Does co-management facilitate adaptive capacity in times of environmental change? Insights from fisheries in Australia

Nursey‐Bray, Melissa; Fidelman, Pedro; Owusu, Mensah

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2018.07.016

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“…Built infrastructure Fisheries and aquaculture Ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss will further compound impacts in coastal communities and fisheries and aquaculture (Ataur Rahman and Rahman, 2015;Petzold and Ratter, 2015;Dhar and Khirfan, 2016), with sub-lethal species impacts like changes in the productivity and distribution of fisheries target species reported for the latter (Gourlie et al 2018;Nursey-Bray et al 2018;Pinsky et al 2018) (high confidence). This is likely to result in decreased access to ecosystem services (Asch et al 2018;Cheung et al 2018b;Finkbeiner et al 2018) (medium evidence, high agreement), local declines in agriculture and fisheries (Cvitanovic et al 2016;Faraco et al 2016) (high confidence) and livelihood impacts (Harkes et al 2015;Busch et al 2016;Valmonte-Santos et al 2016) (high confidence) in coastal communities and fisheries and aquaculture, particularly increased food insecurity and health risk in the latter (high confidence).…”

Section: Coastal Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities

2022

The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

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Section: Coastal Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities

2022

The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

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“…In this realm, our results suggest that fisheries management could benefit from an improved institutional dimension in most EU countries, which is incorporated in our approach as the number of producer organizations that can contribute to co-management. Besides a strong organized fisheries system, this pathway would require a strong participation of stakeholders in decision making in the form of co-management, which is known to increase resilience and adaptive capacities under climate change 46 , 54 , 55 . Participation and organization in the fishery promote collaborative learning, adaptive planning, and adaptive capacity 53 , 56 .…”

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Assessing countries’ social-ecological resilience to shifting marine commercial species

Ojea

Fontán

Fuentes-Santos

et al. 2021

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Climate change is already impacting fisheries with species moving across fishing areas, crossing institutional borders, and thus creating conflicts over fisheries management. In this scenario, scholars agree that adaptation to climate change requires that fisheries increase their social, institutional, and ecological resilience. The resilience or capacity of a fishery to be maintained without shifting to a different state (e.g., collapse) is at stake under climate change impacts and overexploitation. Despite this urgent need, applying the resilience concept in a spatially explicit and quantitative manner to inform policy remains unexplored. We take a resilience approach and operationalize the concept in industrial fisheries for two species that have been observed to significantly shift distribution in European waters: hake (Merluccius merluccius) and cod (Gadus morhua), in the context of the European Union institutional settings. With a set of resilience factors from the literature and by means of contemporary and historic data, we select indicators that are combined into an index that measures resilience on the ecologic, socioeconomic, and institutional dimensions of the fishery. We find that the resilience index varies among species and countries, with lower resilience levels in the socioeconomic dimension of the fisheries. We also see that resilience largely depends on the overexploitation status of the fishery. The results highlight the need to address social and institutional settings to enhance fisheries adaptation to climate change and allow to inform on climate resilient adaptation pathways for the fisheries.

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“…The ability for citizen science practitioners to cross science-society boundaries is of particular interest: Proponents of citizen science advocate that its methods and findings make science more useable to the public and to policy-makers (Haklay 2015;Pecl et al 2015;Cvitanovic, McDonald, and Hobday 2016). Citizen science is seen as an opportunity to make science meaningful through its encouragement of citizens' involvement in science (Nursey-Bray, Fidelman and Owusu 2018;Iyengar and Massey 2019;Peters and Besley 2019). The citizen science practitioner network was seen by many respondents as a crucial mechanism for enabling citizen science, and all its benefits for science and society, because the network itself is a pathway between all users of science.…”

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A Citizen Science Community of Practice: Relational Patterns Contributing to Shared Practice

Sbrocchi

Pecl

Putten

et al. 2022

CSTP

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Citizen science networks are a recent global phenomenon, with associated communities of practice that have emerged to support growth in the field and the development of practices. Effective communities of practice are dependent on the interactions from the social network underpinning the community. We examined the Australian citizen science practitioner network, using a combined social network analysis and survey approach. Our goal was to understand the structure and characteristics of this network, to establish who participates in this network, where and how interactions occur, and explore what participation achieves for the users. The Australian citizen science practitioner network has benefited from face-to-face citizen science events to make important connections that have been leveraged to benefit other working relationships and positive outcomes, especially for early-career practitioners and women within the network. How the community of practice continues to navigate successful knowledge exchange across society and science, whether through interactions in face-to-face or virtual settings, will need to be addressed as the community continues to grow in scope and size. In particular, the network will need to consider supporting key individuals who play important bridging functions across the citizen science practitioner network. The emergence of transdisciplinarity amongst those working in citizen science is a promising property of this learning community that is worth working strategically to maintain.

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Does co-management facilitate adaptive capacity in times of environmental change? Insights from fisheries in Australia

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities

Changing Ocean, Marine Ecosystems, and Dependent Communities

Assessing countries’ social-ecological resilience to shifting marine commercial species

A Citizen Science Community of Practice: Relational Patterns Contributing to Shared Practice

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