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Annabelle Bladon

Researcher (inclusive blue economy), Shaping Sustainable Markets

Annabelle works on economic tools for effective and equitable marine conservation and resource management, including incentives and innovative public and private financing mechanisms.
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Much of her research has tackled the design, implementation and evaluation of incentive-based management in data-poor developing world fisheries, as well as the fiscal reforms which can support sustainable fisheries management.

She is also interested in testing and promoting solutions to fill the global gap in finance for effectively and equitably managed marine protected areas, and the governance arrangements which enable these solutions to succeed.

Annabelle has experience working in Bangladesh, Myanmar, the Caribbean and the Western Indian Ocean.

Expertise

Small-scale fisheries; compensation; incentives; marine protected areas; economic valuation; payments for ecosystem services; and conservation finance.

Before IIED

Independent consultant and associate at Innovations in Conservation, LLC (ICONS), New York; visiting researcher at New York University, University of Oxford, and IIED.

Worked with a range of public and private organisations including UNDP and FAO, Conservation Finance Alliance, Wildlife Conservation Society, Bahamas Protected Area Fund, WorldFish, the Zoological Society of London, and the Bangladesh and Cayman Islands governments.

Education

PhD in Marine Conservation Science, Imperial College London; MRes in Ecology and Environmental Management, and BSc (Hons) Biology, University of York.

Current work

Designing and promoting incentive-based fisheries management systems; assessing how fiscal instruments such as taxes and subsidies can be used to support sustainable and inclusive fisheries; exploring the conditions under which marine protected areas can become financially sustainable and deliver benefits to local communities.

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Email: 
annabelle.bladon@iied.org
Twitter: @AJBladon
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Annabelle Bladon's projects

A fisher in a boat in the Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar

Carrots and sticks: incentives to conserve hilsa fish in Myanmar

Project, Oct 2017
Illustration of people standing on a globe

FishNet: Inspiring action for sustainable fisheries

Project, Aug 2014

Latest publications

Fiscal reforms to benefit Mozambique’s shrimp fisheries

Myanmar's artisanal hilsa fisheries. How much are they really worth?

Reformas fiscais para beneficiar a pesca de camarão em Moçambique

The business case for investing in Myanmar’s artisanal hilsa fishery

Financing Myanmar’s fisheries through fiscal reform

Informing incentive-based management of Hilsa fish in Myanmar – results of a choice experiment

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Annabelle Bladon's blog posts

A fishing trawler

Scrap devastating fishing subsidies to help save the ocean and climate

Blog, Jan 2020
Fishing boats on the Bay of Bengal

Cooperation vs. competition over shared fish stocks

Blog, Apr 2019
Fishermen hauling in nets near the Kenyan coastal town of Shimoni (Photo: Anna Kika via Flickr)

Can we save our fisheries with lessons from our forests?

Blog, Nov 2014

Links to other sites

Developing a frame of reference for fisheries management and conservation interventions

Fisheries Research, December 2018

Evaluating the ecological and social targeting of a compensation scheme in Bangladesh

June 2018

 
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