Ralph Tafon

Södertörn University — Sweden

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

12h-index571citations27works2.72yr avg
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Research Topics

Coastal and Marine Management(22), International Maritime Law Issues(16), Arctic and Russian Policy Studies(9), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies(7), Sustainability and Climate Change Governance(3)

Publications27 total

Securitizing and greening the contested, climate-changed ocean: benefits, risks and governance pathways for integrating defense into climate-smart marine spatial planning
Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability·2026Open Access
Exploring power dynamics and bricolage practices in diverse cases of marine resource conflicts
Frontiers in Ocean Sustainability·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Governance challenges and opportunities for multifunctional marine and coastal landscapes: A comparative case study of Nämdö national park and Nämdö biosphere reserve in Sweden
Ocean & Coastal Management·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Ways forward in transdisciplinary research: Insights from case studies on marine and coastal conflict transformations
Sustainable Futures·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Toward transformative youth climate justice: Why youth agency is important and six critical areas for transformative youth activism, policy, and research
PLOS Climate·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Introductory commentary: Marine conflicts and pathways to sustainability in an era of Blue Growth and climate change
MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studies·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Exploring social justice in marine spatial planning: planner and stakeholder perspectives and experiences in the Baltic Sea Region
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Multispecies blue justice and energy transition conflict: examining challenges and possibilities for synergy between low-carbon energy and justice for humans and nonhuman nature
MAST. Maritime studies/Maritime studies·2023· 17 citedOpen Access
Mainstreaming coastally just and equitable marine spatial planning: Planner and stakeholder experiences and perspectives on participation in Latvia
Ocean & Coastal Management·2023· 14 citedOpen Access
Blue justice through and beyond equity and participation: a critical reading of capability-based recognitional justice in Poland’s marine spatial planning
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management·2023· 18 citedOpen Access
Mainstreaming Coastally Just and Equitable Marine Spatial Planning: Planner and Stakeholder Experiences and Perspectives on Participation in Latvia
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Blue justice through and beyond equity and participation: a critical reading of capability-based recognitional justice in Poland’s marine spatial planning
Figshare·2023Open Access
Oceans of Conflict: Pathways to an Ocean Sustainability PACT
Planning Practice and Research·2021· 52 citedOpen Access
In search of social sustainability in marine spatial planning: A review of scientific literature published 2005–2020
Ocean & Coastal Management·2021· 59 citedOpen Access
Theorizing Social Sustainability and Justice in Marine Spatial Planning: Democracy, Diversity, and Equity
Sustainability·2020· 93 citedOpen Access
Re-reading marine spatial planning through Foucault, Haugaard and others: an analysis of domination, empowerment and freedom
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning·2019· 34 citedOpen Access
Small-scale fishers as allies or opponents? Unlocking looming tensions and potential exclusions in Poland's marine spatial planning
Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning·2019· 41 citedOpen Access
Adding People to the Sea: Conceptualizing Social Sustainability in Maritime Spatial Planning
2019· 30 citedOpen Access
The “Dark Side” of Marine Spatial Planning : A study of domination, empowerment and freedom through theories of discourse and power
KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)·2019· 4 citedOpen Access
The politics of Estonia’s offshore wind energy programme: Discourse, power and marine spatial planning
Environment and Planning C Politics and Space·2018· 39 citedOpen Access
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Fred Saunders(21), Michael Gilek(17), Kira Gee(8), Jacek Zaucha(7), Ignė Stalmokaitė(6), Anda Ikauniece(4), Aurelija Armoškaitė(4), Magdalena Matczak(3), Jakub Turski(3), Björn Haßler(3), Anne Luttmann(3), Andrea Morf(3), Joanna Piwowarczyk(3), Helena Strand(3), Maaike Knol-Kauffman(2), Merle Sowman(2), Cordula Göke(2), Paula Lenninger(2), Kerstin S. Schiele(2), Bruce Glavovic(1)