Teaching and research interests include environmental history & philosophy; cod fisheries and aquaculture; complex systems and sustainability; science and technology studies; ecosystem-base management/governance; and critical management studies.

Selected Publications:

Bavington, D. and Kay, J. 2007. Ecosystem-Based Insights on Northwest Atlantic Fisheries in an Age of Globalization. IN. Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources. EDS. M. Schechter, W. Taylor and L. Wolfson. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.

Catherine M. Roach, Tim I. Hollis, Brian E. McLaren, Dean L.Y. Bavington. Ducks, Bogs, and Guns: A Case Study of Stewardship Ethics in Newfoundland. Ethics and the Environment. Vol 11, n. 1 (Spring 2006): 43-70

Bavington, D. 2005. Homo Administrator: Managing a Needy Nature?. IN. Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature: Critical Essays in Environmental Philosophy. ED. Thomas Heyd. Columbia University Press: New York. Pp.155-176

Bavington, D., Grzetic, B. and Neis, B. 2004. The Feminist Political Ecology of Fishing Down: Reflections from Newfoundland and Labrador. Studies in Political Economy. 73:159-182.

Bavington, D. 2002. Managerial Ecology and Its Discontents: Exploring the Complexities of Control, Careful Use and Coping In Resource and Environmental Management. Environments 30(3):3-21.

Bavington, D. 2001. From Jigging to Farming. Alternatives. 27(4):16-21.

CBC RADIO IDEAS INTERVIEW

Wednesday, March 5
HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE, Part 13
Industrial fishing developed in tandem with fisheries science. It was scientists who defined the stock and set the allowable catches. And yet Canada's cod fishery collapsed, never yet to recover, in 1992. Environmental philosopher Dean Bavington asks, what happened?

Podcast: http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/thinkaboutscience_20080306_4919.mp3