Vulnerability to multiple stressors in coastal communities: a study of the Andaman coast of Thailand

Bennett, Nathan; Dearden, Philip; Peredo, Ana María

doi:10.1080/17565529.2014.886993

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“…This cooperation was evident in the way that they shared transport costs, took turns to do shopping and generally helped each othermaking this one of the most important coping strategies displayed by this community. 5,9,12 Participants observed that the transformation of the area from productive farms to holiday houses and non-crop farms had resulted in the systematic reduction of employment opportunities. As agricultural activities and associated employment decreased, fishing became an increasingly important livelihood strategy.…”

Section: Vermaaklikheid: the Reacting Fishersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[1][2][3][4] Coastal communities that rely on fisheries are subjected to an array of political, regulatory, socio-economic and biophysical stressors 5 , and remain exposed to multiple stressors [6][7][8][9] at various temporal and geographical scales. 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.…”

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confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Vermaaklikheid: the Reacting Fishersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…Due to increased frequency and severity of climate change and environmental disasters in recent years, traditional environmental impact studies have gradually transformed into vulnerability and resilience (i.e., adaptability) studies [1]. That is, recent studies have focused on methods of assessing the capacity of a society to continue operations after it has been impacted by disasters, and its capacity to recover after the impact [5,12,[15][16][17].…”

Section: Environmental Change and Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This information can then be used to develop strategies that inform adaptation governance. Although domestic and international studies apply different definitions of vulnerability, the two main streams are "biophysical vulnerability" to natural disasters and "social vulnerability" due to socio-economic factors [12,16,20,21].…”

Section: Environmental Change and Vulnerabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapping Cross-Boundary Climate Change Vulnerability—Case Study of the Hualien and Taitung Area, Taiwan

Lee¹,

Lin

Chen

2016

Sustainability

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This study uses biophysical vulnerability and social vulnerability data from Taiwan's National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction (NCDR) to assess the vulnerable areas in Hualien County and Taitung County (Hualien-Taitung Area). The most vulnerable townships are Yanping and Chenggong townships in Taitung County, and the least vulnerable townships are Fuli, Jian, Yuli, Shoufeng and Fenglin townships in Hualien County. The severity of potential impacts to townships in Taitung County is greater than that to townships in Hualien County. In the context of climate change, the Hualien-Taitung Area must develop policies that prioritize policies and strategies for hotspot townships. Furthermore, the Hualien-Taitung Area should integrate long-term cross-boundary policies and strategies to lobby for increased funding from the central government. Moreover, cross-boundary resource integration and regional adaptation strategies should be merged to help the Hualien-Taitung Area move toward sustainability.

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“…The impacts of contemporary social and environmental change are particularly glaring for coastal communities, exposed to and engaged in the dynamics of both marine and terrestrial systems (Bunce et al, 2010;Ommer, 2007;Bennett et al, 2015). Coastal zones face some of the greatest biophysical impacts of climate change, including myriad consequences of rising sea levels (e.g., coastal erosion and sea water inundation) and increased variability of storms, drought, and other extreme weather events (Bunce et al, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Catching sea cucumber fever in coastal communities: Conceptualizing the impacts of shocks versus trends on social-ecological systems

Kaplan-Hallam¹,

Bennett²,

Satterfield³

2018

Preprint

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Research on vulnerability and adaptation in social-ecological systems (SES) has largely centered on climate change and associated biophysical stressors. Key implications of this are twofold. First, there has been limited engagement with the impacts of social drivers of change on communities and linked SES. Second, the focus on climate effects often assumes slower drivers of change and fails to differentiate the implications of change occurring at different timescales. This has resulted in a body of SES scholarship that is under-theorized in terms of how communities experience and respond to fast versus slow change. Yet, social and economic processes at global scales increasingly emerge as 'shocks' for local systems, driving rapid and often surprising forms of change distinct from and yet interacting with the impacts of slow, ongoing 'trends'. This research seeks to understand the nature and impacts of social shocks as opposed to or in concert with trends through the lens of a qualitative case study of a coastal community in Mexico, where demand from international seafood markets has spurred rapid development of a sea cucumber fishery. Specifically, we examined what different socialecological changes are being experienced by the community, how the impacts of the sea cucumber fishery are distinct from and interacting with slower ongoing trends and how these processes are affecting system vulnerability, adaptations and adaptive capacity. We begin by proposing a novel framework for conceptualizing impacts on social systems, as comprised of structures, functions, and feedbacks. Our results illustrate how the rapid-onset of this fishery has ecological changes are being experienced by the community, how the impacts of the sea cucumber fishery are distinct from and interacting with slower ongoing trends and in poaching and armed violence have emerged, exacerbating pressures from ongoing trends in immigration, overfishing and tourism development. We argue that there is a need to better understand and differentiate the social and ecological implications of shocks, which present novel challenges for the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of communities and the sustainability of marine ecosystems.

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Vulnerability to multiple stressors in coastal communities: a study of the Andaman coast of Thailand

Cited by 61 publications

References 37 publications

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

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

Mapping Cross-Boundary Climate Change Vulnerability—Case Study of the Hualien and Taitung Area, Taiwan

Catching sea cucumber fever in coastal communities: Conceptualizing the impacts of shocks versus trends on social-ecological systems

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