Deborah Prado is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Marine Sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada. As a researcher specializing in environmental governance, she particularly focuses on strengthening participatory and community-based management processes within marine and coastal areas. She has extensive experience with transdisciplinary methodologies and knowledge co-production among researchers, protected area managers, and Indigenous communities. Her recent research examines ocean conflicts affecting small-scale fishing communities in Brazil, with a focus on conflict transformation. She collaborates with the Vulnerability to Viability Global Partnership to analyze primary conflicts and blue injustices affecting small-scale fishing communities in Latin America, exploring how they exacerbate vulnerability and how transformative initiatives can enhance the viability of small-scale fisheries.
The page was updated in March 2025.
