M Fortnam

Biographic Data

ID1581154
NAMEM Fortnam
GIVEN NAMESM
FAMILY NAMEFortnam
SIGNATUREFORTNAM M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Exeter
ORCID0000-0002-6440-9214
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Navigating tricky trade-offs in busy seas

    Open AccessM Fortnam, Liliana Bastian et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2025

    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…

  • Insights from social-ecological systems thinking for understanding and preventing famine

    Open AccessM Fortnam, Peter HaileyARTICLEDisasters2024Cited by: 4References: 41

    The risk of famine is rising in many countries today. Bold changes to famine information and response systems are urgently needed to improve capacities to prevent famine. To this end, the paper identifies six insights from social-ecological systems (SES) thinking for understanding and preventing famine. It argues that a state of famine emerges from human-environment interdependencies, complex causality, and non-linear system dynamics, shaped by h…

  • Practitioner approaches to trade‐off decision‐making in marine conservation development

    Open AccessM Fortnam, Tomas Chaigneau et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2023

    Mounting evidence suggests that win‐wins are elusive and trade‐offs are the norm in marine conservation development practice. The status quo involves trade‐offs, and any change brought to ecosystems, economies and societies will alter the distribution of costs and benefits, creating other winners and losers among ecosystem services, sectors and people. While studies are increasingly acknowledging the prevalence of trade‐offs, this article analyse…

  • Putting coastal communities at the center of a sustainable blue economy

    Open AccessLouisa Evans, Louisa S Evans et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Political Science2023

    New approaches to ocean governance for coastal communities are needed. With few exceptions, the status quo does not meet the diverse development aspirations of coastal communities or ensure healthy oceans for current and future generations. The blue economy is expected to grow to USD2.5–3 trillion by 2030, and there is particular interest in its potential to alleviate poverty in Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States, and to…

  • Polycentricity in practice

    Open AccessM Fortnam, Louisa Evans et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Science & Policy2022

    Environmental governance systems are expanding in size and complexity as they become more integrated and ecosystem-based. In doing so, governance transitions often involve more actors and knowingly or unknowingly alter the autonomy of actors to make decisions, and thereby the ability of the governance system to self-organise. In other words, these governance systems are becoming increasingly polycentric, moving towards an institutional structure …

  • Doing marine spatial zoning in coastal marine tropics

    Open AccessKaren Madarcos, M Fortnam et al.ARTICLEMarine Policy2022

    Zoning is an important tool in marine spatial planning (MSP) for balancing the multi-uses of the marine environment. Whilst mainly developed conceptually and implemented in Europe and North America, marine zoning is becoming a popular tool for addressing diverse coastal marine issues in the tropics. However, we know little about how it is being implemented in practice in that context. In this study, we analysed the factors and strategies that ena…

  • Multiple impact pathways of the 2015–2016 El Niño in coastal Kenya

    Open AccessM Fortnam, Molly Atkins et al.ARTICLEAMBIO2021Cited by: 1References: 40

    The 2015–2016 El Niño had large impacts globally. The effects were not as great as anticipated in Kenya, however, leading some commentators to call it a ‘non-event’. Our study uses a novel combination of participatory Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis tools, and new and existing social and biophysical data, to analyse vulnerability to, and the multidimensional impacts of, the 2015–2016 El Niño episode in southern coastal Kenya. Using a …

  • The Gendered Nature of Ecosystem Services

    Open AccessM Fortnam, Katrina Brown et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2019

    This article assesses the extent to which our conceptualisation, understanding and empirical analysis of ecosystem services are inherently gendered; in other words, how they might be biased and unbalanced in terms of their appreciation of gender differences. We do this by empirically investigating how women and men are able to benefit from ecosystem services across eight communities in coastal Kenya and Mozambique. Our results highlight different…

  • Forces opposing sustainability transformations

    Open AccessM Fortnam, Matt P FortnamARTICLEConservation Ecology2019

    Fortnam, M. P. 2019. Forces opposing sustainability transformations: institutionalization of ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management. Ecology and Society 24(4):33. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10996-240433

  • Using participatory methods to uncover interacting urban risks

    Open AccessBenjamin C R Flower, Benjamin Flower et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and Urbanization2017Cited by: 4References: 7

    The residents of informal settlements face a diverse range of urban risks, from climate and economic shocks to local pollution and the threat of eviction. This article explores these risks by conducting Participatory Hazard Vulnerability and Capacity Assessments (PHVCA) in three informal settlements in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. The assessment uncovers a variety of risks, which interact with each other and local vulnerabilities to produ…