Thanks to everyone who responded on- and offline. I have some interesting reading to do Here’s a compilation of suggestions for reading or websites:
Recognizing this problem (which is not just marine-related!) Paul Ehrlich and others started the Millenium Assessment of Human Behavior - MAHB – a few years ago. Here's the website: http://mahbsustainability.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/paul-ehrlichs-invitation/ . . . they have a newsletter that comes out now and then. You probably can sign up for it on the website. You might be interested in reading the literature on Conservation Psychology. Saunders 2003 (http://www.humanecologyreview.org/pastissues/her102/102saunders.pdf ) gives an overview of what the field is all about. As for social scientists working on marine ecosystems (but not climate change specifically), you might want to look at the work of Michael Mascia and Joshua Cinner - they both look at social aspects of marine protected area management. political ecology . . . Acheson et al's work on chaotic fisheries comes immediately to mind. Geographers such as Matthew Turner and Lisa Naughton . . . work across the disciplines in their own research. With regard to relevant references in the social science literature -- Paul Ringold says this is a good place to start -- http://www.csc.noaa.gov/socialscience/ 1. The American Psychological Association (APA) has a division, Conservation Psychology; I seem to recall that this division's webpage has a link or two to journals related to social science and conservation 2. Several years ago (~2007-8?) the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) had an outreach to social scientists that was well-publicized and, as I recall, well-received; if I remember correctly, a significant number of papers, comments, and letters to the editor were published in Conservation Biology about the initiative(s). I also think that the topic of engaging social scientists in the society's affairs/programs was addressed at at least one annual meeting. I don't read Conservation Biology regularly any longer; thus, can't say whether the initiatives are ongoing. Engagement of sociologists in marine ecosystem research is a matter of finding those sociologists who have taken this research path. Try google search on topics such as 'traditional ecological knowledge' we do not have the information necessary to fully evaluate socio-economic impacts for many fisheries. . . This issue was also recently discussed on the FISHFOLK listserv. . . . there is some excellent work being done...most recently, DC Wilson's The Paradoxes of Transparency: Science and the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries, which is a more anthropological/human ecology study, but has some good insight into communication of science, which would also be relevant to climate change outreach. Have a look at 'Words of the Lagoon' by Johannes. [R. E. Johannes. 1992. Words of the Lagoon: Fishing and Marine Lore in the Palau District of Micronesia] Barbara Neis, David C. Schneider, Lawrence Felt, Richard L. Haedrich, Johanne Fischer, and Jeffrey A. Hutchings. 1999. Fisheries assessment: what can be learned from interviewing resource users? Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56: 1949–1963. Stephen S. Hale [email protected]
