), a Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship (2010-2013), a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013-2015), a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award (2015), a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017), and a Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017). Nathan currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Global Economics and Social Science Program of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and is an active member of the World Commission of Protected Areas (WCPA). In addition, he is affiliated with several research groups including the OceanCanada Partnership, the Community Conservation Research Network, and the Too Big To Ignore Project and is an Affiliated Researcher at Stanford University’s Center for Ocean Solutions.
Place
Nathan works with coastal communities in Mexico, Canada, and Southeast Asia.
Research
Nathan is a broadly trained environmental social scientist whose work interrogates various aspects of the complex relationship between the marine environment and human society with a solution-oriented lens. His publications and research interests are broad – with current projects focusing on marine protected area management and governance in Mexico, responses of coastal communities to environmental change in Southeast Asia and North America, marine conservation planning initiatives on the Pacific Coast of North America, the human dimensions of large-scale marine protected areas, and global issues related to ocean politics and environmental governance.
Key Publications
- Spalding, M., Meliane, I, Bennett, N, Dearden, P., Patil, P. & Brumbaugh, R. (2016). Building towards the marine conservation end-game: consolidating the role of MPAs in a future ocean. Aquatic Conservation: Marine & Freshwater Ecosystems 26 (Suppl. 2): 185–199. [OPEN ACCESS]
- Bennett, N., Roth, R., Klain, S., Chan, K., Clark, D., Cullman, G., Epstein, G., Nelson, P., Stedman, R., Teel, T., Thomas, R., Wyborn, C., Currans, D., Greenberg, A., Sandlos, J & Verissimo, D. (2016). Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation. Conservation Biology. Online [OPEN ACCESS]
- Bennett, N. J. (2016). Using perceptions as evidence to improve conservation and environmental management. Conservation Biology. online.
- Bennett, N. Blythe, J., Tyler, S., Ban, N. (2016). Communities and Change in the Anthropocene: Understanding Social-Ecological Vulnerability and Planning Adaptations to Multiple Interacting Exposures. Regional Environmental Change. 16: 907–926. [OPEN ACCESS]
- Bennett, N. J., Govan, H., & Satterfield, T. (2015). Ocean grabbing. Marine Policy, 57, 61–68. [OPEN ACCESS]
- Klain, S., Beveridge, R, Bennett, N.J. (2014). Ecologically sustainable but unjust? Negotiating equity and authority in common-pool marine resource management. Ecology & Society 19(4), 52. [OPEN ACCESS]
- Weigel, J.Y., Mannle, K.O., Bennett, N.J., Carter, E., Westlund, L., Burgener, V., Hoffman, Z., Da Silva, A.S., Kane, E.A., Sanders, J., Piante, C., Wagiman, S. & Hellman, A. (2014). Marine protected areas and fisheries: Bridging the divide. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 24(S2), 199-215. [OPEN ACCESS]
- Bennett, N. J., & Dearden, P. (2014). From measuring outcomes to providing inputs: Governance, management, and local development for more effective marine protected areas. Marine Policy, 50, 96–110. [OPEN ACCESS]
- Bennett, N. J., P. Dearden, G. Murray and A. Kadfak. 2014. The capacity to adapt?: communities in a changing climate, environment, and economy on the northern Andaman coast of Thailand. Ecology and Society 19 (2): 5. [online] [OPEN ACCESS]
- Bennett, N. J. & Dearden, P. (2014). Why local people do not support conservation: Community perceptions of marine protected area livelihood impacts, governance and management in Thailand. Marine Policy, 44, 107-116. [OPEN ACCESS]
- Bennett, N. J., Lemelin, R. H., Koster, R., & Budke, I (2012). A capital assets framework for appraising and building capacity for tourism development in aboriginal protected area gateway communities. Tourism Management, 33(4), 752–766
- Bennett, N., Lemelin, R.H., & Ellis, S. (2010). Aboriginal and Local Perspectives on the Community Benefits of Conservation: A Case Study of a Proposed Canadian National Park and the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation. Geography Research Forum, 30, 105-134.
- Lemelin, R. H., & Bennett, N. (2010). The Proposed Pimachiowin Aki World Heritage Site: Management and Protection of Indigenous World Heritage Sites in a Canadian Context. Loisir/Leisure, 34(2), 169-187.