Carlos García‐quijano
Biographic Data
| ID | 123187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carlos García‐quijano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carlos |
| FAMILY NAME | García‐quijano |
| SIGNATURE | QUIJANO C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rhode Island |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6409-2379 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Wellbeing impacts of Sargassum events in the Caribbean
Perceived Sargassum event incidence, impacts, and management response in the Caribbean Basin
Sargassum events have been an increasingly influential phenomenon in the Caribbean region in recent years, with correspondingly growing attention from news and social media, the scientific community, and policy makers. To better understand the human effects of Sargassum events, an online survey of 633 community members, resource users, and government and NGO staff from across the Caribbean Basin was conducted in the summer and fall of 2021. Resul…
Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico
Water Sharing as Disaster Response: Coping With Water Insecurity After Hurricane MarÍa
In 2017, Hurricane María left more than a third of Puerto Rican households without water services. Cascading failures—including the simultaneous collapse of water, electricity, and transportation sectors—presented serious challenges to the timely restoration of governmental services. In response, families across Puerto Rico adopted self-organized coping strategies to obtain the basic resources they needed, including safe and sufficient water. Dra…
The Disconnect Between Knowledge and Perceptions: A Study of Fishermen’s Local Ecological Knowledge and Their Perception of the State of Fisheries and How These Are Managed in the Dominican Republic
Evaluating the best available social science for natural resource management decision-making
Engage key social concepts for sustainability
Social indicators, both mature and emerging, are underused
Conceptualizing and operationalizing human wellbeing for ecosystem assessment and management
Coastal Resource Foraging, Life Satisfaction, and Well-Being in Southeastern Puerto Rico
Based on ethnographic work in coastal southeastern Puerto Rico, we explore the empirical observation that people who make a significant part of their living from fishing and exploitation of other coastal resources are more satisfied with their lives, their work, and their enjoyment of community life than their fellow community members. Coastal resource foraging (CRF) denotes a set of economic activities and social relations related to making a li…
A Fresh Defense: A Cultural Biography of Quality in Puerto Rican Fishing
Puerto Rican artisanal fishers, like artisanal food producers around the world, emphasize the quality of their products to compete with industrial food producer-distributors. In this article, we trace the cultural biographies of three important fish species, focusing on their roles in creating social relationships and, through this process, creating value and political alliances to contest fisheries laws. We argue that fishers move strategically …
Human Ecology of a Species Introduction: Interactions Between Humans and Introduced Green Iguanas in a Puerto Rican Urban Estuary
This paper reports results of interdisciplinary research between anthropologists and wildlife ecologists about the interactions between people and introduced green iguanas (Iguana iguana) in the San Juan Bay Estuary in Puerto Rico. Non-indigenous, introduced species and their impact on invaded ecosystems, including humans, are a worldwide environmental concern. Humans are the dominant species in most world ecosystems, and, thus, studying an intro…
Managing Complexity: Ecological Knowledge and Success in Puerto Rican Small-Scale Fisheries
This paper examines the interrelationship between Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) and success in the small-scale fisheries of Southeastern Puerto Rico (SE PR). Using mixed qualitative-quantitative ethnographic methods over 18 months of fieldwork, I investigated what constitutes success for small-scale fishers and what role LEK plays in helping them achieve success. SE PR fishers' models of success are geared towards socially beneficial goals suc…
Fishers' Knowledge of Marine Species Assemblages: Bridging between Scientific and Local Ecological Knowledge in Southeastern Puerto Rico
Increasingly, local ecological knowledge (LEK) held by groups of people engaging directly with their ecosystems for food production is recognized as a valuable tool for understanding environmental change, as well as for ecosystem management and conservation. However, the acceptance of LEK for resource management has been partly hindered by difficulties in translating local knowledge into a form that can be applied directly to Western scientific e…
The State and Small-Scale Fisheries in Puerto Rico
The State and Small-Scale Fisheries in Puerto Rico. Ricardo Pérez. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. 218 pp
Fishers' Knowledge of Marine Species Assemblages: Bridging between Scientific and Local Ecological Knowledge in Southeastern Puerto Rico
Increasingly, local ecological knowledge (LEK) held by groups of people engaging directly with their ecosystems for food production is recognized as a valuable tool for understanding environmental change, as well as for ecosystem management and conservation. However, the acceptance of LEK for resource management has been partly hindered by difficulties in translating local knowledge into a form that can be applied directly to Western scientific e…
Conceptualizing and operationalizing human wellbeing for ecosystem assessment and management
Evaluating the best available social science for natural resource management decision-making
Coastal Resource Foraging, Life Satisfaction, and Well-Being in Southeastern Puerto Rico
Based on ethnographic work in coastal southeastern Puerto Rico, we explore the empirical observation that people who make a significant part of their living from fishing and exploitation of other coastal resources are more satisfied with their lives, their work, and their enjoyment of community life than their fellow community members. Coastal resource foraging (CRF) denotes a set of economic activities and social relations related to making a li…
A Fresh Defense: A Cultural Biography of Quality in Puerto Rican Fishing
Puerto Rican artisanal fishers, like artisanal food producers around the world, emphasize the quality of their products to compete with industrial food producer-distributors. In this article, we trace the cultural biographies of three important fish species, focusing on their roles in creating social relationships and, through this process, creating value and political alliances to contest fisheries laws. We argue that fishers move strategically …
Water Sharing as Disaster Response: Coping With Water Insecurity After Hurricane MarÍa
In 2017, Hurricane María left more than a third of Puerto Rican households without water services. Cascading failures—including the simultaneous collapse of water, electricity, and transportation sectors—presented serious challenges to the timely restoration of governmental services. In response, families across Puerto Rico adopted self-organized coping strategies to obtain the basic resources they needed, including safe and sufficient water. Dra…
Fishers' Knowledge of Marine Species Assemblages: Bridging between Scientific and Local Ecological Knowledge in Southeastern Puerto Rico
Increasingly, local ecological knowledge (LEK) held by groups of people engaging directly with their ecosystems for food production is recognized as a valuable tool for understanding environmental change, as well as for ecosystem management and conservation. However, the acceptance of LEK for resource management has been partly hindered by difficulties in translating local knowledge into a form that can be applied directly to Western scientific e…
The State and Small-Scale Fisheries in Puerto Rico
The State and Small-Scale Fisheries in Puerto Rico. Ricardo Pérez. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005. 218 pp
Managing Complexity: Ecological Knowledge and Success in Puerto Rican Small-Scale Fisheries
This paper examines the interrelationship between Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) and success in the small-scale fisheries of Southeastern Puerto Rico (SE PR). Using mixed qualitative-quantitative ethnographic methods over 18 months of fieldwork, I investigated what constitutes success for small-scale fishers and what role LEK plays in helping them achieve success. SE PR fishers' models of success are geared towards socially beneficial goals suc…
Human Ecology of a Species Introduction: Interactions Between Humans and Introduced Green Iguanas in a Puerto Rican Urban Estuary
This paper reports results of interdisciplinary research between anthropologists and wildlife ecologists about the interactions between people and introduced green iguanas (Iguana iguana) in the San Juan Bay Estuary in Puerto Rico. Non-indigenous, introduced species and their impact on invaded ecosystems, including humans, are a worldwide environmental concern. Humans are the dominant species in most world ecosystems, and, thus, studying an intro…
A Fresh Defense: A Cultural Biography of Quality in Puerto Rican Fishing
Puerto Rican artisanal fishers, like artisanal food producers around the world, emphasize the quality of their products to compete with industrial food producer-distributors. In this article, we trace the cultural biographies of three important fish species, focusing on their roles in creating social relationships and, through this process, creating value and political alliances to contest fisheries laws. We argue that fishers move strategically …
Coastal Resource Foraging, Life Satisfaction, and Well-Being in Southeastern Puerto Rico
Based on ethnographic work in coastal southeastern Puerto Rico, we explore the empirical observation that people who make a significant part of their living from fishing and exploitation of other coastal resources are more satisfied with their lives, their work, and their enjoyment of community life than their fellow community members. Coastal resource foraging (CRF) denotes a set of economic activities and social relations related to making a li…
Engage key social concepts for sustainability
Social indicators, both mature and emerging, are underused
Conceptualizing and operationalizing human wellbeing for ecosystem assessment and management
Evaluating the best available social science for natural resource management decision-making
The Disconnect Between Knowledge and Perceptions: A Study of Fishermen’s Local Ecological Knowledge and Their Perception of the State of Fisheries and How These Are Managed in the Dominican Republic
Coastal Forest Fisheries, Estuarine Livelihoods, and Human Well-being in Southern Puerto Rico
Water Sharing as Disaster Response: Coping With Water Insecurity After Hurricane MarÍa
In 2017, Hurricane María left more than a third of Puerto Rican households without water services. Cascading failures—including the simultaneous collapse of water, electricity, and transportation sectors—presented serious challenges to the timely restoration of governmental services. In response, families across Puerto Rico adopted self-organized coping strategies to obtain the basic resources they needed, including safe and sufficient water. Dra…
Perceived Sargassum event incidence, impacts, and management response in the Caribbean Basin
Sargassum events have been an increasingly influential phenomenon in the Caribbean region in recent years, with correspondingly growing attention from news and social media, the scientific community, and policy makers. To better understand the human effects of Sargassum events, an online survey of 633 community members, resource users, and government and NGO staff from across the Caribbean Basin was conducted in the summer and fall of 2021. Resul…
Wellbeing impacts of Sargassum events in the Caribbean
Geography (11 works) · Biology (9 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Fishery (6 works) · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works)