We are a group of master students from the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management of the University of California, Santa Barbara interested in fisheries and its sustainable development in Latin America. We are working together with Rare and Fish forever to contribute in the recovery of the Gulf of Nicoya in Costa Rica.
Our team also counts with the support of an interdisciplinary group of faculties and PhD students that will inform and guide our work.
Our team also counts with the support of an interdisciplinary group of faculties and PhD students that will inform and guide our work.
Diana Flores
Diana Flores is a MESM student at the Bren School. She graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Lima in 2011 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics. She has done research focused on fisheries economics and management. Specifically, she has work with economic incentives that encourage the discards of juvenile anchovy back to the sea and regulatory, institutional and economic analyses of the Jumbo squid, seaweed and Mahi-mahi fisheries. Diana has a keen interest in the interactions between economic development, environmental issues, public policies, institutions, private behavior and their impact on the welfare of local communities.
Wagner Quiros
Wagner graduated from the National University of Costa Rica in 2011 as a Marine Biology and he is currently a MESM student at Bren school. He has over 10 years of experience working with sea turtles in Costa Rica. There, he has also worked with coastal communities, being involved in the development of Responsible Fishing Areas in Guanacaste. Wagner lead an interdisciplinary team of professionals, which carried out an evaluation of the implementation of eight Costa Rican Responsible Fishing Areas. His current interests focus on local capacity building, collective social capital and scientific rigor for policy making, particularly related to Costal and Marine Resources Management.
Ignacia Rivera
María Ignacia Rivera is currently a MESM student at the Bren School. She graduated in 2013 from Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile as a marine biologist. Ignacia has worked in interdisciplinary research projects focused on the study of human cooperative behavior. In this projects, she has acquired tools from the economics and other social sciences to assess questions involving social dilemmas such as collective resource exploitation. Her main interests focus on the study of the dynamics generated in socio-ecological interactions in marine environments at different scales and the design of efficient management strategies and institutions to achieve a sustainable use of marine resources.
Alex Smith
Alex Smith graduated from Eckerd College in 2012 with a dual BA in Economics and Political Science. She has worked in the management and assessment of small-scale fisheries in Central America and the Caribbean. She has professional experience in the fields of fisheries modeling, marine protected area management, community outreach and sustainable development, micro-finance and business creation, as well as project development. Her interest is in data-limited assessments and market-based incentive structures as they relate to coastal management and small-scale fisheries. She will be graduating with a Masters of Environmental Science and Management from the Bren School in 2017.
For more than 25 years, Rare has empowered local communities in over 50 countries to shift from being resource users to environmental stewards. Rare’s unique approach appeals to hearts and minds through proven marketing techniques. Rare trains local leaders to lead change, leaving a legacy of increased capacity and a sense of ownership, responsibility and pride in conservation.
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The Fish Forever partnership is addressing overfishing in countries across the globe by empowering thousands of the world’s poorest, most marginalized coastal communities to steward their own sustainable and productive fisheries. This global initiative realizes the potential of a comprehensive, locally led conservation opportunity, where people can simultaneously strengthen local economies, improve food security and protect nature. Fish Forever is currently working in Brazil, Mozambique, Indonesia and the Philippines because of each nation’s high level of marine biodiversity, important coral reef habitat and the dependence of coastal communities on their fisheries for food and livelihoods.
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