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Evan Andrews, Ph.D.

Student Fellow

Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Evan Andrews is a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial University’s Department of Geography. He works in the Ocean Frontier Institute’s Module I, “Informing Governance Responses to Change”, and Too Big To Ignore, Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo’s School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability and a Master of Environment and Sustainability from the University of Saskatchewan’s School of Environment and Sustainability. Andrews is an environmental policy scientist that focuses on change and its implications for governance of coastal and inland fisheries. In those settings, he advances theory and evidence about fisher behaviour, social interactions, and proactive forms of fisheries governance to strengthen capacities in decision-making and policy processes to address and anticipate social-ecological changes and advance justice and equity for coastal communities. His research is transdisciplinary. He uses engaged methodologies to work with and for local communities to understand their responses to change, and with governmental agencies on science-policy and knowledge-management interfaces. He also conducts reflexive research on transdisciplinarity related to the policy sciences, knowledge mobilization, and early career researcher training.

Research Areas

Environmental Policy, Fisheries Governance, Coastal Communities, Justice

Contact

e3andrews@uwaterloo.ca

mun.ca/geography/people/faculty/evan-j-andrews