Refereed journal articles and book chapters
Acton, L., R.L. Gruby, and ʻA. Nakachi. 2021. Does polycentricity fit? Linking social fit with polycentric governance in a large-scale marine protected area. Forthcoming in The Journal of Environmental Management, 290.
Campbell, L. N. Gray, S. Zigler, L. Acton, R. Gruby. 2021. World-making through mapping: Large scale marine protected areas and the transformation of the global ocean. In M. Himley, E. Havice, and G. Valdivia (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography. Taylor and Francis.
Artis, E., N. Gray, L. M. Campbell, R. L. Gruby, L. Acton, S. B. Zigler, L. Mitchell. 2020. Stakeholder perspectives on large marine protected areas. PLoS ONE, 15(9).
Gray, N., L. Acton, L. M. Campbell. 2020. High seas conservation territories, science, and the geopolitics of oceans governance. In O’Lear, S. (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Environmental Geopolitics (pp. 30-43). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
Acton L, Campbell LM, Cleary J, Gray NJ, and Halpin PN. 2019. “What is the Sargasso Sea? The problem of fixing space in a fluid ocean.” Political Geography 68: 86-100.
Bennett A, Acton L, Epstein G, Gruby RL, and Nenadovic M. 2018. “Embracing conceptual diversity to integrate power and institutional analysis: Introducing a relational typology.” International Journal of the Commons 12 (2).
Gruby, RL, Fairbanks L, Acton L, Artis E, Campbell LM, Gray NJ, Mitchell L, Zigler SBJ, and Wilson K, 2017. “Conceptualizing social outcomes of large marine protected areas.” Coastal Management 45 (6): 416-435.
Gruby RL, Gray NJ, Campbell LM, Acton L. 2016. “Toward a social science research agenda for large marine protected areas.” Conservation Letters 9 (3): 153-63.
Johnson MF, Hannah C, Acton L, Popovici R, Karanth KK, and Weinthal E. 2014. "Network environmentalism: Citizen scientists as agents for environmental advocacy." Global Environmental Change 29: 235-245.
Epstein G, Bennett A, Gruby RL, Acton L, and Nenadovic M. 2014. "Studying power with the social-ecological system framework." In Manfredo MJ, Vaske JJ, Rechkemmer A, and Duke EA (Eds),Understanding Society and Natural Resources (pp. 111-135). New York: Springer.
Other Publications
Silver, J., L. Acton, L.M. Campbell, N.J. Gray. 2020. How a global ocean treaty could biodiversity in the high seas. The Conversation. Available at https://theconversation.com/how-a-global-ocean-treaty-could-protect- biodiversity-in-the-high-seas-139552
Acton, L. and L.M. Campbell. 2020. Human Dimensions of Large Marine Protected Areas: Negotiations Over A Proposed Large Scale Marine Protected Area in Bermuda, 2010-2015. figshare. Preprint. https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12420149.v1
Gray N, Gruby R, Campbell LM, and Acton L. 2015. “Marine Wilderness or Peopled Seas?” Current Conservation 9 (22): 13-24. Available at https://www.currentconservation.org/issues/marine-wilderness-or- peopled-seas/