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Josheena is an André Hoffmann Fellow at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the World Economic Forum. Her current work is focused on centering blue justice and equity for ocean innovations in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture. Her community-engaged research has focused on climate change adaptation, marine protected area management, disaster impacts and recovery, and the valorization of natural and cultural heritage in ocean governance. She has a keen interest in understanding people-ocean connections and how they influence coastal livelihoods, local environmental stewardship, and food security.

She is also an IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) fellow on the Transformative Change Assessment, investigating the determinants of transformative change and pathways for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity.

Josheena holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at Stanford University. Her doctoral work aimed to support ocean governance in the Western Indian Ocean, with a focus on the Republic of Mauritius, her home country. She is presently a national steering committee member of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Mauritius, where she continues to support community-led efforts for sustainability, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation.

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Josheena is an André Hoffmann Fellow at the Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions and the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Her current work is focused on centering blue justice and equity for ocean innovations in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture. Her community-engaged research has focused on climate change adaptation, marine protected area management, disaster impacts and recovery, and the valorization of natural and cultural heritage in ocean governance. She has a keen interest in understanding people-ocean connections and how they influence coastal livelihoods, local environmental stewardship, and food security.

She is also an IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) fellow on the Transformative Change Assessment, investigating the determinants of transformative change and pathways for achieving the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity.

Josheena holds a Ph.D. in Environment and Resources from the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER) at Stanford University. Her doctoral work aimed to support ocean governance in the Western Indian Ocean, with a focus on the Republic of Mauritius, her home country. She is presently a national steering committee member of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme (SGP), implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Mauritius, where she continues to support community-led efforts for sustainability, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation.

All Publications

  • A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d'Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY Naggea, J., Miller, R. K. 2023; 28 (1)

    View details for DOI 10.5751/ES-13737-280124

    View details for Web of Science ID 000935333900001

  • Rare coral and reef fish species status, possible extinctions, and associated environmental perceptions in Mauritius CONSERVATION SCIENCE AND PRACTICE McClanahan, T., Munbodhe, V., Naggea, J., Muthiga, N., Bhagooli, R. 2021

    View details for DOI 10.1111/csp2.527

    View details for Web of Science ID 000692686300001

  • Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: use OECMs Comment NATURE Gurney, G. G., Darling, E. S., Ahmadia, G. N., Agostini, V. N., Ban, N. C., Blythe, J., Claudet, J., Epstein, G., Estradivari, Himes-Cornell, A., Jonas, H. D., Armitage, D., Campbell, S. J., Cox, C., Friedman, W. R., Gill, D., Lestari, P., Mangubhai, S., McLeod, E., Muthiga, N. A., Naggea, J., Ranaivoson, R., Wenger, A., Yulianto, I., Jupiter, S. D. 2021; 595 (7869): 646-649

    View details for Web of Science ID 000677754600003

    View details for PubMedID 34312552

  • How adaptive capacity shapes the Adapt, React, Cope response to climate impacts: insights from small-scale fisheries CLIMATIC CHANGE Green, K. M., Selgrath, J. C., Frawley, T. H., Oestreich, W. K., Mansfield, E. J., Urteaga, J., Swanson, S. S., Santana, F. N., Green, S. J., Naggea, J., Crowder, L. B. 2021; 164 (1-2)

    View details for DOI 10.1007/s10584-021-02965-w

    View details for Web of Science ID 000612876200002

  • The impact of environmental change on small-scale fishing communities: moving beyond adaptive capacity to community response PREDICTING FUTURE OCEANS: SUSTAINABILITY OF OCEAN AND HUMAN SYSTEMS AMIDST GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Oestreich, W. K., Frawley, T. H., Mansfield, E. J., Green, K. M., Green, S. J., Naggea, J., Selgrath, J. C., Swanson, S. S., Urteaga, J., White, T. D., Crowder, L. B., CisnerosMontemayor, A. M., Cheung, W. W., Ota, Y. 2019: 271–82

    View details for DOI 10.1016/B978-0-12-817945-1.00027-7

    View details for Web of Science ID 000487550300027

  • Triple exposure: Reducing negative impacts of climate change, blue growth, and conservation on coastal communities ONE EARTH Gill, D. A., Blythe, J., Bennett, N., Evans, L., Brown, K., Turner, R. A., Baggio, J. A., Baker, D., Ban, N. C., Brun, V., Claudet, J., Darling, E., Di Franco, A., Estradivari, Epstein, G., Gray, N. J., Gurney, G. G., Horan, R. P., Jupiter, S. D., Lau, J. D., Lazzari, N., Lestari, P., Mahajan, S. L., Mangubhai, S., Naggea, J., Selig, E. R., Whitney, C. K., Zafra-Calvo, N., Muthiga, N. A. 2023; 6 (2): 118-130

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.01.010

    View details for Web of Science ID 001021516200001

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