Steven D Gaines
Biographic Data
| ID | 6016587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven D Gaines |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven D |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaines |
| SIGNATURE | GAINES S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7604-3483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Aquaculture isn’t always the answer: Rethinking blue transitions through justice and community experience
Critically examines the assumptions and outcomes of “blue transitions” from fishing to aquaculture in two small-scale coastal communities in Mexico, finding that aquaculture interventions often lead to fragmented and contested transformations. • Uses an exploratory mixed-methods approach to capture diverse community perspectives and experiences. • Introduces a justice-centered framework to evaluate the equity, recognition, and procedural dimensio…
Enhancing the potential of children’s agency to achieve global sustainability
Despite progress toward sustainability, it remains uncertain how we as a global society will make transformations needed at scale. We argue that intentionally involving children in sustainability efforts may catalyze promising changes in how we approach human-environmental crises. This involvement, however, entails much more than the traditional focus on exposing children to environmental education or sustainability learning. Here, we present a p…
A synthesis of socioeconomic and sociocultural indicators for assessing the impacts of offshore renewable energy on fishery participants and fishing communities
Offshore renewable energy, particularly wind farms, is rapidly expanding globally and has become an essential component of many coastal nations’ decarbonization plans, including the United States. The addition of these physical structures to the marine space may impact fish production and may preclude fishers from traditional fishing grounds - both of which have the potential to affect fisheries outcomes. Understanding the socioeconomic and socio…
New framework reveals gaps in US ocean biodiversity protection
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries
Small-scale fisheries contribute nearly half the world’s seafood supply, yet the majority suffer from a lack of effective management, resulting in a threat to food security and ecosystem health. Co-management has been proposed as a solution to many of the problems these fisheries face (i.e., reduced catches, threats to food security, climate change, lack of effective monitoring and management, etc.), resulting in a large body of literature dedica…
Moving beyond binary metrics of compliance in small-scale fisheries
Compliance mediates how policies affect fisheries and the people who depend upon them for work, food, and well-being. Many of the world’s small-scale fisheries lack clear, legal rules to prevent overfishing, or are subject to conflicting rules. Where clear rules do exist, noncompliance is widespread. Binary assessments of compliance, which frequently lead to calls for increased enforcement when compliance is low, tend to overlook the insights tha…
Small island nations can achieve food security benefits through climate-adaptive blue food governance by 2050
Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate
A case for seaweed aquaculture inclusion in U.S. nutrient pollution management
Seaweed aquaculture is capable of removing large quantities of nitrogen and phosphorus from coastal ecosystems, yet seaweed has gained little traction for its potential role in targeted nutrient assimilation. Marine nutrient pollution is increasing around the world, contributing to expanding eutrophic conditions and co-occurring with other stressors that impact the state and stability of aquatic ecosystems. In the United States, climate change, l…
Prepare developed democracies for long-run economic slowdowns
Status and trends of moored fish aggregating device (MFAD) fisheries in the Caribbean and Bermuda
Fisheries regulatory regimes and resilience to climate change
Climate change is already producing ecological, social, and economic impacts on fisheries, and these effects are expected to increase in frequency and magnitude in the future. Fisheries governance and regulations can alter socio-ecological resilience to climate change impacts via harvest control rules and incentives driving fisher behavior, yet there are no syntheses or conceptual frameworks for examining how institutions and their regulatory app…
Global fishery prospects under contrasting management regimes
Significance What would extensive fishery reform look like? In addition, what would be the benefits and trade-offs of implementing alternative approaches to fisheries management on a worldwide scale? To find out, we assembled the largest-of-its-kind database and coupled it to state-of-the-art bioeconomic models for more than 4,500 fisheries around the world. We find that, in nearly every country of the world, fishery recovery would simultaneously…
Compelling evidence: An influence on middle school students’ accounts that may impact decision-making about socioscientific issues
This study investigates how middle school students make hypothetical purchasing, consuming, and voting decisions about environmental and science-related issues – a key component of environmental literacy. Fifty-three female students were given a packet containing multiple excerpts of information from conflicting positions from stakeholders and interviewed about how they would make decisions about environmental and science-related issues. We first…
An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean
Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: A global synthesis
The study and implementation of no-take marine reserves have increased rapidly over the past decade, providing ample data on the biological effects of reserve protection for a wide range of geographic locations and organisms. The plethora of new studies affords the opportunity to reevaluate previous findings and address formerly unanswered questions with extensive data syntheses. Our results show, on average, positive effects of reserve protectio…
Can Catch Shares Prevent Fisheries Collapse?
Recent reports suggest that most of the world's commercial fisheries could collapse within decades. Although poor fisheries governance is often implicated, evaluation of solutions remains rare. Bioeconomic theory and case studies suggest that rights-based catch shares can provide individual incentives for sustainable harvest that is less prone to collapse. To test whether catch-share fishery reforms achieve these hypothetical benefits, we have co…
Fisheries regulatory regimes and resilience to climate change
Climate change is already producing ecological, social, and economic impacts on fisheries, and these effects are expected to increase in frequency and magnitude in the future. Fisheries governance and regulations can alter socio-ecological resilience to climate change impacts via harvest control rules and incentives driving fisher behavior, yet there are no syntheses or conceptual frameworks for examining how institutions and their regulatory app…
Aquaculture isn’t always the answer: Rethinking blue transitions through justice and community experience
Critically examines the assumptions and outcomes of “blue transitions” from fishing to aquaculture in two small-scale coastal communities in Mexico, finding that aquaculture interventions often lead to fragmented and contested transformations. • Uses an exploratory mixed-methods approach to capture diverse community perspectives and experiences. • Introduces a justice-centered framework to evaluate the equity, recognition, and procedural dimensio…
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries
Small-scale fisheries contribute nearly half the world’s seafood supply, yet the majority suffer from a lack of effective management, resulting in a threat to food security and ecosystem health. Co-management has been proposed as a solution to many of the problems these fisheries face (i.e., reduced catches, threats to food security, climate change, lack of effective monitoring and management, etc.), resulting in a large body of literature dedica…
Moving beyond binary metrics of compliance in small-scale fisheries
Compliance mediates how policies affect fisheries and the people who depend upon them for work, food, and well-being. Many of the world’s small-scale fisheries lack clear, legal rules to prevent overfishing, or are subject to conflicting rules. Where clear rules do exist, noncompliance is widespread. Binary assessments of compliance, which frequently lead to calls for increased enforcement when compliance is low, tend to overlook the insights tha…
Can Catch Shares Prevent Fisheries Collapse?
Recent reports suggest that most of the world's commercial fisheries could collapse within decades. Although poor fisheries governance is often implicated, evaluation of solutions remains rare. Bioeconomic theory and case studies suggest that rights-based catch shares can provide individual incentives for sustainable harvest that is less prone to collapse. To test whether catch-share fishery reforms achieve these hypothetical benefits, we have co…
Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: A global synthesis
The study and implementation of no-take marine reserves have increased rapidly over the past decade, providing ample data on the biological effects of reserve protection for a wide range of geographic locations and organisms. The plethora of new studies affords the opportunity to reevaluate previous findings and address formerly unanswered questions with extensive data syntheses. Our results show, on average, positive effects of reserve protectio…
An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean
Global fishery prospects under contrasting management regimes
Significance What would extensive fishery reform look like? In addition, what would be the benefits and trade-offs of implementing alternative approaches to fisheries management on a worldwide scale? To find out, we assembled the largest-of-its-kind database and coupled it to state-of-the-art bioeconomic models for more than 4,500 fisheries around the world. We find that, in nearly every country of the world, fishery recovery would simultaneously…
Compelling evidence: An influence on middle school students’ accounts that may impact decision-making about socioscientific issues
This study investigates how middle school students make hypothetical purchasing, consuming, and voting decisions about environmental and science-related issues – a key component of environmental literacy. Fifty-three female students were given a packet containing multiple excerpts of information from conflicting positions from stakeholders and interviewed about how they would make decisions about environmental and science-related issues. We first…
Fisheries regulatory regimes and resilience to climate change
Climate change is already producing ecological, social, and economic impacts on fisheries, and these effects are expected to increase in frequency and magnitude in the future. Fisheries governance and regulations can alter socio-ecological resilience to climate change impacts via harvest control rules and incentives driving fisher behavior, yet there are no syntheses or conceptual frameworks for examining how institutions and their regulatory app…
Status and trends of moored fish aggregating device (MFAD) fisheries in the Caribbean and Bermuda
Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate
A case for seaweed aquaculture inclusion in U.S. nutrient pollution management
Seaweed aquaculture is capable of removing large quantities of nitrogen and phosphorus from coastal ecosystems, yet seaweed has gained little traction for its potential role in targeted nutrient assimilation. Marine nutrient pollution is increasing around the world, contributing to expanding eutrophic conditions and co-occurring with other stressors that impact the state and stability of aquatic ecosystems. In the United States, climate change, l…
Prepare developed democracies for long-run economic slowdowns
Small island nations can achieve food security benefits through climate-adaptive blue food governance by 2050
A synthesis of socioeconomic and sociocultural indicators for assessing the impacts of offshore renewable energy on fishery participants and fishing communities
Offshore renewable energy, particularly wind farms, is rapidly expanding globally and has become an essential component of many coastal nations’ decarbonization plans, including the United States. The addition of these physical structures to the marine space may impact fish production and may preclude fishers from traditional fishing grounds - both of which have the potential to affect fisheries outcomes. Understanding the socioeconomic and socio…
New framework reveals gaps in US ocean biodiversity protection
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries
Small-scale fisheries contribute nearly half the world’s seafood supply, yet the majority suffer from a lack of effective management, resulting in a threat to food security and ecosystem health. Co-management has been proposed as a solution to many of the problems these fisheries face (i.e., reduced catches, threats to food security, climate change, lack of effective monitoring and management, etc.), resulting in a large body of literature dedica…
Moving beyond binary metrics of compliance in small-scale fisheries
Compliance mediates how policies affect fisheries and the people who depend upon them for work, food, and well-being. Many of the world’s small-scale fisheries lack clear, legal rules to prevent overfishing, or are subject to conflicting rules. Where clear rules do exist, noncompliance is widespread. Binary assessments of compliance, which frequently lead to calls for increased enforcement when compliance is low, tend to overlook the insights tha…
Aquaculture isn’t always the answer: Rethinking blue transitions through justice and community experience
Critically examines the assumptions and outcomes of “blue transitions” from fishing to aquaculture in two small-scale coastal communities in Mexico, finding that aquaculture interventions often lead to fragmented and contested transformations. • Uses an exploratory mixed-methods approach to capture diverse community perspectives and experiences. • Introduces a justice-centered framework to evaluate the equity, recognition, and procedural dimensio…
Enhancing the potential of children’s agency to achieve global sustainability
Despite progress toward sustainability, it remains uncertain how we as a global society will make transformations needed at scale. We argue that intentionally involving children in sustainability efforts may catalyze promising changes in how we approach human-environmental crises. This involvement, however, entails much more than the traditional focus on exposing children to environmental education or sustainability learning. Here, we present a p…
Business (13 works) · Fishery (12 works) · Biology (11 works) · Environmental resource management (10 works) · Geography (10 works) · Marine and fisheries research (10 works) · Coastal and Marine Management (9 works) · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Environmental Science (8 works)