Dr Natasha Stacey

BA, Grad Dip Mus Cur, PhD

• Research Interests
• Current Projects
• Recently Completed Projects
• Students
• Grants
• Publications
  • Papers
  • Books
  • Reports
  • Other

Research Interests

Natasha holds a PhD in anthropology and has 9 years experience in research and development projects on natural resource management across the Pacific Islands, Indonesia and more recently northern Australia. Her experience includes project planning and management, a range of social science research methodologies, as a trainer and facilitator in participatory planning processes for with Indigenous coastal communities, developing participatory monitoring and evaluation (PME) plans and communication strategies.

Prior to working for the School for Environmental Research, she was employed for almost 5 years as a Community Assessment and Participation Specialist on the GEF funded Pacific International Waters Project based at the headquarters of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme in Samoa. She spent most of the 1990s conducting research into the social, cultural and economic drivers of Bajo and other Indonesian traditional fishing activity in Australian waters and has recently published a book based on the topic. She is currently working on a number of research projects with communities in northern Australia and eastern Indonesia including development of alternative livelihoods for communities in northern Australia and Indonesia and designing a participatory monitoring framework to support Joint Management of Parks in the Northern Territory.

Her research interests include:

• Social, cultural and economic issues impacting on natural resource management
• Participatory planning processes and facilitation
• Social impact assessment
• Approaches for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research for improved community-based resource management
• Bajo and Indonesian fishing activity in the Arafura and Timor seas

Current Projects

• Building Local Capacity of Bajo Fishermen, Eastern Indonesia for Whale Shark Conservation
• Consultancy to prepare a preliminary TDA for the ATSEA Program for Indonesia, Timor Leste and Australia
• Dambimangari social impact assessment
• Does monitoring and evaluation improve joint management? The case of national parks in the Northern Territory
• Natural resource management and enterprise development: can they improve Indigenous livelihoods?

Recently Completed Projects

• Dugong and marine turtle project partner feedback survey
• Traditional ecological knowledge of whale sharks in eastern Indonesia (see final report below)

Students

Ms Andrea Babon (PhD). Co-supervisor. Prof Stephen Garnett.

Our carbon, Their forest: Understanding the socio-economic implications for forest-dependant communities of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD).

Ms Kristal Coe (MSc). Co-supervisor: Prof Stephen Garnett, Prof Bruce Campbell.

Impediments to gender-based program delivery in aid projects.

Ms Frances Every (PhD). Co-supervisor: David Mearns.

Social and economic drivers creating the movement of illegal shark fishermen from Pintu Air, West Papua into the Arafura Sea and the Torres Strait.

Ms Ria Fitriana (PhD). Co-supervisor: Prof Tony Cunningham

The contribution of a Sustainable Livelihoods Approach to Coastal Natural Resource Management in Pantar Strait, NTT, Indonesia.

Mr Nick Hogarth (PhD). Co-supervisors: Prof Bruce Cambell, Dr. Brian Belcher.

Bamboo based economic development and poverty alleviation in Guangxi Province China.

Ms Lisa Petherham (PhD). Co-supervisor: Prof Bruce Campbell.

Roles of visual techniques in facilitating learning, building knowledge and linking knowledge to action.

Mr Luke Preece (PhD). Co-supervisors: Prof Bruce Campbell, Terry Sunderland (CIFOR).

Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Synergies and tradeoffs between development and biodiversity conservation in the Lower Mekong countries.

Ms Thuy Pham Thu (PhD). Co-supervisor: Dr Adam Drucker, Prof Bruce Campbell.

Pro-poor PES in Vietnam – a case study in Ha Tinh

Grants

CDU internal grants:

Building Local Capacity of Bajo Fishermen, Eastern Indonesia for Whale Shark Conservation: Natasha Stacey with Mark Meakin

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers

Mahanty, S., Holland, P. Stacey, N. Wright, D. and Menzies, S. 2007. Learning to learn: designing monitoring plans in the Pacific Islands International Waters Project, Ocean and Coastal Management 50: 392-410. [view article]

Stacey N., Wright A., and Holland P. 2006. The Pacific International Waters Project: Aims, approaches and challenges, Ocean and Coastal Management, Volume 49, Issues 9-10, Selected Papers From the East Asian Seas Congress 2003, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 2006, Pages 610-626. (www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VG5-4KJTNDH-1/2/92b73ca8ac92e1551724ee16a6ebef72)

Wright, A., Stacey, N. and Holland, P. 2006. The Cooperative Framework for Ocean and Coastal Management in the Pacific Islands: effectiveness, constraints and future direction, Ocean and Coastal Management, Volume 49, Issues 9-10, Selected Papers From the East Asian Seas Congress 2003, Putrajaya, Malaysia, 2006, Pages 739-763. (www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VG5-4KSD82R-1/2/25baf7d3a6493b6cfc2b594f5f02d4b2)

Stacey, N. 2005. Crossing Borders: Implications of the memorandum of understanding on Bajo fishing activity in northern Australian waters, The Beagle: Records of Museums and Arts Galleries of the NT. Supplement 1: 229-234.

Stacey, N. 2000. Pearlers, Planes and People of the Sea: Early Bajo voyages to the north Australian region. Bulletin of the Australian Institute of Maritime Archaeology 24: 41-50.

Books

Kronen, M., Stacey, N., Holland, P., Magron, F. and Power, M. 2007. Socioeconomic Fisheries Surveys in Pacific Islands: a manual for the collection of a minimum dataset. Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia. ISBN: 978-982-00-0190-9. (www.spc.int/coastfish/Sections/reef/publications.htm)

Stacey, N. 2007. Boats to Burn: Bajo fishing activity in the Australian Fishing Zone. Asia Pacific Environment Monograph 2, ANU E Press, Canberra. (http://epress.anu.edu.au/boats_citation.html)

Download Flyer (PDF): Boats to Burn

Mahanty, S. and Stacey, N. 2004. Collaborating for Sustainability: A Resource Kit for Facilitators of Participatory Natural Resource Management in the Pacific, SPREP, Apia, Unpublished, 215 pp. (www.sprep.org/iwp/Resources_Handbook.htm)

Major reports, working papers

Stacey, N., L. Petheram, & G. Ainsworth. 2008. NAILSMA/TS - CRC – Dugong and marine turtle project partner feedback survey report, School for Environmental Research, CDU, 40pps.

Stacey, N., Karam, J., Dwyer, D., Speed, C. and Meekan, M. 2008. Assessing Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) in eastern Indonesia: A pilot study with fishing communities in Nusa Tenggara Timur. Report prepared for Migratory and Marine Biodiversity Section of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra.

Download the Final Report (.pdf 3MB) >>

Wright, A. and N. Stacey. (Eds.). 2002. Issues for Community-based Sustainable Resource Management and Conservation: Considerations for the Strategic Action Programme for the International Waters of the Pacific Small Island Developing States. 6 volumes, International Waters Programme, South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, Apia, Samoa.

d'Abbs P, Togni S, Stacey N, Fitz J. 2000. Alcohol restrictions in Tennant Creek: A review prepared for the Beat the Grog Committee, Tennant Creek, Northern Territory. Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, 2000.

Stacey, N. 1997. Report to AusAID on the Possibility of Australian Assistance with Aquaculture as one means of Diminishing Fisheries Problems between Indonesia and Australia, Canberra.

Other

Cunningham, A.B., Garnett, S.T. and Stacey N. 2007. Evaluation of non-timber forest product species as potential elements of agroforestry systems. In Djoeroemana, S., Myers, B., Russell-Smith, J., Blyth, M. and Salean, E.I.T. (eds) Integrated rural development in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia - Proceedings of a workshop to identify sustainable rural livelihoods, held in Kupang, Indonesia, 5-7 April 2006, ACIAR Proceedings No. 126, pp 174-181. [view proceedings]

Stacey, N. and Samasoni, S. 2003. Communications and community participation in the International waters Project: Strategies, activities and lessons learned. Development Bulletin, 63: 91-63.

Wright, A., Holland, P., Samasoni, S and Stacey, N. 2002. A new initiative in community-based sustainable resource use and conservation: the Pacific Islands International Waters programme, Special Issue: Environmental sustainability and poverty reduction: Pacific issues, Development Bulletin 58, 99-101.

Stacey, N. 1997. Points of Encounter: Indonesian fishing boats in Australian Museum Collections. Proceedings of the 4th National Conference of Museums Australia Inc. Museums Australia NT Branch, Darwin, pp. 80-84.

Stacey, N. 1999. Boats to Burn: Bajo fishing activity in the Australian Fishing Zone. PhD thesis in Anthropology, Charles Darwin University, Darwin.

Stacey, N. 1997. Submission to Joint Standing Committee on Treaties Inquiry into the Australia-Indonesia Maritime Delimitation Treaty. In Joint Standing Committee on Treaties, Australia-Indonesia Maritime Delimitation Treaty - 12th Report. Appendix 1: Submissions. Submission No. 9, pp. 41 - 43, The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, Canberra.

Stacey, N. 1992. The Tujuan: A Study of the Material Culture of an Indonesian Fishing Vessel held in the Collection of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences, Graduate Diploma Thesis, James Cook University.