Kailin Kroetz

About

Kailin Kroetz is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. She is a natural resource economist and interdisciplinary sustainability scientist whose research focuses on improving the management of renewable natural resources such as fisheries, water, and wildlife habitats to better support biodiversity and sustainable food systems. Her work examines the tradeoffs that arise when balancing food production, conservation, and community well-being, using economic tools and data-driven methods to make complex decisions more transparent and effective. She collaborates closely with ecologists, policymakers, and practitioners to develop new datasets, apply quantitative models, and evaluate environmental and natural resource policies across topics including sustainable seafood, wildlife migration, invasive species management, and fisheries governance. Her goal is to inform practical, evidence-based policies that strengthen both ecosystems and the economies and communities that depend on them.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Biology
• Social Science
• Business
• Fishery
• Environmental resource management
• Environmental science
• Marketing
• Ecology

Selected publications

• Conceptualizing ecosystem services using social–ecological networks

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2021 · 139 citations

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Consequences of seafood mislabeling for marine populations and fisheries management

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 111 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Over the past decade, seafood mislabeling has been increasingly documented, raising public concern over the identity, safety, and sustainability of seafood. Negative outcomes from seafood mislabeling are suspected to be substantial and pervasive as seafood is the world's most highly traded food commodity. Here we provide empirical systems-level evidence that enabling conditions exist for seafood mislabeling in the United States (US) to lead to negative impacts on marine populations and support c…

  DOI

• The Future of Wild-Caught Fisheries: Expanding the Scope of Management

  Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · 2022-06-01 · 32 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  In recent years, the approach to wild-caught fisheries management has expanded beyond traditional single-fishery management. This article examines potential market failures within the fisheries sector that may arise because of a failure to account for key features of wild-caught fisheries and that can be addressed by an expanded scope. These market failures include multiple species caught together, multiple fisheries targeting the same stock, and other ecological and socioeconomic interconnectio…

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• Wildlife migrations highlight importance of both private lands and protected areas in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

  Biological Conservation · 2022-10-03 · 26 citations

  articleOpen access

  Formally protected areas are an important component of wildlife conservation, but face limitations in their effectiveness for migratory species. Improved stewardship of working lands around protected areas is one solution for conservation planning, but private working lands are vulnerable to development. In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), ungulates such as elk (Cervus canadensis) use both protected areas and private lands throughout their annual migrations. We studied patterns of landow…

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• Guiding large-scale management of invasive species using network metrics

  Nature Sustainability · 2022-07-14 · 21 citations

  articleOpen access
  PublisherOA PDFDOI

Frequent coauthors

• James N. Sanchirico

  University of California, Davis

  44 shared

• Paul R. Armsworth

  16 shared

• Daniel K. Lew

  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  14 shared

• François Massol

  Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

  12 shared

• Benjamin J. Crain

  Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

  9 shared

• Charlotte H. Chang

  Pomona College

  8 shared

• Heather Bird Jackson

  Colorado State University

  8 shared

• Chad Stachowiak

  University of Tennessee at Knoxville

  7 shared

Education

• Ph.D.

  University of California-Davis

  2014

• B.A.

  Dartmouth College

  2005

Similar researchers at Arizona State University

• Jianguo Wuh-119
• Diane Patakih-68
• Marco Janssenh-68