Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources

Berkes, Fikret; Hughes, Terry P.; Steneck, Robert S.; Wilson, James A.; Bellwood, David R.; Crona, Beatrice; Folke, Carl; Gunderson, Lance; Leslie, Heather M.; Norberg, Jon; Nyström, Magnus; Olsson, Per; Österblom, Henrik; Scheffer, Marten; Worm, Boris

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“…Technological developments have made it possible for distant water fleets and mobile traders to operate like roving bandits, that is mobile agents that move on to other, unprotected resources when the first has been depleted. The rapid emergence of specialized export markets for hitherto unexploited stocks is often a surprise to managers and serial depletion of local stocks is masked by spatial shifts in exploitation (Berkes et al 2006).…”

Section: Cross-scale Linkages and Feedbacksmentioning

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Reconnecting to the Biosphere

Folke

Jansson

Rockström

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Humanity has emerged as a major force in the operation of the biosphere, with a significant imprint on the Earth System, challenging social-ecological resilience. This new situation calls for a fundamental shift in perspectives, world views, and institutions. Human development and progress must be reconnected to the capacity of the biosphere and essential ecosystem services to be sustained. Governance challenges include a highly interconnected and faster world, cascading social-ecological interactions and planetary boundaries that create vulnerabilities but also opportunities for social-ecological change and transformation. Tipping points and thresholds highlight the importance of understanding and managing resilience. New modes of flexible governance are emerging. A central challenge is to reconnect these efforts to the changing preconditions for societal development as active stewards of the Earth System. We suggest that the Millennium Development Goals need to be reframed in such a planetary stewardship context combined with a call for a new social contract on global sustainability. The ongoing mind shift in human relations with Earth and its boundaries provides exciting opportunities for societal development in collaboration with the biosphere-a global sustainability agenda for humanity.

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Reconnecting to the Biosphere

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“…The concept of a social-ecological system (SES) reflects an understanding that the human and biophysical components of a given landscape are inextricably linked, continuously influencing and responding to each other in a complex adaptive system (Adger, 2006;Berkes et al, 2006;Renaud et al, 2010). 'Resilience', 'vulnerability' and 'adaptive capacity' make up three of the dominant theoretical lenses through which research has examined how these linked systems experience and respond to change (Gallopín, 2006).…”

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“…However, while some of these terms (e.g., shocks or trends) imply differing timescales or magnitudes of pressure, the terms are often used interchangeably and applied to both slower and faster forms of change. Yet, as globalization and technology produce growing interconnectedness between SES across geographic scales, our ability to differentiate the nature, scale, speed, and implications of change is key (Berkes et al, 2006). This is particularly true for fast change as social processes at global scales increasingly emerge as 'shocks' for local systems, driving rapid and often surprising forms of change, distinct from and yet interacting with the impacts of slower drivers (Armitage and Johnson, 2006).…”

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“…It takes time to gain an understanding of system changes of interest, to develop foresight around likely trajectories of change and anticipate necessary actions, and to share information across groups and through networks (Armitage et al, 2008). In contrast, fast changes can overwhelm the ability of institutions to effectively reduce harm from a stress (Berkes et al, 2006;Eriksson et al, 2015) and institutional response is virtually always deeply challenged by conditions of acute, novel or unexpected change (Berkes et al, 2006). Fast variables also provide less time for communities to adjust psychosocially (Vanclay, 2002;Lorenz, 2010).…”

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“…Moreover, Anderson et al (2010) have shown that despite a trend of increasing global sea cucumber catches, the catch of individual fisheries has followed a boom-and-bust pattern, "declining nearly as quickly as they expanded" (p.1). While 'boom-bust' marine resource industries have occurred throughout history, the current speed with which markets for species of this and other echinoderms are emerging is unprecedented, supported in part by the accelerated mobility of information, technology, labour, and capital (Adger et al, 2009;Berkes et al, 2006;Eriksson et al, 2015).…”

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Catching sea cucumber fever in coastal communities: Conceptualizing the impacts of shocks versus trends on social-ecological systems

Kaplan-Hallam¹,

Bennett²,

Satterfield³

2018

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Research on vulnerability and adaptation in social-ecological systems (SES) has largely centered on climate change and associated biophysical stressors. Key implications of this are twofold. First, there has been limited engagement with the impacts of social drivers of change on communities and linked SES. Second, the focus on climate effects often assumes slower drivers of change and fails to differentiate the implications of change occurring at different timescales. This has resulted in a body of SES scholarship that is under-theorized in terms of how communities experience and respond to fast versus slow change. Yet, social and economic processes at global scales increasingly emerge as 'shocks' for local systems, driving rapid and often surprising forms of change distinct from and yet interacting with the impacts of slow, ongoing 'trends'. This research seeks to understand the nature and impacts of social shocks as opposed to or in concert with trends through the lens of a qualitative case study of a coastal community in Mexico, where demand from international seafood markets has spurred rapid development of a sea cucumber fishery. Specifically, we examined what different socialecological changes are being experienced by the community, how the impacts of the sea cucumber fishery are distinct from and interacting with slower ongoing trends and how these processes are affecting system vulnerability, adaptations and adaptive capacity. We begin by proposing a novel framework for conceptualizing impacts on social systems, as comprised of structures, functions, and feedbacks. Our results illustrate how the rapid-onset of this fishery has ecological changes are being experienced by the community, how the impacts of the sea cucumber fishery are distinct from and interacting with slower ongoing trends and in poaching and armed violence have emerged, exacerbating pressures from ongoing trends in immigration, overfishing and tourism development. We argue that there is a need to better understand and differentiate the social and ecological implications of shocks, which present novel challenges for the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of communities and the sustainability of marine ecosystems.

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Globalization, Roving Bandits, and Marine Resources

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