Lessons learned from an ecosystem-based management approach to restoration of a California estuary

Anthropocene Survival of Southern New England’s Salt Marshes

“…Multiple stressors are thought to be affecting these wetlands, in addition to SLR, including changes to sediment supply, altered hydrology, nutrient over-enrichment, subsidence linked to natural gas and groundwater exploitation, and invasive species establishment. However, because the separate and synergistic roles of these stressors are difficult to isolate, projects to restore coastal wetlands have proceeded accepting uncertainty about the relative importance of primary and ancillary drivers (Turner 2009;Wasson et al 2015). Intervention actions conducted to date, or underway, have included rebuilding drowning marsh with dredge sediments (JB, BW, MRD, ES), removing nutria (BW), regrading marsh-upland boundaries to promote inland migration (ES), and installing living shorelines to reduce edge erosion (BW, MRD).…”

Governance conditions for successful ecological restoration of estuaries: lessons from the Dutch Haringvliet case

“…Experiments make it possible to gain context specific information on the ecological processes that will be restored, as well as on the efficacy of the measures (Naylor et al 2012;Zedler, Doherty, and Miller 2012;France 2016;Dawson et al 2017;Evans et al 2017). The results of experiments can be used to adapt the restoration accordingly and improve the ability to cope with uncertainty (Carvalho and Fid elis 2013;Wasson et al 2015;Zedler 2017). This means that the process of the estuarine restoration project can be tailored to the situation to increase its effectiveness (Naylor et al 2012; Fid elis and Carvalho 2015; Evans et al 2017; Zedler 2017).…”

“…Finally, it was argued in the literature that to increase the success of ecological restoration projects, knowledge and interests need to be exchanged between experts, and stakeholders need to be proactively integrated into the implementation process. The latter allows them to share their knowledge, understanding and information on the estuarine area or the project (Wasson et al 2015;Zedler 2017). Stakeholder involvement needs to be facilitated (Dawson et al 2017;Evans et al 2017).…”

“…Integration may result in a shared vision based on different interests, mutual trust, and a rigorous and transparent implementation process. If stakeholders feel represented, they become more engaged and supportive in the implementation process (Druschke and Hychka 2015;Wasson et al 2015;Dawson et al 2017;Zedler 2017).…”

Actores y conflictos territoriales en una figura de administración pública de la pesca artesanal: El caso de la zona contigua en las regiones de Los Lagos y de Aysén, sur de Chile

“…Al mismo tiempo, diversos autores destacan tres formas que tendrían los gobiernos para planificar los territorios y las relaciones entre actores, la mentalidad del neoliberalismo, el localismo y ecocentrismo; las que en su despliegue generarían tensiones por la competencia o colaboración en el manejo de recursos naturales (Barber, 2010;Ghermandi et al 2010;Larsen et al 2011;Lockwood & Davidson, 2010). Para mitigar los conflictos, algunos trabajos enfatizan en la necesidad de desarrollar la interfaz científico-normativa (Bremer & Glavovic, 2013), con lo cual se tiende a superar tanto los conflictos que surgen de las diferencias en los objetivos planteados por actores diversos (Wasson et al 2015) como la falta de obligaciones legales para su implementación (Bullimore, 2014). En específico, en un estudio reciente, Zhao et al (2015) evidencia la necesidad de fortalecer los mecanismos de cooperación entre actores e instituciones a objeto de contrarrestar la debilidad de enfoques de administración territorial basados únicamente en el mercado o normas del mercado estandarizadas con metas racionales (Zhao et al 2015).…”