Restructuring and Health in Canadian Coastal Communities

Dolan, Alan; Taylor, Martin S.; Neis, Barbara; Ommer, Rosemary E.; Eyles, John; Schneider, David C.; Montevecchi, Bill

doi:10.1007/s10393-005-6333-7

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“…Social-ecological systems are nested, historical products that operate at varying spatial, temporal, and organizational scales ranging from the level of individual people and organisms up to global systems. Such systems are interactive and these interactive processes are associated with complex, non-linear processes and outcomes (Dolan et al, 2005). A description of the full suite of critical structures and processes within any one social-ecological system -much less three -is well beyond the scope of any paper.…”

Section: Social-ecological Restructuring: Putting Climate Change In Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social‐Ecological Restructuring and Implications for Social Values

Murray

2011

World Fisheries

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Designing appropriate coping strategies for North American traditional fishing communities in the face of global climate change demands, among other things, that we:1. identify, characterize, and document the full range of values and services flowing from and shaped by these ecosystems; and 2. understand how these values are shaped by interactive processes of global change.This chapter addresses these demands through a focus on fishing communities dependent on the marine social-ecological systems of the Canadian Provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and British Columbia, and the American State of New Jersey. In recent decades these systems have undergone dramatic processes of restructuring, and have moved in directions defined by new ecological realities, harvesting technologies, and management paradigms focused on conservation and economic rationality. While in a direct sense these systems continue to provide socio-cultural and economic benefits, this chapter highlights how new types of social-ecological interactions have re-shaped associated social structures and processes within and between these communities, including size and connection with fishing industry, age structures, dislocation to urban areas, internal stratification, and corporatization of the fishery. It next explores how these changes appear to have affected some of the social values associated with these systems. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how these findings might inform the development of appropriate coping strategies.

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Section: Social-ecological Restructuring: Putting Climate Change In Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social‐Ecological Restructuring and Implications for Social Values

Murray

2011

World Fisheries

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“…Major environmental, policy and industrial shifts are radically altering Newfoundland's fisheries with important health consequences (Dolan et al, 2005). With the collapse of the groundfish stocks and closure of these fisheries, there was an industrial shift in target species from cod to shellfish, especially snow crab, and from fleet with a substantial number of large-scale trawlers to one dominated almost exclusively by vessels less than 65 feet in length.…”

Section: Risk Knowledges In a Context Of Changementioning

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Occupational risks, safety and masculinity: Newfoundland fish harvesters' experiences and understandings of fishery risks

Power

2008

Health, Risk & Society

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1Occupational risks, safety, and masculinity: Newfoundland fish harvesters' experiences and understandings of fishery risks AbstractThere is no single, objective place from which to assess risk and the best way to assess and minimize risk is through seeking input from a variety of different knowledge agents focusing on different sources and dimensions of risk and using multiple methodologies. In this paper, I draw on Wynne's work on constructivist-realism and on the feminist literature on masculinity to examine fish harvesters' understandings and experiences of risk and safety in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador on Canada's east coast. Using data drawn from focus groups, phone interviews and particularly from individual boat tours with Newfoundland fish harvesters, Iargue that their understandings and practices of risk and safety are dynamic and that this dynamism reflects the intersection of everyday requirements to get the job done in what are often uncertain and constrained circumstances associated with the interacting and changing regulatory, industrial and environmental contexts in which this work is done. From this perspective, while quantifying fisheries risks in terms of fatality, accident or Search and Rescue incident rates is important, the inclusion of fish harvesters' experiences and related safety knowledge in research and policy-development designed to reduce risk is imperative. The view from the deck of the vessel, fish harvesters' experiences on the water, not only informs their observations and interpretations of risk but offers potential insights into risk and into expert claims about risk that should be taken into account when trying to understand fishing risk and improve safety.

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“…Interactions among these factors can also contribute to risk, for example when vessels designed for fishing in one context shift their effort to different contexts and species because of resource change, regulatory change or both. The potential importance of interactivity among factors has been used to argue for social-ecological approaches to understanding health in fisheries [6]. Regulatory regimes governing fisheries in general and fishing safety more specifically are becoming increasingly complex.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%