Publications
*current or former graduate student
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters
1. *Lyons, C., C. Carothers, *J. Coleman. 2019. Alaska’s community development quota program: A complex institution affecting rural communities in disparate ways. Marine Policy. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2019.10356
2. Carothers, C., T. L. Sformo, *S. Cotton, and J. C. George, P. A. H. Westley. 2019. Pacific salmon in the rapidly changing Arctic: Exploring local knowledge and emerging fisheries in Utqiaġvik and Nuiqsut, Alaska. Arctic 72(3) In press.
3. Pollnac, R., C. Carothers, T. Seara, J. Poggie. 2019. Evaluating impacts of marine governance on human communities. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 77: 174-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2019.02.001
4. *Ringer, D., C. Carothers, R. Donkersloot, *J. Coleman, and P. Cullenberg. 2018. For generations to come? Shifting baselines and privatization paradigm impacts in Kodiak Archipelago’s commercial fisheries and livelihoods. Marine Policy 98: 97-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.09.009
5. *Coleman, J. , C. Carothers, R. Donkersloot, *D. Ringer, P. Cullenberg, *A. Bateman. 2018. Alaska’s next generation of potential fishermen: A survey of youth attitudes towards fishing and community in Bristol Bay and the Kodiak Archipelago, Alaska. Maritime Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40152-018-0109-5
6. Young, O. R. D.G. Webster, M. E. Cox, J. Raakjær, N. Einarsson, R. Virginia, J. Acheson, L. Øfjord Blaxekjær, D. Bromley, E. Cardwell, C. Carothers, E. Eythórsson, R. B. Howarth, S. Jentoft, B. J. McCay, F. McCormack, G. Osherenko, E. Pinkerton, R. J. vanGinkel, J. A. Wilson, L.Rivers, III, and. R. S. Wilson. 2018. Moving beyond panaceas in fisheries governance. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716545115
7. Levin, P.S, K.N. Marshall, T.E. Essington, L.E. Koehn, L.G. Anderson, A. Bundy, C. Carothers, F. Coleman, L.R. Gerber, J.H. Grabowski, E. Houde, O.P. Jensen, C. Möllmann, K. Rose, J.N. Sanchirico and A.D.M. Smith. 2018. Building effective fishery ecosystem plans. Marine Policy 92: 48-57. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.01.019
8. Breslow, S., M. Allen, D. Holstein, B. Sojka, R. Barnea, X. Basurto, C. Carothers, S. Charnley, S. Coulthard, N. Dolšak, J. Donatuto, C. García-Quijano, C. C. Hicks, A. Levine, M. B. Mascia, K. Norman, M. Poe, T. Satterfield, K. St. Martin, P. S. Levin. 2018. Evaluating indicators of human wellbeing for ecosystem-based management. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2017.1411767
9. Johnson, J. L., Zanotti, L., Ma, Z., Yu, D.J., Johnson, D.R., Kirkham, A., Carothers, C. 2018. Interplays of sustainability, resilience, adaptation and transformation. In W. Leal Filho, R. Marans, and J. Callewaert (eds.), Handbook of Sustainability and Social Science Research. Berlin, Germany: Springer. pp. 485.
10. Donkersloot, R. and C. Carothers. 2017. Beyond privatization: rethinking fisheries stewardship and conservation in the North Pacific. Chapter 12 in Levin, P. S. and M. R. Poe (eds), Conservation for the Anthropocene Ocean: Interdisciplinary science in support of nature and people. Elsevier Academic Press.
11. *Chambers, C., G. Helgadóttir, and C. Carothers. 2017. "Little kings": Community, change and conflict in Icelandic fisheries." Maritime Studies (MAST) 16:10. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40152-017-0064-6
12. Charnley, S., C. Carothers, T. Satterfield, A. Levine, M.R. Poe, K. Norman, J. Donatuto, S.J. Breslow, M.B. Mascia, P.S. Levin, X. Basurto, C.C. Hicks, C. Garcia-Quijano and K. St. Martin. 2017. Evaluating the best available social science for natural resource management decision-making. Environmental Science & Policy, 73:80–88. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2017.04.002
13. Marshall, K.N., P.S. Levin, T.E. Essington, L.E. Koehn, L.G. Anderson, A. Bundy, C. Carothers, F. Coleman, L.R. Gerber, J.H. Grabowski, E. Houde, O.P. Jensen, C. Möllmann, K. Rose, J.N. Sanchirico and A.D.M. Smith. 2017. Ecosystem-based fisheries management for social–ecological systems: Renewing the focus in the United States with next generation fishery ecosystem plans. Conservation Letters. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12367
14. *Figus, E., C. Carothers, and A. H. Beaudreau. 2017. Using local knowledge to inform fisheries assessment: measuring agreement among Polish fishermen about the abundance and condition of Baltic cod (Gadus morhua). ICES Journal of Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsx061
15. Breslow, S., B. Sojka, R. Barnea, X. Basurto, C. Carothers, S. Charnley, S. Coulthard, N. Dolsak, J. Donatuto, C. Garcia-Quijano, C.C. Hicks, A. Levine, M.B. Mascia, K. Norman, M. Poe, T. Satterfield, K. St. Martin, P. S. Levin. 2016. Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Human Wellbeing for Ecosystem Assessment and Management. Environmental Science & Policy 66: 250-259. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2016.06.023
16. *Lyons, C., C. Carothers, and K. Reedy. 2016. A tale of two communities: Using relational place-making to examine fisheries policy in the Pribilof Island Communities of St. George and St. Paul, Alaska. Maritime Studies (MAST) 15: 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40152-016-0045-1
17. Hicks, C.C., A. Levine, A. Agrawal, X. Basurto, S. Breslow, C. Carothers, S. Charnley, S. Coulthard, N. Dolsak, J. Donatuto, C. Garcia-Quijano, M.B. Mascia, K. Norman, M. Poe, T. Satterfield, K. St. Martin, P. S. Levin. 2016. Concrete engagement with social science concepts for sustainability. Science 253 (6281): 38-40. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aad4977
18. Donkersloot, R. and C. Carothers. 2016. The graying of the Alaskan fishing fleet. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development. 58(3): 30-42. https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.2016.1162011
19. *Lyons, C., C. Carothers, and K. Reedy. 2016. Means, meanings and contexts: A framework for integrating detailed ethnographic data into assessments of fishing community vulnerability. Marine Policy. 74: 341-350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.04.022
20. *Lyons, C., B. Blount, C. Carothers, M. Marchioni, R. Davis, and P. Loring. 2016. Considering communities in fisheries management. Marine Policy 74: 288-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.05.006
21. *Chambers, C. and C. Carothers. 2016. Thirty years after privatization: A survey of Icelandic small-boat fishermen. Marine Policy 80: 69-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.02.026
22. Logerwell, E., M. Busby, C. Carothers, *S. Cotton, J. Duffy-Anderson, E. Farley, P. Goddard, R. Heintz, B. Holladay, J. Horne, S. Johnson, B. Lauth, L. Moulton, D. Neff, B. Norcross, S. Parker-Stetter, J. Seigle, T. Sformo. 2015. Fish communities across a spectrum of habitats in the western Beaufort Sea and Chukchi Sea. Progress in Oceanography 136: 115-132. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2015.05.013
23. Carothers, C. 2015. Fisheries privatization, social transitions, and well-being in Kodiak, Alaska. Marine Policy 61: 313-322. doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2014.11.019
24. Carothers, C., M. Moritz, and R. Zarger. 2014. Introduction: conceptual, methodological, practical, and ethical challenges in studying and applying indigenous knowledge. Ecology and Society 19 (4): 43. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss4/art43/
25. Carothers, C., Brown, *K. J. Moerlein, J. Lopez, D. B. Anderson, and B. Retherford. 2014. Measuring perceptions of climate change in northern Alaska: pairing ethnography with cultural consensus analysis. Ecology and Society 19(4): 27. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss4/art27
26. *Knapp, C. N., F. S. Chapin III, G. P. Kofinas, N. Fresco, C. Carothers, and A. Carver. 2014. Parks, people and change: the importance of multistakeholder engagement in adaptation planning for conserved areas. Ecology and Society. 19(4): 16. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss4/art16/
27. *Young, R. C., A. S. Kitaysky, C. Carothers, and I. Dorresteijn. 2014. Seabirds as a subsistence and cultural resource in two remote Alaskan communities. Ecology and Society 19 (4): 40 [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss4/art40/
28. *Peterson, M.J. and C. Carothers. 2013. Whale interactions with Alaskan sablefish and Pacific halibut fisheries: Surveying fishermen’s perception, changing fishing practices and mitigation. Marine Policy 42: 315-324. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2013.04.001
29. Glazier, E., C. Carothers, N. Milne, and M. Iwamoto. 2013. Seafood and society on O‘ahu in the Main Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science 67(3): 345-359. https://doi.org/10.2984/67.3.4
30. Carothers, C. 2013. A survey of halibut IFQ holders: Market participation, attitudes, and impacts. Marine Policy 38: 515-522. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.08.007.
31. Carothers, C. and *C. Chambers. 2012. Fisheries privatization and the remaking of fishery systems. Environment and Society: Advances in Research 3: 39-59. https://doi.org/10.3167/ares.2012.030104
32. *Moerlein, K. and C. Carothers. 2012. Total environment of change: Impacts of climate change and social transitions on subsistence fisheries in northwest Alaska. Ecology and Society 17(1): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04543-170110
33. Carothers, C. 2012. Enduring ties: salmon and the Sugpiat of the Kodiak Archipelago. Pages 133-160 in B.J. Colombi and J.F. Brooks (editors), Keystone Nations: Indigenous Peoples and Salmon across the North Pacific. School for Advanced Research Press, Santa Fe, NM. Invited book chapter.
34. Carothers, C. 2011. Equity and access to fishing rights: Exploring the Community Quota Program in the Gulf of Alaska. Human Organization 70(3): 213-223. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.70.3.d686u2r7j2267055
35. Carothers, C. 2011. Addressing rural livelihood and community well-being in Alaska's fisheries. Pages 377-387 in A.L. Lovecraft and H. Eicken (editors), North by 2020: Alaskan Perspectives on Changing Circumpolar Systems. University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, AK.
36. Carothers, C. 2010. Tragedy of commodification: Transitions in Alutiiq fishing communities in the Gulf of Alaska. Maritime Studies (MAST) 90(2): 91-115.
37. Carothers, C., D.K. Lew, and J. Sepez. 2010. Fishing rights and small communities: Alaska halibut IFQ transfer patterns. Ocean and Coastal Management 53: 518-523. doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2010.04.014
38. Carothers, C. 2008. “Rationalized out:” Discourses and realities of fisheries privatization in Kodiak, Alaska. Pages 55-74 in M. Lowe and C. Carothers (editors). Enclosing the Fisheries: People, Places, and Power. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 68, Bethesda, MD.
39. Pimentel D., R. Doughty, C. Carothers, S. Lamberson, N. Bora, and K. Lee. 2008. Energy inputs in crop production in developing and developed countries. Pages 137-156 in D. Pimentel and M.H. Pimentel (editors), Food, Energy, and Society. 3rd Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Peer-Reviewed Books and Journal Special Issues
40. Carothers, C., P. Westley, J. Black, and *D. Ringer. Forthcoming. Guest editors for special feature: Alaska's Salmon and People: Synthesizing Knowledge Systems and Dimensions. Ecology and Society.
41. Webster, D. G., E. Cardwell, C. Carothers, and F. McCormack. In press. Guest editors for special issue: Sea change in fisheries governance. Elementa. https://collections.elementascience.org/sea-change-in-fisheries-governance/
42. *C. Lyons and C. Carothers. 2016. Guest editors for special section: Considering communities in fisheries management. Marine Policy 74. https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/marine-policy/vol/74/suppl/C
43. Carothers, C., M. Moritz, and R. Zarger. 2014. Guest editors for special issue: Conceptual, methodological, practical, and ethical challenges in studying and applying indigenous knowledge. Ecology and Society 19 (4): 43. [online] URL: https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/issues/view.php?sf=100
44. Carothers, C., K. R. Criddle, *C.P. Chambers, P.J. Cullenberg, J.A. Fall, A.H. Himes-Cornell, J.P. Johnsen, N.S. Kimball, C.R. Menzies, and E.S. Springer (editors.). 2012. Fishing People of the North: Cultures, Economies, and Management Responding to Change. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, Fairbanks.
45. Lowe, M. and C. Carothers, editors. 2008. Enclosing the Fisheries: People, Places, and Power. American Fisheries Society, Symposium 68, Bethesda, MD.
Book Reviews
46. Carothers, C. 2010. Book review of Aleut Identities: Tradition and Modernity in an Indigenous Fishery by Katherine L. Reedy-Maschner. 2010. McGill-Queen's University Press. Alaska Journal of Anthropology 8(1): 141-143.
Policy Briefs
47. Carothers, C., A. Seitz, T. Sutton. 2018. How is climate change affecting subsistence (or traditional) fisheries in the high Arctic? Invited policy brief contributed to Arctic Answers. Available at: https://www.searcharcticscience.org/arctic-answers
48. Carothers, C. and R. Donkersloot. 2018. Turning the Tide: Addressing the Graying of the Fleet & Loss of Rural Fisheries Access in Alaska. Invited briefing for North Pacific Fisheries Management Council. Available at: http://fishermen.alaska.edu
Conference Proceedings
49. Donkersloot, R. and C. Carothers. 2016. Alaska’s next generation of fishermen: Understanding factors affecting local fisheries access in coastal Alaska. Pages 37-48 in Cullenberg, P., editor, Fisheries Access for Alaska— Charting the Future: Workshop Proceedings. Alaska Sea Grant and University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska.
50. Carothers, C. 2009. Tragedy of commodification: Transitions in Alutiiq fishing communities in Alaska. Proceedings of MARE People of the Sea V, University of Amsterdam Press, Amsterdam.
51. Carothers, C. 2009. Catch shares and conservation: Exploring community sustainability as a missing link. International Marine Conservation Congress Proceedings. All Academics Inc.
52. Carothers, C. 2007. Impacts of halibut IFQs and changing Kodiak communities. Pages 47-50 in P. Cullenberg (editor), Alaska’s Fishing Communities: Harvesting the Future, Alaska Sea Grant College Program, Fairbanks, AK.
53. Carothers, C. and J. Sepez. 2005. Commercial fishing crew demographics and trends in the North Pacific: 1993-2003. Pages 37-40 in P. Cullenberg (editor). Managing Fisheries, Empowering Communities. Alaska Sea Grant College Program, Fairbanks, AK.
Reports, Web, and Non-Reviewed Publications
54. Carothers, C., R. Donkersloot, P. Cullenberg, *J. Coleman, and *D. Ringer. 2017. Graying of the fleet in Alaska’s fisheries: Defining the problem and assessing solutions in Bristol Bay and the Kodiak Archipelago. NPRB Project 1323 Final report. 101pp.
55. Zanotti, L. and C. Carothers. 2018. The leadership and strength project in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Witness Community Highlights. Arctic Consortium of the United States (ARCUS). Available at: https://www.arcus.org/witness-the-arctic/2018/1/highlight/2
56. Cullenberg, P., R. Donkersloot, C. Carothers, *J. Coleman, and *D. Ringer. 2017. Turning the tide: A review of programs and policies to address access challenges in Alaska fisheries. Available at: http://fishermen.alaska.edu/turning-the-tide
57. Zanotti, L. and C. Carothers. 2017. A climate of change: Leadership and strength in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. www.leadershipandstrength.com
58. Zanotti, L. and C. Carothers. 2017. Researcher best practices video. Available at: https://vimeo.com/197939591
59. Essington, T., P. Levin, L. Anderson, A. Bundy, C. Carothers, F. Coleman, L. Gerber, J. Grabowski, E. Houde, O. Jensen, C. Mollman, K. Rose, J. Sanchirico, T. Smith. 2016. Building effective fishery ecosystem plans: A report from the Lenfest fishery ecosystem task force. Available at: http://www.lenfestocean.org/news%20and%20publications/published-paper/building-effective-fishery-ecosystem-plans
60. *Moerlein, K., C. Carothers, J. A. Lopez. Observations of changing conditions in northwest Alaska and impacts on subsistence fishing practices. Alaska Park Science 12 (2). Available at: https://www.nps.gov/articles/aps-v12-i2-c10.htm
61. Carothers, C. *S. Cotton, and *K. Moerlein. 2013. Subsistence use and knowledge of salmon in Barrow and Nuiqsut, Alaska. Final report submitted to the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Coastal Marine Institute. BOEM 2013-0015.
62. Glazier, E., J. Shackeroff, C. Carothers, J. Stevens, and R. Scalf. 2009. A report on historic and contemporary patterns of change in Hawaii-based pelagic handline fishing operations. Pelagic Fisheries Research Program Publication, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii at Manoa. Honolulu, HI.
63. Carothers, C. 2000. A comparative study of the sociopolitical factors affecting the declining oyster fisheries in Botany Bay, Australia, and the Chesapeake Bay, United States. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Awarded highest honors, Cornell University, Advisor: Dr. Bruce Lewenstein.
In Review
64. Zanotti, L., C. Carothers, *C. Apok, *S. Huang, C. Ambrozek, and *J. Coleman. Political ecology and decolonial research: Co-production with Alaska Native Peoples in Utqiaġvik. Journal of Political Ecology. In review.
65. R. Donkersloot, *J. Coleman, C. Carothers, *D. Ringer, P. Cullenberg. Kin, community and diverse rural economies: Rethinking resource governance for Alaska rural fisheries. Marine Policy. In review.
66. *Coleman, J., C. Carothers, R. Donkersloot, *D. Ringer, and P. Cullenberg. Livelihoods, policy, and change in the fishing communities of Bristol Bay, Alaska. Journal of Political Ecology.
67. Koehn, L. E., T. E Essington, P. S. Levin, K. N. Marshall, L. G. Anderson, A. Bundy, C. Carothers, F. Coleman, J. H. Grabowski, E. Houde, Olaf P. Jensen, C. Möllmann, and A. D. M. Smith. Technical capacity for fishery ecosystem planning to support ecosystem-based fisheries management. Canadian Journal of Fisheries an Aquatic Sciences.
68. Laura Zanotti, L., Ma, Z., Johnson, J., Johnson, D., Yu, D.J., Burnham, M., Carothers, C. Sustainability, Resilience, Adaptation, and Transformation: Synergies and Tensions. Ecology and Society. In review.
69. Donkersloot, R., J. Black, C. Carothers, D. Ringer, W. Justin, P. Clay, M. Poe, E. Gavenus, W. Voinot-Baron, C. Stevens, M. Williams, J. Raymond-Yakoubian, F. Christiansen, S. Breslow, S. Langdon, J. Coleman, J. Clark. Equity, resource access and well-being in Alaska salmon fisheries. Ecology and Society. In review.
In Advanced Preparation
70. *Olds, A. L., B. Ryan, C. Carothers, A. H. Beaudreau, M. V. McPhee. Integrating local and traditional knowledge and historical sources to characterize run timing and abundance of eulachon in the Chilkat and Chilkoot Rivers, Alaska. Marine and Coastal Fisheries.
71. *Chambers, C., C. Carothers, G. Helgadóttir, K. Criddle, and A. Seitz. Multiple goals of fisheries management: a case study of the Icelandic lumpfish fishery. Polar Geography.