Dr. Annette Breckwoldt

Dr. Annette Breckwoldt, Scientist, Social-Ecological Systems (SES) Analysis, Leibniz Centerfor Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT), Bremen, Germany

“Annette is a marine biologist by training and studied at the University of Bremen (Germany), the University of Liverpool (UK), the Hawai’i Institute of Marine Biology (USA), Newcastle University (UK) and The University of the South Pacific (Fiji). Between her Masters and PhD she worked as a consultant for UNESCO in Paris in the joint sections ‘Environment and Development in Coastal Regions and Small Islands’ (CSI) and ‘Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems’ (LINKS). In 2007, Annette defended her PhD on interdisciplinary aspects of community-based marine resource management in Fiji. Since then, Annette helped to organize an international conference on ‘ Interdisciplinary Progress in Environmental Science and Management’, which was held in Newcastle (UK) in 2011, is a part-time lecturer at the University of Bremen at the faculties of geography and biology, and works as project scientist in the working group on Social-Ecological Systems Analysis at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen, northern Germany. Her research interests encompass a wide range of aspects of integrated coastal management and sustainable marine resource use, as well as the specific aspects related to small island states, small-scale fisheries, environmental perceptions and interdisciplinary academic interfaces (e.g., between ecology, social sciences, human geography and  environmental psychology).”