G Murray
Biographic Data
| ID | 30564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Murray |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Murray |
| SIGNATURE | MURRAY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vancouver Island University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2023-7737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1926 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Framing, Values, and (in)Tractable Conflict in Maine Aquaculture
Seafood consumption and the management of shellfish aquaculture
Architecture and agency for equity in areas beyond national jurisdiction
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade) bring increased attention to various aspects of ocean governance, including equity. One of the Ocean Decade's identified challenges is to develop a sustainable and equitable ocean economy, but questions arise about how to conceptualize the multiple dimensions of equity in an ocean context. These questions beco…
From Blue Economy to Blue Communities
Consumer seafood preferences related to alternative food networks and their value chains
Learning for change
Access to science-based environmental education is critical to improve rural coastal communities’ adaptive capacity and resilience. Based on research in two rural, underprivileged schools in South Africa’s southern Cape coastal region, we describe the process and lessons learnt in developing and deploying a series of integrated teaching modules for middle school (Gr 7-9) learners.The modules’ structure was informed by integrated curriculum design…
Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding
The international development community is off-track from meeting targets for alleviating global malnutrition. Meanwhile, there is growing consensus across scientific disciplines that fish plays a crucial role in food and nutrition security. However, this ‘fish as food’ perspective has yet to translate into policy and development funding priorities. We argue that the traditional framing of fish as a natural resource emphasizes economic developmen…
Applying community-based and Indigenous research methodologies
Beveridge, R., M. F. Moody, B. Pauly, G. Murray, and C. T. Darimont. 2021. Applying community-based and Indigenous research methodologies: lessons learned from the Nuxalk Sputc Project. Ecology and Society 26(4):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12702-260421
Differential impacts of dam construction on livelihoods in Ghana
Debates about the benefits and costs of hydro-electric dams have provoked this study, which examines how the Bui Dam in Ghana impacts on 13 nearby communities. Impacts were assessed using the capital assets framework, embracing seven types of capital assets: social, natural, human, physical, financial, cultural, and political. Data was collected through a quantitative questionnaire administered to 339 households, and qualitative interviews with 2…
The Nuxalk Sputc (Eulachon) Project
Indigenous peoples and their leadership remain steadfast in their commitment to manage and protect ancestral lands and waters throughout the world. In this regard, the landscape currently known as the central coast of British Columbia, Canada represents a complex and dynamic site of collaboration, negotiation, and conflict, as Indigenous leaders assert inherent rights, responsibilities, and authority to manage ancestral territories. However, whil…
Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development, and environment
Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are needed to support Sustainable Development Goal advances and similar agendas. The Bridge Collaborative, an emergent research-practice collaboration, presents principles and recommendations that help harmonize methods for evidence generat…
Religion and perceptions of community-based conservation in Ghana, West Africa
Adapting community-based protected areas to local context and evaluating their success across a range of possible socio-economic and ecological outcomes depends, in part, on understanding the perceptions of local actors. This article presents results from a mixed methods study that focuses on how and why religious identity, a prominent aspect of Ghanaian culture, is related to perceptions of the performance of several Community Resource Managemen…
Governance and the making and breaking of social-ecological traps
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have areas of significant ecological importance that overlap with pressing development needs and high levels of natural resource dependence. This makes the design of effective natural resource governance and management systems both challenging and critical. In Ghana, this challenge is made more complex by the necessity of connecting formal, state-led systems of governance with Ghana's informal governance syste…
Concerns and benefits of park-adjacent communities in Northern Ghana
Protected areas are increasingly becoming islands of habitat surrounded by seas of cultivation and development. Communities experience both costs and benefits associated with nearby PAs, and perception of these influence support for PAs and subsequent conservation related behaviors. This paper explores the concerns and benefits of 10 adjacent communities surrounding Mole National Park in Ghana using key informants, focus groups and household surv…
Understanding Power in Indigenous Protected Areas
Understanding inter-community performance assessments in community-based resource management at Avu Lagoon, Ghana
Conservation in Context
Community resource management areas (CREMAs) in Ghana are protected areas managed under a community-based governance regime. This study examined five CREMAs to understand how desired outcomes and perceived performance of these CREMAs vary at a regional level, and the factors that might account for this variability. Importance-performance analysis showed that for all 29 outcomes examined, importance exceeded performance, indicating a need to impro…
Vulnerability of coastal livelihoods to shrimp farming
Perceptions of shellfish aquaculture in British Columbia and implications for well-being in marine social-ecological systems
D'Anna, L. M., and G. Murray. 2015. Perceptions of shellfish aquaculture in British Columbia and implications for well-being in marine social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 20(1): 57. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07319-200157
Social Dimensions of Autonomy in Language Learning
Strengthening Threatened Communities through Adaptation
Blythe, J. L., G. Murray, and M. Flaherty. 2014. Strengthening threatened communities through adaptation: insights from coastal Mozambique. Ecology and Society 19(2): 6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06408-190206
The capacity to adapt
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
Historical Perspectives and Recent Trends in the Coastal Mozambican Fishery
Historical data describing changing social-ecological interactions in marine systems can help guide small-scale fisheries management efforts. Fisheries landings data are often the primary source for historical reconstructions of fisheries; however, we argue that reliance on data of a single type and/or from a single scale can lead to potentially misleading conclusions. For example, a narrow focus on aggregate landings statistics can mask processe…
Social–ecological dynamism, knowledge, and sustainable coastal marine fisheries
We Want Our Children to Grow Up to See These Animals
Cumulative effects, creeping enclosure, and the marine commons of New Jersey
In response to declining fish stocks and increased societal concern, the marine ‘commons’ of New Jersey is no longer freely available to commercial and recreational fisheries. We discuss the concept of ‘creeping’ enclosure in relation to New Jersey’s marine fisheries and suggest that reduced access can be a cumulative process and function of multiple events and processes and need not be the result of a single regulatory moment. We begin with a sh…
Keiskammahoek Rural Survey
First Nations Values in Protected Area Governance
Historical Perspectives and Recent Trends in the Coastal Mozambican Fishery
Historical data describing changing social-ecological interactions in marine systems can help guide small-scale fisheries management efforts. Fisheries landings data are often the primary source for historical reconstructions of fisheries; however, we argue that reliance on data of a single type and/or from a single scale can lead to potentially misleading conclusions. For example, a narrow focus on aggregate landings statistics can mask processe…
Lessons Learned from Reconstructing Interactions Between Local Ecological Knowledge, Fisheries Science, and Fisheries Management in the Commercial Fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Architecture and agency for equity in areas beyond national jurisdiction
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade) bring increased attention to various aspects of ocean governance, including equity. One of the Ocean Decade's identified challenges is to develop a sustainable and equitable ocean economy, but questions arise about how to conceptualize the multiple dimensions of equity in an ocean context. These questions beco…
Perceptions of shellfish aquaculture in British Columbia and implications for well-being in marine social-ecological systems
D'Anna, L. M., and G. Murray. 2015. Perceptions of shellfish aquaculture in British Columbia and implications for well-being in marine social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 20(1): 57. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07319-200157
Strengthening Threatened Communities through Adaptation
Blythe, J. L., G. Murray, and M. Flaherty. 2014. Strengthening threatened communities through adaptation: insights from coastal Mozambique. Ecology and Society 19(2): 6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06408-190206
Conservation in Context
Community resource management areas (CREMAs) in Ghana are protected areas managed under a community-based governance regime. This study examined five CREMAs to understand how desired outcomes and perceived performance of these CREMAs vary at a regional level, and the factors that might account for this variability. Importance-performance analysis showed that for all 29 outcomes examined, importance exceeded performance, indicating a need to impro…
Social–ecological dynamism, knowledge, and sustainable coastal marine fisheries
We Want Our Children to Grow Up to See These Animals
Mapping Cod
Multifaceted Measures of Success in Two Mexican Marine Protected Areas
An emerging trend within the international conservation community suggests that the “success” of protected areas should be measured by strictly biological and/or ecological indicators. These “objective” measures, however, may only represent the objectives of one group of stakeholders—conservationists. Many of the stakeholders recently involved in creating two national marine parks in Quintana Roo, Mexico, not only prioritized conservation, but al…
Governance and the making and breaking of social-ecological traps
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have areas of significant ecological importance that overlap with pressing development needs and high levels of natural resource dependence. This makes the design of effective natural resource governance and management systems both challenging and critical. In Ghana, this challenge is made more complex by the necessity of connecting formal, state-led systems of governance with Ghana's informal governance syste…
Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding
The international development community is off-track from meeting targets for alleviating global malnutrition. Meanwhile, there is growing consensus across scientific disciplines that fish plays a crucial role in food and nutrition security. However, this ‘fish as food’ perspective has yet to translate into policy and development funding priorities. We argue that the traditional framing of fish as a natural resource emphasizes economic developmen…
Applying community-based and Indigenous research methodologies
Beveridge, R., M. F. Moody, B. Pauly, G. Murray, and C. T. Darimont. 2021. Applying community-based and Indigenous research methodologies: lessons learned from the Nuxalk Sputc Project. Ecology and Society 26(4):21. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12702-260421
Vulnerability of coastal livelihoods to shrimp farming
The capacity to adapt
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
American Gay
Intestinal parasites in pet store puppies in Atlanta
We examined 143 pups from 14 Atlanta area pet stores for intestinal parasites and reviewed deworming practices and information given to customers. Seventy-four (52 per cent) of the pups had at least one parasite including Giardia sp. (34 per cent), Toxocara canis (12 per cent), and Isospora sp. (9 per cent). Eighty-eight per cent received some form of anthelminthic treatment while at the store. Only six (43 per cent) of the stores routinely infor…
A teacher/student commentary on a field test of Manning's roughness coefficient
This paper describes and appraises a two‐day field project designed by a member of staff to be carried out by a group of students in a series of stream sections. The main aims of the project were (1) to help students develop a better understanding of stream processes, but more importantly (2) to help students develop an awareness of how ideas evolve, (3) how to test their ideas using a sound procedural methodology and (4) how to assess the implic…
Grazing Camels without Water
Keiskammahoek Rural Survey
A teacher/student commentary on a field test of Manning's roughness coefficient
This paper describes and appraises a two‐day field project designed by a member of staff to be carried out by a group of students in a series of stream sections. The main aims of the project were (1) to help students develop a better understanding of stream processes, but more importantly (2) to help students develop an awareness of how ideas evolve, (3) how to test their ideas using a sound procedural methodology and (4) how to assess the implic…
Intestinal parasites in pet store puppies in Atlanta
We examined 143 pups from 14 Atlanta area pet stores for intestinal parasites and reviewed deworming practices and information given to customers. Seventy-four (52 per cent) of the pups had at least one parasite including Giardia sp. (34 per cent), Toxocara canis (12 per cent), and Isospora sp. (9 per cent). Eighty-eight per cent received some form of anthelminthic treatment while at the store. Only six (43 per cent) of the stores routinely infor…
American Gay
Multifaceted Measures of Success in Two Mexican Marine Protected Areas
An emerging trend within the international conservation community suggests that the “success” of protected areas should be measured by strictly biological and/or ecological indicators. These “objective” measures, however, may only represent the objectives of one group of stakeholders—conservationists. Many of the stakeholders recently involved in creating two national marine parks in Quintana Roo, Mexico, not only prioritized conservation, but al…
Lessons Learned from Reconstructing Interactions Between Local Ecological Knowledge, Fisheries Science, and Fisheries Management in the Commercial Fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Mapping Cod
Cumulative effects, creeping enclosure, and the marine commons of New Jersey
In response to declining fish stocks and increased societal concern, the marine ‘commons’ of New Jersey is no longer freely available to commercial and recreational fisheries. We discuss the concept of ‘creeping’ enclosure in relation to New Jersey’s marine fisheries and suggest that reduced access can be a cumulative process and function of multiple events and processes and need not be the result of a single regulatory moment. We begin with a sh…
Cumulative effects, creeping enclosure, and the marine commons of New Jersey
In response to declining fish stocks and increased societal concern, the marine ‘commons’ of New Jersey is no longer freely available to commercial and recreational fisheries. We discuss the concept of ‘creeping’ enclosure in relation to New Jersey’s marine fisheries and suggest that reduced access can be a cumulative process and function of multiple events and processes and need not be the result of a single regulatory moment. We begin with a sh…
Social–ecological dynamism, knowledge, and sustainable coastal marine fisheries
We Want Our Children to Grow Up to See These Animals
First Nations Values in Protected Area Governance
Historical Perspectives and Recent Trends in the Coastal Mozambican Fishery
Historical data describing changing social-ecological interactions in marine systems can help guide small-scale fisheries management efforts. Fisheries landings data are often the primary source for historical reconstructions of fisheries; however, we argue that reliance on data of a single type and/or from a single scale can lead to potentially misleading conclusions. For example, a narrow focus on aggregate landings statistics can mask processe…
Social Dimensions of Autonomy in Language Learning
Strengthening Threatened Communities through Adaptation
Blythe, J. L., G. Murray, and M. Flaherty. 2014. Strengthening threatened communities through adaptation: insights from coastal Mozambique. Ecology and Society 19(2): 6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06408-190206
The capacity to adapt
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
Understanding inter-community performance assessments in community-based resource management at Avu Lagoon, Ghana
Conservation in Context
Community resource management areas (CREMAs) in Ghana are protected areas managed under a community-based governance regime. This study examined five CREMAs to understand how desired outcomes and perceived performance of these CREMAs vary at a regional level, and the factors that might account for this variability. Importance-performance analysis showed that for all 29 outcomes examined, importance exceeded performance, indicating a need to impro…
Vulnerability of coastal livelihoods to shrimp farming
Perceptions of shellfish aquaculture in British Columbia and implications for well-being in marine social-ecological systems
D'Anna, L. M., and G. Murray. 2015. Perceptions of shellfish aquaculture in British Columbia and implications for well-being in marine social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 20(1): 57. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07319-200157
Concerns and benefits of park-adjacent communities in Northern Ghana
Protected areas are increasingly becoming islands of habitat surrounded by seas of cultivation and development. Communities experience both costs and benefits associated with nearby PAs, and perception of these influence support for PAs and subsequent conservation related behaviors. This paper explores the concerns and benefits of 10 adjacent communities surrounding Mole National Park in Ghana using key informants, focus groups and household surv…
Understanding Power in Indigenous Protected Areas
Religion and perceptions of community-based conservation in Ghana, West Africa
Adapting community-based protected areas to local context and evaluating their success across a range of possible socio-economic and ecological outcomes depends, in part, on understanding the perceptions of local actors. This article presents results from a mixed methods study that focuses on how and why religious identity, a prominent aspect of Ghanaian culture, is related to perceptions of the performance of several Community Resource Managemen…
Governance and the making and breaking of social-ecological traps
Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have areas of significant ecological importance that overlap with pressing development needs and high levels of natural resource dependence. This makes the design of effective natural resource governance and management systems both challenging and critical. In Ghana, this challenge is made more complex by the necessity of connecting formal, state-led systems of governance with Ghana's informal governance syste…
Geography (22 works) · Biology (18 works) · Ecology (18 works) · Environmental resource management (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Economics (17 works) · Business (16 works) · Fishery (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Environmental Science (10 works)