Anthony CharlesDr. Anthony Charles holds the Chair in Environment and Sustainability at Saint Mary's University (Canada), and is a professor in both the university's Sobey School of Business and its Department of Environmental Science. Dr. Charles is an inherently nterdisciplinary researcher, linking natural, social and management sciences, notably applied to fisheries and marine social-ecological systems. His diverse contributions address fishery and marine management, ocean governance, climate change, human dimensions of ecosystem-based management and spatial management, marine environmental stewardship and biodiversity conservation, small-scale fisheries, coastal communities and community-based management. Internationally, Dr. Charles has received a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation and a Gulf of Maine Visionary Award, as well as election as President of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade. He is currently Director of the Community Conservation Research Network, Co-Lead of the Arramat project's Sustainable Use pathway, and Vice-Chair of the Fisheries Expert Group in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Dr. Charles is the author or co-author of well over a hundred publications, including several books, notably the recently-published Sustainable Fishery Systems. Other books include: "Environmental Stewardship by Small-Scale Fisheries", "Communities, Conservation and Livelihoods", "Governing the Coastal Commons: Communities, Resilience and Transformation", and "Governance of Marine Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation". Read More Read Less