Email ratana@vims.edu Office DCOP 104 Phone (804) 684-7335

Ratana Chuenpagdee Assistant Professor of Marine Science B.S., Chulalongkorn University M.S., Michigan State University M.Sc., University of North Wales Ph.D., University of British Columbia

Research Interests Current Projects Selected Publications / Presentations Current Students Past Students Courses Taught / Teaching Professional Memberships Collaborative / Interdisciplinary Efforts

Integrated Coastal Zone Management; Ecosystem-Based Coastal Management; Small-Scale Fisheries management; Integrating Science, Policy and Public in Resource Management; Community-Based Resource Management, Improving Decision-Making Process; Environmental Damage Assessment, Non-Monetary Valuation; Marine Protected Areas; Coastal Community Development; Fisheries Governance and Food Security; Sustainable Coastal Activities; Coastal Aquaculture and Human Health Issues. [top]

Current Projects

• Assessing the decision-making process in wetlands resources management in Virginia, funded by US Environmental Protection Agency. (Report available on the web at http://ccrm.vims.edu/publications.html)
• Community impact assessment and highly migratory species management: a pre-post analysis of highly migratory species management and regulation, funded by U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service.
• A science-based report card on commercial fishing gears in the US, funded by the Pew Charitable Trust, through Marine Conservation Biology Institute.
• Community-based coastal resource management in Yucatan, Mexico, funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada
• Program development on international education and research collaboration titled "Coastal Ecosystems of Asia: Expanding Perspectives on Science and Policy of the Coastal Ocean"
• Curriculum development for undergraduate course on "Asian Environmental Issues of the 21st Century"
• Program development for "Distinguished SE Asian Science and Policy Fellows"

Organizer of the Coastal Zone Asia-Pacific Conference: Improving the State of the Coastal Areas, held in Bangkok, Thailand, May 2002. Conference proceedings is now available on the web at www.vims.edu/czap.

• Morgan, L. and Chuenpagdee, R. Shifting Gears: Addressing the Collateral Impacts of Fishing Methods in US Waters. Pew Science Series. Island Press, Washington, DC [in press].
• Pauly, D. and R. Chuenpagdee. Development of Fisheries in the Gulf of Thailand Large Marine Ecosystem: Analysis of an Unplanned Experiment. In: G. Hempel and K. Sherman (eds). Large Marine Ecosystems of the World: Trends in Exploitation, Protection, and Research. Elsevier Science [in press].
• Chuenpagdee, R., Fraga, J., and Euan, J. Progressing Toward Co-Management Through Participatory Research [in review, Society and Natural Resources].
• Chuenpagdee, R., Orner, D., Preikshot, D. and Pauly, D. Fishing down the food web of the US Eastern Seaboard: Chesapeake Bay is Leading the Way [in review, Estuaries].
• Chuenpagdee, R. and Pauly, E. (eds.) Improving the State of Coastal Areas in Asia-Pacific. Theme Issue for Coastal Management Journal [to be published in 2004].
• Chuenpagdee, R., Fraga, J., and Euan, J. 2002 Community's perspectives toward marine reserve: A case study of San Felipe, Yucatán, México. Coastal Management 30(2): 183-191.
• Chuenpagdee, R. and Alder, J., 2001. A sustainability ranking of North Atlantic fisheries. In Pitcher, T., Sumaila, U.R., and Pauly D. (eds.), 2001. Fisheries Impacts on North Atlantic Ecosystems: Evaluation and Policy Exploration. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 9(5). 93 p.
• Chuenpagdee, R., Knetsch, J.L., and Brown, T.C. 2001. Coastal management using public judgments, importance scales, and predetermined schedule. Coastal Management29(4):253 - 270.
• Chuenpagdee, R., Knetsch, J.L., and Brown, T.C. 2001 Environmental damage schedules: community judgments of importance and assessment of losses. Land Economics 77 (1): 1-11.
• Fraga, J., Euan, J, Torres, R. and Chuenppagdee, R. 2001. Manejo Communitorio de una Reserva Marina Protegida en San Felipe, Yucatán, México. Final Report to IDRC-IOI-CFRAMP. 171 p.
• Sumaila, U.R., Guenette, S., Alder J., and Chuenpagdee, R. 2000. Addressing ecosystem effects of fishing using marine protected areas. ICES Journal of Marine Science 57(3): 752-760.
• Sumaila, U. R., and Chuenpagdee, R. 2000. Social and economic database for analysis of fisheries policies: A conceptual framework. In Feoli and Nauen (eds), 2000. Proceedings of the INCO-DEV International Workshop on Information Systems for Policy and Technical Support in Fisheries and Aquaculture, Los Baños, Philippines, 5-7 June 2000. ACP-EU Fish.Res.Rep., (8): 135 p.
• Sumaila, U. R., Chuenpagdee, R., and Vasconcellos, M. (eds), 2000. Proceedings of the INCO-DC International Workshop on Markets, Global Fisheries and Local Development, Bergen, Norway, 22-23 March 1999. Brussels, ACP-EU Fish. Res. Rep., (7): 115 p.
• Chuenpagdee, R. and Vasconcellos, M., 2000. Application of the damage schedule approach on the Ecopath ecosystem modelling. In Sumaila, U. R., Chuenpagdee, R., and Vasconcellos, M. (eds), 2000. Proceedings of the INCO-DC International Workshop on Markets, Global Fisheries and Local Development, Bergen, Norway, 22-23 March 1999. Brussels, ACP-EU Fish. Res. Rep., (7): 115 p.
• Vasconcellos, M. and Chuenpagdee R., 2000. Putting marine fisheries in an ecosystem context. In Sumaila, U. R., Chuenpagdee, R., and Vasconcellos, M. (eds), 2000. Proceedings of the INCO-DC International Workshop on Markets, Global Fisheries and Local Development, Bergen, Norway, 22-23 March 1999. Brussels, ACP-EU Fish. Res. Rep., (7): 115 p.
• Sumaila, U.R., Chuenpagdee, R. and Munro, G.R. 2000. Tracking fisheries landings in the North Atlantic. In Pauly and Pitcher (2000). Methods for Evaluating the Impacts of Fisheries on North Atlantic Ecosystems. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 8(2). 195 p.
• Guenette, S, Chuenpagdee, R. and Jones, R. 2000. Marine protected areas with an emphasis on local communities and indigenous peoples: a review. Fisheries Centre Research Report 8(1). 56 p.
• Chuenpagdee, R. 1998. Damage schedules for Thai coastal areas: an alternative approach to assessing environmental values. EEPSEA Research Report Series. August 1998. Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia. 76 p.

Recent Conference/Seminar Presentations
• Keynote presentation at the Coastal Zone Asia-Pacific Conference (CZAP), titled "Environmental damage schedules: Importance of coastal resources and assessment of losses". May 2002, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Paper presented at ASLO 2002 Summer Meeting, titled "Integrating public judgments and scientific knowledge into aquatic ecosystems management". June 2002, Victoria, Canada.
• Paper presented at the International Conference on Man and the Ocean, titled "Evaluation of coastal habitats for policy strategies and development: The damage schedule approach". July 2002, Tokyo, Japan.

• Jennie Navarro, first year DCOP student
• Sara Everett, University of Charleston, South Carolina (Master's degree, Research topic: Applying land-based resource management principles on marine resources)
• Laura Vidal, CINVESTAV, Merida, Mexico (Doctoral degree, Research topic: Legislative framework for coastal zone management for the Gulf of Mexico)

• Sarunas Zableckis, Dept. of Coastal and Ocean Policy, VIMS. Master's degree, completed December 2000. Thesis title: Assessment of the Impacts of Urbanization /Development on the Coastal Zone in Northampton County (Eastern Shore, Virginia): Integrated Approach.
• Annemarie De Andrade, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Master's degree, completed June 2002. Thesis title: A participatory approach to ecotourism development for sustainable communities: A case study of Tofino, West Coast of Vancouver Island, BC.

• DCOP Seminar
• Sciences and Policy Interface
• Integrated Coastal Zone Management

• AQUALINK Steering Committee Member
• Coastal Zone Canada Association

• Member of Advisory Panel for the development of the Fisheries Ecosystem Management Plan for the Chesapeake Bay, organized by NOAA
• Full member of SCOR/IOC Working Group on "Quantitative Ecosystem Indicators for Fisheries Management".
• Full member of FISHGOVFOOD Network (Fisheries Governance and Food Security), funded by EU.
• Member of the Responses Working Group of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, as Lead Author (October 2002 to January 2005)
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Coastal Management Journal (since November 2002)