Implementation challenges of climate change adaptation initiatives in coastal lagoon communities in the Gulf of Mexico

Vázquez, Luz María

doi:10.1186/s40152-017-0068-2

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“…In addition, mechanisms to identify and prioritize water bodies that are vulnerable to climate change effects are valuable regardless of the system (Tingley et al 2019). However, we also recognize that all adaptation strategies are not created equal, and some strategies may be difficult to implement (e.g., eliminate water withdrawals, remove large dams, create lateral connectivity to floodplains), or require multiple stakeholders (implement best management practices in watersheds, increase cooperation across multiple jurisdictions) or may affect livelihoods (re‐gear commercial fishing vessels), or may face complex economic, political, or cultural issues of a region (Vázquez 2017). Though surely not fully comprehensive, our hope is that these adaptation strategies provide options for policymakers and fisheries managers to consider when addressing climate change within their mandates.…”

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Climate Change Effects on North American Fish and Fisheries to Inform Adaptation Strategies

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Climate change is a global persistent threat to fish and fish habitats throughout North America. Climate‐induced modification of environmental regimes, including changes in streamflow, water temperature, salinity, storm surges, and habitat connectivity can change fish physiology, disrupt spawning cues, cause fish extinctions and invasions, and alter fish community structure. Reducing greenhouse emissions remains the primary mechanism to slow the pace of climate change, but local and regional management agencies and stakeholders have developed an arsenal of adaptation strategies to help partially mitigate the effects of climate change on fish. We summarize common stressors posed by climate change in North America, including (1) increased water temperature, (2) changes in precipitation, (3) sea level rise, and (4) ocean acidification, and present potential adaptation strategies that fishery professionals may apply to help vulnerable fish and fisheries cope with a changing climate. Although our adaptation strategies are primarily from North America, they have broader geographic applicability to fish and aquatic biota in other jurisdictions. These strategies provide opportunities for managers to mitigate the effects of climate change on fish and fish habitat while needed global policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions emerge, which may offer more lasting solutions.

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Climate Change Effects on North American Fish and Fisheries to Inform Adaptation Strategies

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“…Examples of failure risk of external initiatives without hearing local voices lead to unsustainable ecological context (Vazquez, 2017), which generates social inequity. BE initiatives need trade-offs among economic, social, and environmental sustainability (Lillebø et al, 2017).…”

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Blue Economy, Blue Growth, Social Equity and Small-scale Fisheries: A Global and National Level Review

Das¹

2023

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One of the most promising economic arenas in the coming decades is the ocean and there are currently numerous initiatives to the ‘blue economy’ discourse that revolves around the argument that small-scale fishers’ livelihoods require greater attention. To synthesize current scientific knowledge and address prevailing research gaps surrounding this discourse, I conduct a scoping review of global literature on the blue economy, blue growth, social equity, and Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) analyse different international policy papers and national-level blue economy plans. To explore the need for further research, this review focuses on how different aspects of the blue economy risks lead to inequity in the pursuit of ocean sustainability. Based on the initial content analysis, I identify evidence for undermining social equity and justice related to the ocean and find that social equity is often overlooked in national-level blue economy and blue growth initiatives. This overlooking leads to or accelerates processes of coastal and ocean grabbing, displacement, dispossession, and exclusion which strongly impact the livelihoods of marginalized coastal communities, particularly, small-scale fishers in various parts of the world. The collected evidence suggests that there is a missing link between international policy deliberations and national-level implementation plans in the blue economy context. Numerous studies claim that critical re-thinking of policies is required to ensure the sustainability of blue economy trajectories. Unchecked economic growth in the ocean as in other realms can reinforce inequities and unjust and inequitable resource distribution patterns. To pre-empt, mitigate, and resolve likely conflicts, deeper insights are needed to address the impacts of the blue economy and blue growth on coastal livelihoods. I suggest investigating the causes of conflict and further research on how governance responds to sustain small-scale fisheries while embracing the blue economy and blue growth agendas.

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“…For example, regulations enacted in the late 1990s prohibited fishing close to offshore oil fields, fields that had functioned as artificial reefs for fishers (Zalik, 2009). This eliminated a potential unintended benefit of oil extraction for fisheries, increased production costs and time for fishers who worked in the Gulf, and exposed them to more risks since they needed to travel farther offshore (Quist and Nygren, 2015;Vázquez, 2017). These long-term conflicting relationships between the fishers and the oil industry form a backdrop to how coastal erosion and other processes were experienced by inhabitants of the coastal communities in our study.…”

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Coastal erosion narratives in the Gulf of Mexico: implications for climate change governance

Vázquez

Vandergeest

2022

Journal of Political Ecology

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This article presents a study of coastal erosion narratives by the Mexican government, scientists, and local fishers in coastal communities in the Gulf of Mexico. It shows how plans to enroll fishing communities into programs to adapt to or to slow coastal erosion are based on simplified environmental narratives that rely on global climate change as the main cause of coastal erosion. They discount local processes and local explanations, as well as scientific studies that outline complex multi-scalar explanations for coastal erosion. Government narratives frame global climate change, as manifested in increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other hydrometereological extreme events and sea level rise, as the main causes of changes in coastal environments, including coastal erosion They fail to acknowledge other causes including the environmental degradation caused by the influential oil industry. In contrast, fishers' more complex and locally-embedded narratives are shaped by their long-term struggles against the state-owned oil company, whom they hold primarily responsible for coastal erosion in their communities. Scientists similarly emphasize the importance of local and regional processes, with climate change understood primarily as having significant impacts in the future, but less so in the recent past. Differences in temporal and geographical scaling among these narratives highlight the importance of considering how the translation of climate change adaptation programming from the global to diverse local situations would ideally consider site-specific power relations as well as community-based perspectives.

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Implementation challenges of climate change adaptation initiatives in coastal lagoon communities in the Gulf of Mexico

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

Climate Change Effects on North American Fish and Fisheries to Inform Adaptation Strategies

Climate Change Effects on North American Fish and Fisheries to Inform Adaptation Strategies

Blue Economy, Blue Growth, Social Equity and Small-scale Fisheries: A Global and National Level Review

Coastal erosion narratives in the Gulf of Mexico: implications for climate change governance

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