Alejandro Garcia Lozano

Alejandro Garcia Lozano
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  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • Assistant Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

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22
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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. I am currently developing research on climate justice, ecological restoration, and human-wildlife relationships in New York City - feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate!
Current institution
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Current position
  • Assistant Professor
Additional affiliations
August 2022 - August 2023
University of Washington
Position
  • PostDoc Position
Description
  • Postdoctoral researcher at the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center
August 2020 - July 2022
Arizona State University
Position
  • PostDoc Position
June 2014 - May 2015
Florida International University
Position
  • Adjunct Instructor
Education
August 2015 - August 2020
Duke University Marine Lab
Field of study
  • Marine Science and Conservation
August 2012 - August 2014
Florida International University
Field of study
  • Environmental Studies
August 2007 - August 2011
Florida Atlantic University
Field of study
  • Psychobiology

Publications

Publications (22)
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The world’s fisheries face complex and high-stakes governance problems that increasingly require mobilizing diverse collectives of governance actors. How fishers and fishing organizations understand and articulate governance problems has implications for how they engage with governance institutions and the kinds of collective action they enact. In...
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Despite growing attention on severe labor abuses in seafood production, questions remain about the broader range of challenges to decent work in the sector. Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) in particular have received relatively little attention from a labor-focused perspective. Motivated by this gap, this study elaborates a methodology to assess worki...
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Recent oceans sustainability, coastal community development, and ocean governance policy discourse among aca- demics and practitioners increasingly invokes “equity” and “ocean equity.” But, to what end? While this new focus may be a positive development for these fields, this article argues that the conceptualization of equitable approaches to ocea...
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The blue economy was originally conceptualised as having a strong focus on social equity; however, in practice, these equity considerations have been overshadowed by neo-liberal capitalist agendas, which have become dominant in blue economy discourse. A continued expansion of ocean industry developments and activities has resulted in an inequitable...
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Rights-based fisheries management (RBFM) seeks to create market incentives to reduce competition, avoid overexploitation, and increase economic efficiency. Particularly for artisanal fisheries, however, assumptions of RBFM may not be met and its use needs to be carefully considered. This study applies an existing tool (SEASALT) to evaluate the stre...
Technical Report
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In recent years, the challenges associated with achieving decent working conditions in the world’s fisheries have become increasingly evident. Though not a new phenomenon, numerous investigations shed light on unacceptable working conditions in fishing, including cases of forced labor, modern slavery, and human trafficking. Environmental organizati...
Chapter
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Canadian small-scale fisheries involve hazardous work that can lead to illness, injuries, and even fatalities of the people working in this sector. These businesses are considered small, as small-scale fisheries bring less capital, use low-technology fishing equipment and tools, and are livelihood sources for small communities. Are Canadian small-s...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Preprint
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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.
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Wildlife hunting is essential to livelihoods and food security in many parts of the world, yet present rates of extraction may threaten ecosystems and human communities. Thus, governing sustainable wildlife use is a major social dilemma and conservation challenge. Commons scholarship is well positioned to contribute theoretical insights and analyti...
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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...

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