Christina Chemtai Hicks

Christina Chemtai Hicks studies how coastal communities and fisheries intersect with food security, governance, and ecosystem services. Her most-cited indexed work examines how global fisheries could reduce micronutrient deficiencies, framing capture fisheries as a nutrition lever rather than only an economic sector. Related lead-author research addresses social concepts in sustainability science and, in the Great Barrier Reef context, how sense of place shapes environmental attitudes and resource-management planning. Earlier work on gear modifications in multi-species seagrass and coral reef fisheries and on socioeconomic feedbacks among Tanzanian fishers shows a sustained interest in the practical dynamics of heavily exploited small-scale systems. Beyond these, Hicks contributed as a middle author to building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities and to identifying bright spots among the world's coral reefs