Loved to pieces: Toward the sustainable management of the Waitematā Harbour and Hauraki Gulf

Aguirre, J. David; Bollard-Breen, Barbara; Cameron, Marcus; Constantine, Rochelle; Duffy, Clinton; Dunphy, Brendon; Hart, Kyna; Hewitt, Judi E.; Jarvis, Rebecca M.; Jeffs, Andrew; Kahui-McConnell, Richelle; Kawharu, Margaret; Liggins, Libby; Lohrer, Andrew M.; Middleton, Irene; Oldman, John; Sewell, Mary A.; Smith, Adam N. H.; Thomas, Daniel B.; Tuckey, Ben; Vaughan, M.; Wilson, Ross

doi:10.1016/j.rsma.2016.02.009

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“…1). Harbours were selected based on their participation in the World Harbour Project (http://worldharbourproject.org) and had varying levels of harbour modification, environmental stressors, population density and socio-demographics (Aguirre et al, 2016;Airoldi et al, 2016;Chee et al, 2017;).…”

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Urban blue: A global analysis of the factors shaping people's perceptions of the marine environment and ecological engineering in harbours

Strain

Alexander

Kienker

et al. 2019

Science of The Total Environment

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Marine harbours are the focus of a diverse range of activities and subject to multiple anthropogenically induced pressures. Support for environmental management options aimed at improving degraded harbours depends on understanding the factors which influence people's perceptions of harbour environments. We used an online survey, across 12 harbours, to assess sources of variation people's perceptions of harbour health and ecological engineering. We tested the hypotheses: 1) people living near impacted harbours would consider their environment to be more unhealthy and degraded, be more concerned about the environment and supportive of and willing to pay for ecological engineering relative to those living by less impacted harbours, and 2) people with greater connectedness to the harbour would be more concerned about and have greater perceived knowledge of the environment, and be more supportive of, knowledgeable about and willing to pay for ecological engineering, than those with less connectedness. Across twelve locations, the levels of degradation and modification by artificial structures were lower and the concern and knowledge about the environment and ecological engineering were greater in the six Australasian and American than the six European and Asian harbours surveyed. We found that people's perception of harbours as healthy or degraded, but not their concern for the environment, reflected the degree to which harbours were impacted. There was a positive relationship between the percentage of shoreline modified and the extent of support for and people's willingness to pay indirect costs for ecological engineering. At the individual level, measures of connectedness to the harbour environment were good predictors of concern for and perceived knowledge about the environment but not support for and perceived

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Section: Study Sitesmentioning

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Urban blue: A global analysis of the factors shaping people's perceptions of the marine environment and ecological engineering in harbours

Strain

Alexander

Kienker

et al. 2019

Science of The Total Environment

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“…We recognize that there are numerous examples of positive marine conservation initiatives that incorporate participatory planning processes [34][35][36][37], that have taken into account social and cultural considerations [38,39], that consider livelihoods and are co-managed [40][41][42][43], that recognize local and indigenous community initiatives to conserve local resources [25,35,44], and that have produced positive social outcomes to the benefit of natural resource management efforts [45][46][47][48]. Furthermore, generally speaking, there is good will within the international community to consider the concerns and needs of people when designing conservation actions.…”

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An appeal for a code of conduct for marine conservation

Bennett¹,

Teh²,

Ota³

et al. 2018

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A B S T R A C TMarine conservation actions are promoted to conserve natural values and support human wellbeing. Yet the quality of governance processes and the social consequences of some marine conservation initiatives have been the subject of critique and even human rights complaints. These types of governance and social issues may jeopardize the legitimacy of, support for and long-term effectiveness of marine conservation. Thus, we argue that a clearly articulated and comprehensive set of social standards -a code of conduct -is needed to guide marine conservation. In this paper, we draw on the results of an expert meeting and scoping review to present key principles that might be taken into account in a code of conduct, to propose a draft set of foundational elements for inclusion in a code of conduct, to discuss the benefits and challenges of such a document, and to propose next steps to develop and facilitate the uptake of a broadly applicable code of conduct within the marine conservation community. The objectives of developing such a code of conduct are to promote fair conservation governance and decision-making, socially just conservation actions and outcomes, and accountable conservation practihttp://dx

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“…The novel ecosystem concept is not without controversy (e.g. Woodworth 2013, Murcia et al 2014; however, in novel urban habitats specifically, it provides a framework for conceptualising coastal engineering projects as opportunities for the amelioration of ecosystems that are already heavily shaped by anthropogenic activity (Perkins et al 2015, Aguirre et al 2016. While the distinction is not always made, urban areas contain both hybrid ecosystems that may have significant novelty, as well as novel ecosystems, which, by definition, cannot return to hybrid or historical conditions (Hobbs et al 2006).…”

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Oceanography and Marine Biology

2019

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Human population growth and accelerating coastal development have been the drivers for unprecedented construction of artificial structures along shorelines globally. Construction has been recently amplified by societal responses to reduce flood and erosion risks from rising sea levels and more extreme storms resulting from climate change. Such structures, leading to highly modified shorelines, deliver societal benefits, but they also create significant socioeconomic and environmental challenges. The planning, design and deployment of these coastal structures should aim to provide multiple goals through the application of ecoengineering to shoreline development. Such developments should be designed and built with the overarching objective of reducing negative impacts on nature, using hard, soft and hybrid ecological engineering approaches. The design of ecologically sensitive shorelines should be context-dependent and combine engineering, environmental and socioeconomic considerations. The costs and benefits of ecoengineered shoreline design options should be considered across all three of these disciplinary domains when setting objectives, informing plans for their subsequent maintenance and management and ultimately monitoring and evaluating their success. To date, successful ecoengineered shoreline projects have engaged with multiple stakeholders (e.g. architects, engineers, ecologists, coastal/port managers and the general public) during their conception and construction, but few have evaluated engineering, ecological and socioeconomic outcomes in a comprehensive manner. Increasing global awareness of climate change impacts (increased frequency or magnitude of extreme weather events and sea level rise), coupled with future predictions for coastal development (due to population growth leading to urban development and renewal, land reclamation and establishment of renewable energy infrastructure in the sea) will increase the demand for adaptive techniques to protect coastlines. In this review, we present an overview of current ecoengineered shoreline design options, the drivers and constraints that influence implementation and factors to consider when evaluating the success of such ecologically engineered shorelines.

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Loved to pieces: Toward the sustainable management of the Waitematā Harbour and Hauraki Gulf

Cited by 13 publications

References 53 publications

Urban blue: A global analysis of the factors shaping people's perceptions of the marine environment and ecological engineering in harbours

Urban blue: A global analysis of the factors shaping people's perceptions of the marine environment and ecological engineering in harbours

An appeal for a code of conduct for marine conservation

Oceanography and Marine Biology

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