Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters

Adger, W. Neil; Hughes, Terry P.; Folke, Carl; Carpenter, Stephen R.; Rockström, Johan

doi:10.1126/science.1112122

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“…If coupled with systemic underestimation of unpredictable events, environmental disasters beyond salient design codes may ravage a large number of properties and cause loss of human lives. Facing the limitations of structural prevention, multiple methods have been proposed to deter further development in unsuitable areas through state mandates and land-use zoning (Burby and Dalton, 1994), as well as through multiple sociopolitical responses to unexpected events (Adger et al, 2005).…”

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Are master plans effective in limiting development in China's disaster-prone areas?

Kim

Rowe

2013

Landscape and Urban Planning

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HighlightsThe effectiveness of adopting urban master plans to limit development in disaster-prone areas was empirically tested for China's Yangtze River Delta region over the past thirty years.Environmental risk modeling was conducted to estimate the cumulative scope of urban built-up land located in highly hazardous areas.Master plans, especially when the pattern of urban development shows high compliance with master plans' preservation zoning, have a significant effect on limiting development in high-risk areas.The effect of master plans was not significant in a region vulnerable to high risks from multiple environmental hazards.Locational adjustment through municipal planning may avoid large-scale property losses from unexpected environmental hazards during the rapid development phase of a city.

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Are master plans effective in limiting development in China's disaster-prone areas?

Kim

Rowe

2013

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…Response strategies to these changes, broadly classified as either reacting, coping or adapting (see supplementary material for a definition of concepts used in this paper), are also influenced by actions at multiple scales. [10][11][12] Fishing as a livelihood is complex and dynamic, and concerns not only individuals but also households or groups attempting to make a living to meet various nutritional and economic needs. 13,14 The livelihood perspective can be used to analyse poverty, vulnerability and marginalisation at the geographical scale of experience.…”

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case study from the southern Cape linefishery 2: Considering one’s options when the fish leave

Gammage¹,

Jarre²,

Mather³

2017

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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Fishers in the small-scale, commercial linefishery in the southern Cape, South Africa, are exposed to variability and change in the marine social-ecological system of which they are a part. Faced with multi-scalar changes within this complex system, fishers employ a wide range of strategies in reaction to change. As part of a broader study of stressors that bring about change in these systems, this contribution examines the fishers’ responses to these changes and is based on a participant-led, semi-structured interview process of skippers/boat owners, crew, processors and spouses/partners, in six communities in the southern Cape region, and has been supplemented with appropriate secondary data. The results are discussed using a resilience framework. The data were initially considered thematically by stressor, but results identified that a place-based analysis was equally important. Three major groupings were identified: (1) fishers who adapt and show clear business-orientation, (2) fishers who cope, and (3) fishers who react and are thus caught in a poverty trap. In addition to place-specific history, local feedback loops and indirect effects need to be better accounted for to understand these responses to change at various scales. The results of this study are expected to contribute to the basis of scenario planning in the region.

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“…Chile that produces roughly 240,000 t of Mytilus chilensis per year experienced a crisis in 2009 when the phytoplankton concentrations decreased to such an extent that mussel growth came to a standstill (Serramalera 2015). Projected climate change poses multiple risks to mussel farming because of the increased frequency of extreme events that might lie outside the realm of present day experience (Serramalera 2015;Adger et al 2005;Searle and Rovira 2008).…”

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Offshore and Multi-Use Aquaculture with Extractive Species: Seaweeds and Bivalves

Buck

Nevejan

Wille

et al. 2017

Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean

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Aquaculture of extractive species, such as bivalves and macroalgae, already supplies a large amount of the production consumed worldwide, and further production is steadily increasing. Moving aquaculture operations off the coast as well as combining various uses at one site, commonly called multi-use aquaculture, is still in its infancy. Various projects worldwide, pioneered in Germany and later accompanied by other European projects, such as in Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, as well as other international projects in the Republic of Korea and the USA, to name a few, started to invest in robust technologies and to investigate in system design needed that species can be farmed to market size in high energy environments. There are a few running enterprises with extractive species offshore, however, multi-use scenarios as well as offshore IMTA concepts are still on project scale. This will change soon as the demand is dramatically increasing and space is limited.

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Social-Ecological Resilience to Coastal Disasters

Cited by 2,122 publications

References 36 publications

Are master plans effective in limiting development in China's disaster-prone areas?

Are master plans effective in limiting development in China's disaster-prone areas?

case study from the southern Cape linefishery 2: Considering one’s options when the fish leave

Offshore and Multi-Use Aquaculture with Extractive Species: Seaweeds and Bivalves

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