Rachel A Turner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1571523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel A Turner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel A |
| FAMILY NAME | Turner |
| SIGNATURE | TURNER R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3288-0562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Navigating tricky trade-offs in busy seas
The expanding blue economy intensifies competition for marine resources worldwide, necessitating trade-offs among sectors, stakeholders, and ecosystems. Our qualitative research examined how these marine trade-offs are managed in England and the implications for blue (social) justice. Through a desk review and interviews with marine managers and policy-makers we found that trade-offs are not addressed systematically, with decision-making biased b…
Triple exposure
Localising and democratising goal-based governance for sustainability
Accelerating social and environmental change raises pressing questions about how existing institutions can be reformed to mount a more effective response. In this context, goal-based governance has been widely adopted in order to mobilise existing bodies to agree shared goals and develop common purpose. Increasingly employed in sustainability governance at the international scale, goal-based governance concerns setting pan-organisational goals an…
Downscaling doughnut economics for sustainability governance
The concept of ‘doughnut economics’ is attracting growing attention from policy-makers and has the potential to unify stakeholders around a holistic vision of sustainable development. The ‘safe and just’ space within the doughnut is framed at a global scale, based on human needs that represent a foundation for social wellbeing, and planetary boundaries reflecting biophysical limits. However, the geographical division of political power between an…
Recognizing Women’s Wellbeing and Contribution to Social Resilience in Fisheries
Building social resilience is important for fishing communities, which globally face unprecedented social and environmental change. While women’s direct and indirect contribution to fishing economies is increasingly recognized, their contribution to the social resilience of fisheries remains under-examined. Using interview and focus group data, we investigate women’s role in supporting the social resilience of UK fishing communities and examine i…
Trade-offs between physical risk and economic reward affect fishers’ vulnerability to changing storminess
Climate change-driven alterations in storm frequency and intensity threaten the wellbeing of billions of people who depend on fisheries for food security and livelihoods. Weather conditions shape vulnerability to both loss of life and reduced fishing opportunities through their influence on fishers' daily participation decisions. The trade-off between physical risk at sea and the economic rewards of continued fishing under adverse weather conditi…
The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance
Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative—involves many centres of authority interacting coherently for a common governance goal. Yet, longitudinal analysis reveals many polycentric systems are struggling to cope with the growing impacts, pace, and scope of social and environmental change. Analytic shortcomin…
Constraints to healthcare access among commercial fishers
Fishing is a challenging occupation, in which physical and mental health risks may be exacerbated by environmental, socio-economic and policy change. While anecdotal information suggests that compared to other groups fishers are less likely to access healthcare, the reasons for this are poorly understood. Constraints to accessing healthcare were assessed through a mixed methods approach, using a holistic framework of access. A self-administered q…
Trust, confidence, and equity affect the legitimacy of natural resource governance
Turner, R. A., J. Addison, A. Arias, B. J. Bergseth, N. A. Marshall, T. H. Morrison, and R. C. Tobin. 2016. Trust, confidence, and equity affect the legitimacy of natural resource governance. Ecology and Society 21(3):18.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08542-210318
Measuring good governance for complex ecosystems
Social networks and fishers' behavior
Turner, R. A., N. V. C. Polunin, and S. M. Stead. 2014. Social networks and fishers’ behavior: exploring the links between information flow and fishing success in the Northumberland lobster fishery. Ecology and Society 19(2): 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06456-190238
Territoriality as a Driver of Fishers' Spatial Behavior in the Northumberland Lobster Fishery
Knowledge of informal rules governing fishers' behavior is important to help formulate policies suited to local conditions and supported by resource users. Fishers' behavior may be influenced by informal property rights or territoriality, yet drivers of such behavior in UK fisheries have seldom been explored. This study presents findings from interviews with lobster fishers (n = 44) at six ports in Northumberland, UK. The study aimed to investiga…
Trust, confidence, and equity affect the legitimacy of natural resource governance
Turner, R. A., J. Addison, A. Arias, B. J. Bergseth, N. A. Marshall, T. H. Morrison, and R. C. Tobin. 2016. Trust, confidence, and equity affect the legitimacy of natural resource governance. Ecology and Society 21(3):18.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08542-210318
Measuring good governance for complex ecosystems
Social networks and fishers' behavior
Turner, R. A., N. V. C. Polunin, and S. M. Stead. 2014. Social networks and fishers’ behavior: exploring the links between information flow and fishing success in the Northumberland lobster fishery. Ecology and Society 19(2): 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06456-190238
Recognizing Women’s Wellbeing and Contribution to Social Resilience in Fisheries
Building social resilience is important for fishing communities, which globally face unprecedented social and environmental change. While women’s direct and indirect contribution to fishing economies is increasingly recognized, their contribution to the social resilience of fisheries remains under-examined. Using interview and focus group data, we investigate women’s role in supporting the social resilience of UK fishing communities and examine i…
Constraints to healthcare access among commercial fishers
Fishing is a challenging occupation, in which physical and mental health risks may be exacerbated by environmental, socio-economic and policy change. While anecdotal information suggests that compared to other groups fishers are less likely to access healthcare, the reasons for this are poorly understood. Constraints to accessing healthcare were assessed through a mixed methods approach, using a holistic framework of access. A self-administered q…
Localising and democratising goal-based governance for sustainability
Accelerating social and environmental change raises pressing questions about how existing institutions can be reformed to mount a more effective response. In this context, goal-based governance has been widely adopted in order to mobilise existing bodies to agree shared goals and develop common purpose. Increasingly employed in sustainability governance at the international scale, goal-based governance concerns setting pan-organisational goals an…
Downscaling doughnut economics for sustainability governance
The concept of ‘doughnut economics’ is attracting growing attention from policy-makers and has the potential to unify stakeholders around a holistic vision of sustainable development. The ‘safe and just’ space within the doughnut is framed at a global scale, based on human needs that represent a foundation for social wellbeing, and planetary boundaries reflecting biophysical limits. However, the geographical division of political power between an…
Territoriality as a Driver of Fishers' Spatial Behavior in the Northumberland Lobster Fishery
Knowledge of informal rules governing fishers' behavior is important to help formulate policies suited to local conditions and supported by resource users. Fishers' behavior may be influenced by informal property rights or territoriality, yet drivers of such behavior in UK fisheries have seldom been explored. This study presents findings from interviews with lobster fishers (n = 44) at six ports in Northumberland, UK. The study aimed to investiga…
Territoriality as a Driver of Fishers' Spatial Behavior in the Northumberland Lobster Fishery
Knowledge of informal rules governing fishers' behavior is important to help formulate policies suited to local conditions and supported by resource users. Fishers' behavior may be influenced by informal property rights or territoriality, yet drivers of such behavior in UK fisheries have seldom been explored. This study presents findings from interviews with lobster fishers (n = 44) at six ports in Northumberland, UK. The study aimed to investiga…
Measuring good governance for complex ecosystems
Social networks and fishers' behavior
Turner, R. A., N. V. C. Polunin, and S. M. Stead. 2014. Social networks and fishers’ behavior: exploring the links between information flow and fishing success in the Northumberland lobster fishery. Ecology and Society 19(2): 38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06456-190238
Trust, confidence, and equity affect the legitimacy of natural resource governance
Turner, R. A., J. Addison, A. Arias, B. J. Bergseth, N. A. Marshall, T. H. Morrison, and R. C. Tobin. 2016. Trust, confidence, and equity affect the legitimacy of natural resource governance. Ecology and Society 21(3):18.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08542-210318
Constraints to healthcare access among commercial fishers
Fishing is a challenging occupation, in which physical and mental health risks may be exacerbated by environmental, socio-economic and policy change. While anecdotal information suggests that compared to other groups fishers are less likely to access healthcare, the reasons for this are poorly understood. Constraints to accessing healthcare were assessed through a mixed methods approach, using a holistic framework of access. A self-administered q…
The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance
Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative—involves many centres of authority interacting coherently for a common governance goal. Yet, longitudinal analysis reveals many polycentric systems are struggling to cope with the growing impacts, pace, and scope of social and environmental change. Analytic shortcomin…
Trade-offs between physical risk and economic reward affect fishers’ vulnerability to changing storminess
Climate change-driven alterations in storm frequency and intensity threaten the wellbeing of billions of people who depend on fisheries for food security and livelihoods. Weather conditions shape vulnerability to both loss of life and reduced fishing opportunities through their influence on fishers' daily participation decisions. The trade-off between physical risk at sea and the economic rewards of continued fishing under adverse weather conditi…
Downscaling doughnut economics for sustainability governance
The concept of ‘doughnut economics’ is attracting growing attention from policy-makers and has the potential to unify stakeholders around a holistic vision of sustainable development. The ‘safe and just’ space within the doughnut is framed at a global scale, based on human needs that represent a foundation for social wellbeing, and planetary boundaries reflecting biophysical limits. However, the geographical division of political power between an…
Recognizing Women’s Wellbeing and Contribution to Social Resilience in Fisheries
Building social resilience is important for fishing communities, which globally face unprecedented social and environmental change. While women’s direct and indirect contribution to fishing economies is increasingly recognized, their contribution to the social resilience of fisheries remains under-examined. Using interview and focus group data, we investigate women’s role in supporting the social resilience of UK fishing communities and examine i…
Triple exposure
Localising and democratising goal-based governance for sustainability
Accelerating social and environmental change raises pressing questions about how existing institutions can be reformed to mount a more effective response. In this context, goal-based governance has been widely adopted in order to mobilise existing bodies to agree shared goals and develop common purpose. Increasingly employed in sustainability governance at the international scale, goal-based governance concerns setting pan-organisational goals an…
Navigating tricky trade-offs in busy seas
The expanding blue economy intensifies competition for marine resources worldwide, necessitating trade-offs among sectors, stakeholders, and ecosystems. Our qualitative research examined how these marine trade-offs are managed in England and the implications for blue (social) justice. Through a desk review and interviews with marine managers and policy-makers we found that trade-offs are not addressed systematically, with decision-making biased b…
Business (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Coastal and Marine Management (4 works) · Fishing (4 works)