Sustainable Use
Resilient communities
Fisheries management
Climate change adaptation
Climate change threatens every part of the planet. It’s a global problem that requires global cooperation.
Theory of Change
To create sustainable fisheries, we need empowered communities, socio-economic impact analysis based on transparent data and rigorous science, innovative policy, and breakthrough collaboration.
Dr. Himes-Cornell is a Fishery Officer in the Fisheries Policy, Economics and Institutions Branch of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Division of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and is based in Rome Italy. At FAO, Dr. Himes-Cornell's work is focused on interactions between fisheries and marine protected areas (MPAs), assessing ecosystem services in MPAs, the role of tenure in fisheries management, coastal community vulnerability and resilience, social transformation, socio-economic impacts of climate change, climate change adaptation strategies, the socio-economic aspects of marine ecosystem services, and valuation of ecosystem services.
"It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself."
— Rachel Carson, Marine Biologist