Dr Natasha Stacey

BA, Grad Dip Mus Cur, PhD

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

Research Interests

Natasha holds a PhD in anthropology and has 14 years experience in research and development projects on natural resource management across the Pacific Islands, Indonesia, Timor Leste and more recently northern Australia. Her experience includes project design, planning and management, social science research methodologies, as a trainer and facilitator in participatory planning processes 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. For the last five years she has worked as a Research Fellow in the School for Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University. 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 the Northern Territory and West Timor; building local capacity for whale shark conservation in eastern Indonesia; designing a participatory monitoring framework to support Joint Management of Parks in the Northern Territory and livelihoods, conservation and fisheries management in the Arafura-Timor Seas region.

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

• 2010-2011 Australia-Malaysia Institute. Funding for Cooperative Management of Langkawi GeoPark. N. Stacey & A. Izurieta in partnership with Universitas Kebangsan Malaysia.
• 2010 UNOPS for Arafura and Timor Seas (ATSEF) Regional Secretariat, N. Stacey International Consultant to assist with implementation of TDA component of the United Nations Global Environment Facility Arafura and Timor Seas Ecosystem Action (ATSEA) Program
  
• 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?
• Transboundary diagnostic analysis (TDA) for the Arafura and Timor Seas Ecosystem Action Program (ATSEA)

Recently Completed Projects

• 2010. AusAID International Seminar Support Scheme. N. Stacey in partnership with International Collective in Support of Fishworkers, India to hold a workshop Recasting the net: Defining a gender agenda for sustaining life and livelihoods in fisheries, India, July 2010.
• 2009. Australian Fisheries Management Authority/AusAID. Design and facilitate Socioeconomic Professional Skills Training Course for Australia and Indonesian fisheries staff to monitor Traditional Indonesian Fisheries in the MOU Box, Timor Sea. N. Stacey funded through AusAID ALA Program.
  
• Dambimangari social impact assessment
• Dugong and marine turtle project partner feedback survey
• Assessing Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Whale Sharks (Rhincodon typus) in Eastern Indonesia: a Pilot Study with Fishing Communities in Nusa Tenggara Timur (see final report below)
• Preliminary transboundary diagnostic analysis (TDA) for the Arafura and Timor Seas Ecosystem Action Program (ATSEA)
  
  

Students

Mr Abu Nasar Abdullah (PhD). Co-supervisor: Prof Stephen Garnett

Survival strategies of the people surrounding the Sundarbans mangrove forest: Livelihood Vs Nature Conservation.

Ms Kristal Coe (PhD). Co-supervisors: Prof Richard Baker, and Dr Kersty Hobson, ANU, The effects of UNESCO World Heritage inscription and conservation on local populations.

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

Livelihood strategies of artisanal fishing communities in Maumere Bay, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.

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 Campbell, Dr. Brian Belcher.

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

Mr Michael Honer (PhD). Co-supervisors: Julian Gorman, Prof Owen Stanley, Prof Jon Altman.

Contribution of natural resources to Indigenous livelihoods in Ramingining, northern Australia.

Ms Robyn James (PhD). Co-supervisors: Prof Stephen Garnett, Dr Terry Sunderland.

Maximizing outcomes of biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihoods investment

Ms Lisa Petheram (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.

Mr Nick Smith (PhD). Co-supervisors: Dr Heather Aslin, Dr Sam Setterfield.

Weed Management in Northern Australia; Indigenous perceptions.

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

Petheram, L, Zander, K., Campbell, B.M., High, C., and Stacey, N. 2010. ‘Strange Changes’: Indigenous perspectives of climate change and adaptation in NE Arnhem Land (Australia). Global Environmental Change doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.05.002

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

Stacey, N., G Boggs, W Steffen. B Campbell (eds). 2009. Prepare for Impact: When People and Environment collide in the tropics. Proceedings from the Charles Darwin Symposium 11-12 May 2006. CDU Press, Darwin

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)

Book chapters

Campbell, B.; T Griffiths & N. Stacey. 2009. Do Local People and the Environment Collide? Who Drives Environmental Change? In Stacey, N., G Boggs, W Steffen. B Campbell (eds). Prepare for Impact: when people and environment collide in the tropics. Proceedings of the Charles Darwin Symposium, 11-12 May 2006. Charles Darwin University, Darwin, NT; pp 71-78.

Stacey, N and Izurieta, A. 2009. Participatory monitoring and evaluation for joint management of parks and reserves in the Northern Territory. In Ainsworth, GB and Garnett, ST. Rimba: Sustainable Forest Livelihoods in Malaysia and Australia. Lestari: UKM, Malaysia; pps 70-78.

Major reports, working papers

Stacey, N. Meekan, M.; Pickering, S., Ninef, J. 2010. Final Report to CDU Research Panel on Project. Building Local Capacity of Bajo Fishermen, Eastern Indonesia for Whale Shark Conservation; 20pps.

Izurieta, A and Stacey N. 2010. East MacDonnells National Park Monitoring And Evaluation of Joint Management: Building the M&E Framework and Baseline Results: March 2008 – October 2009, CDU/SER.

Izurieta, A and Stacey N. 2010. Watarrka National Park Monitoring And Evaluation of Joint Management: Building the M&E Framework and Baseline Results: Jn 2008 – November 2009, CDU/SER.

N. Stacey. 2009 Framework Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis for the Arafura Timor Seas Ecosystem Action (ATSEA) Programme. Final report prepared on behalf of the Arafura and Timor Seas Expert Forum (ATSEF) Regional Secretariat, Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research (AMFR), Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (MMAF), Indonesian government for the Global Environment Facility International Waters ATSEA Programme, June.

Stacey, N., B. Sithole, A. Izurieta, H Hunter-Xenie. B. Campbell 2009. Stage 1: Monitoring and Evaluation Of Joint Management of Flora River Nature Reserve Report To The Northern Land Council School For Environmental Research, Charles Darwin University.

Izurieta, A and Stacey N. 2009 Flora River (Giwining) Nature Park Monitoring And Evaluation of Joint

Management: Building the M&E Framework and Baseline Results: April 2007- July 2009, CDU/SER

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

Stacey, N. 2010. Book Review: ‘Conversations on the beach: fishermen’s knowledge, metaphor and environmental change in South India’ by Gotz Hoeppe. Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute 16: 657-658.

Stacey, N. 2009. Book Review: Milan J. Titus and Paul P. M. Burgers (eds) (2009) Rural Livelihoods, Resources and Coping with Crisis in Indonesia: A Comparative Study, ICAS Publications Series, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, and Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, pp. 307, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2009: 404-405.

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.