William Cheung
Institution
Section titled “Institution”- University of British Columbia, Canada
Affiliations
Section titled “Affiliations”- Canada case study
- Methods working group
- Professor and former Director of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia
- Canada Research Chair in Ocean Sustainability and Global Change
Core work interests related to Solving FCB
Section titled “Core work interests related to Solving FCB”- Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and fisheries
- Ocean sustainability and marine conservation
- Global change biology and marine biodiversity
- Fisheries economics and food security
- Marine ecosystem modeling and scenario analysis
Topics of interest
Section titled “Topics of interest”- Climate change adaptation in fisheries
- Marine protected areas and conservation
- Sustainable seafood and food systems
- Ocean governance and policy
- Marine ecosystem services
Role in Solving FCB
Section titled “Role in Solving FCB”Co-Principal Investigator, Global Coordination
Core publications
- Climate change strengthens the case for a high seas fishing ban (2026-06-19)
- Shifting Trends in Aquaculture's Biological Potential to Address Food, Climate and Biodiversity Challenges (2026-03-25)
- The Gendered Impacts of Climate Change on Fisherfolk: Evidence from Nigeria and Cameroon (2026-01-26)
- Large Fisheries Declines Linked to Compound and Extreme Climate Events (2025-11-19)
- Marine heatwaves deeply alter marine food web structure and function (2025-11-07)
- Decent work in fishing in a changing climate (2025-11-01)
- Making the case for gender-inclusive fisheries governance, policies and climate adaptation (2024-12-05)
- The spatiotemporal changes in fish and invertebrate community structure and habitat viability in the Yangtze Estuary (2024-12-01)
- Climate change undermines seafood micronutrient supply from wild-capture fisheries in Southeast Asia and Pacific Island countries (2024-12-01)
- Climate change alters social‐ecological trade‐offs in achieving ocean futures' targets (2024-07-31)
- Large potential impacts of marine heatwaves on ecosystem functioning (2024-07-01)
- Utilizing basic income to create a sustainable, poverty-free tomorrow (2024-06-01)
- A traits-based approach to assess aquaculture’s contributions to food, climate change, and biodiversity goals (2024-05-31)
- Historical climate drivers and species’ ecological niche in the Beaufort Sea food web (2024-05-14)
- Good fisheries management is good carbon management (2024-03-21)
- Projecting contributions of marine protected areas to rebuild fish stocks under climate change (2024-03-02)
- WTO must complete an ambitious fisheries subsidies agreement (2024-02-02)
- Comparative analysis of climate-induced changes in distribution of representative fish species in the Yellow Sea (2024-02-01)
- The new UN high seas marine biodiversity Agreement may also facilitate climate action: a cautiously optimistic view (2024-01-25)
- Detecting, attributing, and projecting global marine ecosystem and fisheries change: FishMIP 2.0 (2024-01-22)
- Potential impacts of reduced seafood consumption on myocardial infarction among coastal First Nations in British Columbia, Canada (2024-01-01)
- Climate change exacerbates nutrient disparities from seafood (2023-10-30)
- Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures (2023-09-01)
- Drivers of conflict and resilience in shifting transboundary fisheries (2023-09-01)
- The living infinite: Envisioning futures for transformed human-nature relationships on the high seas (2023-07-01)
- Global estimates of suitable areas for marine algae farming (2023-06-01)