Adaptation options for marine industries and coastal communities using community structure and dynamics

Metcalf, S.J.; Putten, E. Ingrid van; Frusher, SD; Tull, Malcolm; Marshall, Nadine

doi:10.1007/s11625-013-0239-z

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“…Philip Island ¼ 18.7%, Tasmanian west coast ¼ 16.2%, Kangaroo Island and Tasmanian east coast ¼ 14%: Tourism Research Australia 2011). The GSR is therefore a major contributor to the socio-economic fabric of Australia and particularly that of regional coastal communities (Metcalf et al 2014).…”

Section: Ecosystem Services and The Economics Of The Gsrmentioning

confidence: 99%

The 'Great Southern Reef': social, ecological and economic value of Australia's neglected kelp forests

Bennett¹,

Wernberg²,

Connell³

et al. 2016

Mar. Freshwater Res.

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Abstract. Kelp forests define .8000 km of temperate coastline across southern Australia, where ,70% of Australians live, work and recreate. Despite this, public and political awareness of the scale and significance of this marine ecosystem is low, and research investment miniscule (,10%), relative to comparable ecosystems. The absence of an identity for Australia's temperate reefs as an entity has probably contributed to the current lack of appreciation of this system, which is at odds with its profound ecological, social and economic importance. We define the 'Great Southern Reef' (GSR) as Australia's spatially connected temperate reef system. The GSR covers ,71 000 km 2 and represents a global biodiversity hotspot across at least nine phyla. GSR-related fishing and tourism generates at least AU$10 billion year À1, and in this context the GSR is a significant natural asset for Australia and globally. Maintaining the health and ecological functioning of the GSR is critical to the continued sustainability of human livelihoods and wellbeing derived from it. By recognising the GSR as an entity we seek to boost awareness, and take steps towards negotiating the difficult challenges the GSR faces in a future of unprecedented coastal population growth and global change.

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Section: Ecosystem Services and The Economics Of The Gsrmentioning

confidence: 99%

The 'Great Southern Reef': social, ecological and economic value of Australia's neglected kelp forests

Bennett¹,

Wernberg²,

Connell³

et al. 2016

Mar. Freshwater Res.

311

229

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“…Most of the restructuring of fleets within small coastal towns has been through planned adaptation such as industry buybacks or autonomous adaptation in response to localized declines in marine resources and has seen larger and more technologically efficient vessels move to larger centres for their fishing and related activities. Although declining participation in fishing in small coastal towns can affect population size and thus the demand for other services (e.g., school teachers, medical staff, banks), limited planned adaptation by coastal communities to consider either the consequences of such declines or the adaptation options available appears to have occurred (Metcalf et al ., ; Bradley et al ., ). As most management of our interactions with marine socio‐ecological systems involves at least some biological and economic objectives (and potentially also social and/or cultural objectives) particularly in relation to fisheries, it is important to understand the impact of climate change on meeting these multi‐domain objectives and vulnerability to change at the community level.…”

Section: System Feedbacks and Holistic Fisheries Practices In A Changmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, issues such as population change and the impacts of the changing exchange rate of the Australian dollar affect the tourism industry. Aside from the direct climate impacts on community vulnerability, case study examples (Metcalf et al ., ) showed that a range of non‐climate stressors (Table ) also had cumulative or synergistic impacts. In fact, some of these non‐climate stressors impacted fishers’ acceptance of the climate change driver.…”

Section: Marine Socio‐ecological Systems: An Adaptation Blueprint Formentioning

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From physics to fish to folk: supporting coastal regional communities to understand their vulnerability to climate change in Australia

Frusher

Putten

Haward

et al. 2015

Fisheries Oceanography

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Our oceans comprise valuable assets that provide a range of social and economic benefits directly and indirectly through provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services. Fisheries rely on these services and are regionally important industries for many coastal communities. With a growing population and increasing demand for seafood production, impacts from climate change that alter the productivity of marine ecosystems will have flow‐on implications for economic and social systems. As small coastal communities are often highly dependent on marine‐based activities they are also expected to experience greater impacts from changes in productivity of marine resources than their larger and/or non‐coastal counterparts. To assist coastal communities in evaluating their vulnerability to climate change we have developed a hybrid socio‐ecological vulnerability index that combines an ecocentric index – i.e., an ecological vulnerability index – with a sociocentric index that focuses on adaptive capacity as a measure of vulnerability, and embeds a sustainable livelihoods approach. Through the use of an on‐line tool, coastal communities can improve their understanding of their vulnerability to more appropriately adapt, embrace opportunities and minimize negative impacts that may arise from climate change and its effect on marine resource availability.

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“…Implementing effective adaptive management strategies for climate change in marine ecosystems, however, remains difficult for stakeholders, due to the time frames of action vs. response, the inhibitory nature of current socio-economic structures (which are averse to change) and the time required to conduct the extensive community consultation that is necessary (Manning, Lawrence, King, & Chapman, 2015;Salik, Jahangir, Zahdi, & Hasson, 2015). In addition, socio-economic frameworks operate primarily on qualitative data that is problematic to integrate robustly with the quantitative climate change evidence required for informed decision-making (Metcalf, van Putten, Frusher, Tull, & Marshall, 2013). The effective integration of qualitative and quantitative knowledge on marine socio-ecological systems is necessary for simplifying complex ecosystem dynamics into observable and measurable indicators that can be communicated and assessed by decision-makers for informed decision-making to occur (Murray, D'anna, & Macdonald, 2016).…”

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Interdisciplinary knowledge exchange across scales in a globally changing marine environment

McDonald

Hobday

Fulton

et al. 2018

Global Change Biology

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The effects of anthropogenic global environmental change on biotic and abiotic processes have been reported in aquatic systems across the world. Complex synergies between concurrent environmental stressors and the resilience of the system to regime shifts, which vary in space and time, determine the capacity for marine systems to maintain structure and function with global environmental change. Consequently, an interdisciplinary approach that facilitates the development of new methods for the exchange of knowledge between scientists across multiple scales is required to effectively understand, quantify and predict climate impacts on marine ecosystem services. We use a literature review to assess the limitations and assumptions of current pathways to exchange interdisciplinary knowledge and the transferability of research findings across spatial and temporal scales and levels of biological organization to advance scientific understanding of global environmental change in marine systems. We found that species-specific regional scale climate change research is most commonly published, and "supporting" is the ecosystem service most commonly referred to in publications. In addition, our paper outlines a trajectory for the future development of integrated climate change science for sustaining marine ecosystem services such as investment in interdisciplinary education and connectivity between disciplines.

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Adaptation options for marine industries and coastal communities using community structure and dynamics

Abstract: (2014) Adaptation options for marine industries and coastal communities using community structure and dynamics. Sustainability Science, 9 (3). pp. 247-261.http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/20315Copyright © Springer Japan 2013

Cited by 18 publications

References 53 publications

The 'Great Southern Reef': social, ecological and economic value of Australia's neglected kelp forests

The 'Great Southern Reef': social, ecological and economic value of Australia's neglected kelp forests

From physics to fish to folk: supporting coastal regional communities to understand their vulnerability to climate change in Australia

Interdisciplinary knowledge exchange across scales in a globally changing marine environment

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