Faculty
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Noella GrayPhD, Duke University, 2009 Office: Hutt 347;
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Specialization
Political ecology, marine resource management and conservation, common property and co-management, Central America and the Caribbean
Research Interests and Areas of Expertise
Broadly, I am interested in the politics of conservation and environmental governance – in how access to natural resources is defined and contested by resource users, experts, civil society and the state. More specifically, I consider how science is incorporated into environmental policy, the politics of scale in marine conservation, and how resource management policies are negotiated under co-management arrangements. I have studied both ecotourism and marine protected areas as examples of conservation interventions. I draw on, and contribute to, three bodies of literature: political ecology, common property, and science and technology studies. I welcome inquiries from potential graduate students who have overlapping interests. My current and past research projects include:
- Management of Marine Protected Areas in Belize – politics of knowledge, co-management, governance networks (ongoing)
- Exploring the Evolution of a Global Marine Conservation Agenda – collaborative ethnographic work at the World Conservation Congress and conference of the parties (CoP) for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (ongoing)
- Ecotourism as a Conservation and Development Strategy (completed)
Selected Recent Publications
Gray, Noella J. 2010. Sea Change: Exploring the International Effort to Promote Marine Protected Areas. Conservation and Society 8(4): 331-338. Available on-line: http://www.conservationandsociety.org/text.asp?2010/8/4/331/78149
Gray, Noella J. and Lisa M. Campbell. (2009). Science, Policy Advocacy, and Marine Protected Areas. Conservation Biology 23(2): 460-468.
Campbell, Lisa M., Jennifer J. Silver, Noella J. Gray, Sue Ranger, et al. (2009). Co-management of sea turtle fisheries: Biogeography versus geopolitics. Marine Policy 33: 137-145.
Campbell, Lisa M., Noella J. Gray, Elliott L. Hazen, and Janna M. Shackeroff. (2009). Beyond baselines: rethinking priorities for ocean conservation. Ecology and Society 14(1): 14. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art14/
Campbell, Lisa M., Noella J. Gray, and Zoë A. Meletis. (2008). Political Ecology Perspectives on Ecotourism to Parks and Protected Areas. In K. Hanna, D.S. Slocombe, and D. Clark (Eds.), Transforming Parks and Protected Areas: Management and Governance in a Changing World, p. 200-221. Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Abingdon, UK.
Gray, Noella J. and Lisa M. Campbell. (2007). A Decommodified Experience? Exploring Aesthetic, Economic, and Ethical Values for Volunteer Ecotourism in Costa Rica. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 15(5): 463-482.
Campbell, Lisa M., Noella J. Gray, James G. Abbott, Zoë A. Meletis, and Jennifer J. Silver. (2006). Gatekeepers and keymasters: Dynamic relationships of access in geographical fieldwork. The Geographical Review 96(1): 97-121.
Graduate Students Supervised (since 2010)
| Program | Year | Student | Title |
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| Masters | Greenberg, Shannon | Marine biodiversity conservation and market mechanisms in the context of the Convention on Biological Diversity. | |