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Shankar Aswani |
Associate Professor of Anthropology
& the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science
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| Email: aswani@anth.ucsb.edu |
| Phone: (805) 893-8285 |
| Office: HSSB 2082 |
| Curriculum Vitae |
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| Research Interests |
Professor Aswani's research and teaching interests lie at the intersection between anthropology, human ecology, and marine science. He follows a research agenda focusing on the human and cultural ecology of insular coastal groups, property rights and common property resources, and marine indigenous ecological knowledge of populations in Melanesia and the Insular Pacific in general. Close fields of specialization include human behavioral ecology, political ecology, sociocultural anthropology, economic anthropology, applied anthropology, and ethnohistory.
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| Sample Publications |
- Aswani, S., and M. Lauer. 2006. Incorporating fishers’ local knowledge and behavior into geographical information systems (GIS) for designing marine protected areas in Oceania. Human Organization 65(1): 80-101.
- Aswani, S., 2005. Customary sea tenure in Oceania as a case of rights-based fishery management: Does it work? Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 15: 285-307
- Aswani, S. and M. Lauer. 2006. Benthic mapping using local aerial photo interpretation and resident taxa inventories for designing marine protected areas. Environmental Conservation 33 (3): 263_273.
- Aswani, S, S. Albert, A. Sabetian & T. Furusawa. 2007. Customary Management as Preventive and Adaptive Management for Protecting Coral Reefs in Oceania. Coral Reefs 26 (4):
- Aswani, S and T. Furusawa. 2007. Do MPAs Affect Human Health and Nutrition? A Comparison among Villages in Roviana, Solomon Islands. Coastal Management 35 (5): 545-565.
- Cinner. J and S. Aswani. 2007. Integrating Customary Management into the Modern Conservation of Coral Reef Fisheries in the Indo-Pacific. Biological Conservation 140 (3/4): 201_216.
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Ph.D., University of Hawaii |
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