Full-spectrum sustainability: an alternative to fisheries management panaceas

Foley, Paul; Pinkerton, Evelyn; Wiber, Melanie G.; Stephenson, Robert L.

doi:10.5751/es-11509-250201

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“…Mitigating the anthropogenic impact on the ocean is a challenge that should rely on quantitative and qualitative information and involve the participation of a wide range of stakeholders, from policy‐makers to the scientific community, to practitioners, to public and private actors, and the representatives of civil society (Foley et al., 2020). Future efforts should, of course, be coordinated and aligned with the ongoing strategies (e.g., the Sustainable Development Goals, or the European Blue Growth strategy) that promote the monitoring, conservation, and preservation of biodiversity and pursue the common goal of improving human health through the responsible use of the ecosystem services the ocean can provide.…”

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Ocean Sound Propagation in a Changing Climate: Global Sound Speed Changes and Identification of Acoustic Hotspots

2022

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Climate change is a relevant threat on a global scale, leading to impacts on ecosystems and ocean biodiversity. A considerable fraction of marine life depends on sound. Marine mammals, in particular, exploit sound in all aspects of their life, including feeding and mating. This work explores the impact of climate change in sound propagation by computing the three‐dimensional global field of underwater sound speed. The computation was performed based on present conditions (2006–2016) and a “business‐as‐usual” future climate scenario (Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5), identifying two “acoustic hotspots” where larger sound speed variations are expected. Our results indicate that the identified acoustic hotspots will present substantial climate‐change‐induced sound speed variations toward the end of the century, potentially affecting the vital activities of species in the areas. Evidence is provided of the impact of such variation on underwater sound transmission. As an example of a species impacted by underwater transmission, we considered one marine mammal endangered species, the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis), in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first global‐scale data set of climate‐induced sound speed changes expected under a future scenario. This study provides a starting point for policies oriented research to promote the conservation of marine ecosystems and, in particular, endangered marine mammals.

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Ocean Sound Propagation in a Changing Climate: Global Sound Speed Changes and Identification of Acoustic Hotspots

2022

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“…Transitioning mosquito net fisheries, which are dominated by women, to a more sustainable fishery works toward fulfilling social goals (e.g., SDG1 Zero Poverty, SDG2 Zero Hunger, SDG3 Good Health and Well-being, SDG5 Gender Equality), economic goals (SDG8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG12 Responsible Production and Consumption), and environmental goals (SDG14 Life Below Water). Such an opportunity highlights the need to be holistic in the monitoring, design, and implementation of sustainable development initiatives and take a "full-spectrum sustainability" approach that considers social, ecological, and economic factors equally (Foley et al 2020). It is not necessary to avoid sustainable development initiatives for fear of unintended consequences; we see such consequences as learning opportunities to strengthen and adapt current initiatives.…”

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Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems

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Cullen-Unsworth²,

Torre‐Castro³

et al. 2022

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Conserving biodiversity with a growing human population is a key sustainability challenge. Consequently, a vast number of development initiatives across the globe have been designed to combine social, economic, and environmental perspectives. For the most part, the development community is well acquainted with the negative experiences and unintended consequences that some projects have or may bring. However, in tropical coastal ecosystems, this aspect is not completely acknowledged, studied, or understood. Here, we use tropical seagrass meadows as a model social-ecological system to investigate how sustainable development initiatives result in unintended consequences with both positive and negative outcomes for environment and society. We analyze the initiatives and their effects in terms of a typology encompassing "flow", "addition", and "deletion" effects and investigate them across four types of sustainable development initiatives that occur within tropical coastal environments: (1) megafauna conservation, (2) alternative livelihood programs, (3) mosquito net malaria prophylaxis, and (4) marine protected areas. Using these four initiatives as examples, we show that sustainable development initiatives can produce unintended effects with major consequences. Further, we illustrate how not assessing such effects may ultimately undermine the initial goals of the sustainable development intervention. Our study suggests that acknowledging unintended effects and transitioning them so that they become sustainable is more effective than ignoring effects or viewing them as trade-offs. We strongly stress the need for an a priori process in which positive effects, negative effects, and potential uncertainties and surprises are considered when planning the development intervention, and we argue for greater social-ecological monitoring of initiatives. As such, this contribution links to contemporary approaches dealing with the sustainability of natural resources and social-ecological systems and bridges with the importance of development initiatives in the context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

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“…This focus highlighted the tensions and interplays between top-down governance associated with existing institutions and bottom-up relatively autonomous governance contributions as exemplified by participatory processes. Despite governance being one of many recognized dimensions of EBM (Long et al 2015, Hewitt et al 2018, it has been largely overlooked arguably because governance goes beyond biophysical concerns that are largely the substance of science efforts (Parlee and Wiber 2014, Gluckman 2018, Foley et al 2020). However, insights from both the wider participatory literature and sociotheoretical writings dealing with organizing governance in neoliberalizing conditions reveal a convergence on making power and politics key in establishing governance framings and in translating governance concerns in management settings.…”

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What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes

Heron¹,

Allen²,

Heron³

et al. 2021

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Multistakeholder participatory processes are essential decision-making elements in contemporary contested marine spaces. Such processes have long time horizons, diverse interests, and complex objectives. Their complex and evolving nature make it difficult for participatory process proponents and participants to adequately plan their processes and to assess performance quality. We position the findings of this paper in the context of participation as place-based, long-term, emergent, and complex processes in Aotearoa New Zealand. We pose the question "what does success look like?" in marine participatory processes. We provide an indicative answer in the form of a rubric, which outlines key components for navigating participatory processes through ongoing formative evaluation. The relationship between criteria and phases of participatory processes is stressed as "success" challenges, and achievements are unlikely to be stable from phase to phase. The notion of "whose success" is critically reflected upon, as the politics and power of success discourses shape what might be considered success in any given context, marine space, or participatory process. We argue that self-defined, ongoing learning evaluation, where criteria are debated and created by participatory process users, contributes to an empowering notion of success. Success as seen in this way is not an externally imposed set of standards to achieve but cocreated by those involved to best meet their needs. In this way, metaphors of success can be recognized, negotiated, circulated, and institutionalized. The authors' journey to developing the rubric helps unpack the key components of participatory processes and outlines its relationship to evaluation literature. Finally, we touch on the tension involved in creating a rubric for both practice and as a high-level discursive artifact.

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Full-spectrum sustainability: an alternative to fisheries management panaceas

Cited by 32 publications

References 44 publications

Ocean Sound Propagation in a Changing Climate: Global Sound Speed Changes and Identification of Acoustic Hotspots

Ocean Sound Propagation in a Changing Climate: Global Sound Speed Changes and Identification of Acoustic Hotspots

Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems

What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes

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