Dr Cristina Ruano-Chamorro
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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In November 2023, Cristina started working as a Senior Research Associate on fisheries governance and finance in West Africa alongside Christina Hicks and Felix Conteh at the Lancaster Environment Centre. Cristina examined how finance is driving the exploitation of small pelagic fisheries and the fishmeal and fish oil industry in West Africa and the associated socio-environmental impacts.
What’s next?
Cristina works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Her research spans food systems, marine conservation, small-scale fisheries management, ocean sustainability, and equity in natural resource governance.
Selected Publications
- Ruano-Chamorro, C., Gurney, G., Barnes, M.L., Gelcich, S., & Cinner, J. (2023). Disparities in the impacts of co-management on fishers’ livelihoods. Sustainability Science.
- Bergseth, B., Arias, A., Barnes, M.L., Caldwell, I., Datta, A., Gelcich, S., Ham, S.H., Lau, J.D., Ruano-Chamorro, C., Smallhorn-West, P., Sutcliffe, S., Weekers, D., Zammorain-Mason, J. & Cinner, J. (2023) Closing the compliance gap in marine protected areas with human behavioral sciences. Fish and Fisheries.
- Ruano-Chamorro, C., Gurney, G., Cinner, J. (2022). Advancing procedural justice in conservation. Conservation Letters. e12891.
- Rojas, C., Cinner, J., Lau, J., Ruano-Chamorro, C., Contreras-Drey, F.J., Gelcich, S. An Experimental look at trust, bargaining, and public goods in fishing communities. Scientific Reports. 11, 20798.
- Gelcich S., Martinez-Harms, M.J., Tapia-Lewin, S., Lavin, F., Ruano-Chamorro, C. (2019). Co-management of small-scale fisheries and ecosystem services. Conservation Letters 12:e12637.
- Ruano-Chamorro, C., Castilla, J.C. & Gelcich, S (2018). Human dimensions of Marine Hydrokinetic Energies: current knowledge and research gaps. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
- Ruano-Chamorro, C., Dulce Subida, M. & Fernández, M. (2017). Fishers’ perception: an alternative source of information to assess the data-poor benthic small-scale fisheries of Central Chile. Ocean & Coastal Management 146: 67-76.