Clare Shelton

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title = {Disaster risk in Caribbean fisheries: How vulnerability is shaped and how it can be reduced in Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda},

author = {Clare Shelton and Carole S. White and Johanna Forster and Susan Conlon and Georg H. Engelhard and John K. Pinnegar},

doi = {10.1016/j.marpol.2023.105951},

issn = {0308-597X},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-02-01},

journal = {Marine Policy},

volume = {160},

publisher = {Elsevier},

abstract = {Hurricanes and tropical storms have a substantial and sustained influence on fisheries globally. These threats present particularly significant challenges in Caribbean islands, where fisheries contribute towards economies, food security, and social and cultural identities. Yet, storm impacts on coastal communities and fisheries are a relatively neglected area of disaster risk reduction. In response, this paper reports on a novel application and adaptation of the Pressure and Release model (PAR) focused on Caribbean Island fisheries. The PAR is a wellestablished framework used to understand how vulnerability manifests and to identify appropriate policy and management options to reduce vulnerability and build resilience in the longer-term. This research highlights how this approach can expose underlying social, cultural, and economic factors that can either reduce or exacerbate vulnerability in the Caribbean island fisheries sector following extreme weather events using Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda as case studies. This study combines a literature review compiling data on underlying factors of vulnerability for Caribbean Island fisheries, with in-person interviews with fisheries managers from Dominica, and Antigua and Barbuda. It showcases the utility of the PAR in fisheries-focused recovery, and provides empirical evidence that fisheries play an important role in supporting immediate and medium-term coping and recovery after an extreme storm event. This approach has broader relevance for climate change adaptation as it highlights strategies for building resilience for fisheries-dependent societies.},

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title = {Exploring the relationship between plural values of nature, human well-being, and conservation and development intervention: Why it matters and how to do it?},

author = {Rachel Carmenta and Julie Zaehringer and Patricia Balvanera and Erin Betley and Neil Dawson and Natalia Estrada-Carmona and Johanna Forster and Jeff Hoelle and Bosco Lliso and Jorge Llopis and Ajit Menon and Moira Moeliono and Karen Mustin and Unai Pascual and Nitin D. Rai and Judith Schleicher and Clare Shelton and A Sigouin and Eleanor Sterling and Angela M. Steward and A Tauro and Carole White and Emily Woodhouse and Elizabeth L. Yuliani},

doi = {10.1002/pan3.10562},

issn = {2575-8314},

year  = {2023},

date = {2023-12-01},

journal = {People and Nature},

volume = {5},

number = {6},

pages = {1720–1738},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {1. Globally, land and seascapes across the bioculturally diverse tropics are in transition. Impacted by the demands of distant consumers, the processes of global environmental change and numerous interventions seeking climate, conservation and development goals, these transitions have the potential to impact the relationships and plurality of values held between people and place.2. This paper is a Synthesis of seven empirical studies within the Special Feature (SF): ‘What is lost in transition? Capturing the impacts of conservation and development interventions on relational values and human wellbeing in the tropics’. Through two Open Forum workshops, and critical review, contributing authors explored emergent properties across the papers of the SF. Six core themes were identified and are subsumed within broad categories of: (i) the problem of reconciling scale and complexity, (ii) key challenges to be overcome for more plural understanding of social dimensions of landscape change and (iii) ways forward: the potential of an environmental justice framework, and a practical overview of methods available to do so.3. The Synthesis interprets disparate fields and complex academic work on relational values, human well-being and de-colonial approaches in impact appraisal. It offers a practical and actionable catalogue of methods for plural valuation in the field, and reflects on their combinations, strengths and weaknesses.4. The research contribution is policy relevant because it builds the case for why a more plural approach in intervention design and evaluation is essential for achieving more just and sustainable futures, and highlights some of the key actions points deemed necessary to achieve such a transition to conventional practice.},

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title = {Prioritising wellbeing and resilience to Build Back Better: insights from a Dominican small-scale fishing community},

author = {Johanna Forster and Clare Shelton and Carole S. White and Agathe Dupeyron and Alena Mizinova},

doi = {10.1111/disa.12541},

issn = {0361-3666},

year  = {2022},

date = {2022-07-01},

journal = {Disasters},

volume = {46},

number = {S1},

pages = {S51–S77},

publisher = {Wiley},

abstract = {Climate change is increasing the severity of extreme weather events, particularly hurricanes, presenting a significant challenge to Caribbean coastal communities. In the aftermath of a major disaster, government interventions typically prioritise infrastructure, assets, and the economy through rebuilding roads, reviving economic sectors, and providing financial compensation. This is driven by a focus on macro-level quantitative indicators rather than by local, multidimensional subjective and relational factors, closer to lived experiences and livelihoods. Using frameworks outlining social well-being and agency, this paper explores strategies used by a fisheries-dependent community in Dominica to recover from Hurricane Maria in 2017 and pursue well-being. The findings highlight the importance of multidimensional well-being, particularly relational and subjective dimensions, including existing social networks, and personal relationships critical for recovery after Maria. Furthermore, the paper demonstrates how recovery initiatives that concentrate solely on material well-being, such as employment, can undermine agency in the capacity of a community to recover and build resilience.},

note = {Supplement: ‘Building back better’? Lessons from disaster recovery in the Caribbean. Published in honour of Emeritus Professor David Barker Funding Information: The work was funded by a Global Challenges Research Fund (quality‐related) grant awarded by the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom (code: DEV31GFJF).},

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title = {Historical trajectories of disaster risk in Dominica},

author = {Jennifer Barclay and Emily Wilkinson and Carole White and Clare Shelton and Johanna Forster and Roger Few and Irene Lorenzoni and George Woolhouse and Claire Jowitt and Harriette Stone and Lennox Honychurch},

doi = {10.1007/s13753-019-0215-z},

issn = {2095-0055},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-06-01},

journal = {International Journal of Disaster Risk Science},

volume = {10},

number = {2},

pages = {149–165},

publisher = {Springer},

abstract = {The calamitous consequences of 2017 Hurricane Maria for the Caribbean island of Dominica highlighted the acute and increasing susceptibility of the region to disasters. Despite increasing international attention to disaster risk reduction, recovery from hazard events can be especially lengthy and difficult for small island developing states. In this article, we build on existing understandings of disaster risk as a physical and social condition, showing that historical processes are fundamental to understanding how conditions of risk emerge and persist over time. We take an integrated approach to analyzing the drivers of risk accumulation, using the example of Dominica, where processes set in motion during the colonial period have shaped the location of people and assets, the degree to which they might be harmed, the societal repercussions of that harm and the prospects for recovery. We focus on the underlying economic vulnerabilities and physical exposure to hazards created by agricultural, economic, and social practices, and successive disaster responses that have constrained recovery. Uncovering these historical drivers and persistent issues, elucidates lessons for pursuing a more resilient development trajectory, including through the promotion of economic restructuring and diversification, and land reform.},

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