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  1. Development of an interdisciplinary conceptual framework to understand marine energy transitions in North Sea coastal communities

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition, February 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  2. A room with a blue view: The impact of Blue Economy activities on housing prices across Scottish regions

    Article • Journal of Rural Studies, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  3. Public engagement with Antarctic research: a global survey to understand sector capacity

    Article • Antarctic Science, May 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  4. Understanding place attachment to remote environments: An Antarctic case study

    Article • Geographical Research, May 2025, Wiley

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  5. A social license to operate for aquaculture in Tasmania: The importance of theory-testing

    Article • Aquaculture, January 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  6. Stakeholder perceptions of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Marine Protected Area planning process

    Article • Marine Policy, December 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  7. Priority areas for marine protection in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas, Antarctica

    Article • Marine Policy, September 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  8. Social influence modelling demonstrates that strategic communication and depoliticization reduces conflict in aquaculture

    Article • Marine Policy, July 2024, Elsevier

    Joanna Vince, Dr Karen A Alexander

  9. Social license to operate for aquaculture – A cross-country comparison

    Article • Aquaculture, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  10. Survey data on public perceptions of salmon aquaculture industry in Norway, Tasmania, and Iceland

    Article • Data in Brief, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  11. Priority areas for marine protection in the Amundsen and Bellingshausen Seas, Antarctica

    Article • March 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  12. Stakeholder perceptions of the CCAMLR Marine Protected Area Planning Process

    Article • March 2024, Center for Open Science

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  13. Enhancing Human Health and Wellbeing through Sustainably and Equitably Unlocking a Healthy Ocean’s Potential

    Article • Annals of Global Health, January 2024, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  14. Resource Conflict and Governance in the Transition to a More Just Estuarine and Coastal Future

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  15. Social sustainability in seafood systems: a rapid review

    Article • Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures, December 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  16. Polarised perspectives in salmon aquaculture warrant a targeted long-term approach to communication

    Article • Aquaculture Reports, June 2023, Elsevier

    Joanna Vince, Dr Karen A Alexander

  17. Marine and coastal places: Wellbeing in a blue economy

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, June 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  18. Benefits and risks of incremental protected area planning in the Southern Ocean

    Article • Nature Sustainability, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  19. Implementing a blueprint for greener and more efficient ports

    Article • Nature, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  20. First port of call: a horizon scanning workshop for sustainable Arctic marine infrastructure

    Article • The Polar Journal, January 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  21. Reducing socio-ecological conflict using social influence modelling

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joanna Vince, Dr Karen A Alexander

  22. The many sizes and characters of the Blue Economy

    Article • Ecological Economics, June 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  23. The long-term evolution of news media in defining socio-ecological conflict: A case study of expanding aquaculture

    Article • Marine Policy, April 2022, Elsevier

    Joanna Vince, Dr Karen A Alexander

  24. Antarctic representation in print media during the emergence of COVID-19

    Article • Antarctic Science, March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  25. Future Seas 2030: pathways to sustainability for the UN Ocean Decade and beyond

    Article • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  26. Increasing polarisation in attitudes to aquaculture: Evidence from sequential government inquiries

    Article • Marine Policy, February 2022, Elsevier

    Joanna Vince, Dr Karen A Alexander

  27. A critique of the participation norm in marine governance: Bringing legitimacy into the frame

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  28. Oceans and society: feedbacks between ocean and human health

    Article • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joanna Vince, Dr Karen A Alexander

  29. Food for all: designing sustainable and secure future seafood systems

    Article • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  30. Equity of our future oceans: practices and outcomes in marine science research

    Article • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  31. Ocean resource use: building the coastal blue economy

    Article • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr G. Reza Emad, Dr Karen A Alexander

  32. Connecting to the oceans: supporting ocean literacy and public engagement

    Article • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr G. Reza Emad, Dr Karen A Alexander

  33. Correction to: Developing achievable alternate futures for key challenges during the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

    Article • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  34. The future of ocean governance

    Article • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joanna Vince, Dr Karen A Alexander

  35. Developing achievable alternate futures for key challenges during the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

    Article • Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  36. Wellbeing is increasingly important in regional development policy, but what do we know about it?

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  37. Producer perceptions of the incentives and challenges of adopting ecolabels in the European finfish aquaculture industry: A Q-methodology approach

    Article • Marine Policy, November 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  38. ‘Social stuff’ and all that jazz: Understanding the residual category of social sustainability

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, October 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  39. Time-Dynamic Food Web Modeling to Explore Environmental Drivers of Ecosystem Change on the Kerguelen Plateau

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, September 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  40. What and who is an Antarctic ambassador?

    Article • Polar Record, May 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  41. The operationalisation of sustainability: Sustainable aquaculture production as defined by certification schemes

    Article • Global Environmental Change, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  42. Design Options, Implementation Issues and Evaluating Success of Ecologically Engineered Shorelines

    Article • August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  43. Conflicts over Marine and Coastal Common Resources

    Article • July 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  44. A practical framework for implementing and evaluating integrated management of marine activities

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, July 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  45. Understanding an emerging economic discourse through regional analysis: Blue economy clusters in the U.S. Great Lakes basin

    Article • Applied Geography, April 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  46. The human side of marine ecosystem-based management (EBM): ‘Sectoral interplay’ as a challenge to implementing EBM

    Article • Marine Policy, March 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  47. Urban blue: A global analysis of the factors shaping people's perceptions of the marine environment and ecological engineering in harbours

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, March 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander, Dr Rebecca Jarvis

  48. Building blue infrastructure: Assessing the key environmental issues and priority areas for ecological engineering initiatives in Australia's metropolitan embayments

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, January 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  49. Mismatches in spatial scale of supply and demand and their consequences for local welfare in Scottish aquaculture

    Article • Anthropocene Coasts, January 2019, Canadian Science Publishing

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  50. Scale mismatches

    Article • September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  51. Progress in integrating natural and social science in marine ecosystem-based management research

    Article • Marine & Freshwater Research, August 2018, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Karen A Alexander, Joanna Vince, Professor Reg Alan Watson

  52. Bringing harbours alive: Assessing the importance of eco-engineered coastal infrastructure for different stakeholders and cities

    Article • Marine Policy, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Rebecca Jarvis, Dr Karen A Alexander

  53. Siting offshore energy arrays

    Article • March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  54. Natural resource use decision-makers only hear the loud voices!

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  55. Environmental and socio-political shocks to the seafood sector: What does this mean for resilience? Lessons from two UK case studies, 1945–2016

    Article • Marine Policy, January 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  56. Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Stewardship

    Article • June 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  57. Lessons learned in European integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA)

    Article • Aquaculture, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  58. Big, bold and blue: lessons from Australia’s marine protected areas

    Article • Australian Journal of Maritime & Ocean Affairs, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  59. Public perceptions of aquaculture

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, July 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  60. Spatial ecosystem modelling of marine renewable energy installations: Gauging the utility of Ecospace

    Article • Ecological Modelling, February 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  61. What do European stakeholders think about integrated multi-trophic aquaculture?

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  62. How does policy & legislation affect IMTA in Europe?

    Article • Aquaculture, June 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  63. Four critical issues for good environmental status in NEA

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2015, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Professor Jason M Hall-Spencer, Dr Karen A Alexander

  64. Marine spatial planning and Good Environmental Status: a perspective on spatial and temporal dimensions

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2015, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  65. Comparing instrumental and deliberative paradigms underpinning the assessment of social values for cultural ecosystem services

    Article • Ecological Economics, November 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  66. Modelling cod, haddock & whiting declines on west coast Scotland

    Article • ICES Journal of Marine Science, September 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  67. Decision support tools for collaborative marine spatial planning: identifying potential sites for tidal energy devices around the Mull of Kintyre, Scotland

    Article • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, March 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  68. Scottish fisher opinions on marine renewable energy

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, April 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  69. Attitudes of Scottish fishers towards marine renewable energy

    Article • Marine Policy, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Karen A Alexander

  70. Interactive marine planning to resolve user conflict

    Article • PLOS One, January 2012, PLOS

    Dr Karen A Alexander