Shankar Aswani

Shankar Aswani

Rhodes University

H-index: 45

Africa-South Africa

About Shankar Aswani

Shankar Aswani, With an exceptional h-index of 45 and a recent h-index of 29 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Rhodes University, specializes in the field of human ecology, coastal management, climate change.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Human–crocodile interactions in the western Solomon Islands: the importance of local data for reducing attacks on people

History matters: societal acceptance of deep-sea mining and incipient conflicts in Papua New Guinea

Transboundary Fisheries Management in Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA-TFCA): Prospects and Dilemmas

Socio-Economic and Environmental Challenges of Small-Scale Fisheries: Prognosis for Sustainable Fisheries Management in Lake Kariba, Zambia

Social innovation that connects people to coasts in the Anthropocene

Cultural Seascapes in the ‘Sea of Calms’ and La Restinga Coast

Lessons from bright-spots for advancing knowledge exchange at the interface of marine science and policy

Can local knowledge of Small-scale fishers be used to monitor and assess changes in marine ecosystems in a European context?

Shankar Aswani Information

University

Position

Professor of Anthropology and Marine Science

Citations(all)

7593

Citations(since 2020)

2933

Cited By

6082

hIndex(all)

45

hIndex(since 2020)

29

i10Index(all)

76

i10Index(since 2020)

62

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Shankar Aswani Skills & Research Interests

human ecology

coastal management

climate change

Top articles of Shankar Aswani

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Human–crocodile interactions in the western Solomon Islands: the importance of local data for reducing attacks on people

Oryx

Shankar Aswani

Joshua Matanzima

2024/1/22

History matters: societal acceptance of deep-sea mining and incipient conflicts in Papua New Guinea

Maritime Studies

EI van Putten

S Aswani

Wiebren J Boonstra

R De la Cruz-Modino

Jewel Das

...

2023/9

Transboundary Fisheries Management in Kavango–Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA-TFCA): Prospects and Dilemmas

Imikendu Imbwae

Shankar Aswani

Warwick Sauer

Clinton Hay

2023/3/1

Socio-Economic and Environmental Challenges of Small-Scale Fisheries: Prognosis for Sustainable Fisheries Management in Lake Kariba, Zambia

Sustainability

Imikendu Imbwae

Shankar Aswani

Warwick Sauer

2023/2/9

Social innovation that connects people to coasts in the Anthropocene

Cambridge Prisms: Coastal Futures

Louis Celliers

María Mañez Costa

Lena Rölfer

Shankar Aswani

Sebastian Ferse

2023

Cultural Seascapes in the ‘Sea of Calms’ and La Restinga Coast

Raquel De la Cruz-Modino

Cristina Piñeiro-Corbeira

Shankar Aswani

Carla González-Cruz

David Domínguez

...

2022/11/29

Lessons from bright-spots for advancing knowledge exchange at the interface of marine science and policy

Journal of Environmental Management

Denis B Karcher

Christopher Cvitanovic

Ingrid E van Putten

Rebecca M Colvin

Derek Armitage

...

2022/7/15

Can local knowledge of Small-scale fishers be used to monitor and assess changes in marine ecosystems in a European context?

Ieva Misiune Daniel Depellegrin

Cristina Piñeiro-Corbeira

Sara Barrientos

Rodolfo Barreiro

Shankar Aswani

José J Pascual-Fernández

...

2022/6/30

Small but strong: Socioeconomic and ecological resilience of a small European fishing community affected by a submarine volcanic eruption

Ocean & Coastal Management

Raquel De la Cruz-Modino

Cristina Piñeiro-Corbeira

Josué Gutiérrez-Barroso

Carla González-Cruz

Rodolfo Barreiro

...

2022/5/15

The complex relationship between asset wealth, adaptation, and diversification in tropical fisheries

Ocean & Coastal Management

Sarah FW Taylor

Shankar Aswani

Narriman Jiddawi

Jack Coupland

Phillip AS James

...

2021/10/15

Happy without money: Minimally monetized societies can exhibit high subjective well-being

PLoS ONE

Sara Miñarro

Victoria Reyes-García

Shankar Aswani

Samiya Selim

Christopher Barrington-Leigh

...

2021/1/13

Marine robots for coastal ocean research in the Western Indian Ocean

Ocean & Coastal Management

Matthew R Palmer

Yohana W Shagude

Michael J Roberts

Ekaterina Popova

Juliane U Wihsgott

...

2021/10/15

Social capital reduces vulnerability in rural coastal communities of Solomon Islands

Ocean & Coastal Management

Willem Malherbe

Warwick Sauer

Shankar Aswani

2020/6/15

Detecting change in local ecological knowledge: An application of an index of taxonomic distinctness to an ethnoichthyological classification in the Solomon Islands

Ecological Indicators

Shankar Aswani

Sebastian CA Ferse

Moritz Stäbler

Carolina Chong-Montenegro

2020/12/1

The small pelagic fishery of the Pemba Channel, Tanzania: What we know and what we need to know for management under climate change

Ocean & coastal management

Baraka Sekadende

Lucy Scott

Jim Anderson

Shankar Aswani

Julius Francis

...

2020/11/1

New directions in maritime and fisheries anthropology

American anthropologist

Shankar Aswani

2020/9

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