Dr. Nathan Bennett is the Principal Consultant of Small Ocean Solutions.
Dr. Nathan J. Bennett is an experienced consultant, researcher, facilitator and teacher who has worked for various public, private, and academic organizations. He is also the Founder and Lead of The Peopled Seas Initiative, the Chair of the People and the Ocean Specialist Group for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and an Honorary Research Associate at the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs. He has published more than 80 academic papers and book chapters on the human dimensions of marine and terrestrial conservation, small-scale fisheries, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change, and governance of the blue economy. His work is global in scope – with past research projects in Canada, Mexico, Thailand, and around the Mediterranean Sea. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of Victoria (2013), and has been the recipient of a number of awards including a Trudeau Doctoral Scholarship, SSHRC Doctoral and Postdoctoral Awards, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellowship, and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Award.
Small Ocean Solutions collaborates with numerous competent and experienced individuals and organizations to carry out consulting projects.
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