Books

Authored and edited

• Sumaila, U.R., Armitage, D., Bailey, M., Cheung, W.. (2024). SEA CHANGE: Charting a Sustainable Future for Oceans in Canada. UBC Press. ISBN:9780774869041

• Sumaila, U.R. (2021). Infinity Fish: Economics and the Future of Fish and Fisheries. Elsevier, Netherlands, Elsevier-Associated Press, 26 5pp.

• Sumaila, U.R. Derek Armitage, Megan Bailey, William Cheung (eds.) (2021). Canada’s Oceans: Pathways to Sustainability in a Sea of Change. UBC Press, Vancouver, forthcoming.

• Sumaila, U.R. (2013). Game Theory and Fisheries: Essays on the Tragedy of Free for All Fishing. Routledge, London, UK, p. 178.

• Noone, K.J., Sumaila, U.R., and Diaz, R.J. (eds.) (2013). Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate: Sustainability and Economic Perspectives. Elsevier, London, UK, p. 359.

• Bjørndal, T., Gordon, D.V., Arnason, R., and Sumaila, U.R. (eds.) (2006). Advances in Fisheries Economics: Papers in Honour of Professor Gordon Munro, Blackwell, Oxford, p. 308.

• Sumaila, U.R., Boyer, D., Skog, M., and Steinshamm, S.I. (eds.) (2004). Namibia’s fisheries: Ecological, economic and social aspects. Eburon, Netherlands, p. 363.

• Kowero, G., Campbell, B.M., and Sumaila, U.R. (eds.) (2003). Policies and governance structures in woodlands of Southern Africa. CIFOR Press, Indonesia, p. 211.

Special Journal Issues

• Sumaila, U.R., and D. L. VanderZwaag (eds.) (2020). Canada and transboundary fisheries management in changing oceans: taking stock, future scenarios. Ecology and Society 25(4):44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12209-250444.

• Sumaila, U.R. and K. I. Stergiou (2015). Economics of marine conservation. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 530:177-279.

• Sumaila, U.R. (2015). On the Contributions of Colin Clark to Fisheries Economics Environmental and Resource Economics, May 2015, Volume 61, Issue 1. (editor of Special Issue).

• Sumaila, U.R., Arnason, R., and Lange, G.-M. (eds.) (2010). Global Fisheries Economics, Journal of Bioeconomics, 12, 179-268.

• Chuenpagdee, R. and Sumaila, U.R. (eds) (2010). Fisheries Governance. Fish and Fisheries, 11, 233-314.

• Sumaila, U.R., Adinar, A., and Albiac, J. (eds.) (2009). Game theoretic applications to environmental and natural resource problems. Environment and Development Economics, 14, 1-137.

• Sumaila, U.R., Charles, T., and Sylvia, G. (eds.) (2007). Topical Problems in Fisheries Economics: An Introduction. Marine Resource Economics.

• Sumaila, U.R., Munro, G., and Sutinen, J. (eds.) (2007). Recent Developments in Fisheries Economics. Special Issue of Land Economics, 83, 1-107.

• Sumaila, U.R. and Charles, A. (eds.) (2002a). Economics of protected marine areas. Special Issue of Natural Resource Modeling, 15 (3), 261-386.

• Sumaila, U.R. and Charles, A. (eds.) (2002b). Economics of protected marine areas. Special Issue of Natural Resource Modeling, 15 (4), 387-505.

• Alder, J. and Sumaila, U.R. (eds.) (2002). Social and economic aspects of protected marine areas implementation. Special Issue of Coastal Management, 30(2), 121-191.

Book chapters

• National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26132

• Sumaila, U.R. Book Chapter: “Fish”. In: Tortell, P. D. (Ed.). (2020). Earth 2020. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0193

• Schuhbauer, A, Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Sumaila, U.R. (2019). Economic viability of small-scale fisheries: a transdisciplinary evaluation approach. In: Chuenpagdee R, Jentoft S, editors. Transdisciplinarity for small-scale fisheries governance. MARE Publication Series, vol 21. Springer, Cham. pp. 93-117.

• De Fontaubert, C., Lange, G.M., Sumaila, U.R. (2018). Subsidies reduce marine fisheries wealth. In: Lange GM, Wodon Q, Carey K, editors. The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future. Washington, DC: World Bank. pp. 189-197.

• Sumaila, U.R., & Schuhbauer, A. (2018). A simple application of bioeconomics to fisheries subsidies. InAdvances in Fisheries Bioeconomics(pp. 115-129). Routledge.

• Cheung WWL, Pauly D, Sumaila U. R.. 2017. Fisheries and the world. In: Nemetz P, Young M, editors. Reflections of Canada: illuminating our biggest possibilities and challenges at 150 years. Vancouver, BC: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.

• Sumaila, U.R., Cheung, W. W., Cury, P. M., & Tai, T. (2017). 9. Climate change, marine ecosystems and global fisheries. Building a Climate Resilient Economy and Society: Challenges and Opportunities, 151.

• Sumaila, U.R., Jacquet, J., & Witter, A. (2017). When bad gets worse: corruption and fisheries. Corruption, Natural Resources and Development: From Resource Curse to Political Ecology, 93.

• Bailey, M., Vestergaard, N., & Sumaila, U.R. (2017). Overcoming Principal–Agent Problems to Improve Cooperative Governance of Internationally Shared Fisheries. In Wspc Reference on Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Era of Global Change (pp. 1-27). World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd.

• Belhabib, D., Padilla, A., & Sumaila, U.R. & Pauly, D. (2017). On governance in fisheries in Senegal: from top-down control to co-management. Handbook on the Economics and Management of Sustainable Oceans, 457.

• Miller, D.D., Sumaila, U.R. (2016). IUU fishing and impact on the seafood industry. In: Naaum AM, Hanner RH, editors. Seafood Authenticity and Traceability. Academic Press. pp. 83-95.

• Sumaila, U.R, Cisneros-Montemayor, A., Dyck, A.J., Khan, A.S., Lam, V.W.Y., Swartz, W., Teh, L.C.L. (2016). The economics of global marine fisheries. In: Pauly D, Zeller D, editors. Global atlas of marine fisheries: a critical appraisal of catches and ecosystem impacts. Washington: Island Press.

• Eagle, J., Sumaila, R. (2016). The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law, 543 – 562.

• Sumaila U. R., Lam VWY. 2015. Out of stock: the impact of climate change on British Columbia’s staple seafood supply and prices. Vancouver City Savings Credit Union.

• Vierros, M., Sumaila, U.R., & Payet, R. A. (2015). Main human uses of ocean areas and resources, impacts, and multiple scales of governance. Ocean Sustainability in the 21st Century, 21.

• Henrik Österblom, Örjan Bodin, Anthony J. Press and Sumaila, U.R. (2015). The. High Seas and IUU Fishing. In The high seas and global trends in (edited by Hance D. Smith, Juan Luis Suárez de Vivero, Tundi S. Agardy). Routledge Handbook of Ocean Resources and Management.

• Sumaila, U.R., and Tesfamichael, D. (2015). Casting the Net Widely: Effective Governance and the Contribution of Fisheries to the Development of African Countries. In New Approaches to the Governance of Natural Resources (pp. 200-223). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

• Weatherdon, L., Sumaila, U.R., Rogers, A., Magnan A., Cheung, W.W.L. (2015). The Oceans 2015 Initiative, Part II-An updated understanding of the observed and projected impacts of ocean warming and acidification on marine and coastal socioeconomic activities/sectors. INIS-FR–15-0544. 46(30).

• Rogers, A., Sumaila, U.R., Hussain, S.S., Baulcomb, C. (2014). The high seas and us: Understanding the value of high-seas ecosystems. Global Ocean Commission Report.

• Sumaila, U.R., W.W.L. Cheung, W.Y. Lam (2014). Climate change effects on the economics and management of marine fisheries. In Handbook on the Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity, 61.

• Villasante, S., Sumaila, U.R., and Antelo, M. (2014). Why cooperation is better: The gains to cooperative management of the Argentine shortfin squid fishery in South America, In Ostrom, E., Dasgupta, P., Mäler, K.G., Barrett, S. (eds.) Environment and Development Economics: Essays in Honour of Sir Partha Dasgupta, Oxford University Press.

• Cheung, W.W.L., and Sumaila, U.R. (2013). Managing Multiple Human Stressors in the Ocean: A Case Study in the Pacific Ocean, In Noone, K.J., Sumaila, U.R., and Diaz, R.J. (2013). Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate: Sustainability and Economic Perspectives. Elsevier, London, UK p. 277-335.

• Sumaila, U.R., Cheung, W.W.L., and Rogers, A. (2013). The Potential Economic Costs of the Overuse of Marine Fish Stocks, In Noone, K.J., Sumaila, U.R., and Diaz, R.J. (2013). Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate: Sustainability and Economic Perspectives. Elsevier, London, UK, 171-191.

• Noone, K.J., Sumaila, U.R., and Diaz, R.J. (2013). Valuing the ocean: an introduction, In Noone, K.J., Sumaila, U.R., and Diaz, R.J. (2013). Managing Ocean Environments in a Changing Climate: Sustainability and Economic Perspectives. Elsevier, London, UK, 1-14.

• Liu, Y., Chuenpagdee, R., and Sumaila, U.R. (2013). Salmon Aquaculture in Canada and Norway–Appraising Governability, In Bavinck, M., Chuenpagdee, R., Jentoft, S., and Kooiman, J. (eds.) Governability of Fisheries and Aquaculture: theory and applications. MARE Publication Series 7, ISBN: 978-94-007-6106-3.

• Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Fisheries Management. In Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability, p. 146-151.

• Sumaila, U.R. and Huang, L. (2012). Improving the Management of Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean Sea, Chapter 10. In Abou-Ali, H. (ed.) Economic Incentives and Environmental Regulation: Evidence from the MENA Region. Edward Elgar, United Kingdom, 216-238.

• Sumaila, U.R. (2012). Is an all or nothing WTO fisheries subsidies agreement achievable? In The Future and the WTO: Confronting the Challenges. A Collection of Short Essays; ICTSD Programme on Global Economic Policy and Institutions, Geneva, Switzerland, https://www.ictsd.org, p. 169-173.

• Munro, G. and Sumaila, U.R. (2011). On the Curbing of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing. In Jacquet P., Pachauri, R. and Tubiana, L. A Planet for life 2011, Oceans: the new frontier. TERI Press, Paris, France, p. 149-162.

• Sumaila, U.R., Alder, J., Ishimura, G., Cheung, W. W. L., Dropkin, L., Hopkins, S., Sullivan, S., and Kitchingman, A. (2011). US Marine Ecosystem Habitat Values. In Ommer, R.E., Perry, R.I., Cochrane, K., and Cury, P. (eds.) World Fisheries: A Social-Ecological Analysis. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444392241.ch16.

• Sumaila, U.R., Dyck, A.J., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., and Watson, R. (2011). Global fisheries economic analysis. In Christensen, V. and Maclean, J. (eds.) Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries: A Global Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, p. 272-279.

• Sumaila, U.R., Dyck, A.J., Kronbak, L.G., Huang, L., Bawumia, M., Munro, G., Arnason, R., Vestergaard, N., Hannesson, R., Chuenpagdee, R., Charles, T., and Cheung, W.W.L. (2011). Fisheries: Investing in Natural Capital. In Towards a Green Economy. United Nations p. 76-109.

• Sumaila, U.R. and Pauly, D. (2011). The ‘March of Folly’ in Global Fisheries. In Jackson, J.B.C., Alexander, K.E. and Sala, E. (eds), Shifting Baselines. Island Press, Washington, D.C., p. 21-32

• Watson, R., Sumaila, U.R., and Zeller, D. (2011). How much fish is being extracted from the oceans and what is it worth? In Christensen, V. and Maclean, J. (eds.) Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries: A Global Perspective. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, p. 55-72.

• Bailey, M., Quaatey, S., Armah, A.K., Jacquet, J., Khan, A., Alder, J., and Sumaila, U.R. (2010). Meeting socioeconomic objectives in Ghana’s sardinella fishery. In Nanang, D.M. and Nunifu, T.K. (eds.) Natural resources in Ghana: management, policy and economics. Nova Publishers, p. 293-309.

• Buchary, E., Pitcher, T., and R. Sumaila (2011). Unaccounted values: under-reporting sardine catches as a strategy against poverty in the Bali Strait, Indonesia. In Ommer, R.E., Perry, R.I., Cochrane, K., and Cury, P. (eds.) World Fisheries: A Social-ecological Analysis. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 201-223.

• Sumaila, U.R., Alder, J., Ishimura, G., Cheung, W.W.L., Dropkin, L., Hopkins. S., Sullivan, S., and Kitchingman, A. (2011). U. S. Marine Ecosystem Habitat Values. In Ommer, R.E., Perry, R.I., Cochrane, K., and Cury, P. (eds.) World Fisheries: A Social-ecological Analysis, p. 281-290.

• Cox, A. and Sumaila, U.R. (2010). A Review of Fisheries Subsidies: Quantification, Impacts, and Reform. In Grafton, Q., Hilborn, R., Squires, D., Tait, M., and Williams, M. (eds.) Marine Fisheries Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, p. 99-112.

• Perry, R.I., Ommer, R.E., Allison, E., Badjeck, M.-C., Barange, M., Hamilton, L., Jarre, A., Quiñones, R., Sumaila, U.R. (2010). Interactions between changes in marine ecosystems and human communities. In Barange, M., Field, J., Harris, R., Hofmann, E., Perry, I., and Werner, C. (eds.) Global Change and Marine Ecosystems. Oxford University Press, Oxford, p. 221-251.

• Metuzals, K., Baird, R., Pitcher, T., Sumaila, U.R., and Ganapathiraju, P. (2010). One Fish, Two Fish, IUU, and No Fish: Unreported Fishing Worldwide. In Grafton, Q., Hilborn, R., Squires, D., Tait, M., and Williams, M. (eds.) Marine Fisheries Conservation and Management. Cambridge University Press, p. 165-181.

• Herrick, S.F., Hannesson, R., Sumaila, U.R., Ahmed, M., and Torres, J.-P. (2009). Global production and economics of small, pelagic fish. In Checkley, A., Oozeki, and Roy (eds.) Climate Change and Small Pelagic Fish. Cambridge University Press, p. 256-274.

• Sumaila, U.R. and Cheung, W.W.L. (2009). Vulnerability and Sustainability of Marine Fish Stocks Worldwide: With Emphasis on Fish Stocks of the Commonwealth of Nations. In Bourne, R. and Collins, M. (eds.) From hook to plate: The state of marine fisheries – A Commonwealth perspective, p. 195-210.

• Sumaila, U.R. and Munro, G.R. (2009). Fisheries Economics. In Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, p. 3787-3794.

• Hoagland, P., Sumaila, U.R., and Farrow, S. (2009). Marine Protected Areas. In Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, p. 1654-1659.

• Pauly, D., Alder, J., Booth, S., Cheung, W.W.L., Christensen, V., Close, C., Sumaila, U.R., Swartz, W., Tavakolie, A., Watson, R., Wood, L., and Zeller, D. (2008). Fisheries in Large Marine Ecosystems: Descriptions and Diagnoses. In Sherman, K. and Hempel, G. (eds.) The UNEP Large Marine Ecosystem Report: a Perspective on Changing Conditions in LMEs of the World’s Regional Seas. UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 182, p. 23-40.

• Sumaila, U.R. (2008). Current state of global fisheries: The role of economic valuation. In Lasry, J.-M., and Fessler, D. (eds.) Finance and sustainable development: Opposition or partnership. Economica, Paris, p 87-93.

• Vincent, A.C.J., Marsden, D., and Sumaila, U.R. (2007). The role of globalization in creating and addressing seahorse conservation problems. In Taylor, W.W., Schetcher, M.G., and Wolfson, L.G. (eds.) Globalization: Effects on fisheries resources. Cambridge University Press, p. 186-214.

• Sumaila, U.R. and Stephanus, K. (2006). Declines in Namibia’s pilchard catch: the reasons and consequences. In Hannesson, R., Barange, M., and Herrick Jr., S. (eds.) Climate Change and the Economics of the World’s Fisheries- Examples of small pelagic stocks. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 205-214.

• Pauly, D., Alder, J., Bakun, A., Heileman, S., Kock, K.-H., Mace, P., Perrin, W., Stergiou, K.I., Sumaila, U.R., Vierros, M., Freire, K.M.F., Sadovy, Y., Christensen, V., Kaschner, K., Palomares, M.L.D., Tyedmers, P., Wabnitz, C., Watson, R., and Worm, B. (2005). Marine systems. In Hassan, R., Scholes, R., and Ash, N. (eds.) Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current States and Trends, Vol. 1. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and Island Press, Washington, D.C, p. 477-511.

• Pullin, R. and Sumaila, U.R. (2005). Aquaculture. In Kooiman, J., Bavinck, M., Jentoft, S., and Pullin, R. (eds.) Fish for Life: Interactive governance for fisheries, p. 93-108.

• Kooiman, J., Jentoft, S., Bavinck, M., Chuenpagdee, R., and Sumaila, U.R. (2005). Meta-principle. In Kooiman, J., Bavinck, M., Jentoft, S., and Pullin, R. (eds.) Fish for Life: Interactive governance for fisheries, p. 93-108.

• Sumaila, U.R., Boyer, D., Skog, M., and Steinshamm, S.I. (2004). Namibia’s fisheries: Introduction and overview. In Sumaila, U.R., Boyer, D., Skog, M., and Steinshamm, S.I. (eds) Ecological, Economic and Social Aspects of Namibia’s Fisheries, Eburon, Netherlands, p. 1-9.

• Armstrong, C.W., Sumaila, U.R., Erastus, A., and Msiska, O. (2004). Benefits and costs of the Nambianization policy. In Sumaila, U.R., Boyer, D., Skog, M., and Steinshamm, S.I. (eds) Namibia’s fisheries: Ecological, economic and social aspects, Eburon, Netherlands, p. 203-214.

• Armstrong, C.W., and Sumaila, U.R. (2004). The Namibian-South African hake fishery – Costs of non-cooperative management. In Sumaila, U.R., Boyer, D., Skog, M., and Steinshamm, S.I. (eds) Namibia’s fisheries: Ecological, economic and social aspects. Eburon, Netherlands, p. 231-244.

• Sumaila, U.R., and Steinshamn, S.I. (2004). A brief overview of current bioeconomic studies of Namibian fisheries. In Sumaila, U.R., Boyer, D., Skog, M., and Steinshamm, S.I. (eds) Namibia’s fisheries: Ecological, economic and social aspects, Eburon, Netherlands, p. 165-186.

• Sumaila, U.R, Alder, J., and Keith, H. (2004). The cost of being apprehended for fishing illegally: Empirical evidence and policy implications. In Fish Piracy: Combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, p. 201-230.

• Pitcher, T.J., Heymans, S.J.J., Ainsworth, C., Buchary, E.A., Sumaila, U.R., and Christensen, V. (2004). Opening the lost valley: Implementing a ‘Back To Future’ restoration policy for marine ecosystems and their fisheries. In Knudsen, E.E., MacDonald, D.D. and Muirhead, J.K. (eds.) Sustainable management of North American fisheries. American Fisheries Society Symposium 43: 165-193.

• Sumaila, U.R., Angelsen, A., and Kowero, G. (2003). A system dynamics model for management of miombo woodlands. In Kowero G., Campbell, B.M., and Sumaila, U.R. (eds.) Policies and governance structures in woodlands of Southern Africa, CIFOR, Bogor, p. 218-238.

• Kowero, G. and Sumaila, U.R. (2003). Manual for users of Miombosim: A simulation model for the management of miombo woodlands. In Kowero G., Campbell, B.M., and Sumaila, U.R. (eds.) Policies and governance structures in woodlands of Southern Africa, CIFOR, Bogor, p. 239-256

• Sainsbury, K. and Sumaila, U.R. (2003). Incorporating ecosystem objectives into management of sustainable marine fisheries, including ‘best practice’ reference points and use of marine protected areas. In Sinclair, M. and Valdimarson, G. (eds.) Responsible fisheries in the marine ecosystem. CAB International, pp. 343-361.

• Sumaila, U.R. (2002). Recreational and commercial fishers in the Namibian silver cob fishery. In Pitcher, T.J. and Hollingworth, C.E. (eds.) Recreational fisheries: Ecological, economic and social evaluation, p. 51-62. Blackwell Science, Oxford, UK.

• Hoagland, P., Sumaila, U.R. and Farrow, S. (2001). Marine protected areas. In Steele, J.H., Thorpe, S.A., and Turekian, K.K. (eds.) Encyclopedia of ocean sciences. London: Academic Press, pp. 1654-1659.

• Sumaila, U.R. and Bawumia, M. (2000). Ecosystem justice and the marketplace. In Coward, H., Ommer, R., and Pitcher, T. J. (eds.) Fish ethics: Justice in the Canadian fisheries. Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, , p. 140 – 153.

• Sumaila, U.R. (1998). Protected marine reserves as hedge against uncertainty: An economist’s perspective. In Pitcher, T.J., Pauly, D., and Hart, P. (eds.) Reinventing Fisheries Management. Chapman and Hall, England, p.301-309.

• Bonfil R., Munro, G., Sumaila, U.R., Valtysson, H., Wright, M., Pitcher, T., Preikshot, D., Haggan, N., and Pauly, D. (1998). Impacts of distant water fleets: an ecological, economic and social assessment. In The footprints of distant water fleet on world fisheries. Endangered Seas Campaign, WWF International, Godalming, Surrey, 122 p.

• Sumaila, U.R. (1998). Optimal landing strategies for the Arcto-Norwegian cod stock: Trawlers versus Coastal vessels. In Jentoft (ed.) Commons in Cold Climate: Coastal Fisheries and Reindeer Pastorialism in North Norway. Parthenon Publishing, England, p.115-120.

• Angelsen, A and Sumaila, U.R. (1997). Hard methods for soft policies: Environmental and social cost benefit analysis. In Wilson (ed.) Towards Sustainable Project Development, Edward Edgar, UK, 20-42.