Dirk J Steenbergen
Biographic Data
| ID | 630409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dirk J Steenbergen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dirk J |
| FAMILY NAME | Steenbergen |
| SIGNATURE | STEENBERGEN D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4067-4432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fish trade and distribution from Vanuatu’s community-based fisheries
Small-scale fisheries across the Pacific, particularly in Vanuatu, are multi-species, multi-geared, and span multiple coastal habitats. This diversity and variability extends into associated trade and distribution systems that move fish from relatively few landing sites to broad consumer bases in rural and urban areas. However, little is known about the domestic trade of fish at a national scale, as fish move through connected informal economies …
Social protection and aquatic food systems
Tying social protection to the blue economy—using marine resources for rural economic growth and improved livelihoods while preserving the health of the ocean ecosystem - is potentially a powerful and sustainable means of improving small-scale fisheries. This paper examines critical links between social protection and the blue economy, emphasizing small-scale fisheries as part of a broader transformative social protection agenda. In the face of c…
Participatory monitoring in community-based fisheries management through a gender lens
In small-scale fisheries management, the significance of participation is widely recognised but we are still learning how this can be better operationalised to include different groups, such as women or Indigenous peoples. Participatory monitoring is one tool which has been used to increase participation in fisheries management. The aim of this review is to use critical interpretive synthesis to examine the literature on participatory monitoring …
An applied research agenda for navigating diverse livelihood challenges in rural coastal communities in the tropics
Coastal transitions
Across Southeast Asia, coastal livelihoods are becoming more diverse and more commodified, as maritime zone developments intensify. We review literature from the ten maritime states in Southeast Asia to assess how older and emerging forms of maritime zone developments influence the viability of small-scale fishing livelihoods. Applying a political economy lens to small-scale fisheries and maritime zone developments at regional scale, we show how …
A theory of scaling for community-based fisheries management
Community-based approaches to fisheries management has emerged as a mainstream strategy to govern dispersed, diverse and dynamic small scale fisheries. However, amplifying local community led sustainability outcomes remains an enduring challenge. We seek to fill a theoretical gap in the conceptualization of ‘scaling up community-based fisheries management’. We draw on literature of agriculture innovations to provide a framework that takes into ac…
Tracing innovation pathways behind fisheries co-management in Vanuatu
Co-management approaches have become a core part of coastal fisheries policy and planning practice in Vanuatu. With a long history of supporting community based fisheries management (CBFM), we trace its evolution in Vanuatu to understand how new structures and processes become adopted at scale. A theory of scaling for CBFM guides the analysis of regime shifts over time. We discuss planning for sustained spread under a national programme by catego…
Developing sustainable small-scale fisheries livelihoods in Indonesia
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) provide crucial contributions to livelihoods, food and nutrition security, and the well-being of coastal communities worldwide. In Indonesia, 2.5 million households are involved in SSF production, yet these households are characterised by high poverty rates and vulnerability due to declining ecosystem health and climatic change. In this study we applied the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework to analyse the characteristi…
Blind spots in visions of a “blue economy” could undermine the ocean's contribution to eliminating hunger and malnutrition
The role of voluntary commitments in realizing the promise of the Blue Economy
Covid-19 restrictions amidst cyclones and volcanoes
Implementing strategies to overcome social-ecological traps
Steenbergen, D. J., and C. Warren. 2018. Implementing strategies to overcome social-ecological traps: the role of community brokers and institutional bricolage in a locally managed marine area. Ecology and Society 23(3):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10256-230310
Community Driven Development and Structural Disadvantage
Community-driven development (CDD) programmes have emerged on a large scale in the Global South following research and policy work regarding social capital, capabilities and empowerment. This paper analyses one of the largest international examples of the ‘social’ turn, examining the effects of the CDD approach in governmental, structural and relational terms. While the CDD approach successfully generated new political rationalities and governmen…
Strategic Customary Village Leadership in the Context of Marine Conservation and Development in Southeast Maluku, Indonesia
This article critically examines engagements of village leaders in an NGO-facilitated participatory conservation program in eastern Indonesia. It explores how the program's implementation strengthened leadership legitimacy of a dominant customary social group. Customary leaders ensured distribution according to particular norms, and in organizing village governance upheld specific interests and claims over natural resources. Villagers outside of …
Caught Between Mediation and Local Dependence
Resolving contestations over resource management rights around coastal villages remains a focal challenge for co-management initiatives in remote coastal zones. Contemporary socio-political settings increasingly see local people having to negotiate between local long-standing (horizontal) relationships and new emerging (vertical) relationships which involve collaborations with outside actors who try to assume neutral mediating positions. Using tw…
The Role of Tourism in Addressing Illegal Fishing
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Coastal transitions
Across Southeast Asia, coastal livelihoods are becoming more diverse and more commodified, as maritime zone developments intensify. We review literature from the ten maritime states in Southeast Asia to assess how older and emerging forms of maritime zone developments influence the viability of small-scale fishing livelihoods. Applying a political economy lens to small-scale fisheries and maritime zone developments at regional scale, we show how …
A theory of scaling for community-based fisheries management
Community-based approaches to fisheries management has emerged as a mainstream strategy to govern dispersed, diverse and dynamic small scale fisheries. However, amplifying local community led sustainability outcomes remains an enduring challenge. We seek to fill a theoretical gap in the conceptualization of ‘scaling up community-based fisheries management’. We draw on literature of agriculture innovations to provide a framework that takes into ac…
Implementing strategies to overcome social-ecological traps
Steenbergen, D. J., and C. Warren. 2018. Implementing strategies to overcome social-ecological traps: the role of community brokers and institutional bricolage in a locally managed marine area. Ecology and Society 23(3):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10256-230310
The role of voluntary commitments in realizing the promise of the Blue Economy
Social protection and aquatic food systems
Tying social protection to the blue economy—using marine resources for rural economic growth and improved livelihoods while preserving the health of the ocean ecosystem - is potentially a powerful and sustainable means of improving small-scale fisheries. This paper examines critical links between social protection and the blue economy, emphasizing small-scale fisheries as part of a broader transformative social protection agenda. In the face of c…
Participatory monitoring in community-based fisheries management through a gender lens
In small-scale fisheries management, the significance of participation is widely recognised but we are still learning how this can be better operationalised to include different groups, such as women or Indigenous peoples. Participatory monitoring is one tool which has been used to increase participation in fisheries management. The aim of this review is to use critical interpretive synthesis to examine the literature on participatory monitoring …
Tracing innovation pathways behind fisheries co-management in Vanuatu
Co-management approaches have become a core part of coastal fisheries policy and planning practice in Vanuatu. With a long history of supporting community based fisheries management (CBFM), we trace its evolution in Vanuatu to understand how new structures and processes become adopted at scale. A theory of scaling for CBFM guides the analysis of regime shifts over time. We discuss planning for sustained spread under a national programme by catego…
Caught Between Mediation and Local Dependence
Resolving contestations over resource management rights around coastal villages remains a focal challenge for co-management initiatives in remote coastal zones. Contemporary socio-political settings increasingly see local people having to negotiate between local long-standing (horizontal) relationships and new emerging (vertical) relationships which involve collaborations with outside actors who try to assume neutral mediating positions. Using tw…
The Role of Tourism in Addressing Illegal Fishing
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
The Role of Tourism in Addressing Illegal Fishing
Contemporary Southeast Asia (CSEA) is one of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute"s flagship publications. Now in its fourth decade of publication, CSEA has succeeded in building up an international reputation as one of Southeast Asia"s premier academic journals. The aim of the peer reviewed journal is to provide subscribers with up to date and in-depth analysis of critical trends and developments in Southeast Asia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.…
Community Driven Development and Structural Disadvantage
Community-driven development (CDD) programmes have emerged on a large scale in the Global South following research and policy work regarding social capital, capabilities and empowerment. This paper analyses one of the largest international examples of the ‘social’ turn, examining the effects of the CDD approach in governmental, structural and relational terms. While the CDD approach successfully generated new political rationalities and governmen…
Strategic Customary Village Leadership in the Context of Marine Conservation and Development in Southeast Maluku, Indonesia
This article critically examines engagements of village leaders in an NGO-facilitated participatory conservation program in eastern Indonesia. It explores how the program's implementation strengthened leadership legitimacy of a dominant customary social group. Customary leaders ensured distribution according to particular norms, and in organizing village governance upheld specific interests and claims over natural resources. Villagers outside of …
Caught Between Mediation and Local Dependence
Resolving contestations over resource management rights around coastal villages remains a focal challenge for co-management initiatives in remote coastal zones. Contemporary socio-political settings increasingly see local people having to negotiate between local long-standing (horizontal) relationships and new emerging (vertical) relationships which involve collaborations with outside actors who try to assume neutral mediating positions. Using tw…
Implementing strategies to overcome social-ecological traps
Steenbergen, D. J., and C. Warren. 2018. Implementing strategies to overcome social-ecological traps: the role of community brokers and institutional bricolage in a locally managed marine area. Ecology and Society 23(3):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10256-230310
Covid-19 restrictions amidst cyclones and volcanoes
Developing sustainable small-scale fisheries livelihoods in Indonesia
Small-scale fisheries (SSF) provide crucial contributions to livelihoods, food and nutrition security, and the well-being of coastal communities worldwide. In Indonesia, 2.5 million households are involved in SSF production, yet these households are characterised by high poverty rates and vulnerability due to declining ecosystem health and climatic change. In this study we applied the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework to analyse the characteristi…
Blind spots in visions of a “blue economy” could undermine the ocean's contribution to eliminating hunger and malnutrition
The role of voluntary commitments in realizing the promise of the Blue Economy
An applied research agenda for navigating diverse livelihood challenges in rural coastal communities in the tropics
Coastal transitions
Across Southeast Asia, coastal livelihoods are becoming more diverse and more commodified, as maritime zone developments intensify. We review literature from the ten maritime states in Southeast Asia to assess how older and emerging forms of maritime zone developments influence the viability of small-scale fishing livelihoods. Applying a political economy lens to small-scale fisheries and maritime zone developments at regional scale, we show how …
A theory of scaling for community-based fisheries management
Community-based approaches to fisheries management has emerged as a mainstream strategy to govern dispersed, diverse and dynamic small scale fisheries. However, amplifying local community led sustainability outcomes remains an enduring challenge. We seek to fill a theoretical gap in the conceptualization of ‘scaling up community-based fisheries management’. We draw on literature of agriculture innovations to provide a framework that takes into ac…
Tracing innovation pathways behind fisheries co-management in Vanuatu
Co-management approaches have become a core part of coastal fisheries policy and planning practice in Vanuatu. With a long history of supporting community based fisheries management (CBFM), we trace its evolution in Vanuatu to understand how new structures and processes become adopted at scale. A theory of scaling for CBFM guides the analysis of regime shifts over time. We discuss planning for sustained spread under a national programme by catego…
Participatory monitoring in community-based fisheries management through a gender lens
In small-scale fisheries management, the significance of participation is widely recognised but we are still learning how this can be better operationalised to include different groups, such as women or Indigenous peoples. Participatory monitoring is one tool which has been used to increase participation in fisheries management. The aim of this review is to use critical interpretive synthesis to examine the literature on participatory monitoring …
Social protection and aquatic food systems
Tying social protection to the blue economy—using marine resources for rural economic growth and improved livelihoods while preserving the health of the ocean ecosystem - is potentially a powerful and sustainable means of improving small-scale fisheries. This paper examines critical links between social protection and the blue economy, emphasizing small-scale fisheries as part of a broader transformative social protection agenda. In the face of c…
Fish trade and distribution from Vanuatu’s community-based fisheries
Small-scale fisheries across the Pacific, particularly in Vanuatu, are multi-species, multi-geared, and span multiple coastal habitats. This diversity and variability extends into associated trade and distribution systems that move fish from relatively few landing sites to broad consumer bases in rural and urban areas. However, little is known about the domestic trade of fish at a national scale, as fish move through connected informal economies …
Economics (14 works) · Business (11 works) · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (11 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Coastal and Marine Management (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Fishing (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works)