Evaluating Linked Social-Ecological Systems in Marine Protected Areas

Em decorrência da constância de colapsos que o setor pesqueiro artesanal vem enfrentando ao redor do mundo, as demandas por medidas mitigadoras têm aumentado e, com isso, a discussão da necessidade de uma gestão solidamente eficaz dos recursos naturais oriundos da pesca se mostra cada vez mais iminente. As Áreas Marinhas Protegidas têm se mostrado alternativas interessantes para a manutenção dos recursos pesqueiros, principalmente aquelas denominadas Reservas Extrativistas (RESEXs) Marinhas. As RESEXs Marinhas, além de assegurarem o direito consuetudinário de posse para as comunidades extrativistas tradicionais, proveem a ação da gestão compartilhada como instrumento de manejo. A gestão compartilhada é fundamental por objetivar a integração de todos os atores envolvidos no processo de manejo dos recursos naturais, desde a esfera local até a governamental, o que promove o estímulo de práticas mais democráticas e socialmente mais justas. Abstract THE IMPORTANCE OF CO-MANAGEMENT AND MARINE PROTECTED AREAS TO SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF ARTISANAL FISHERIES: THE CASE OF MARINE EXTRACTIVE RESERVES Due to the constancy of collapses that the artisanal fishing sector is experiencing around the world, demands for mitigating measures have increased and, together, 98. GeoTextos, vol. 8, n. 2, dez. 2012. R. Dumith. 97-121 the discussion of the need for solidly effective management of natural resources from the fishing shows increasingly imminent. Marine Protected Areas have proven to be interesting alternatives to the maintenance of fish stocks, especially those called Marine Extractive Reserves. The Marine Extractive Reserves, besides ensuring the customary law of possession for the traditional hunting and gathering communities, predict the action of co-management as a tool of management. Co-management is crucial for the integration of all the target actors involved in the process of natural resource management, both local sphere and governmental one, which promotes the encouragement of more democratic practices and socially fairer.

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Prawns, justice, and relationships of care in Stilbaai, South Africa

ICES Journal of Marine Science ◽

10.1093/icesjms/fsaa211 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Marieke Norton

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Marine Protected Areas ◽

Access Point ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Anthropological Perspective ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological ◽

The Everyday

Abstract This story is concerned with the intersection of governance, stewardship, care taking, and extraction. It is centred on insights gained through repeated encounters with bait prawns during 7 years of fieldwork in Stilbaai, South Africa. These prawns are intended as angling bait, but they are entangled in a host of complications—or relations—the discovery of which eventually led me see them differently than before. More recently, I have looked into the role of marine protected areas in the everyday lives of residents, researching conservation management in Stilbaai in connection with the Southern Cape Interdisciplinary Fisheries Research project. In that work, I use the idea of relationality, as understood from an anthropological perspective, to speak about what long-term stewardship needs to take into account. Understanding more about the mudprawn and where it lives in the ecosystem, how people extract it, what it is used for, and how it is thought of has provided an access point for me into thinking about coastal social–ecological systems and how to communicate their needs. In this story, I reflect on these creatures as they live in my research, showing what this species can teach about coastal sustainability more generically.

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Rethinking Sustainable Development Using Deep Ecology and Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems: Implications for Protected Areas Management

10.20944/preprints201908.0066.v1 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Kofi Akamani

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Cultural Diversity ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Multiple Scales ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Deep Ecology ◽

Adaptive Governance ◽

Human Environment ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological

Since the late 1980s the idea of sustainable development has been gaining widespread recognition as a guiding framework for policies on development and the environment. However, the concept of sustainable development has received a number of criticisms, including its over-emphasis on meeting human needs through economic growth, as well as its failure to recognize dynamic human-environment interactions. In response to these shortfalls, the concepts of resilience and adaptive governance have emerged as alternative perspectives for pursuing sustainable development. Resilience in social-ecological systems emphasizes the capacity of coupled human-environment systems to deal with change while continuing to develop. Adaptive governance relies on diverse and nested institutional mechanisms for connecting actors across multiple scales to manage conflicts and uncertainties in ecosystem management processes. However, the ethical dimensions of resilience and adaptive governance have not received enough attention. A promising ethical perspective for guiding policies on human-environment interactions is the philosophy of deep ecology which highlights the need for recognition of the intrinsic values of all living things, as well as the nurturing of ecological and cultural diversity. We argue that an integration of the principles of deep ecology and adaptive governance provides a complementary set of ethical principles and institutional attributes that offers better prospects for pursuing sustainable development in the era of the Anthropocene. The implications of this integrative agenda include: adoption of a holistic conception of dynamic human-environment interactions; recognition of diverse knowledge systems through an anti-reductionist approach to knowledge; promotion of long term sustainability through respect for ecological and cultural diversity; and embracing decentralization and local autonomy. We further illustrate this integrative agenda using the management of protected areas as a case study.

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Reconstructing Governability: How Fisheries Are Made Governable

10.31230/osf.io/zavwc ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Andrew Song

Keyword(s):

Marine Protected Areas ◽

A Priori ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

General Systems Theory ◽

Relational Approach ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological ◽

General Systems ◽

Analytical Development ◽

Conceptual Foundations

Governability is an important concept in the political and environmental social sciences with increasing application to social-ecological systems such as fisheries. Indeed, governability analyses of fisheries and related systems such as marine protected areas have generated innovative ways to implement sustainability ideals. Yet, despite progress made, we argue that there remain limitations in current conceptions of governability that hinder further analytical development and use. By drawing on general systems theory – specifically cybernetics, control, and feedback – we interrogate the conceptual foundations that underpin two key limitations: the need to incorporate the numerous variables that comprise a complex, holistic system into a singular assessment of governability; and the a priori separation of the governor and the governed that precludes analysis of a self-governing situation. We argue that by highlighting the reciprocal nature of a governor-governed relationship and the co-produced understanding of governing capacity and objects, a relational approach to governability is possible. This offers a clearer and more pragmatic understanding of how governors and fishers can make fisheries governable.

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Geografias relacionais: A festa no Santuário de Fátima em Fortaleza-CE

GeoTextos ◽

10.9771/1984-5537geo.v8i2.6010 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Tiago Vieira Cavalcante ◽

Christian Dennys Monteiro de Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Marine Protected Areas ◽

Customary Law ◽

Artisanal Fishing ◽

Fish Stocks ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Hunting And Gathering ◽

Fishing Sector ◽

Extractive Reserves

O objetivo do presente trabalho é demonstrar qual é o sentido geográfico da dinâmica da festa em seu âmbito relacional. Para isso, fomos ao Santuário de Fátima em Fortaleza-CE na tentativa de analisarmos os movimentos (dinâmicas verticais e horizontais) que constroem o sentido festivo que o Santuário possui, assim como a legitimação e a posteridade que a festa oferece às representações a ela vinculadas. A geografia relacional entra, nesse sentido, como prática cotidiana responsável pela elaboração do momento efêmero que é a festa e os seus rebatimentos espaço-temporais que acompanham o sentido do Santuário de Fátima permanentemente. Abstract THE IMPORTANCE OF CO-MANAGEMENT AND MARINE PROTECTED AREAS TO SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF ARTISANAL FISHERIES: THE CASE OF MARINE EXTRACTIVE RESERVES Due to the constancy of collapses that the artisanal fishing sector is experiencing around the world, demands for mitigating measures have increased and, together, 98. GeoTextos, vol. 8, n. 2, dez. 2012. R. Dumith. 97-121 the discussion of the need for solidly effective management of natural resources from the fishing shows increasingly imminent. Marine Protected Areas have proven to be interesting alternatives to the maintenance of fish stocks, especially those called Marine Extractive Reserves. The Marine Extractive Reserves, besides ensuring the customary law of possession for the traditional hunting and gathering communities, predict the action of co-management as a tool of management. Co-management is crucial for the integration of all the target actors involved in the process of natural resource management, both local sphere and governmental one, which promotes the encouragement of more democratic practices and socially fairer.

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