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Evelyn Pinkerton
We are deeply saddened by the loss of our dear colleague and friend, Evelyn Pinkerton. As noted by her friend and close colleague, Barb Neis, "With her passing, we have lost a vital light source from within our intellectual and artistic communities; I know, however, that that light continues to shine through her work, her former students and the communities she helped build."
Please visit this to learn more about Evelyn's work.
For anyone wishing to make a donation in memory of Lynn, please see the following link to the , which supports the Evelyn Pinkerton Graduate Award in Resource and Environmental Management for students studying co-management or related topics.
Education
- BA, Wellesley College
- MAT, Harvard University
- PhD, Brandeis University
Biography
Dr. Pinkerton is a maritime anthropologist who has integrated common property theory and cultural/political ecology in considering the role communities play in the management of adjacent renewable natural resources. She has played a key role in developing the theory and practice of power-sharing and stewardship through co-management agreements. Beginning with the introduction to her 1989 edited volume Cooperative Management of Local Fisheries (UBC Press), she has been generating middle-range theoretical propositions about the conditions under which co-management is likely to arise and to endure. She has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles on fisheries and forestry co-management arrangements, and in Fisheries that Work (1995, co-authored with Martin Weinstein), began to develop a more comprehensive framework for analyzing and comparing co-management arrangements. This work has since evolved into analysis of the developmental sequence of types of co-management rights and activities.
Dr. Pinkerton has conducted field research in fishing and forest-dependent communities in British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Washington State, and Alaska, and is co-investigator of 鈥淥ceanCanada鈥 (2014-2019) and 鈥淭oo Big to Ignore: Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research鈥 (2012-2016) and principal investigator of 鈥淥vercoming Barriers to the Exercise of Aboriginal Rights to Healthy Clam Fisheries: Learning Through Partnerships鈥 (2011-2016).