Dr Océane Marcone

Dr Océane Marcone is a social scientist within the Sea and Society group. Her background is in environmental and institutional economics and sociology. She researches how humans and the marine and coastal environments interact. She uses both qualitative and quantitative data and methods to demonstrate the benefits (economic, social, cultural…) human retrieve from coastal and marine environments and their resources. Her work also investigates how environmental changes (e.g. impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms on shellfish farming in the Channel, S3-EuroHAB) and anthropogenic pressures impact those benefits (e.g. the impact of poor water quality on fisheries in Da Nang, Vietnam, ACCORD). She uses a cross-disciplinary approach encompassing economics, sociology and environmental sciences and works in close collaboration with a variety of stakeholders.

Her current work focuses on fisheries and aquaculture, in the UK and overseas (Indonesia, Viet-Nam, Western Indian Ocean). She researches the impacts and benefits of schemes such as ecolabel and certification and how to enhance them (SWEEP Project 002). Her work also investigates how benefits derived from small-scale tuna fishing are distributed along the value chain and how to better account for those fisheries in national tuna management strategies (Blue Communities Project 5 and MASMA/WIONAS project).

Her other research interests and previous work include investigating decision-making processes and natural resources management. Her PhD focused on the uses of economic environmental valuation in environmental decision-making processes (France). Her masters dissertations focused on coastal zone water governance (France) and coastal zone management (Croatia).