Heather M Leslie
Biographic Data
| ID | 2332121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather M Leslie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather M |
| FAMILY NAME | Leslie |
| SIGNATURE | LESLIE H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4512-9417 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mapping local knowledge supports science and stewardship
Coastal marine social–ecological systems are experiencing rapid change. Yet, many coastal communities are challenged by incomplete data to inform collaborative research and stewardship. We investigated the role of participatory mapping of local knowledge in addressing these challenges. We used participatory mapping and semi-structured interviews to document local knowledge in two focal social–ecological systems in Maine, USA. By co-producing fine…
Governing access and agency: Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Forms Influence Small-Scale Fisher Livelihood Vulnerability and Adaptation
Diverse markers of social and economic difference have been found to influence resource users’ livelihood vulnerability and capacity to adapt to environmental and economic change. However, the role of self-governance forms—cooperative and non-cooperative business models that structure resource-dependent livelihoods—has received limited attention. Here, we address this gap with a 5-yr investigation (2018–2023) into how different cooperative and no…
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response
As global change accelerates, natural resource-dependent communities must respond and adapt. Small-scale fisheries, essential for coastal livelihoods and food security, are considered among the most vulnerable of these coupled social-ecological systems. While previous studies have examined vulnerability and adaptation in fisheries at the individual, household, and community level, these scales of organization are inconsistent with many of the leg…
How Does Strategic Communication Shape Transdisciplinary Collaboration? A Focus on Definitions, Audience, Expertise, and Ethical Praxis
Transdisciplinary collaboration offers great potential for meaningfully addressing complex problems related to climate change and social inequities. Communication shapes transdisciplinary collaboration in myriad ways, and interdisciplinary and rhetorical approaches to communication can help identify these influences as well as strategies to transform inequitable communication patterns. In this paper, we share results from an engaged and ethnograp…
Diverse perspectives on aquaculture development in Maine
Evaluating the theoretical and practical linkages between ecosystem-based fisheries management and fisheries co-management
Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) is increasingly recognized as the future of fisheries conservation and stewardship, appearing prominently in policy documents internationally. Although considerable progress has been made to translate EBFM from theory to practice, limited attention has been given to assessing the theoretical and practical linkages between EBFM and fisheries co-management. While EBFM and fisheries co-management are not n…
Ecosystem service lens reveals diverse community values of small-scale fisheries
The ocean provides benefits to coastal communities around the world, however, the depth and complexity of people’s interactions with marine ecosystems are not well represented in many marine management initiatives. Many fisheries are managed to maximize provisioning value, which is readily quantified, while ignoring cultural values. An ecosystem services approach that includes both provisioning and cultural services will enable managers to better…
The interplay between formal and informal institutions and the potential for co-management in a Mexican small-scale fishery
Understanding how institutions operate is crucial to the protection of marine ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. We define institutions as the rules, norms, and practices that govern resource users’ interactions with common-pool resources, and recognize that both formal and informal institutions govern marine fisheries around the world. Institutional diversity can enhance social-ecological system resilience by providing multiple …
Heterogeneity among clam harvesters in northwest Mexico shapes individual adaptive capacity
Pellowe, K. E., and H. M. Leslie. 2019. Heterogeneity among clam harvesters in northwest Mexico shapes individual adaptive capacity. Ecology and Society 24(4):25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11297-240425
Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to assess sustainability
Significance Meeting human needs while sustaining ecosystems and the benefits they provide is a global challenge. Coastal marine systems present a particularly important case, given that >50% of the world’s population lives within 100 km of the coast and fisheries are the primary source of protein for >1 billion people worldwide. Our integrative analysis here yields an understanding of the sustainability of coupled social-ecological systems that …
An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas
Conventional perceptions of the interactions between people and their environment are rapidly transforming. Old paradigms that view humans as separate from nature, natural resources as inexhaustible or endlessly substitutable, and the world as stable, predictable, and in balance are no longer tenable. New conceptual frameworks are rapidly emerging based on an adaptive approach that focuses on learning and flexible management in a dynamic social-e…
Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources
Overfishing is increasingly threatening the world's marine ecosystems (1, 2). The search for the social causes of this crisis has often focused on inappropriate approaches to governance and lack of incentives for conservation (3, 4). Little attention, however, has been paid to the critical impact of sequential exploitation: the spatially expanding depletion of harvested species (5). The economist Mancur Olson (6) argued that local governance crea…
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas
Conventional perceptions of the interactions between people and their environment are rapidly transforming. Old paradigms that view humans as separate from nature, natural resources as inexhaustible or endlessly substitutable, and the world as stable, predictable, and in balance are no longer tenable. New conceptual frameworks are rapidly emerging based on an adaptive approach that focuses on learning and flexible management in a dynamic social-e…
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response
As global change accelerates, natural resource-dependent communities must respond and adapt. Small-scale fisheries, essential for coastal livelihoods and food security, are considered among the most vulnerable of these coupled social-ecological systems. While previous studies have examined vulnerability and adaptation in fisheries at the individual, household, and community level, these scales of organization are inconsistent with many of the leg…
Heterogeneity among clam harvesters in northwest Mexico shapes individual adaptive capacity
Pellowe, K. E., and H. M. Leslie. 2019. Heterogeneity among clam harvesters in northwest Mexico shapes individual adaptive capacity. Ecology and Society 24(4):25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11297-240425
Governing access and agency: Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Forms Influence Small-Scale Fisher Livelihood Vulnerability and Adaptation
Diverse markers of social and economic difference have been found to influence resource users’ livelihood vulnerability and capacity to adapt to environmental and economic change. However, the role of self-governance forms—cooperative and non-cooperative business models that structure resource-dependent livelihoods—has received limited attention. Here, we address this gap with a 5-yr investigation (2018–2023) into how different cooperative and no…
Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources
Overfishing is increasingly threatening the world's marine ecosystems (1, 2). The search for the social causes of this crisis has often focused on inappropriate approaches to governance and lack of incentives for conservation (3, 4). Little attention, however, has been paid to the critical impact of sequential exploitation: the spatially expanding depletion of harvested species (5). The economist Mancur Olson (6) argued that local governance crea…
Adaptive Management of the Great Barrier Reef and the Grand Canyon World Heritage Areas
Conventional perceptions of the interactions between people and their environment are rapidly transforming. Old paradigms that view humans as separate from nature, natural resources as inexhaustible or endlessly substitutable, and the world as stable, predictable, and in balance are no longer tenable. New conceptual frameworks are rapidly emerging based on an adaptive approach that focuses on learning and flexible management in a dynamic social-e…
An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to assess sustainability
Significance Meeting human needs while sustaining ecosystems and the benefits they provide is a global challenge. Coastal marine systems present a particularly important case, given that >50% of the world’s population lives within 100 km of the coast and fisheries are the primary source of protein for >1 billion people worldwide. Our integrative analysis here yields an understanding of the sustainability of coupled social-ecological systems that …
Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change
Heterogeneity among clam harvesters in northwest Mexico shapes individual adaptive capacity
Pellowe, K. E., and H. M. Leslie. 2019. Heterogeneity among clam harvesters in northwest Mexico shapes individual adaptive capacity. Ecology and Society 24(4):25. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11297-240425
The interplay between formal and informal institutions and the potential for co-management in a Mexican small-scale fishery
Understanding how institutions operate is crucial to the protection of marine ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. We define institutions as the rules, norms, and practices that govern resource users’ interactions with common-pool resources, and recognize that both formal and informal institutions govern marine fisheries around the world. Institutional diversity can enhance social-ecological system resilience by providing multiple …
Diverse perspectives on aquaculture development in Maine
Evaluating the theoretical and practical linkages between ecosystem-based fisheries management and fisheries co-management
Ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM) is increasingly recognized as the future of fisheries conservation and stewardship, appearing prominently in policy documents internationally. Although considerable progress has been made to translate EBFM from theory to practice, limited attention has been given to assessing the theoretical and practical linkages between EBFM and fisheries co-management. While EBFM and fisheries co-management are not n…
Ecosystem service lens reveals diverse community values of small-scale fisheries
The ocean provides benefits to coastal communities around the world, however, the depth and complexity of people’s interactions with marine ecosystems are not well represented in many marine management initiatives. Many fisheries are managed to maximize provisioning value, which is readily quantified, while ignoring cultural values. An ecosystem services approach that includes both provisioning and cultural services will enable managers to better…
How Does Strategic Communication Shape Transdisciplinary Collaboration? A Focus on Definitions, Audience, Expertise, and Ethical Praxis
Transdisciplinary collaboration offers great potential for meaningfully addressing complex problems related to climate change and social inequities. Communication shapes transdisciplinary collaboration in myriad ways, and interdisciplinary and rhetorical approaches to communication can help identify these influences as well as strategies to transform inequitable communication patterns. In this paper, we share results from an engaged and ethnograp…
Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response
As global change accelerates, natural resource-dependent communities must respond and adapt. Small-scale fisheries, essential for coastal livelihoods and food security, are considered among the most vulnerable of these coupled social-ecological systems. While previous studies have examined vulnerability and adaptation in fisheries at the individual, household, and community level, these scales of organization are inconsistent with many of the leg…
Mapping local knowledge supports science and stewardship
Coastal marine social–ecological systems are experiencing rapid change. Yet, many coastal communities are challenged by incomplete data to inform collaborative research and stewardship. We investigated the role of participatory mapping of local knowledge in addressing these challenges. We used participatory mapping and semi-structured interviews to document local knowledge in two focal social–ecological systems in Maine, USA. By co-producing fine…
Governing access and agency: Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Forms Influence Small-Scale Fisher Livelihood Vulnerability and Adaptation
Diverse markers of social and economic difference have been found to influence resource users’ livelihood vulnerability and capacity to adapt to environmental and economic change. However, the role of self-governance forms—cooperative and non-cooperative business models that structure resource-dependent livelihoods—has received limited attention. Here, we address this gap with a 5-yr investigation (2018–2023) into how different cooperative and no…
Environmental resource management (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Biology (9 works) · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (8 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Coastal and Marine Management (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Fishery (6 works)