Youth as the inheritors of collaboration: Crises and factors that influence participation of the next generation in natural resource management

Zurba, Melanie; Trimble, Micaela

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2014.05.009

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“…Programs supporting alternative livelihoods and recognizing the role of women in the emerging crab processing industry may help break the vicious circle of social-ecological traps and motivate renewed social energy for change among women who are typically not included (Santos 2015, Koralagama et al 2017. Developing incentives to motivate young residents to step into leadership roles and into education opportunities outside the area could advance https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss3/art19/ social development goals (Zurba and Trimble 2014). These changes are, of course, easier stated than done.…”

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Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement: applying the social-ecological systems framework to a marine extractive reserve (RESEX) in Brazil

Partelow¹,

Glaser²,

Arce³

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ABSTRACT. Brazil has a network of marine extractive reserves (RESEX), a form of marine protected area (MPA) using comanagement. The RESEX program aims to bring traditionally marginalized populations with natural resource dependent livelihoods into national development processes by empowering them to participate in governance and steward biodiversity conservation. We apply the socialecological systems framework (SESF) and collective action theory to diagnose challenges for comanagement in the Caete-Teperacu marine RESEX near Bragança, Brazil, a multiuse mangrove estuary supporting a small-scale crab fishery. We conducted key informant interviews and build on over 20 years of research in the region to provide an overarching analysis of the challenges facing comanagement. We describe the variables from the SESF in the case context and find that many social and ecological variables interact in clusters over time, and these clusters can be identified as themes, including (1) social and political momentum supporting the RESEX; (2) shifting perceptions of local residents and fishers; (3) patron-client relationships and social-ecological traps; (4) challenges with institutional fit; and (5) the interactions between harvesting closures, compensation, and dependence on local natural resources. Furthermore, we use collective action theory to help explain the role that each variable plays in either hindering or enabling successful governance. Our findings suggest that institutional resilience is needed to make RESEX adaptive to shifting social and political momenta. It could do this by providing more platforms for communication, deliberation, and knowledge exchange among the relevant actors. We believe our findings reflect broader challenges facing RESEX implementation throughout Brazil, and lessons can be learned for MPAs facing difficulties with the implementation of comanagement worldwide.

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Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement: applying the social-ecological systems framework to a marine extractive reserve (RESEX) in Brazil

Partelow¹,

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Arce³

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“…Small-scale fisheries in coastal Uruguay and Brazil have been experiencing a social-ecological crisis (Trimble 2013), which is alarming because of the numerous coastal communities they sustain. Catches have been declining (according to government's official data and fishers' observations), fishers are in need of additional sources of income, and the mismanagement of fisheries has led to a questioning of the topdown approach (Diegues 2006;Trimble and Johnson 2013;Begossi and Lopes 2014;Zurba and Trimble 2014). However, there are signs of progress.…”

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Towards adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay and Brazil: lessons from using Ostrom’s design principles

Trimble

Berkes

2015

Maritime Studies

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The literature on commons has established the validity and significance of Elinor Ostrom's design principles for collective action. Can these principles be used to guide policies and initiatives towards adaptive co-management? We analyze this idea by using two case studies, Piriápolis (Uruguay) and Paraty (Brazil). Both cases are small-scale fisheries, and both have been experiencing a social-ecological crisis in a context of prevailing top-down government management. However, there are signs that government policies are moving towards participatory governance. The objective of this article is to identify opportunities and barriers to adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay and Brazil using Ostrom's design principles for guidance. Both case studies partially meet seven of the eleven design principles (as amended by Cox and colleagues), but do not fulfill four. The analysis of the fisheries using Ostrom's principles sheds light on the opportunities and barriers to adaptive co-management in three categories: resource system, resource users, and governance system. Barriers include long-standing conflicts between small-scale fishers and government agencies, and between small and large-scale fisheries sectors. Nevertheless, recent initiatives involving participatory approaches to research and management show potential to improve compliance with several principles. Two weaknesses of using Ostrom's principles for the analysis of the cases were a lack of attention to social learning and the exclusion of external drivers.

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“…A growing body of literature on youth engagement in community and service planning and in decision making focuses on urban contexts, as opposed to rural, less-populated locales (some exceptions include Hood et al 2011;Sloan Morgan et al 2014;Zurba and Trimble 2014;Sanderson et al 2015).…”

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“Why would they care?”: Youth, resource extraction, and climate change in northern British Columbia, Canada

Morgan

2020

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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• How rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous youth have been engaged in environmental decision making has at times been extractive itself. • On local and global stages, youth-and particularly Indigenous youth-are demanding action-oriented and accountable responses to the climate crises. • Youth from northern BC communicate desires for the future of their communities to reveal the power of youth voices as they contribute to more just and sustainable communities. Discussion about local decision making tends to overlook rural and remote youth engagement. Resource extractive industries are, however, fixtures in many rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in settler colonial British Columbia, Canada. These industries shape youths' perceived options for social and economic ventures when they are looking towards their futures. By engaging literature on climate change, settler colonialism, and critical Indigenous studies, and drawing on empirics from workshops conducted with youth from northern British Columbia, this paper explores how rural and remote northern and Indigenous youth engagement and perspectives can transform discussions on climate change and resource extraction. The paper documents how rural and northern youth have been engaged in environmental decision making, particularly in light of resource extraction. The paper also suggests that environmental decision making has at times been extractive itself. The paper concludes that when engaged meaningfully, youth desire to work collectively against social and environmental injustices.

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Youth as the inheritors of collaboration: Crises and factors that influence participation of the next generation in natural resource management

Cited by 35 publications

References 21 publications

Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement: applying the social-ecological systems framework to a marine extractive reserve (RESEX) in Brazil

Mangroves, fishers, and the struggle for adaptive comanagement: applying the social-ecological systems framework to a marine extractive reserve (RESEX) in Brazil

Towards adaptive co-management of small-scale fisheries in Uruguay and Brazil: lessons from using Ostrom’s design principles

“Why would they care?”: Youth, resource extraction, and climate change in northern British Columbia, Canada

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