Publications

Peer-reviewed papers

Prado, D., Armitage, D., Nayak, P., Arriagada, N., Castillo, T., López de la Lama, R., Trimble, M., Epstein, G. (2026). Threats and prospects for the viability of small-scale fishing communities in Latin America: A systematic review of conflicts and blue injustices. Ocean & Coastal Management. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2025.107934
Delgado, E., Barboza, E., Rojas-Briceño, N., Cotrina-Sánchez, A., Valdés-Velásquez, A., López de la Lama, R., Llerena-Cayo, Camila, De la Puente, S. (2025). Modeling and predicting land use and land cover changes using remote sensing in tropical coastal ecosystems of southern Peru. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12302-025-01181-y.
Le Billon, P., Belhabib, D., Bennett, N., Ertor, I., López de la Lama, R., Morgera, E., Saavedra-Díaz, L., Satizábal, P. (2025). Ocean governance and the protection of ocean defenders. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035325757.00012
Chan, K., Gould, R., López de la Lama, R., Eyster, H. (2025). What if cultural ecosystem services were relational? A research agenda for nature’s contributions to well-being and human action. In The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Ecosystem Services (1st ed., pp. 13). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003414896-40
Naito, R., Chan, K., López de la Lama, R., Zhao, J. (2024). Audience segmentation approach to conservation messaging for transforming the exotic pet trade. Conservation Biology n/a(n/a): e14267. Doi: 10.1111/cobi.14267
López de la Lama, R., Bennett, N., Bulkan, J., De la Puente, S., and Chan, K. (2024). Not in it for the money: meaningful relationships sustain voluntary land conservation initiatives in Peru. People and Nature. Doi:10.1002/pan3.10600
López de la Lama, R., Bennett, N., Bulkan, J., Boyd, D., and Chan, K. (2023). A legal assessment of private land conservation in South America. Conservation Biology 37(4), e14068. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14068
Bennett, N.J., López de la Lama, R., Le Billon, P., Ertor, I., and Morgera, E. (2023). Ocean Defenders and human rights. Frontiers in Marine Science 9:1089049. Doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1089049
De la Puente, S., López de la Lama, R., Llerena-Cayo, C., Martínez, B., Rey-Cama, G., Christensen, V., Rivera-Ch, M., and Valdés-Velásquez, A. (2022). Adoption of sustainable low-impact fishing practices is not enough to secure sustainable livelihoods and social wellbeing in small-scale fishing communities. Marine Policy 146, 105321. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2022.105321
Gibbons, DW., Sandbrook, C., Sutherland, WJ., Akter, R., Bradbury, R., Broad, S., Clements, A., Crick, H., Elliott, J., Gyeltshen, N., Heath, M., Hughes, J., Jenkins, R., Jones, A., Lopez de la Lama, R., Macfarlane, N., Maunder, M., Prasad, R., Romero-Muñoz, A., Steiner, N., Tremlett, J., Trevelyan, R., Vijaykumar, S., Wedage, I., Ockendon, N. (2022). The relative importance of COVID-19 pandemic impacts on biodiversity conservation globally. Conservation Biology, 36(1), e13781. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13781
Delgado, E., Meza, G., Barboza, E., Rojas, N., Torres, C., Oliva-Cruz, M., Chavez-Quintana, S., Salas, R., López de la Lama, R., Sevillano-Ríos, S., Sarmiento, F. (2021). Effectiveness of communal privately protected areas in montane cloud forests of northern Peru. Pirineos. Revista de Ecologia de Montaña 176(e067). https://doi.org/10.3989/pirineos.2021.176006
López de la Lama, R., De la Puente, S., Sueiro, J.C., and Chan, K. (2020.) Reconnecting with the past and anticipating the future: A review of fisheries-derived cultural ecosystems services in pre-Hispanic Peru. People and Nature 3(1): 129-147. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10153
De la Puente, S., López de la Lama, R., Benavente, S., Sueiro, J.C., and Pauly, D. Growing into Poverty: Reconstructing Peruvian Small-Scale Fishing Effort Between 1950 and 2018. (2020). Frontiers in Marine Science 7(2020), pp 681. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00681
Bennett, N.J., Cisneros-Montemayor, A.M., Blythe, J., Silver, J., Singh, G., Andrews, N., Calo, A., Christie, P., Di Franco, A., Finkbeiner, E., Gelcich, S., Guidetti, P., Harper, S., Hotte, N., Kittinger, J., Le Billon, P., Lister, J., López de la Lama, R., McKinley, E., Scholtens, J., Solas., AM., Sowman, M., Talloni-Alvarez, N., Teh, L., Voyer, M., Sumaila, R. (2019). Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy. Nature Sustainability. doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0404-1
López de la Lama, R., De la Puente S, Riveros JC (2018) Attitudes and misconceptions towards sharks and shark meat consumption along the Peruvian coast. PLoS ONE 13(8): e0202971. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202971
López de la Lama. R., Valdés-Velasquez, A., Huicho, L., Morales, E., Rivera, M., (2018). Exploring the building blocks of social capital in the Sechura Bay (Peru): Insights from Peruvian Scallop (Argopecten purpuratus) aquaculture. Ocean & Coastal Management 165(1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.08.030
López De La Lama, R., De La Puente, S., & Valdés-Velásquez, A. (2018). Bringing sustainable seafood back to the table: Exploring chefs’ knowledge, attitudes and practices in Peru. Oryx, 1-9. doi:10.1017/S0030605318000273
López de la Lama, R & Espinosa, N. (2017) Mujeres en el campo: retos, contribuciones y oportunidades de la científica peruana en el trabajo de campo. Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES). https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/824

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