Understanding vulnerability in Alaska fishing communities: A validation methodology for rapid assessment of indices related to well-being

Himes‐Cornell, Amber; Maguire, Conor; Kasperski, Stephen; Hoelting, Kristin; Pollnac, Richard Β.

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.02.004

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“…Element 1: consider future condition and risk of the social-ecological system Using ecosystem-risk assessment methods that have been reviewed elsewhere (IPCC, 2014b;Levin et al, 2014;Noble et al, 2014;Busch et al, 2016;Colburn et al, 2016;Hare et al, 2016;Himes-Cornell et al, 2016;Holsman et al, 2017) including workshops, expert opinion, and quantitative evaluations, assess the risk and vulnerability of species, habitats, management approaches, and human communities to climate-induced changes. A key component of this evaluation is an assessment of the frequency and magnitude of extreme events over time (e.g.…”

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Towards climate resiliency in fisheries management

Holsman

Hazen

Haynie

et al. 2019

ICES Journal of Marine Science

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It is increasingly evident that climate change is having significant impacts on marine ecosystems and dependent fisheries. Yet, translating climate science into management actions and policies is an ongoing challenge. In particular, four aspects have confounded implementation of climate-resilient management: (i) regional management tools may not be well-suited for managing the same systems under climate change, (ii) individual management policies and climate research studies are often implicitly focussed on spatio-temporal scales that are rarely aligned, (iii) management approaches seldom integrate across spatio-temporal scales and are, therefore, maladapted to unidirectional change and extreme events, and (iv) challenges to modelling socio-economic implications of climate change impede projections of cumulative costs to society, disguise adaptive limits, and ultimately impact climate risk and management trade-off assessments. We suggest that addressing environmental change favours adaptive and dynamic management approaches, while addressing shifting socio-economic and political conditions favours fixed long-term measures; considering both jointly requires a combination of dynamic-adaptive-fixed approaches. We outline a framework to integrate climate-responsive tools into a unified climate-resilient management approach using nested dynamic-adaptive-fixed management portfolios that improve management effectiveness and efficiency. This approach may help reduce future conflict between marine resource extractive and conservation goals through more explicit characterization of management trade-offs and identification of social and ecological tipping points.

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Section: Toward a Framework For Climate-resilient Managementmentioning

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Towards climate resiliency in fisheries management

Holsman

Hazen

Haynie

et al. 2019

ICES Journal of Marine Science

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“…Foreign research on the vulnerability of marine fishery has been transformed from a single disturbance factor to multiple disturbance factors. Himes-Cornell et al (2016) evaluated the vulnerability of Alaska's fishing community from a socio-ecological perspective; Cinner et al (2012) evaluated and compared the social ecosystem vulnerability of 12 coral reef fisheries in Kenya through environmental exposure, ecological sensitivity, ecological restoration potential, social sensitivity and social adaptability. And then adopt climate change as the main research background of the micro-level vulnerability of marine fishery gradually; Allison et al (2009) built a vulnerability model to evaluate the economics vulnerability of marine fishery in 132 countries when face the climate change impacts; Das et al (2016) evaluated the vulnerability of inland fisheries to climate change in 13 counties in West Bengal, India; Chen et al (2014) built a new vulnerability assessment framework to identify and measure the vulnerability drivers of underutilized fishermen under climate change.…”

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Spatio-temporal Evolution of Marine Fishery Industry Ecosystem Vulnerability in the Bohai Rim Region

Jin

2019

Chin. Geogr. Sci.

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The building of the ocean power strategy and the implementation of the blue agriculture plan urgently need to strengthen the sustainable development of marine fishery. Taking vulnerability as the starting point, this paper constructs the vulnerability index system of marine fishery industry ecosystem from the aspects of sensitivity and response capacity, and combines the entropy method with the Topsis to comprehensively analyze the spatio-temporal evolution characteristics of vulnerability of marine fishery industry ecosystem in the Bohai Rim Region from 2001 to 2015. The results show that: 1) In the time dimension, from 2001 to 2015, the vulnerability of the marine fishery industry ecosystem in the Bohai Rim Region shows a fluctuant and degressive trend; 2) In the spatial dimension, the spatial distribution of the marine fishery industry ecosystem vulnerability in the Bohai Rim Region presents the gradient characteristics which shows high vulnerability in the east and low vulnerability in the west. According to the evolution track of the system's vulnerability level, the vulnerability of the marine fishery industry ecosystem is divided into 'declining' and 'stable' types of evolutionary structures; 3) The development of marine fishery in the Bohai Rim Region needs to be derived from the marine fishery's ecological environment and the industrial development mode and structure, which can improve the marine environment remediation efforts, optimize the marine fishery industry structure, vigorously focus on pelagic fishery, and enhance the introduction of marine fishery's science and technology talents, etc. Then, the marine fishery's development in the Bohai Rim Region will be moving in the green, circular and sustainable direction.

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“…ensuring that our indicators are consistently applied across cases; Adcock & Collier, 2001), an internal peer‐review process was conducted to compare and contrast studies, enhance cross‐case consistency of attribute importance ratings and scores, discuss whether and how the attributes occurred in each case study and outline high‐level findings. We engaged in small group and plenary exercises designed to draw out diverse perspectives and maximize the potential for group knowledge to reduce common pitfalls such as tendencies towards uniformly moderate scoring (Gregory et al, 2012; Himes‐Cornell et al, 2016). To confirm that attribute importance and score were distinct, we tested for monotonic correlations by calculating Spearman's rank correlation coefficients.…”

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“…In particular, climate change has impacted the metabolism, growth and life history functions of marine species, which in turn have impacted the fisheries and communities that depend on these resources (Free et al, 2019; Mellin et al, 2022). Fishing communities are also vulnerable to the biophysical effects of climate change, including sea level rise and increased coastal erosion, resulting in disruptions to local marine economies (Colburn et al, 2016; Himes‐Cornell et al, 2016). These effects are projected to continue and intensify, potentially resulting in major shifts in stock distributions and habitats, population productivity, disease prevalence and storm frequency and severity—all of which could affect species directly, damage important marine infrastructure or create barriers to fishing (Barange et al, 2014; Cheung et al, 2021; Weatherdon et al, 2016).…”

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Diverse pathways for climate resilience in marine fishery systems

Eurich,

Friedman,

Kleisner

et al. 2023

Fish and Fisheries

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Both the ecological and social dimensions of fisheries are being affected by climate change. As a result, policymakers, managers, scientists and fishing communities are seeking guidance on how to holistically build resilience to climate change. Numerous studies have highlighted key attributes of resilience in fisheries, yet concrete examples that explicitly link these attributes to social‐ecological outcomes are lacking. To better understand climate resilience, we assembled 18 case studies spanning ecological, socio‐economic, governance and geographic contexts. Using a novel framework for evaluating 38 resilience attributes, the case studies were systematically assessed to understand how attributes enable or inhibit resilience to a given climate stressor. We found population abundance, learning capacity, and responsive governance were the most important attributes for conferring resilience, with ecosystem connectivity, place attachment, and accountable governance scoring the strongest across the climate‐resilient fisheries. We used these responses to develop an attribute typology that describes robust sources of resilience, actionable priority attributes and attributes that are case specific or require research. We identified five fishery archetypes to guide stakeholders as they set long‐term goals and prioritize actions to improve resilience. Lastly, we found evidence for two pathways to resilience: (1) building ecological assets and strengthening communities, which we observed in rural and small‐scale fisheries, and (2) building economic assets and improving effective governance, which was demonstrated in urban and wealthy fisheries. Our synthesis presents a novel framework that can be directly applied to identify approaches, pathways and actionable levers for improving climate resilience in fishery systems.

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Understanding vulnerability in Alaska fishing communities: A validation methodology for rapid assessment of indices related to well-being

Cited by 10 publications

References 43 publications

Towards climate resiliency in fisheries management

Towards climate resiliency in fisheries management

Spatio-temporal Evolution of Marine Fishery Industry Ecosystem Vulnerability in the Bohai Rim Region

Diverse pathways for climate resilience in marine fishery systems

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