Journal Articles
Bell-James, Justine, McCormack, Phillipa, Shumway, Nicole and Wawryk, Alexandra (2025). Opportunities for targeted, small-scale law reform in marine and coastal restoration. Restoration Ecology e70147. doi: 10.1111/rec.70147
Shumway, Nicole, Foster, Rose and Fidelman, Pedro (2025). The governance of marine and coral reef restoration, lessons and paths forward for novel interventions. Environmental Science and Policy, 164 103999, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.103999
Bell-James, Justine, Shumway, Nicole, Villarreal-Rosas, Jaramar, Andradi-Brown, Dominic A., Brown, Christopher J., Fitzsimons, James A., Foster, Rose, Hamman, Evan, Lovelock, Catherine E., Saunders, Megan I. and Waltham, Nathan J. (2025). Upscaling marine and coastal restoration through legal and governance solutions: Lessons from global bright spots. Environmental Science and Policy, 163 103962, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103962
Foster, Rose, Shumway, Nicole, Harrison, Daniel and Fidelman, Pedro (2025). Governing marine cloud brightening for ecosystem conservation under a warming climate. Earth System Governance, 23 100240, 100240. doi: 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100240
Baresi, U., Baum, C. M., Fischer, T. B., Lockie, S., Piggott-McKellar, A., Graham, V., Bohensky, E., Fritz, L. B., Shumway, N., Harrison, D. P., Foster, R., Sovacool, B. K., Vella, K. and Ristovski, Z. (2025). A call for strategic assessments of regional applications of solar radiation management: Exploring the challenges and opportunities from marine cloud brightening and albedo surface modification. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 110 107701, 1-16. doi: 10.1016/j.eiar.2024.107701
Bell‐James, Justine, Foster, Rose, Frohlich, Miguel, Archibald, Carla, Benham, Claudia, Evans, Megan, Fidelman, Pedro, Morrison, Tiffany, Rolim Baggio, Liza, Billings, Peter and Shumway, Nicole (2024). Not all conservation “policy” is created equally: When does a policy give rise to legally binding obligations?. Conservation Letters, 17 (6) e13054. doi: 10.1111/conl.13054
Bell-James, Justine, Foster, Rose, Shumway, Nicole, Lovelock, Catherine E., Villarreal-Rosas, Jaramar, Brown, Christopher J., Andradi-Brown, Dominic A., Saunders, Megan I., Waltham, Nathan J. and Fitzsimons, James A. (2024). The Global Biodiversity Framework’s ecosystem restoration target requires more clarity and careful legal interpretation. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 8 (5), 840-841. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02389-6
Bell‐James, Justine, Foster, Rose and Shumway, Nicole (2023). The permitting process for marine and coastal restoration: A barrier to achieving global restoration targets?. Conservation Science and Practice, 5 (12) e13050. doi: 10.1111/csp2.13050
Shumway, Nicole, Foster, Rose, Head, Brian and Fidelman, Pedro (2023). Policy solutions needed for the future of coral reefs. BioScience, 73 (11), 1-3. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biad092
Shumway, Nicole, Saunders, Megan I., Nicol, Sam, Fuller, Richard A., Ben‐Moshe, Noam, Iwamura, Takuya, Kim, Sun W., Murray, Nicholas J., Watson, James E. M. and Maron, Martine (2022). Exploring the risks and benefits of flexibility in biodiversity offset location in a case study of migratory shorebirds. Conservation Biology, 37 (2) e14031, e14031. doi: 10.1111/cobi.14031
Bull, Joseph W, Sonter, Laura J, Gordon, Ascelin, Maron, Martine, Narain, Divya, Reside, April E, Sánchez, Luis E, Shumway, Nicole, von Hase, Amrei and Quétier, Fabien (2022). Quantifying the “avoided” biodiversity impacts associated with economic development. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 20 (6), 370-378. doi: 10.1002/fee.2496
Bell‐James, Justine, Fitzsimons, James A., Gillies, Chris L., Shumway, Nicole and Lovelock, Catherine E. (2022). Rolling covenants to protect coastal ecosystems in the face of sea‐level rise. Conservation Science and Practice, 4 (1) e593. doi: 10.1111/csp2.593
Shumway, Nicole, Bell-James, Justine, Fitzsimons, James A., Foster, Rose, Gillies, Chris and Lovelock, Catherine E. (2021). Policy solutions to facilitate restoration in coastal marine environments. Marine Policy, 134 104789, 104789. doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104789
Jones, Kendall R., Klein, Carissa J., Halpern, Benjamin S., Venter, Oscar, Grantham, Hedley, Kuempel, Caitlin D., Shumway, Nicole, Friedlander, Alan M., Possingham, Hugh P. and Watson, James E. M. (2018). The location and protection status of earth's diminishing marine wilderness. Current Biology, 28 (15), 2506-2512.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.06.010
Arlidge, William N. S., Bull, Joseph W., Addison, Prue F. E., Burgass, Michael J., Gianuca, Dimas, Gorham, Taylor M., Jacob, Céline, Shumway, Nicole, Sinclair, Samuel P., Watson, James E. M., Wilcox, Chris and Milner-Gulland, E. J. (2018). A global mitigation hierarchy for nature conservation. BioScience, 68 (5), 336-347. doi: 10.1093/biosci/biy029
Butt, Nathalie, Shanahan, Danielle F., Shumway, Nicole, Bekessey, Sarah A., Fuller, Richard A., Watson, James E. M., Maggini, Ramona and Hole, David G. (2018). Opportunities for biodiversity conservation as cities adapt to climate change. Geo: geography and environment, 5 (1) e00052, e00052. doi: 10.1002/geo2.52
Shumway, Nicole, Watson, James E. M., Saunders, Megan I. and Maron, Martine (2018). The risks and opportunities of translating terrestrial biodiversity offsets to the marine realm. Bioscience, 68 (2), 125-133. doi: 10.1093/biosci/bix150
Shumway, Nicole, Maron, Martine and Watson, James E. M. (2017). Australia needs a wake-up call. Science, 355 (6328), 918-918. doi: 10.1126/science.aam8945
Shumway, Nicole, Lunney, Daniel, Seabrook, Leonie and McAlpine, Clive (2015). Saving our national icon: An ecological analysis of the 2011 Australian Senate inquiry into status of the koala. Environmental Science and Policy, 54, 297-303. doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2015.07.024
Shumway, Nicole and Seabrook, Leonie (2015). The use of Senate inquiries for threatened species conservation. Ecological Management and Restoration, 16 (3), 196-198. doi: 10.1111/emr.12178
Shumway, Nicole, Seabrook, Leonie, McAlpine, Clive and Ward, Patrick (2014). A mismatch of community attitudes and actions: a study of koalas. Landscape and Urban Planning, 126, 42-52. doi: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.03.004
Conference Papers
Bell-James, Justine, Foster, Rose and Shumway, Nicole (2024). Solutions for marine and coastal restoration law reform. Australian Coastal Restoration Network Symposium, Sydney, NSW Australia, 28-29 May 2024.
Erin Bohensky, Victoria Graham, Gillian Paxton, Umberto Baresi, Annah Piggot-McKellar, Taryn Kong, Lintje Siehoyono Sie and Nicole Shumway (2022). Exploring the human dimensions of assisted adaptation and restoration of coral reefs. Sustainability Research + Innovation 2022, Oceania Satellite Event, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 29 June - 01 July 2022. Future Earth and the Belmont Forum .
Thesis
Shumway, Nicole R. (2020). Impact mitigation in marine and coastal environments: policy challenges and shortfalls. PhD Thesis, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/58c58ae
Research Reports
Justine Bell-James, Phillipa McCormack, Alexandra Wawryk and Nicole Shumway (2024). Identifying and overcoming barriers to marine and coastal habitat restoration and nature based solutions in Australia – Legislative permitting processes for restoration. Report to the National Environmental Science Program.. University of Tasmania: National Environmental Science Program..
Shumway, Nicole, Foster, Rose, Head, Brian and Fidelman, Pedro (2024). Governance principles for novel reef interventions. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: The Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program.