DR NIGEL HAGGAN









Publications







Dr Nigel Haggan

My research focus is on how to put our emotional, and spiritual connection to the ocean on an equal basis with economic and scientific considerations.


I joined the UBC Fisheries Centre in 1993 as a Research Associate to explore how the academy might provide an alternative context to confrontation, court cases, and media wars. There, I  co-initiated and participated in numerous projects to build collective understanding of coastal and marine ecosystems as they were, as they are and what they might become.  

Earlier work includes 14 years developing cooperative fisheries management programs with BC First Nations.

Peer reviewed publications

Book chapters

Edited books

Conference presentations

Research reports

Studies for First Nations and Government


Peer reviewed publications

Haggan, N., T'uy't'tanat'-Cease Wyss, and Haggan, E.R. [Illustrator] (2023) 'True Stories'-Shapeshifting between mode and metaphor, Mantle: The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Research, 1(1), 7-28.  Abstract.  Full text.

Haggan, N. and Haggan, E.R. [Illustrator] (2017) 'Pipelines and the Poetics of Place: Bringing a fuller set of values into environmental assessment, Langscape, 6(1) 65-69.  Full text.

Pierce (Director), J.R. and Haggan (Producer), N. (2017) Unsettling Environmental Review: Thoughts from the Pipelines and the Poetics of Place Project. Seannachie Productions, Vancouver. Watch Film,

Haggan, N., Jackson, G.D. and Lacroix, P. (2009) Salmon and Eulachon in Ecosystem Space and time: A Plea for Better Collaboration and Data Integration.  Pages 619-636 in: Challenges for Diadromous Fishes in a Dynamic Global Environment (ed Cunjak, R., Dadswell, M., Haro, A., Klauda, R., Moffitt, C., Rulifson, R. and Smith, K.) American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

Lozano-Montes, H.M., Pitcher, T.J. and Haggan, N. (2008) Shifting environmental and cognitive baselines in the upper Gulf of California.  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6(1): 75-80.

Haggan, N. and Klah-Kist-Ke-Is, Chief Simon Lucas (2008) Reconciling Aboriginal Fisheries with Conservation: Themes, concepts and examples. Pages 495-497 in Nielsen, J.; Dodson, J.J.; Friedland, K.; Hamon, T.R.; Musick, J.; Verspoor, E. (eds) Reconciling Fisheries with Conservation: Proceedings of the Fourth World Fisheries Congress, American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

Haggan, N. and Neis, B. (2007) The changing face of Fisheries Science and Management.  Pages 421-432 in: Haggan, N., Neis, B. and Baird, I.G. (eds) Fishers' Knowledge in Fisheries Science and Management. Coastal Management Sourcebooks 4. UNESCO, Paris, 437p.

Pitcher, T.J., Morato, T., Hart, P.J.B., Clark, M.R., Haggan N. and Santos, R.S. (2007) The Depths of Ignorance: An Ecosystem Evaluation Framework for Seamount Ecology, Fisheries and Conservation. Chapter 21 in: Pitcher, T.J., Morato, T., Hart, P.J.B., Clark, M.R., Haggan, N. and Santos, R.S. (eds) Seamounts: Ecology, Fisheries and Conservation. Fish and Aquatic Resources Series, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 536p.

Pitcher, T.J., Ainsworth, C., Buchary, E.A. Cheung, W.W.L., Forrest, R. Haggan, N., Lozano, H., Morato, T. and Morissette, L. (2005) Strategic Management of Marine Ecosystems using Whole-Ecosystem simulation Modelling: The 'Back to the Future' Policy Approach. Pages 199-258 in: Levner, E., Linkov, I. and Proth, J.M. (eds) Strategic Management of Marine Ecosystems. NATO Science Series IV. Earth and Environmental Sciences, 50: 313p.

Clarke, S., Leung, A.W-Y., Mak, Y.M., Kennish, R. and Haggan, N. (2002) Consultation with Local Fishers on the Hong Kong Artificial Reefs Initiative. ICES Jnl. of Marine Science, 59, S171-S177.

Pitcher, T.J., Watson, R., Haggan, N., Guénette, S., Kennish, R. and Sumaila, U.R. (2000) Marine Reserves and the Restoration of Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems in the South China Sea. Bulletin of Marine Science, 66(3), 543-566.

Haggan, N. (1998) Reinventing the Tree: Reflections on the organic growth and creative pruning of fisheries management structures. Pages 19-30 in: Pitcher, T.J., Hart, P.J.B. and Pauly, D. (eds) Reinventing Fisheries Management, Chapman and Hall, London, 435p.

Edited books

Haggan, N., Neis, B. and Baird, I.G. (eds) (2007) Fishers' Knowledge in Fisheries Science and Management. Coastal Management Sourcebooks 4. UNESCO LINKS, Paris, 437p. Contents.  IntroductionChapter 1.

Pitcher, T.J., Morato, T., Hart, P.J.B., Clark, M., Haggan, N. and Santos, R. (eds) (2007) Seamounts: Ecology, Fisheries and Conservation. Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 536p.  Overview. Contents.

Book Chapters

Haggan, N. (2011) You don't know what you've got till its gone: The case for spiritual values in marine ecosystem management. In: World Fisheries: A Social-Ecological Analysis. Perry, I., Ommer, R.E., Cury, P. et al. (eds). Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.

Haggan, N., Ainsworth, C., Pitcher, T.J. and Heymans, J.J. (2008) Life in the fast food chain sont les poissons d'antan? Pages 51-74 in: Parrish, C.C., Turner, N. and Solberg, S. (eds) Resetting the Kitchen Table: Food Security, Culture, Health and Resilience in Coastal Communities. Nova Science Publishers, Inc., New York, 247p.

Haggan, N. (2000) Back to the Future and Creative Justice: Recalling and Restoring Forgotten Abundance in Canada's Marine Ecosystems. Pages 83-99 in, Coward, H., Ommer, R.E. and Pitcher, T.J. (eds) Just Fish: Ethics in the Canadian Coastal Fisheries. ISER Books, St. Johns, Newfoundland, 304p.

Alcock, E., Harris, D., Ings, D., Kennedy, J., Mackie, Q., Fedje, D., Murray, G., Neis. B., Pitcher, T.J., Haggan, N., Ainsworth, C., Sumaila, U.R., Rogers, K., Ryan, D., Vodden, K. and Whelan, J. (2007) A Social-Ecological History of Canada's Fisheries.  Chapter 1 in: Ommer, R.E. and the Coasts Under Stress Team. Coasts under stress: Restructuring and social-ecological health in coastal communities. McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, 624p.

 
Conference Presentations

Haggan, N. (2010) Marine ecological history vs the Prophetic Imagination.  Oral presentation at the Oceans Past II conference, Trinity College, Dublin.  November 18-20, 2010.  Abstract. PowerPoint.

Haggan, N. (2009) The salmon of knowledge: Richard Dawkins and the spiritual value of nature. Oral presentation at the 2nd History of Marine Animal Populations conference, University of British Columbia, May 2009.  AbstractPowerPoint.

Haggan, N. (2008) You don't know what you've got till it's gone: Including cultural and spiritual values in Pacific NW ecosystem management. Coping with global change in marine socio-ecological systems, Rome, July 2008.  AbstractPowerPoint

Haggan, N., Lucas, C.S., Sumaila, U.R., Turner, N.J., Pitcher, T.J. and Ainsworth, C.H. (2007) Ecosystem-based management and the principle of 'Discovery'. Bridging Western Science and Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge Ethically: What Works and What Doesn't. Ecological Society of America/Society for Ecological Restoration International, San Jose, CA, August 5-10. Abstract.

Haggan, N., Narcisse, A., Sumaila, U.R., Lucas, C.S. and Turner, N.J. (2005) Pacific Ecosystems, past, present and future: Integrating Knowledge and Values, Anticipating Climate Change. Earth in Transition, Martinez, D. (ed.). Zaragoza, Spain, September 12-18.  PowerPoint.

Haggan, N., Turner, N.J., Carpenter, J., Jones, J.T., Menzies, C. and Mackie, Q. (2004) 12,000+ years of change: Linking traditional and modern ecosystem science in the Pacific NW. Restoration on the Edge: 16th Society for Ecological Restoration Conference, Victoria, BC, August 24-26.

Haggan, N., Pitcher, T.J. and Sumaila, U.R. (2004) Back to the Future in the Strait of Georgia. Proceedings of the 2003 Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference, Droscher, T.W. and Fraser, D.A. (eds.) Vancouver.

 

Research Reports

 Haggan, N. (2010) The case for including the cultural and spiritual values of eulachon in policy and decision-making.  Report for Fisheries and Oceans, Canada, 44p.

Haggan, N., Turner, N.J., Carpenter, J., Jones, J.T., Menzies, C. and Mackie, Q. (2006) 12,000+ years of change: Linking traditional and modern ecosystem science in the Pacific Northwest. UBC Fisheries Centre Working Paper #2006-02, Vancouver.

Haggan, N. and Pitcher, T.J. (eds) (2005) Ecosystem Simulation Models of Scotland's West Coast and Sea Lochs. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 12(4), 67p. Available from UBC Fisheries Centre.

Power, M.D., Haggan, N. and Pitcher, T.J. (2004) The Community Workshop: how we did it and what we learned from the results. Pages 125-128 in: Pitcher, T.J. (ed.) Back to the Future: Advances in Methodology for Modelling and Evaluating Past Ecosystems as Future Policy Goals. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 12(1), 158p.

Haggan, N. (2004) Evaluating Future Ecosystems: A Great Step Backward? Pages 109-111 in: Pitcher, T.J. (ed.) Back to the Future: Advances in Methodology for Modelling and Evaluating Past Ecosystems as Future Policy Goals. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 12(1), 158p.

Haggan, N., Brignall, C. and Wood, L. (eds) (2003) Putting Fishers' Knowledge to Work. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 11(1) 504p.

Haggan, N. and Brown, P. (2003) Aboriginal Fisheries Issues: the West Coast of Canada as a Case Study. Pages 17-19 in: Pauly, D and Palomares, M.L.D. (eds) Production systems in fishery Management. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 10(8), 28p.

Pitcher, T.J. and Haggan, N. (2003) Cognitive Maps: Cartography and Concepts for an Ecosystem-based Fisheries Policy. Pages 456-463 in: Haggan, N., Brignall, C. and Wood, L. (eds) Putting Fishers' Knowledge to Work. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 11(1), 504p.

Haggan, N. and Pitcher, T.J. (2002) Introduction to the Prince Rupert Community Participation Workshop for 'Back to the Future' in Northern British Columbia. Pages 6-9 in: Pitcher, T.J., Power, M.D. and Wood, L. (eds) Restoring the past to salvage the future: report on a community participation workshop in Prince Rupert, BC. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 10(7), 56p.

Haggan, N., Brignall, C., Peacock, B. and Daniel, R. (2002) Education for Aboriginal Fisheries Science and Ecosystem Management. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 10(6), 49p.

Pitcher, T.J., Vasconcellos, M., Heymans, J.J., Brignall, C. and Haggan, N. (eds) (2002) Information Supporting Past and Present Ecosystem Models of Northern British Columbia and the Newfoundland Shelf. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 10(1), 116p. Available from UBC Fisheries Centre.

Sumaila, U.R., Pitcher, T.J., Haggan, N. and Jones, R.R. (2001) Evaluating the Benefits from Restored Ecosystems: A Back to the Future Approach. Pages 1-7, Chapter 18 in: Shriver, A.L and Johnston, R.S. (eds) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, July, 2000. (on CD-ROM).

Beattie, A., Wallace, S. and Haggan, N. (1999) Report of the Back to the Future Workshop on Reconstruction of the Hecate Strait Ecosystem. Pages 1-12 in: Haggan, N and Beattie. A. (eds) Back to the Future: Reconstructing the Hecate Strait Ecosystem. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 7(3), 65p.

Haggan, N. and Beattie, A. (1999) (eds) Back to the Future: Reconstructing the Hecate Strait Ecosystem. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 7(3), 65p.

Pitcher, T.J., Pauly, D., Haggan, N. and Preikshot, D. (1999) 'Back to the Future' a method employing ecosystem modelling to maximise the sustainable benefits from fisheries. Pages 447 - 466 in: Ecosystem Approaches for Fisheries Management. Fairbanks: Univ. of Alaska Sea Grant College Program Report No. 99-01. Fairbanks, 738p.

Bonfil, R., Munro, G., Sumaila, U.R., Valtysson, H., Wright, M., Pitcher, T.J., Preikshot, D., Haggan, N. and Pauly, D. (eds) (1998) Impacts of distant water fleets: an ecological, economic and social assessment. Pages 11-111 in: The footprint of distant water fleets on world fisheries. Endangered Seas Campaign, WWF International, Godalming, Surrey, 111p. [Also issued separately, with same title, as Bonfil et al. (eds) Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 6(6), 111p.

Haggan, N. (1998) Back to the Future with Ecopath and Ecosim. Page 26 in: Use of Ecopath with Ecosim to Evaluate Strategies for Sustainable Exploitation of Multi-Species Resources. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 10(2), 156p.

Haggan, N., Archibald, J. and Salas. S. (1998) Knowledge Gains Power When it is Shared. Pages 8-13 in:  Pauly, D., Pitcher T.J. and Preikshot, D. (eds) Back to the Future: Reconstructing the Strait of Georgia Ecosystem, Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 6(5), 99p. 

Munro G. and Haggan, N. (1998) Distant Water Fishing Nations: Economic and Social aspects of their interactions. Pages 94-101 in: Bonfil, R. et al. (eds) Distant Water Fleets: An Ecological, Economic and Social Assessment. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 6(6), 111p.

Salas, S., Archibald, J-a. and Haggan, N. (1998) Aboriginal Knowledge and Ecosystem Reconstruction. Pages 22-28 in: Pauly, D., Pitcher, T.J. and Preikshot, D. (eds) Back to the Future: Reconstructing the Strait of Georgia Ecosystem, Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 6(5), 99p.

Haggan, N. (1996) Integration of Traditional Environmental Knowledge. Page 88 in: Pauly D. and Christensen, V. (eds) Mass-Balance Models of NE Pacific Ecosystems. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 4(1), 131p.

Pauly, D., Christensen, V. and Haggan, N. (eds) (1996) Mass-Balance Models of North-eastern Pacific Ecosystems. Fisheries Centre Research Reports, 4(1), 131pAvailable from UBC Fisheries Centre.


Studies for First Nations and government

1983-1999 Prepared 46 substantial documents (Sole author on 26, lead author on 18) for clients including the First Nations' Summit, Haida, Gitksan-Wet'suwet'en, Tahltan, Tsimshian, Oweekeno-Kitasoo-Nuxalk and Alliance Tribal Councils and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.  Major topics: cooperative management; resource rebuilding, access and sharing mechanisms; options for interim measures and treaty settlement; education, training, aquaculture and other policy considerations.