Shared visions for marine spatial planning: Insights from Israel, South Africa, and the United Kingdom

Rivers, Nina; H, Truter; Strand, Mia; Jay, Stephen J.; Portman, Michelle Ε.; Lombard, Amanda T.; Amir, Doron; Boyd, A.; Brown, Robin; Cawthra, Hayley C.; Faure-Beaulieu, Nina; Findlay, Ken; Grossmark, Y.; Perschke, Myriam; Pillay, Tiffany; Pyrgies, O.; Ramakulukusha, Moses; Smit, Kaylee P.; Stockdale, V.; Stockill, Joanna; Schwartz, I.; Treibitz, Tali; Vargas-Fonseca, O. Alejandra; Vermeulen, Elsebeth

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2022.106069

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“…The work stream also supported the recent expansion of South Africa's MPA network in order to protect the ocean environment from illegal activities and to promote multiple socio-economic benefits. In 2018 the MSP Act (MSP Act 2018) was gazetted and in April 2021 came into force, providing mandatory requirements for the establishment of marine area plans for four regions along South Africa's coastline (Rivers et al, 2022) (see Figure 2 below).…”

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Pathways to integrate Indigenous and local knowledge in ocean governance processes: Lessons from the Algoa Bay Project, South Africa

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The Introduction of this paper argues that current coastal and ocean management approaches like marine spatial planning (MSP) often do not adequately acknowledge and integrate Indigenous and Local Knowledge (ILK). This is problematic because how humans value and perceive coastal and marine resources is integrally linked to how they use and manage these resources, especially in adapting to social-ecological change. Coastal and marine resources are situated within complex social-ecological systems that are culturally, economically, historically and politically embedded. Therefore, management approaches have to integrate transdisciplinary and contextual perspectives in order to be relevant, sustainable and adaptive. Following extensive research in Algoa Bay, South Africa this article highlights several pathways to bridge the gap between existing ILK and current coastal and ocean management approaches. The Methods section discusses how the authors worked in tandem with a bottom-up (engaging with Indigenous and local coastal and marine resource users) and top-down (engaging with coastal governance authorities and practitioners) approach. In order to answer the primary research question “How can ILK be integrated into area-based ocean management like MSP”? the authors employed arts-based participatory methods as well as in-depth interviews and workshops with coastal governance authorities and practitioners over several months. This work then culminated in a one-day multi-stakeholder workshop which brought both ILK holders and coastal authorities and practitioners together to collaboratively identify pathways to integrate this knowledge into coastal and ocean management. In the Results and Discussion section the authors present and discuss five co-identified pathways to integrate ILK in coastal and ocean management which include: adopting contextual approaches to coastal and ocean management; increasing transparency and two-way communication between coastal authorities and users; increasing access to relevant and useable information; reviewing and amending relevant MSP legislation towards a stronger connection between MSP and Indigenous knowledge legislation; as well as amending legislation pertaining to access to coastal and marine areas. In the Conclusion it is argued that ILK coastal communities want to be meaningfully included in how their coastline and ocean resources are managed and also seek increased access to coastal areas. By highlighting pathways to include ILK and the knowledge holders themselves, this paper seeks to contribute to improved protection and sustainable management of marine resource use.

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Pathways to integrate Indigenous and local knowledge in ocean governance processes: Lessons from the Algoa Bay Project, South Africa

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“…Again, we have to consider the relevance of such approaches in light of neoliberal and capitalistic governance regimes, and the danger of these approaches and community engagements being co-opted as mere tickbox exercises (see [7]). This emphasises the importance of these processes being embedded at the very beginning of marine EBM approaches such as MSP and marine protected areas (see [42]), to make sure the pluriversality and multitude of marine cultural heritage and cultural connections inform policies, decision-making and management.…”

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“…The precautionary principle, as set out as Principle 15 in the United Nations Rio Declaration, states that to protect the environment a precautionary approach should be taken and 'where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation'[41] 5. In 2018 the MSP Act (MSP Act 2018) was gazetted and in April 2021 was signed into operation, providing mandatory requirements for the establishment of marine area plans for four regions along South Africa's coastline[42].…”

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“…As the world grapples with social-ecological challenges often termed wicked (see Bernstein, 2015;Chuenpagdee, 2019) in nature for their lack of one clear solution or even understanding, there is a cumulative need for research, that surpasses academic institutions (Benham and Daniell, 2016) and fully incorporates transdisciplinarity to involve non-academic collaborators for lasting impact (Rivers et al, 2022). (In this paper, we refer to "collaborators" instead of "stakeholders" or "partners" to emphasize the role of collaboration and co-production of knowledge in transdisciplinary research practices.…”

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Transdisciplinarity in transformative ocean governance research—reflections of early career researchers

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This paper interrogates the concept of transdisciplinarity, both theoretically and practically, from a perspective of early career researchers (ECRs) in transformative ocean governance research. Aiming to advance research methodologies for future complex sustainability challenges, the paper seeks to illuminate some common uncertainties and challenges surrounding transdisciplinarity from a marine science perspective. Following a literature review on transdisciplinary research, workshops, and a series of surveys, we determine that transdisciplinarity appears to be a concept in search of definition, and that there is a need to explore transdisciplinarity specifically from an ocean research perspective. The paper discusses a number of challenges experienced by ECRs in conducting transdisciplinary research and provides recommendations for both ECRs wishing to undertake more equitable transdisciplinary research and for the UN Decade for Ocean Science to support ECRs in this endeavour (Figure 1). Based on our findings, we interrogate the role of non-academic collaborators in transdisciplinary research and argue that future transdisciplinarity will need to address power imbalances in existing research methods to achieve knowledge co-production, as opposed to knowledge integration.

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Shared visions for marine spatial planning: Insights from Israel, South Africa, and the United Kingdom

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Pathways to integrate Indigenous and local knowledge in ocean governance processes: Lessons from the Algoa Bay Project, South Africa

Pathways to integrate Indigenous and local knowledge in ocean governance processes: Lessons from the Algoa Bay Project, South Africa

The complexity of evaluating, categorising and quantifying marine cultural heritage

Transdisciplinarity in transformative ocean governance research—reflections of early career researchers

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