Robin Mahon and Patrick McConney, Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, St. Michael, Barbados
Lucia Fanning, Marine Affairs Programme, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2018 DOI: 10.33277/cesare/001.001/02
Drs. Mahon, McConney and Fanning take on a collaborative approach to explore the main issues affecting the Caribbean’s diverse marine ecosystems and their management.
Who is leading change on the ground? Are we being collaborative enough? What regional frameworks are at work? These important questions are explored in full detail by Dr. Mahon et al. of the University of the West Indies and Dalhousie University.
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Professor Mahon is an Emeritus Professor at the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Professor Mahon’s research activities are in marine resource governance, in particular, assessment of governance arrangements for transboundary systems how to effect organisational change in complex systems.
Professor Mahon is involved in several Caribbean regional projects and activities including the CLME+ Project as described above, the UNESCO-IOC GEF funded Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem Project, the Future of Reef in a Changing Environment (FORCE) Project and the establishment of the Association of Caribbean States Caribbean Sea Commission.
Dr. McConney is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES) at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Dr. McConney is a former fisheries manager with an interdisciplinary PhD in resource management from the University of British Columbia, Canada. His current applied research is mainly on small-scale fisheries and marine protected area social-ecological systems in the Wider Caribbean. This research includes ecosystem approaches, livelihoods, socio-economics, gender, adaptive capacity, resilience, management, planning, institutions, organisations and governance.
Dr. Fanning joined the Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University in September 2007 and served as Director until 2013. Prior to coming to Dalhousie University, she was involved in addressing transboundary fisheries governance in the Caribbean Sea where some 45 countries and territories with diverse cultures, politics, economics, laws and environments are working towards enhanced decision-making for the long-term sustainability of the fisheries.
