Publications

Technical Reports

• Ocean20 Briefing Note #8: Ocean20: Deep-sea Mining - Why a Precautionary Pause is Needed

• Beaumont, J., Hampton, SL., Willima, D. 2025. Africa’s blue economy and climate change: status and emerging pathways. ISS Monograph. 

• Hampton, SL., Dyer, D., and Findlay, K. 2025. Using ocean accounting to underpin blue financing for ocean sustainable development in Africa. 

• Hampton, SL., Dyer, D., and Findlay, K. 2025. Bridging the understanding of private and public blue financing instruments and opportunities with blue financing needs in the Western Indian Ocean. 

• Hampton, S., et al. 2025. Implementation of ocean accounting - case studies from East Africa  presented at the 2024 Africa Ocean Accounting Dialogue. 

• Beaumont, J., Hampton, S.L., and Share, A. 2024. Executive summary report on the outcomes of the project “Capacity building for Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs) in the Abidjan Convention region”.  International Ocean Institute - Southern Africa and Abidjan Convention Secretariat.

• Hampton, S.L., Beaumont, J., and Share, A. 2024. State of Marine Environment (SoME) reporting and Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) in Abidjan Convention region. International Ocean Institute - Southern Africa and Abidjan Convention Secretariat.

• Hampton, S.L., Beaumont, J., and Share, A. 2024. State of Marine Spatial Planning in the Abidjan Convention region. International Ocean Institute - Southern Africa and Abidjan Convention Secretariat.

• Hampton, S.L., Beaumont, J., and Share, A. 2024. Report on the status of ocean management legislation in Sierra Leone and São Tomé and Príncipe. International Ocean Institute - Southern Africa and Abidjan Convention Secretariat.

• Hampton, S.L., Beaumont, J., and Share, A. 2024. Insights into the status of the blue economy in the Abidjan Convention region. International Ocean Institute - Southern Africa and Abidjan Convention Secretariat.

• Hampton, S.L., et al. (eds.), 2024. Marine Regions Forum 2023: Navigating ocean sustainability in the Western Indian Ocean and beyond. Conference report. — Marine Regions Forum 2023, 7–9 November 2023, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

• Hampton, S., et al. 2022 ‘Study on Measures to Support Conservation Efforts for Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction in the Southeast Atlantic Region’, STRONG High Seas Project.

• Hampton, S., et al. 2022. Reflections from the STRONG High Seas Project: Capacity Development in the Southeast Atlantic Region for Conservation of Marine Biodiversity in ABNJ, STRONG High Seas Project.

• Spiteri, C., et al. 2021. Study on the Socio-Economic Importance of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction in the Southeast Atlantic Region. STRONG High Seas Project.

• Boteler, et al., 2019. Ecological Baselines for the Southeast Atlantic and Southeast Pacific: Status of Marine Biodiversity and Anthropogenic Pressures in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction’, STRONG High Seas Project.

• Industry Code of Conduct for Responsible Fishing in South Africa. 2013. CapFish contract

Scientific publications

• Celliers L, Ferse S, Bruns A, et al. New rationalities, inner logic, and hope for sustainable future coasts. Global Sustainability. 2026;9:e2. doi:10.1017/sus.2025.10041

• Rogers et al. 2023. Accelerating Ocean Species Discovery and Laying the Foundations for the Future of Marine Biodiversity Research and Monitoring. Frontiers in Marine Science, Vol 10. DOI=10.3389/fmars.2023.1224471 

• McQuaid, et al. 2023. Broad-scale benthic habitat classification of the South Atlantic. Progress in oceanography. 214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2023.103016 

• Burgass, M; et al. 2020. Key considerations for biodiversity conservation in multilateral agreements. Conservation Letters. https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12764 

• Hampton, S.L., Moloney, C.L., van der Lingen, C.D. and M. Labonne. 2018. Spatial and temporal variability in otolith elemental signatures of juvenile sardine off South Africa. Journal of Marine Systems https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2018.02.001. 

• Hampton, S.L., Ryan, P.G. and Underhill, L.G. 2009. The effect of flipper banding on the breeding success of African Penguins, Spheniscus demersus, at Boulders Beach, South Africa. Ostrich 80 (2): 77 – 80.

• Hampton, S.L. and Griffiths, C.L. 2007. Why Carcinus maenas cannot get a grip on South Africa’s wave‐exposed coastline. African Journal of Marine Science, 29: 123 – 126.

Book Chapter 

• Hampton, S.L. “Implementation on the ground: Making SDG 14 work for the ocean and people in Sub-Saharan Africa” chapter in The Elgar Companion on Ocean Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals, Edward Elgar Publishing. In Press.

Reviews have been conducted for:

• Guest co-editor of Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science special edition: Coastal and Ocean governance in the Western Indian Ocean. Published: 2022-11-29 

• African Journal of Marine Science

• Sustainability Science

• WIOMSA Conference (2025)

• SAMSS Conference (2025)

• University of Cape Town Biodiversity Conference (on organising team)