Nathan J Bennett

Biographic Data

ID	1573841
NAME	Nathan J Bennett
GIVEN NAMES	Nathan J
FAMILY NAME	Bennett
SIGNATURE	BENNETT N J
AFFILIATIONS	University of British Columbia
ORCID	0000-0003-4852-3401
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	62
TOTAL CITATIONS	325
AUTHOR COUNT	62
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	9

Corporations and financial institutions driving coastal conflicts involving Indigenous Peoples
Open AccessVillasante, Julia Tovar Verba et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2026
Socio-environmental conflicts associated with large-scale economic projects in Indigenous territories are well documented, but conflicts in coastal areas remain largely unexplored, despite the crucial differences between inland and coastal ecosystems. While the empirical literature about socio-environmental conflicts in Indigenous territories in coastal areas is growing, the role of financial institutions and corporations in these conflicts is of…
The critical role of allied organizations in supporting ocean defenders
Open AccessRocio López De La Lama, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2026
The rapidly expanding ocean economy is a significant driver of global growth but often produces substantial negative impacts on coastal communities, including environmental degradation, displacement, and human rights violations. These harms are exacerbated by the longstanding marginalization and exclusion of these communities from marine and coastal governance. In response, ocean defenders are organizing to resist these injustices, but can experi…
Human well-being outcomes of large-scale marine protected areas
Open AccessDana Baker, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2025
Large-scale marine protected areas (LSMPAs, >100,000 km 2 ) account for over half of the global ocean under protection, yet little is known about their outcomes for people. We conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature to identify studies that investigated human well-being outcomes from forty-four (44) LSMPAs worldwide. Sixty-four (64) peer-reviewed articles were identified, which analyzed well-being outcomes in 18 of the 44 LSMPAs. For L…
Cultivating reciprocity and supporting Indigenous lifeways through the cultural transformation of natural resource management in North America
Open AccessJonathan James Fisk, Richard E W Berl et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025
Recent decades have seen increasing calls for implementing Indigenous Knowledges (IK) in natural resource management (NRM). However, efforts have been limited by the cultural incommensurabilities between (1) NRM institutions, which are rooted in worldviews that prioritize extraction for dominant cultures and assume dominance over nature and (2) Indigenous worldviews that prioritize kincentric reciprocity with the environment. This manuscript addr…
Assessing and improving social equity in marine conservation: Background, methods and guidance on three approaches
Open AccessMark Andrachuk, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEPARKS2025
Social equity is increasingly recognised as a fundamental principle in marine conservation. Global conservation policies now contain commitments to equitable management and governance, yet practical guidance on how to understand and assess equity in marine conservation remains limited. In this methodological paper, we introduce our process for developing three conceptually grounded, practical and adaptable approaches for assessing equity in marin…
Beyond growth: Reshaping fisheries for a wellbeing economy
Open AccessIngrid Kelling, Nathan Bennett et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2025
Contemporary fisheries have been shaped by a paradigm of perpetual growth, characterized by increasing global production and consumption. While this growth has driven economic benefits and technological progress, it has jeopardized the sustainability of marine ecosystems, with implications for the long-term livelihoods and wellbeing of fishers, consumers and resource dependent coastal populations worldwide. This paper advocates for a shift beyond…
The human right to a safe climate
Open AccessVillasante, Lynne Shannon et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2025References: 2
Place‐Based Sustainability Transformations for Just Futures: A Systematic Review
Open AccessKatie Keddie, Sam Beaver et al.ARTICLEGeo Geography and Environment2025References: 16
The planet is facing enduring and intersecting challenges from climate change, land degradation, habitat and biodiversity loss, as well as social inequalities. To achieve sustainability in the face of these crises, transformative changes are essential. While the path towards a more sustainable future has the capacity to bring net social benefits, it also holds the potential to exacerbate vulnerabilities. As such, there is growing recognition that…
Access and well-being in small-scale fisheries
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Antonio Calò et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2024
Centering community values in marine planning
Open AccessFiona Beaty, Bridget John et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2024
Centering community values in conservation decision-making can mitigate harm to social-ecological systems caused by the climate, biodiversity, and social justice crises. However, it can be unclear how to weave these values into complicated processes, such as marine spatial planning (MSP), that have historically favoured western and biophysical knowledge and can perpetuate inequitable and status-quo power dynamics. Here, we contribute a community-…
Not in it for the money: Meaningful relationships sustain voluntary land conservation initiatives in Peru
Open AccessRocio López De La Lama, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2024
Voluntary land conservation, including privately protected areas (PPAs), is a key component of enabling the future of biodiversity on Earth. Accordingly, the question of motivations has preoccupied conservation social science. True motivations are difficult to ascertain, however, even for ourselves. Accordingly, we explore a novel narrative elicitation approach to ask: what features of the land and landowners' relationships with the land encourag…
Sustainably feeding the planet through integrated management of blue and green food systems
Open AccessJeffrey J Opperman, Nathan Bennett et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024
Sustainable-use marine protected areas provide co-benefits to human nutrition
Open AccessDaniel F Viana, David A Gill et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2024
Environmental (in)justice in the Anthropocene ocean
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Juan José Alava et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2023
Mapping the unjust global distribution of harmful fisheries subsidies
Open AccessDaniel J Skerritt, Anna Schuhbauer et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2023
Harmful fisheries subsidies contribute to overfishing leading to environmental and societal impacts. If only fisheries and ecosystems within the subsidising nations’ jurisdiction were affected, then unilateral actions might be sufficient to help safeguard our ocean and the people reliant upon it. However, just as fish move between jurisdictions, so too do the subsidised fishing fleets that target them. As such, the impacts and solutions to subsid…
Improving human well-being outcomes in marine protected areas through futures thinking
Open AccessDana Baker, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023
Triple exposure: Reducing negative impacts of climate change, blue growth, and conservation on coastal communities
Open AccessDavid A Gill, Jessica Blythe et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023
Co-benefits of marine protected areas for nature and people
Open AccessA Justin Nowakowski, Steven W J Canty et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2023Cited by: 2References: 2
Technologies of dispossession in the blue economy: Socio-environmental impacts of seawater desalination in the Antofagasta Region of Chile
Open AccessCecilia Campero, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal2023Cited by: 8References: 75
Globally, ocean-based economic development (aka the 'the blue economy') is increasing and continued growth is projected. The social and environmental impacts of the growth of the blue economy are a matter of some concern for local people who may experience few benefits and substantial negative impacts. One way that these impacts of the blue economy occur is through subtle or overt forms of dispossession that result from the growth of technologies…
Strengthening European Union fisheries by removing harmful subsidies
Open AccessVillasante, Sebastian Villasante et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2022
Harmful fisheries subsidies have historically contributed to fleet overcapacity and continue to be allocated to the fishing industry to artificially maintain its profitability. However, in this contribution we show that removing harmful subsidies and reducing overfishing will help to recover the resource biomass, subsequently leading to increased levels of sustainable catches, income and well-being of fishers, and reduces inequities in income and…
Social sustainability and equity in the blue economy
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Villasante et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022
The tragedy of the commodity is not inevitable: Indigenous resistance prevents high-value fisheries collapse in the Pacific islands
Open AccessCaroline E Ferguson, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Cited by: 1References: 10
The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean
Open AccessKirsten Grorud‐Colvert, Jenna Sullivan‐Stack et al.ARTICLEScience2021
Consistency in conservation Marine protected areas (MPAs) are now well established globally as tools for conservation, for enhancing marine biodiversity, and for promoting sustainable fisheries. That said, which regions are labeled as MPAs varies substantially, from those that full protect marine species and prohibit human extraction to those that permit everything from intensive fishing to mining. This inconsistency can in some cases inhibit bot…
Blue growth and blue justice: Ten risks and solutions for the ocean economy
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Jessica Blythe et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2021
Fostering ocean empathy through future scenarios
Open AccessJessica Blythe, Julia Baird et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2021
Empathy for nature is considered a prerequisite for sustainable interactions with the biosphere. Yet to date, empirical research on how to stimulate empathy remains scarce. Here, we investigate whether future scenarios can promote greater empathy for the oceans. Using a pre‐post empathy questionnaire, participants ( N = 269) were presented with an optimistic or a pessimistic future scenario for the high seas in a virtual reality (VR) or written f…

Evaluation of goodness-of-fit indices for structural equation models
Stanley A Mulaik, Larry R James et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin1989
Evaluation of goodness-of-fit indices for structural equation models
Stanley A Mulaik, Larry R James et al.ARTICLEPsychological Bulletin1989Cited by: 74
Discusses how current goodness-of-fit indices fail to assess parsimony and hence disconfirmability of a model and are insensitive to misspecifications of causal relations (a) among latent variables when measurement model with many indicators is correct and (b) when causal relations corresponding to free parameters expected to be nonzero turn out to be zero or near zero. A discussion of philosophy of parsimony elucidates relations of parsimony to …
The effects of tolerance for ambiguity on feedback‐seeking behaviour
Open AccessNathan Bennett, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Occupational Psychology1990
In an article that appeared in this Journal in 1985, Ashford & Cummings found that tolerance for ambiguity (TA) moderated the relationship between feedback‐seeking behaviours (FSB) and ambiguity or uncertainty about one's role or outcome contingencies. The authors concluded that, in uncertain situations, individuals who are low in TA will consider feedback an especially valuable resource, and will engage in higher levels of FSB. The aim of this a…
Presence of drug screening and employee assistance programs: Exclusive and inclusive human resource management practices
Open AccessNathan Bennett, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Organizational Behavior1994References: 12
Drug screening and employee assistance programs (EAPs) are human resource management practices for addressing substance abuse among employees. The two practices reflect different human resource management strategies and lead to different outcomes for employees and applicants. Drug screening is designed to exclude drug users from the workplace whereas EAPs offer them ‘rehabilitation’. Characteristics of worksites and their surrounding labor market…
Social exchange in organizations: Perceived organizational support, leader–member exchange, and employee reciprocity.
Randall P Settoon, Nathan Bennett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Applied Psychology1996
Social exchange (P. Blau, 1964) and the norm of reciprocity (A. W. Gouldner, 1960) have been used to explain the relationship of perceived organizational support and leader-member exchange with employee attitudes and behavior. Recent empirical research suggests that individuals engage in different reciprocation efforts depending on the exchange partner (e.g., B. L. McNeely & B. M. Meglino, 1994). The purpose of the present study was to further in…
A multilevel analysis of procedural justice context
Open AccessKevin W Mossholder, Nathan Bennett et al.ARTICLEJournal of Organizational Behavior1998
Using a multilevel framework, we hypothesized that both employee perceptions of procedural justice and a work unit level measure of procedural justice context would be associated with employee reports of job satisfaction and organizational commitment. Three hundred and twenty-three employees from 53 branches of a financial services organization were used to test this hypothesis. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses revealed that procedural justi…
A Case for Procedural Justice Climate: Development and Test of a Multilevel Model.
Stefanie E Naumann, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEAcademy of Management Journal2000
Current conceptualizations of procedural justice focus largely on the individual level of analysis; no framework exists for examining procedural justice's social context. Empirical tests reported here offer some support for group-level and cross-level hypotheses. Work group perceptions of cohesion and supervisor visibility in demonstrating procedural justice were associated with the development of procedural justice climate. Procedural justice cl…
A capital assets framework for appraising and building capacity for tourism development in aboriginal protected area gateway communities
Open AccessNathan Bennett, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLETourism Management2012Cited by: 21References: 36
We Want Our Children to Grow Up to See These Animals: Values and Protected Areas Governance in Canada, Ghana and Tanzania
Open AccessLance W Robinson, Nathan Bennett et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2012Cited by: 3References: 23
Why local people do not support conservation: Community perceptions of marine protected area livelihood impacts, governance and management in Thailand
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Philip DeardenARTICLEMarine Policy2014
Conservation success is often predicated on local support for conservation which is strongly influenced by perceptions of the impacts that are experienced by local communities and opinions of management and governance. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are effective conservation and fisheries management tools that can also have a broad array of positive and negative social, economic, cultural, and political impacts on local communities. Drawing on re…
Ecologically sustainable but unjust? Negotiating equity and authority in common-pool marine resource management
Open AccessSarah C Klain, Rachelle Beveridge et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 1
Klain, S. C., R. Beveridge, and N. J. Bennett. 2014. Ecologically sustainable but unjust? Negotiating equity and authority in common-pool marine resource management. Ecology and Society 19(4): 52. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07123-190452
The capacity to adapt: Communities in a changing climate, environment, and economy on the northern Andaman coast of Thailand
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Philip Dearden et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 1
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. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06315-190205
Ocean grabbing
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Hugh Govan et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2015
The term “ocean grabbing” has been used to describe actions, policies or initiatives that deprive small-scale fishers of resources, dispossess vulnerable populations of coastal lands, and/or undermine historical access to areas of the sea. Rights and access to marine resources and spaces are frequently reallocated through government or private sector initiatives to achieve conservation, management or development objectives with a variety of outco…
Using perceptions as evidence to improve conservation and environmental management
Open AccessNathan J BennettARTICLEConservation Biology2016
The conservation community is increasingly focusing on the monitoring and evaluation of management, governance, ecological, and social considerations as part of a broader move toward adaptive management and evidence‐based conservation. Evidence is any information that can be used to come to a conclusion and support a judgment or, in this case, to make decisions that will improve conservation policies, actions, and outcomes. Perceptions are one ty…
Community-based scenario planning: A process for vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning to social–ecological change in coastal communities
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Alin Kadfak et al.ARTICLEEnvironment Development and…2016
Why people matter in ocean governance: Incorporating human dimensions into large-scale marine protected areas
Open AccessPatrick Christie, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2017
Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Rainer Roth et al.ARTICLEConservation Biology2017
Despite broad recognition of the value of social sciences and increasingly vocal calls for better engagement with the human element of conservation, the conservation social sciences remain misunderstood and underutilized in practice. The conservation social sciences can provide unique and important contributions to society's understanding of the relationships between humans and nature and to improving conservation practice and outcomes. There are…
Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Rainer Roth et al.ARTICLEBiological Conservation2017
It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences impedes the conservation community's effective engagement with the human dimension…
Catching sea cucumber fever in coastal communities: Conceptualizing the impacts of shocks versus trends on social-ecological systems
Open AccessMaery Kaplan-Hallam, Maery Kaplan‐Hallam et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2017Cited by: 2References: 18
Adaptive capacity: From Assessment to Action in Coastal Social-Ecological Systems
Open AccessCharlotte K Whitney, Nathan J Bennett et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2017Cited by: 5
Whitney, C. K., N. J. Bennett, N. C. Ban, E. H. Allison, D. Armitage, J. L. Blythe, J. M. Burt, W. Cheung, E. M. Finkbeiner, M. Kaplan-Hallam, I. Perry, N. J. Turner, and L. Yumagulova. 2017. Adaptive capacity: from assessment to action in coastal social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 22(2):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09325-220222
Navigating a just and inclusive path towards sustainable oceans
Open AccessNathan J BennettARTICLEMarine Policy2018
Environmental governance: A practical framework to guide design, evaluation, and analysis
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Terre SatterfieldARTICLEConservation Letters2018
Governance is one of the most important factors for ensuring effective environmental management and conservation actions. Yet, there is still a relative paucity of comprehensive and practicable guidance that can be used to frame the evaluation, design, and analysis of systems of environmental governance. This conceptual review and synthesis article seeks to addresses this problem through resituating the broad body of governance literature into a …
How just and just how? A systematic review of social equity in conservation research
Open AccessRachel S Friedman, Elizabeth A Law et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018
Background: Conservation decisions not only impact wildlife, habitat, and environmental health, but also human wellbeing and social justice. The inclusion of safeguards and equity considerations in the conservation field has increasingly garnered attention in international policy processes and amongst conservation practitioners. Yet, what constitutes an ‘equitable’ solution can take many forms, and how the concept is treated within conservation r…
Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework
Open AccessNathan J Bennett, Tara Sayuri Whitty et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Management2018
There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet environmental stewardship has not received adequate conceptual attention. Establishing a clear definition and comprehensive analytical framework could strengthen our ability to understand the factors that lead to the success or failure of environmental stewardship in different co…
Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: A review and prospectus
Open AccessAngela M Guererro, Angela M Guerrero et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2018
Guerrero, A. M., N. J. Bennett, K. A. Wilson, N. Carter, D. Gill, M. Mills, C. D. Ives, M. J. Selinske, C. Larrosa, S. Bekessy, F. A. Januchowski-Hartley, H. Travers, C. A. Wyborn, and A. Nuno. 2018. Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus. Ecology and Society 23(3):38. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10232-230338