Anastasia C. E. Quintana

Can creative policies spark and support collective action for more sustainable small-scale fisheries?

My research examines collective action in conservation and fisheries management. I am a critical commons scholar using common-pool resource theory and political ecology to understand how new policies shape new collective action outcomes in coastal communities and small-scale fisheries.

I conduct this work as an Assistant Researcher at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB)’s Marine Science Institute in Santa Barbara, CA where I lead an international team studying temporary fisheries closures. I am also appointed as a Lecturer in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management where I teach Masters students. I was previously an NSF SBE Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCSB with Dr. Steven Gaines studying noncompliance in small-scale fisheries.