The Missing Layers: Integrating Sociocultural Values Into Marine Spatial Planning

Pennino, María Grazia; Brodie, Stephanie; Frainer, André; Lopes, Priscila F. M.; López, Jon; Ortega-Cisneros, Kelly; Selim, Samiya Ahmed; Văidianu, Natașa

doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.633198

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“…These criteria may be extracted from existing features and added to a future iteration of the Index that more directly incorporates culture. A culture-related MSP principle may include features such as dedicated funds for collecting sociocultural data, investment in reliable partnership building and knowledge co-production, co-management, or commitments to equitable decision-making and outcomes 42 , 43 .…”

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The Marine Spatial Planning Index: a tool to guide and assess marine spatial planning

Reimer,

Devillers,

Zuercher

et al. 2023

npj Ocean Sustain

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Marine spatial planning (MSP) has the potential to balance demands for ocean space with environmental protection and is increasingly considered crucial for achieving global ocean goals. In theory, MSP should adhere to six principles, being: (1) ecosystem-based, (2) integrated, (3) place-based, (4) adaptive, (5) strategic, and (6) participatory. Despite nearly two decades of practice, MSP continues to face critical challenges to fully realize these principles, hindering its ability to deliver positive outcomes for people and nature. Here, we present the MSP Index, a tool for assessing progress in MSP processes based on MSP principles that can guide practitioners in operationalizing these principles. Using qualitative analysis of fundamental MSP guides, complemented with a literature review, we identified key features of MSP principles and developed these features into a scoring guide that assesses progress relative to each principle. We trialed and validated the MSP Index on six case studies from distinct regions. We found that the MSP Index allows for high-level comparison across diverse marine spatial plans, highlighting the extent to which MSP principles have permeated practice. Our results reveal successes, especially for the place-based principle, and failures to fully adhere to the adaptive and participatory principles of MSP. The Index serves as a guidance tool that would be best employed by practitioners and can inform science on the evolution of MSP. It is a user-friendly tool that translates MSP principles into practice, allowing for assessment of individual initiatives and comparison of diverse initiatives across ocean regions and nations.

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The Marine Spatial Planning Index: a tool to guide and assess marine spatial planning

Reimer,

Devillers,

Zuercher

et al. 2023

npj Ocean Sustain

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“…Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies will vary according to the fishery as the degree of exposure, sensitivity, vulnerability and adaptative capacity differs according to marine ecological ecosystem, targeted species, operational characteristics of the fleet and social groups (Daw et al, 2009;Grafton, 2010;Lindegren & Brander, 2018). Approaches to enhance the resilience of the fishing sectors, such as adaptative comanagement or inclusive marine spatial planning (MSP) (Pennino et al, 2021), which have been proposed to address uncertainty and harness the knowledge and commitment of fisheries resources at multiple scales, may be a good place to start. This study will contribute to increased awareness of the impacts of climate change on high ecological and socio-economic value fisheries, such as skipjack tuna fisheries in the MZC.…”

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Modelling the impacts of climate change on skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in the Mozambique Channel

Nataniel¹,

Pennino

López

et al. 2021

Fisheries Oceanography

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Skipjack tuna play a significant role in global marine fisheries and are of particular interest for socio‐economy in the tropical waters of the Mozambique Channel. However, human‐induced climate change has been leading to a reduction and reallocation of biomass, along with other ecological changes, thereby creating a feedback loop with negative socio‐economic consequences for fisheries‐reliant coastal communities. The objective of this study was to predict the potential skipjack tuna fishing grounds by 2050 and 2100. To that end, skipjack tuna catch data were collected from Spanish purse seine fleets, and subsequently, generalized additive models were used to model these data against a combination of environmental variables and future pathway projections from BIO‐ORACLE models under optimistic (RCP2.6) and pessimistic (RCP8.5) scenarios. Both optimistic and pessimistic scenarios by 2050 predicted that the potential fishing grounds will relocate southward from tropical to more temperate waters, with moderate shifts in the potential fishing grounds of purse seines to the latitude >16°S, whereas the pessimistic scenario predicted higher displacement catches of purse seines in the southernmost part (>24°S) and moderate to high catches in northern (>20°S) of the Mozambique Channel by the end of the century. Despite the degree of uncertainty surrounding the climate change impacts on skipjack tuna, we argue that fisheries stakeholders, administrators and regional tuna fisheries management organizations should work towards building resilience and ensuring sustainability while reducing or mitigating vulnerability and climate change impacts on local and regional communities and their livelihoods.

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“…This can contribute to generating more refined maps of biodiversity features, including ecosystem types, as well as better including adaptation to global change by identifying some climate-smart biodiversity priority areas (Queirós et al, 2021). Incorporation of local indigenous knowledge can also be helpful in refining priorities, and for including human dimensions and culturally significant areas in MSP (CBD-SBSTTA, 2016;Gee et al, 2017;Pennino et al, 2021). On this note, it is worthwhile mentioning that two MeerWissen projects (CoastWise and NAMares) have come out of the MARISMA Project, which will contribute to advancing the work through research, e.g., mapping ecosystem services and culturally significant areas (Gee et al, 2017) to improve integration of social-cultural aspects into MSP, and strengthening land-sea integration in the spatial prioritization.…”

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Identifying and Comparing Important Areas for Marine Sustainable Use and Conservation

2024

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The Missing Layers: Integrating Sociocultural Values Into Marine Spatial Planning

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Cited by 25 publications

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The Marine Spatial Planning Index: a tool to guide and assess marine spatial planning

The Marine Spatial Planning Index: a tool to guide and assess marine spatial planning

Modelling the impacts of climate change on skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in the Mozambique Channel

Identifying and Comparing Important Areas for Marine Sustainable Use and Conservation

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