Gone fishing? Intergenerational cultural shifts can undermine common property co-managed fisheries

Conventional common property thinking assumes that a central goal of management is to maintain social-ecological systems in a healthy and resilient state, including maintaining the ability of communities to harvest across time and generations. Little research has been done, however, on how common property systems are affected by demographic shifts, the social status of emerging livelihoods, and the employment aspirations of users for their offspring. An empirical case study from Chile (well known for its common property fisheries) suggests that major socio-cultural shifts are now occurring, with a lack of entry by new fishers and an aging population of existing ones. These types of social and cultural changes are increasingly common through globalization and worldwide economic development, and pose significant policy challenges across broad classes of common property systems. The Chilean case reveals that community adaptive capacity can come at the expense of social-ecological common property systems, and highlights the need to consider the broader context of ‘slow’ social variables.

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An education approach for the Anthropocene epoch

Research Society and Development ◽

10.33448/rsd-v10i11.19780 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (11) ◽

pp. e448101119780

Author(s):

Cristiane Mansur de Moraes Souza

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Social Learning ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Ecological Resilience ◽

Considerable Uncertainty ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological ◽

The Social

It is now well established in the literature that there is a need to incorporate the concept of sustainability into education at all study levels. However, there is considerable uncertainty expressed concerning how it could best be achieved and how the resilience concept would enhance this idea. This article aims to address this gap. The objective is to explore aspects of socio-ecological resilience, that underlies a university case study. The methodology is exploratory, descriptive, and explanatory. Results demonstrate that civil engagement university activities are an education approach that provides students with experiences that build skills necessary for addressing the challenges of the Anthropocene Epoch. The conclusion of the article emphasizes that the education for the Anthropocene epoch should consider the enhancement of ecosystem services by demonstrating that humans are part of the social-ecological systems; considering interdisciplinarity as a methodological approach; demonstrating the variety of potentials on participation of stakeholders by civil engagement as developing autonomy both on students and stakeholders and developing the ability for proactive attitudes. Is also enhance learning and social learning by civil engagement and participation.

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Water ethics, justice, and equity in social-ecological systems conservation: lessons from the Queensland Wild Rivers Act

Water Policy ◽

10.2166/wp.2018.016 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (5) ◽

pp. 933-952 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sameer H. Shah ◽

Lucy Rodina

Keyword(s):

Natural Resource Management ◽

Water Governance ◽

Radical Change ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Resource Governance ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Water Ethics ◽

Natural Rivers

Abstract The protection of natural rivers and watersheds face important concerns related to environmental (in)justice and (in)equity. Using the Queensland Wild Rivers Act as a case study, we advocate that ethical water governance attends to multiple and diverse values, specifically in ways that: (i) locate them within stakeholders' claims of inequality that emerge from a given or practiced water ethic; and (ii) historicize and understand them as resonating or reflecting natural resource management frameworks that have led to structural injustices. This approach, combined with adaptive co-governance, can contribute to more inclusive water ethics and even support reflexive spaces where radical change in social-ecological resource governance can be imagined.

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Exuberant Life

10.1093/oso/9780197531518.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

William H. Durham

Keyword(s):

Human Impact ◽

Charles Darwin ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological ◽

History Of ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

Marine Iguanas ◽

Systems Framework

Why is Galápagos so endlessly fascinating, whether to read about, to visit, or both? Reasons include its menagerie of truly unusual organisms (like tree daisies, marine iguanas, and flightless cormorants), its relatively low human impact (most of its endemic biodiversity is still extant), and its unrivalled role in the history of science ever since Charles Darwin. Exuberant Life offers a contemporary synthesis of what is known about the evolution of the curiously wonderful organisms of Galápagos, of how they are faring in the tumultuous world of human-induced change, and how evolution can guide efforts today for their conservation. In eight case-study chapters, the book looks at each organism’s ancestry, at how and when it came to Galápagos, and how and why it changed since its arrival, all with an eye to its conservation today. Such analysis often provides surprises and suggestions not previously considered, like the potential benefits to joint conservation efforts with tree daisies and tree finches, for example, or ways that a new explanation for peculiar behaviors in Nazca and blue-footed boobies can benefit both species today. In each chapter, a social-ecological systems framework is used, because human influence is always present, and because it allows an explicit link to evolution. We see how the evolutionary fitnesses of Galápagos organisms are now a product of both ecological conditions and human impact, including climate change. Historically, Galápagos has played a central role in the understanding of evolution; what it now offers to teach us about conservation may well prove indispensable for the future of the planet.

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Exploring sustainable land use in forested tropical social-ecological systems: A case-study in the Wet Tropics

Journal of Environmental Management ◽

10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.10.079 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 231 ◽

pp. 940-952 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Julen Gonzalez-Redin ◽

Iain J. Gordon ◽

Rosemary Hill ◽

J. Gary Polhill ◽

Terence P. Dawson

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Sustainable Land Use ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Wet Tropics

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The role of conservation physiology in mitigating social-ecological traps in wildlife-provisioning tourism: a case study of feeding stingrays in the Cayman Islands

Conservation Physiology ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198843610.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 125-140

Author(s):

Christina A.D. Semeniuk

Keyword(s):

Social System ◽

Careful Consideration ◽

Human Dimensions ◽

Cayman Islands ◽

Physiological Indicators ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological ◽

The Social ◽

Effective Selection

In feeding marine wildlife, tourists can impact animals in ways that are not immediately apparent (i.e. morbidity vs. mortality/reproductive failure). Inventorying the health status of wildlife with physiological indicators can provide crucial information on the immediate status of organisms and long-term consequences. However, because tourists are attempting to maximize their own satisfaction, encouraging the willingness to accept management regulations also requires careful consideration of the human dimensions of the system. Without such socio-ecological measures, the wildlife-tourism system may fall into a trap—a lose–lose situation where the pressure imposed by the social system (tourist expectations) has costs for the ecological system (maladaptive behaviours, health), which in turn feed back into the social system (shift in tourist typography, loss of revenue, decreased satisfaction), resulting in the demise of both systems (exhaustion). Effective selection and communication of physiological metrics of wildlife health is key to minimizing problem-causing and problem-enhancing feedbacks in social-ecological systems. This guiding principle is highlighted in the case study presented here on the socio-ecological research and management success of feeding southern stingrays (Hypanus americanus) as a marine tourism attraction at Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands.

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Resource intruders and robustness of social-ecological systems: an irrigation system of Southeast Spain, a case study

International Journal of the Commons ◽

10.18352/ijc.278 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 410 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Irene Pérez ◽

M. A. Janssen ◽

A. Tenza ◽

A. Giménez ◽

A. Pedreño ◽

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Keyword(s):

Irrigation System ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological ◽

Southeast Spain

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Social-Ecological Systems in Local Fisheries Communities

Oceanography and Coastal Informatics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7308-1.ch013 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 304-314

Author(s):

George O. Tsobanoglou ◽

Eirini Ioanna Vlachopoulou

Keyword(s):

Systems Approach ◽

Ecological Systems ◽

Local Conservation ◽

Social Ecological Systems ◽

Social Ecological ◽

The Social ◽

Conservation Actions ◽

Decision Making Processes ◽

The Commons ◽

Systems Framework

Even though the study of the commons has been expanding rapidly in the past years, and there have been multiple cases of successful local conservation initiatives, still, significant gaps in knowledge remain. The Social-Ecological Systems framework attempts to analyse the linkages between the “human system” (society) and the “natural system” (ecosystems). In every conservation attempt, the interactions and feedback between the two systems become evident. By examining thoroughly this relationship through the SES lens, we can develop a deep and holistic understanding of the processes that should be taken into consideration before the implementation of conservation actions. This study, through the exploration of the fisheries management procedures in Japan, attempts to develop an understanding of how the adoption of the Social-Ecological Systems approach could promote local development in the insular periphery of the developed world, in countries like Greece, where public participation in the decision-making processes is limited.

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