Marine resource management and conservation in the Anthropocene
Abstract
© 2017 Foundation for Environmental Conservation. Because the Anthropocene by definition
is an epoch during which environmental change is largely anthropogenic and driven
by social, economic, psychological and political forces, environmental social scientists
can effectively analyse human behaviour and knowledge systems in this context. In
this subject review, we summarize key ways in which the environmental social sciences
can better inform fisheries management policy and practice and marine conservation
in the Anthropocene. We argue that environmental social scientists are particularly
well positioned to synergize research to fill the gaps between: (1) local behaviours/needs/worldviews
and marine resource management and biological conservation concerns; and (2) large-scale
drivers of planetary environmental change (globalization, affluence, technological
change, etc.) and local cognitive, socioeconomic, cultural and historical processes
that shape human behaviour in the marine environment. To illustrate this, we synthesize
the roles of various environmental social science disciplines in better understanding
the interaction between humans and tropical marine ecosystems in developing nations
where issues arising from human-coastal interactions are particularly pronounced.
We focus on: (1) the application of the environmental social sciences in marine resource
management and conservation; (2) the development of 'new' socially equitable marine
conservation; (3) repopulating the seascape; (4) incorporating multi-scale dynamics
of marine social-ecological systems; and (5) envisioning the future of marine resource
management and conservation for producing policies and projects for comprehensive
and successful resource management and conservation in the Anthropocene.
Type
Journal articleSubject
Science & TechnologyLife Sciences & Biomedicine
Biodiversity Conservation
Environmental Sciences
Biodiversity & Conservation
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
Anthropocene
environmental social science
marine conservation
social equity
sustainability
SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
SMALL-SCALE FISHERIES
PROTECTED AREAS
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION
CORAL-REEFS
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY
CLIMATE-CHANGE
SCIENCE
SUSTAINABILITY
KNOWLEDGE
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18605Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1017/S0376892917000431Publication Info
ASWANI, SHANKAR; BASURTO, XAVIER; FERSE, SEBASTIAN; GLASER, MARION; CAMPBELL, LISA;
CINNER, JOSHUAE; ... CHRISTIE, PATRICK (2018). Marine resource management and conservation in the Anthropocene. Environmental Conservation, 45(2). pp. 192-202. 10.1017/S0376892917000431. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/18605.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Xavier Basurto
Associate Professor of Sustainability Science
I am interested in the fundamental question of how groups (human and non-human) can
find ways to self-organize, cooperate, and engage in successful collective action
for the benefit of the common good. To do this I strive to understand how the institutions
(formal and informal rules and norms) that govern social behavior, interplay with
biophysical variables to shape social-ecological systems. What kind of institutions
are better able to govern complex-adaptive systems? and how can societies (la
Lisa Campbell
Rachel Carson Distinguished Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy
Dr. Campbell studies oceans governance broadly, in relation to diverse issues (blue
economy, blue carbon, protected species, fisheries, MSP, MPAs, tourism, etc.), and
formal and informal processes. She draws on theory from political ecology, political
economy, and science and technology studies to study how science and other values,
the state and non-state actors, inform governance processes and outcomes across geographic
and socio-political scales. She is more generally interested in innovation
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