An ecosystem‐based approach to managing estuaries: An assessment of the National Estuary program

Imperial, Mark T.; Hennessey, Timothy M.

doi:10.1080/08920759609362286

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“…Wondolleck & Yaffee (118) provide several examples of how public managers have invested in building trust and collaboration to meet their objectives in natural resource management. Stakeholder networks have emerged in some of the U.S. National Estuary Program areas (154). These areas have been found to span more levels of government, integrate more experts into policy discussions, build trust, reduce the level of conflict among key persons from different stakeholder groups, and as a result, increase the legitimacy of the program (132).…”

Section: Adaptive Governance and Social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Folke

Hahn

Olsson

et al. 2005

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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▪ Abstract We explore the social dimension that enables adaptive ecosystem-based management. The review concentrates on experiences of adaptive governance of social-ecological systems during periods of abrupt change (crisis) and investigates social sources of renewal and reorganization. Such governance connects individuals, organizations, agencies, and institutions at multiple organizational levels. Key persons provide leadership, trust, vision, meaning, and they help transform management organizations toward a learning environment. Adaptive governance systems often self-organize as social networks with teams and actor groups that draw on various knowledge systems and experiences for the development of a common understanding and policies. The emergence of “bridging organizations” seem to lower the costs of collaboration and conflict resolution, and enabling legislation and governmental policies can support self-organization while framing creativity for adaptive comanagement efforts. A resilient social-ecological system may make use of crisis as an opportunity to transform into a more desired state.

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Section: Adaptive Governance and Social Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Folke

Hahn

Olsson

et al. 2005

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

4,124

3,188

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“…Increasingly, an integrated approach to coastal management has been adopted to take into account the many issues and activities that affect coastal habitats (Imperial and Hennessey 1996). Management of estuarine environments requires an inter-disciplinary approach that co-ordinates anthropogenic and natural issues into strategic programmes that promote the principle of balanced, sustainable use (Fowler 1996).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Spatial and temporal changes in salt marsh distribution in the Dee estuary, NW England, determined from aerial photographs

Huckle

Marrs

Potter

2004

Wetlands Ecol Manage

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Vegetation changes in salt marsh communities of the Dee estuary, northwest England, were analysed with a combination of remote sensing techniques using data dating back to the 1950s. The distribution of communities in 1997 was classified using Airborne Thematic Mapper data and used to develop a methodology for the analysis of black and white photographs of the marsh. These methods were then applied retrogressively to a time sequence of monochrome photographs running from 1955 to 1975. At the apex of the salt marshes on the English shore of the Dee estuary, the marsh expanded dramatically to 1975, and consisted predominantly of pioneer and low marsh vegetation types. Between 1975 and 1997, however, there was only a slight increase in salt marsh area, but with an increase in mid and high marsh vegetation, replacing pioneer marsh. In a second area of the salt marsh on the English shore, a different pattern of salt marsh expansion was observed. The area occupied by marsh continued to increase right up to 1997, with extensive pioneer vegetation suggesting a process of continuing expansion. However, the pattern of marsh colonisation appeared to be different in 1997 compared to 1975. The significance of the changes in salt marsh distribution within the Dee estuary are discussed in relation to the historical pattern of salt marsh colonisation, the importance of Spartina anglica in the process and the implications for strategic management of the estuarine resources.

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“…The more "management targeted" paradigms include the development and effects of exogenic unmanaged pressures and endogenic managed pressures, the perception of health and the ability to manage estuaries (related to internal and external influences), and the influence of all of these on the production of ecosystem services and societal benefits (Costanza et al 1998, Elliott andWhitfield 2011;Chapman 2012). According to Imperial and Hennessey (1996), the complexity and dynamics of estuaries constitute unique challenges for governance. Planning and management of estuaries need holistic and ecosystem-based management programs capable of integrating environment and development considerations in a manner acceptable to society and to the institutional associated structure (Imperial 1999).…”

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Estuary planning and management: the case of Vouga Estuary (Ria de Aveiro), Portugal

Fidélis

Carvalho

2014

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Estuarine areas often concentrate complex and conflicting sets of natural, economic and social resources and activities with multiple challenges to planning and management approaches as well as to governance practices. Using a set of integration factors depicted from the literature review, the paper analyzes the main features of the new set of the Portuguese estuary types of plans and assesses their potential added value, while focusing the analysis on the estuary of the Vouga River (Ria de Aveiro). The results are twofold. On the one side, their uniqueness, by treating the estuary as a planning unit, integrating the water resources and the land use planning systems and by establishing mandatory rules for the estuary uses, embodies relevant potential for reducing boundary tensions and to improve integrative approaches. On the other side, while at the level of plan content the contribution of the Portuguese Estuary Land Use and Management Plans (Planos de Ordenamento de Estu ario) legislation brings strong new prospects for integration, at the level of planning process and implementation, further efforts should be undertaken. Their added value, especially in complex institutional and societal estuarine contexts, such as the Ria de Aveiro, strongly depends on more robust participation schemes through which knowledge, institutions, aims and measures are articulated in a collective vision and shared governance process.

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An ecosystem‐based approach to managing estuaries: An assessment of the National Estuary program

Cited by 39 publications

References 18 publications

Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Spatial and temporal changes in salt marsh distribution in the Dee estuary, NW England, determined from aerial photographs

Estuary planning and management: the case of Vouga Estuary (Ria de Aveiro), Portugal

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