Protected areas and forests only last when the people around them gain from them. My work links ecosystem services to household wellbeing, tests how well protected areas are managed, and builds the local institutions that look after them, from Dolphin Head to the Hellshire Hills.
Protected area management effectiveness for Jamaica (IUCN BIOPAMA)
Wellbeing and ecosystem service research on Jamaica's coasts (SSHRC)
Independent evaluation of CEPF's Caribbean Islands hotspot programme
Community conservation in three Key Biodiversity Areas
Co-Investigator
Jamaica-South Africa Joint Scientific and Technological Cooperation
Compares how farming communities in Jamaica's Rio Grande Valley and South Africa use traditional knowledge to keep crop diversity alive next to protected areas.
Jamaica, South Africa
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Co-Investigator
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Built a monitoring system that tracks both reef ecology and fisher livelihoods so managers can see the effect of their decisions.
Jamaica, Dominica, St Vincent and the Grenadines
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Co-Investigator
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Linked coastal ecosystem services to the wellbeing of fishing communities to improve how Jamaica governs its coasts.
Jamaica
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Principal Investigator
European Union / ACP
Assessed how well Jamaica's land and marine protected areas are managed, feeding the regional protected areas data platform.
Jamaica
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Final Assessment of the Caribbean Islands Biodiversity Hotspot Investment
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) · Haiti, Jamaica
Promoting Conservation of Peckham Woods Key Biodiversity Area, Clarendon
CEPF · Jamaica
Strengthening Institutional Capacity of the Local Forest Management Committee in the Dolphin Head Forest Area
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) · Jamaica
Implementing the Hellshire Hills and Portland Ridge Sub-Areas Management Plans
Caribbean Coastal Area Management Foundation (CCAM) · Jamaica