William Cheung & Rashid Sumaila recognized as Highly Cited Researchers for 2025
Solving-FCB Co-principal investigators Dr. William Cheung and Dr. Rashid Sumaila have once again been named on Clarivate’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list. This prestigious annual list acknowledges researchers whose work ranks in the top 1% by citations in their respective fields over the past 11 years, signifying their significant global influence.biodiversity.
Solving-FCB Brochure
This brochure, produced by PhD student Aleah Wong, with assistance from our five Case Study teams, highlights Solving FCB’s work to address the interconnected challenges of food security, climate change, and biodiversity loss. We showcase policy-relevant research across five continents and five cross-cutting themes: 1) Healthy and sustainable seafood, 2) The co-existence of biodiversity, fisheries and aquaculture, 3) Ecosystem-based and climate-resilient management, and 4) Bridging knowledge, policy and action. Our research uses a transdisciplinary and inclusive approach that recognizes multiple ways of knowing and valuing the ocean to generate solutions that are evidence-based, culturally grounded, and policy-relevant.
Partnership Goals & Objectives
The goal of the 6-year Partnership, “Solving the Sustainability Challenges at the Food-Climate-Biodiversity Nexus” (Solving-FCB), is to support and facilitate the development of viable FCB solutions that explicitly consider their complex social and ecological contexts. The Solving-FCB Partnership brings together world-leading scholars and practitioners from academic institutes, inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations, and government agencies to undertake transdisciplinary research that examines policies and human actions at the intersection of achieving food security, climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation goals.
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Case Studies
The Partnership is grounded on five case studies that focus on FCB challenges under a range of societal and environmental contexts. Through case studies in Canada, China, Costa Rica, Ghana/Nigeria and the Netherlands, the Partnership aims to elucidate specific policy-related questions under different decision-making contexts. Although independent of each other, the case studies align in their common exploration of visions and pathways to achieve FCB goals.
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Solving-FCB Co-PIs Named Highly Cited Researchers for 2025
Solving-FCB Co-principal investigators Dr. William Cheung and Dr. Rashid Sumaila have once again been named on Clarivate’s 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list. This prestigious annual list acknowledges researchers whose work…
Dr. William Cheung named Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Update 11/17/25: Dr. William Cheung inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Read more at oceans.ubc.ca. The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has announced that Dr. William…
Solving-FCB Co-PIs selected as authors for the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report
Co-PI’s William Cheung and Rashid Sumaila have been selected as authors for the IPCC 7th Assessment Report (AR7).
