Understanding social impacts by using new variables and a causal model diagram in New England fisheries

Lord, Fabienne

doi:10.3152/146155111x12913679730476

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“…This is probably why several studies maintain that projects must incorporate the units of social life of the beneficiary population, as a first step towards sustainability [11,67,[74][75][76]. In contrast with the arguments of Lord [77] we felt that including a complicated causal chain model may create unnecessary confusion. Thus, we opted to analyze and present the findings for each sustainability arm to encourage further discussion and interpretation by those who may use the results for future planning, investment and policy decisions [78].…”

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confidence: 98%

Challenges and Prospects of Sustaining Donor-Funded Projects in Rural Cameroon

Muluh¹,

Kimengsi

Azibo

2019

Sustainability

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For more than five decades, developing countries (including Cameroon) have been primary beneficiaries of donor-funded projects targeting many sectors, including agriculture and rural development. Cameroon’s rural landscape witnessed a series of project interventions which emphasized sustainability. Although research efforts have been directed towards understanding the planning, implementation and impacts of donor-funded projects, not enough scientific information exists on the determinants, challenges and prospects of sustaining donor-funded projects in rural communities in Cameroon. For this study, the Investment Fund for Communal and Agricultural Micro-projects (FIMAC I) scheme, was used to diagnose the determinants, challenges and prospects for sustaining development projects in the North West Region (NWR) of Cameroon. A representative sample of 150 beneficiaries drawn from 20 farming groups in the NWR was conducted, to generate data which was complemented by interviews. The binary logistic regression results reveal the following: Although there is a significant change in the level of incomes for the FIMAC I project beneficiaries, its sustainability (mirrored through continuity) is dependent upon a myriad of socio-economic factors including family size, length of stay in the community, gender, education and the status of the beneficiary. Furthermore, the less transparent loan application process and the lack of collateral security were the main challenges faced by project beneficiaries. We argue that the introduction of soft loans with minimal demands for collateral security could increase beneficiary participation in projects, while beneficiary groups should further diversify their sources of capital and productive activities. The study does not only contribute to existing theoretical constructs on sustainable rural development, but also makes a succinct request for future studies to unbundle the conditions, under which donor-funded projects are rendered sustainable in rural contexts.

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confidence: 98%

Challenges and Prospects of Sustaining Donor-Funded Projects in Rural Cameroon

Muluh¹,

Kimengsi

Azibo

2019

Sustainability

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“…Few have addressed fisheries explicitly and none tilapia. One fishery SIA has tried to move beyond guidelines to understanding causal factors and emergent relationships [74]. Such factors have been discussed earlier in this paper.…”

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Scoping a Public Health Impact Assessment of Aquaculture with Particular Reference to Tilapia in the UK

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Background. The paper explores shaping public health impact assessment tools for tilapia, a novel emergent aquaculture sector in the UK. This Research Council’s UK Rural Economy and Land Use project embraces technical, public health, and marketing perspectives scoping tools to assess possible impacts of the activity. Globally, aquaculture produced over 65 million tonnes of food in 2008 and will grow significantly requiring apposite global public health impact assessment tools. Methods. Quantitative and qualitative methods incorporated data from a tridisciplinary literature. Holistic tools scoped tilapia farming impact assessments. Laboratory-based tilapia production generated data on impacts in UK and Thailand along with 11 UK focus groups involving 90 consumers, 30 interviews and site visits, 9 visits to UK tilapia growers and 2 in The Netherlands. Results. The feasibility, challenges, strengths, and weaknesses of creating a tilapia Public Health Impact Assessment are analysed. Occupational and environmental health benefits and risks attached to tilapia production were identified. Conclusions. Scoping public health impacts of tilapia production is possible at different levels and forms for producers, retailers, consumers, civil society and governmental bodies that may contribute to complex and interrelated public health assessments of aquaculture projects. Our assessment framework constitutes an innovatory perspective in the field.

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“…Understanding the ways in which fishermen are being affected by and responding to these changes is critical to ensuring the resilience of the fishing fleet and fishing dependent communities as well as to the biological sustainability of the fishery in the long run (Lord, 2011;van Putten et al, 2013;Ono et al, 2017). The increased ecological uncertainty has required fishermen to adapt in a variety of ways, all of which have diverse implications in terms of well-being outcomes.…”

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Adaptive Behaviors to Marine Ecosystem Shifts: Examining Fishermen’s Strategies in Response to Abundant Juvenile Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) in Alaska

Szymkowiak

Rhodes-Reese

2020

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Over recent years there have been rapid changes occurring across marine ecosystems worldwide, with high latitude systems seeing ecosystem shifts emerging at unprecedented rates. The Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea marine ecosystems have experienced substantial fluctuation in fish stocks, with some species experiencing considerable decreases while others thrive. Following the marine heatwave of 2014, sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) had a historically unparalleled juvenile recruitment class that is now dominating the stock composition. While this recruitment class bodes well for future fisheries, it is currently undermining the value of the fishery with limited incentives to retain the smaller and less valuable fish, compounding adverse effects on earnings in the fishery due to whale depredation that has been occurring for years. This study examines the well-being implications of fishermen’s adaptive strategies to these ecosystem conditions within the Alaska sablefish fishery using a socio-ecological system framework, operationalized as a qualitative network model (QNMs) and quantitative indicators. We examine the extent to which adaptation strategies, derived from a literature review and stakeholder interviews, are being utilized in the fishery with quantitative indicators. These strategies are then examined with QNMs that explore their impacts across the spectrum of well-being. By coupling quantitative indicators and QNMs, we were able to demonstrate how adaptive strategies can be examined to capture the multi-faceted well-being effects of fisheries participants’ adaptations to changing conditions. This study directly addresses several of the key guiding principles of the U.S. EBFM Road Map, including advancing our understanding of ecosystem processes, exploring trade-offs within an ecosystem, and maintaining resilient ecosystems, inclusive of community well-being. Thus this paper demonstrates how coupled socio-ecological models can elevate the inclusion of human adaptive behaviors, providing a framework for the development of policymaking that can mitigate adverse effects on both the participants and the resource by facilitating the mixture of adaptive strategies that maximizes desired well-being outcomes.

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Understanding social impacts by using new variables and a causal model diagram in New England fisheries

Cited by 14 publications

References 14 publications

Challenges and Prospects of Sustaining Donor-Funded Projects in Rural Cameroon

Challenges and Prospects of Sustaining Donor-Funded Projects in Rural Cameroon

Scoping a Public Health Impact Assessment of Aquaculture with Particular Reference to Tilapia in the UK

Adaptive Behaviors to Marine Ecosystem Shifts: Examining Fishermen’s Strategies in Response to Abundant Juvenile Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) in Alaska

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