


Guest Editor
2025 Special Issue: Resilience and Sustainability of Coastal Communities, Marine Pollution Bulletin & Journal of Sea Research. Guest Editors: Xiaolong Geng, Kai Xiao, Firas Gerges, Yan Luo, and Barbara Quimby.
Marine Pollution Bulletin Special Issue
Journal of Sea Research Special Issue
Peer-Reviewed Articles
2023 Quimby, B., Roque, A., Nébié, E.K.I., Levine, A., Akeli Amaama, S., Wutich, A., Brewis, A., Sameulu, L.E. Blue food sovereignty benefits social-ecological resilience: a case study of small-scale fisheries comanagement and mariculture in Samoa. Human Ecology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-023-00401-4 PDF
2023 Quimby, B. Nichol, C.*, du Bray, M.V., Cantor, A., Bausch, J.C., Wutich, A., Williams, C., Porter, S., Eaton, W., Brasier, K. Changing Flows: Sociotechnical Tinkering for Adaptive Water Management. Environmental Management. https://rdcu.be/cZvWo. PDF
2023 Quimby, B. and Beresford, M. “Participatory Modeling: A methodology for engaging stakeholder knowledge and participation in social science research.” Field Methods https://doi.org/10.1177/1525822X221076986 PDF
2022 duBray, M., Burham, M., Running, K., Quimby, B. Lived experiences of social-ecological change in the farming lifeway of Idaho’s Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer region. Culture, Agriculture, Food & Environment https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12296
2022 Burbach, M., Eaton, W., Quimby, B., Babbitt, C. and Delozier, J. “Longitudinal assessment of an integrated approach to large-scale common-pool water resource management: A case study of Nebraska’s Platte River basin.” Ecology & Society, 27(4) no.30 https://ecologyandsociety.org/vol27/iss4/art30/ open access
2022 du Bray, M. V., Quimby, B., Bausch, J. C., Wutich, A., Eaton, W. M., Brasier, K. J., Brewis, A., & Williams, C. Red, White, and Blue: Environmental Distress among Water Stakeholders in a U.S. Farming Community, Weather, Climate, and Society, 14(2), 587-597. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/wcas/14/2/WCAS-D-21-0103.1.xml
2022 Eaton, W. M., Brasier, K. J., Whitley, H., Bausch, J. C., Hinrichs, C. C., Quimby, B., Burbach, M. E., Wutich, A., Delozier, J., Whitmer, W., Kennedy, S., Weigle, J., & Williams, C. Farmer perspectives on collaboration: Evidence from agricultural landscapes in Arizona, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. Journal of Rural Studies, 94, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.05.008 open access
2022 Roque, A., Wutich, A., Quimby, B., Porter, S., Zheng, M., Hossain, M., Brewis, A., Participatory Approaches in Water Research: A Review. WIRES: Water. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1577 PDF
2021 Eaton, W., Brasier, K., Burbach, M., Whitmer, W., Engle, E., Burnham, Quimby, B., Chaudhary, A., Whitley, H., Delozier, J., Fowler, L., Wutich, A., Bausch, J.C., Beresford, M., Burkhart-Kriesel, C., Preisendanz, H., Williams, C., Watson, J., Weigle, J. “A conceptual model for enabling social and environmental change through stakeholder engagement in water resource management.” Society & Natural Resources, 34:8, 1111-1132, https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2021.1936717 open access
2021 Quimby, B. and Levine, A. “Adaptive capacity of marine comanagement: a comparative analysis of the influence of colonial legacies and integrated traditional governance on outcomes in the Pacific”. Regional Environmental Change, volume 21 (1), pg. 10. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-020-01730-6 PDF
2020 Quimby, B., Crook, S., Miller, K., Ruiz, J. and Lopez-Carr, D. “Exploring, Identifying, and Defining Urban Subsistence Fishing: Pier Fishing in Santa Barbara County” Marine Policy. doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.104197 PDF
2020 Beresford, M., Jones, J.L. Bausch, J.C., Williams, C., Wutich, A., Porter, S. Quimby, B., Eaton, W.M., and Brasier, K.J. “No Significant Third-Party Effect when a Scientific Expert is Present in Stakeholder Interviews”. International Journal of Qualitative Research. doi.org/10.1177/1609406920966482
2018 Quimby, B. and Levine, A. “Participation, Power, and Equity: examining three key social dimensions of fisheries comanagement” Sustainability 10 (9), 3324 http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/9/3324/htm open access
2015 Quimby, B. “Emerging Customs: artisanal fishing practices in Aceh, Indonesia” Applied Geography, 59, pp. 125-130. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.11.026
* undergraduate advisee
Book Chapters
2023 Quimby, B. Adaptive Governance for Marine Environments: methods, challenges, and lessons, in the Elgar Handbook on Adaptive Governance (S. Juhola, Ed.). Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888241.00020 (full preprint here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368706095_Adaptive_governance_for_marine_environments_methods_challenges_and_lessons_for_ocean_fisheries) PDF
2021 Roque A., Quimby B., Brewis A., Wutich A. Building Social Capital in Low-Income Communities for Resilience. In: Brears, R.C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32811-5_84 PDF
Invited Commentary
2023 Quimby, B. Climate-resilient fisheries and thriving tropical communities through food sovereignty. One Earth, vol. 6 (8) 939-942. https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hcH89C~Iu09jQ