• The conservation social sciences: An overview and a process for setting a research agenda 

  Bennett, Nathan; Roth, Robin; Klain, Sarah; Chan, Kai M.A.; Clark, Douglas A.; Cullman, Georgina; Epstein, Graham; Nelson, Michael Paul; Stedman, Richard; Teel, Tara L.; Thomas, Rebecca E.W.; Wyborn, Carina (2015)
• Win-win or trade-offs?: The study of conservation and development at local, national and global scales 

  Bennett, Nathan (2015)
• Introducing the conservation social sciences 

  Bennett, Nathan; Roth, Robin (2015)
• The conservation social sciences: What?, how? and why?: a report for conservation organizations, foundations, practitioners, agencies and researchers 

  Bennett, Nathan; Roth, Robin (2015)

  Each of the fields of conservation social science has made and can make a unique contribution to understanding the relationship between humans and nature and to improving conservation outcomes. Conservation scientists, ...
• Ecologically sustainable but unfair?: Negotiating equity and authority in common-pool marine resource management 

  Bennett, Nathan; Beveridge, Rachelle; Klain, Sarah (Resilience Alliance, 2014)

  Under appropriate conditions, community-based fisheries management can support sound resource stewardship, with positive social and environmental outcomes. Evaluating indigenous peoples’ involvement in commercial sea ...
• From measuring outcomes to providing inputs: Governance, management, and local development for more effective marine protected areas 

  Bennett, Nathan; Dearden, Philip (Elsevier, 2014)

  Marine protected areas (MPAs) have the potential to conserve marine resources as well as provide social and economic benefits to local communities. Yet the percentage of MPAs that might be considered “successful” or effective ...
• Conversation, community benefit, capacity building and social economy: A case study Łutsël K’e and the proposed national park 

  Bennett, Nathan (Lakehead University, 2009)

  In 2001, 32 years after the Government of Canada initially proposed a national park on the East Arm of Great Slave Lake in the traditional territory of the Łutsël K’e Dene First Nation, Chief Felix Lockhart indicated to ...
• A picture of change: Using photovoice to explore social and environmental change in coastal communities on the Andaman Coast of Thailand 

  Bennett, Nathan; Dearden, Philip (Taylor and Francis, 2013)

  Coastal communities experience a wide array of environmental and social changes to which they must constantly adapt. Further, a community's perception of change and risk has significant implications for a community's ...
• The capacity to adapt?: communities in a changing climate, environment, and economy on the northern Andaman coast of Thailand 

  Bennett, Nathan; Dearden, Philip; Murray, Grant; Kadfak, Alin (Ecology and Society, 2014)

  The health and productivity of marine ecosystems, habitats, and fisheries are deteriorating on the Andaman coast of Thailand. Because of their high dependence on natural resources and proximity to the ocean, coastal ...
• Situating the eco-social economy: Conservation initiatives and environmental organizations as catalysts for social and economic development 

  Bennett, Nathan; Lemelin, Harvey (Oxford Journals, 2014)

  This paper uses an empirical study to demonstrate the emergence of an eco-social economy in the Canadian North. Historically, conservation was seen as a way to protect nature with the exclusion of local communities and ...
• Vulnerability to multiple stressors in coastal communities: A study of the Andaman Coast of Thailand 

  Bennett, Nathan; Dearden, Philip; Peredo, Ana Maria (Taylor and Francis, 2014)

  Vulnerability and adaptation to climate change has become a dominant theme in development and conservation research and work. Yet coastal communities are facing a wider array of different stressors that affect the ...
• Drawing the future together: Adapting to change and creating the community and environment that we envision 

  Bennett, Nathan; Kadfak, Alin; Dearden, Philip (Marine Protected Areas Research Group, University of Victoria, 2014)

  Coastal fishing communities everywhere in the world are experiencing significant environmental and social changes. In many places, the health and productivity of the marine environment is threatened by overfishing, coastal ...
• The future we want: Taking action in Ban Talae Nok for the community, the environment and climate change 

  Bennett, Nathan; Kadfak, Alin; Dearden, Philip (Marine Protected Areas Research Group, University of Victoria, 2014)

  Coastal fishing communities everywhere in the world are experiencing significant environmental and social changes. In many places, the health and productivity of the marine environment is threatened by overfishing, coastal ...
• A capital assets framework for appraising and building capacity for tourism development in aboriginal protected area gateway communities 

  Bennett, Nathan; Lemelin, Raynald H.; Koster, Rhonda; Budke, Isabel (Elsevier Ltd., 2012)

  Tourism may constitute an important livelihood option and conservation incentive for communities located near protected areas (PAs). Gateway communities can benefit significantly from the development of tourism through ...
• From outcomes to inputs: What is required to achieve the ecological and socioeconomic potential of marine protected areas? 

  Bennett, Nathan; Dearden, Philip (Marine Protected Areas Research Group/University of Victoria, 2012)

  Marine protected areas (MPAs) are one tool that has been shown to be effective for achieving marine conservation objectives. MPAs might also result in beneficial social and economic outcomes for local communities through, ...
• Aboriginal and local perspectives on the community benefits of conservation: A case study of a proposed Canadian National Park and the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation 

  Bennett, Nathan; Lemelin, Raynard; Ellis, Stephen (Geography Research Forum, 2010)

  Lutsel K’e, Northwest Territories, is a rural Aboriginal (Dene) community with a population of 400 that could soon become the gateway to the third largest national park in Canada. The Thaidene Nene Working Group of the ...
• A critical analysis of Ontario’s resource-based tourism policy 

  Bennett, Nathan; Lemelin, Raynard (Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2010)

  Conflicts between resource-based industries and resource-based tourism are commonplace, complex, and long lived. The Resource-Based Tourism Policy (Government of Ontario, 1997) was one of a number of documents produced by ...
• Using the social economy in tourism: A study of national park creation and community development in the Northwest Territories, Canada 

  Bennett, Nathan; Lemelin, Raynard; Johnston, Margaret; Łutsël K’e Dene First Nation (Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2010)

  The primary concern of social-economy organizations is the social and economic well-being of individuals in the communities where they work. However, social, economic, and environmental considerations also play a role in ...
• Maximizing Łutsël K'e community benefit from the proposed national park through capacity building and the social economy 

  Bennett, Nathan; Lemelin, Harvey (Łutsël K’e Dene Band; Lakehead University, 2009)

  The primarily Dene First Nation community of of !utsël K’e, Northwest Territories, located 200km east of Yellowknife on the East Arm of Great Slave Lake, is questioning the implications of the creation of a national park ...
• Scoping study on migrant fishers and transboundary fishing in the Bay of Bengal 

  Kadfak, Alin; Bennett, Nathan; Prugsmatz, Raphealla (BOBLME, 2012)

  The scoping study relates to the assessment of the issue of migratory and transboundary fishing as highlighted above. It will explore the background to the issues and provide specific insight into both (i) working conditions ...

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