Alejandro Garcia LozanoArizona State University - Conservation International
Alejandro Garcia Lozano
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
I am interested in human-environment relations and the politics of natural resource governance. My research examines how different actors navigate or shape institutional arrangements, engage in collective action, and employ discursive and material practices to influence policies and negotiate access to resources. My current work is part of a project investigating labor rights abuses in the seafood sector, decent working conditions in fisheries, and links to overfishing.
Additional affiliations
June 2014 - May 2015
June 2014 - December 2014
May 2013 - June 2015
Position
- Graduate Student Instructor
Description
- University of Michigan Biological Station
Education
August 2015 - August 2020
August 2012 - August 2014
August 2007 - August 2011
Publications
Publications (15)
Small-scale fisheries are important for preventing poverty, sustaining local economies, and rural livelihoods, but tend to be negatively impacted by traditional forms of management and overexploitation among other factors. Marine Areas for Responsible Fishing (Áreas Marinas de Pesca Responsable, AMPR) have emerged as a new model for the co-manageme...
In the coming decades, accelerating processes of climate change are expected to impact the world’s fisheries. These changes will likely exacerbate ongoing challenges in the governance of small-scale fisheries, which play a significant role in supporting livelihoods and food security throughout the world. Among fishers in Mexico, the perceived impac...
Scale is a powerful concept, a lens that shapes how we perceive problems and solutions in common-pool resource governance. Yet, scale is often treated as a relatively stable and settled concept in commons scholarship. This paper reviews the origins and evolution of scalar thinking in commons scholarship in contrast with theories of scale in human g...
Labor issues and human rights violations have become the subject of rising concern in fisheries and seafood production. This paper reviews recent research on labor issues in the fishing industry, especially by environmental researchers and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) which are emerging as key players in research and policy arenas. Recent r...
With growing evidence of labor violations and exploitative working conditions in fisheries, ensuring decent work is imperative to protect fishers and fishworkers in the global seafood sector. This study provides the first evaluation of decent work in a shared, transboundary fishery – the shrimp and groundfish fishery of the Guianas-Brazil Shelf. De...
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 ab...
In this study we examine how fishers negotiate the tensions and tradeoffs between self-governance and reliance on the state. We address this question using the case of cooperative fishers in Mexico, where the government has historically acted as benefactor to local communities while also positioning itself as the key actor holding the capacity to s...
Human-driven changes to aquatic environments threaten small-scale fisheries (SSFs). Ensuring a livable future for SSFs in the Anthropocene requires incorporating ecological knowledge of these diverse multi-species systems beyond the long-standing reliance on populations, a management paradigm adopted from industrial fisheries. Assessing the state o...
Commons and social-ecological systems research examines institutional arrangements for governing natural resources to improve social and ecological outcomes. However, no universal definition of success exists. We examine the CPR and SES synthesis literature to identify trends, gaps and challenges for examining success. We address: (1) gaps in the l...
In this Draft Chapter 2.1 of the IBES Global Assesment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services we explored how global transformation involved key tradeoffs, and inequalities, as growing interactions drove economic growth but also degradation. Accelerations in consumption & interconnection have had tradeoffs.
Wildlife hunting is essential to livelihoods and food security in many parts of the world, yet present rates of extraction may threaten both ecological and human communities. As a result, governing sustainable wildlife use is a major social dilemma and conservation challenge. Commons scholarship is well‐positioned to contribute theoretical insights...
Marine fisheries in Costa Rica have become characterized by overexploitation, ineffective centralized management and increased conflict among fishing sectors. Despite high economic and socio-cultural importance of small-scale fisheries, no formal mechanisms existed until recently to facilitate the participation of fishers in management. Marine Area...
Projects
Project (1)
The purpose of the Decent Work in Fisheries Initiative (DWFI) is to better understand work conditions and the challenges to decent work in the world's fisheries, focusing on key geographies that have not been the focus of recent work on labor issues. The project also aims to unpack the inter-relationships between labor relations and social dynamics more broadly, on one hand, and ecological or environmental concerns on the other, with the goal of understanding how issues like overfishing and informality influence environmental and social outcomes.
The project is guided by an interdisciplinary Steering Committee which includes partners from Arizona State University, Conservation International, Global Fishing Watch, Minderoo Foundation, University of Nottingham Rights Lab, Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, University of California Santa Barbara, and the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center.
