Laura Rodriguez
Environmental Defense Fund
4 Papers
Laura Rodriguez is an academic researcher from Environmental Defense Fund. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fisheries management & Management process. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications.
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Papers
The changing role of NGOs in Mexican small-scale fisheries: From environmental conservation to multi-scale governance
Maria Jose Espinosa-Romero,Laura Rodriguez,Amy Hudson Weaver,Cristina Villanueva-Aznar,Jorge Torre +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the elements of multi-scale governance of Mexican small-scale fisheries and the contribution of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to this approach.
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Fisheries governance in the face of climate change: Assessment of policy reform implications for Mexican fisheries.
Miguel A. Cisneros-Mata,Tracey Mangin,Jennifer Bone,Laura Rodriguez,Sarah L. Smith,Steven D. Gaines +5 more
TL;DR: Overall results show that climate change is estimated to negatively affect nearly every fishery in this study, and indicate that overfishing is a greater threat than climate change for these fisheries, hence fixing current management challenges has a greater upside than the projected future costs of moderate levels of climate change.
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The cost of management delay: The case for reforming Mexican fisheries sooner rather than later
Tracey Mangin,Miguel A. Cisneros-Mata,Jennifer Bone,Christopher Costello,Steven D. Gaines,Gavin McDonald,Laura Rodriguez,C. Kent Strauss,Pedro Zapata +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the costs of delaying reform in terms of annual biomass, harvest, and profit for 28 Mexican fisheries, parameterized using novel, fishery-specific data.
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A metadata approach to evaluate the state of ocean knowledge: Strengths, limitations, and application to Mexico.
Juliano Palacios-Abrantes,Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor,Miguel A. Cisneros-Mata,Laura Rodriguez,Francisco Arreguín-Sánchez,Verónica Aguilar,Santiago Domínguez-Sánchez,Stuart Fulton,Raquel López-Sagástegui,Héctor Reyes-Bonilla,Rocío Rivera-Campos,Silvia Salas,Nuno Simões,Nuno Simões,William W. L. Cheung +14 more
TL;DR: It is argued that systematic efforts such as this can often reveal an abundance of information for decision-makers to develop policies that meet key commitments on ocean sustainability.