Journal article
Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries: From theory to practice
Environmental Defense Fund1
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso2
University of California at Santa Barbara3
James Cook University Queensland4
Gulf of Maine Research Institute5
Section for Ecosystem based Marine Management, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark6
National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark7
University of Tasmania8
Wildlife Conservation Society9
WorldFish10
...and 0 moreIn a changing climate, there is an imperative to build coupled social-ecological systems—including fisheries—that can withstand or adapt to climate stressors. Although resilience theory identifies system attributes that supposedly confer resilience, these attributes have rarely been clearly defined, mechanistically explained, nor tested and applied to inform fisheries governance.
Here, we develop and apply a comprehensive resilience framework to examine fishery systems across (a) ecological, (b) socio-economic and (c) governance dimensions using five resilience domains: assets, flexibility, organization, learning and agency. We distil and define 38 attributes that confer climate resilience from a coupled literature- and expert-driven approach, describe how they apply to fisheries and provide illustrative examples of resilience attributes in action.
Our synthesis highlights that the directionality and mechanism of these attributes depend on the specific context, capacities, and scale of the focal fishery system and associated stressors, and we find evidence of interdependencies among attributes. Overall, however, we find few studies that test resilience attributes in fisheries across all parts of the system, with most examples focussing on the ecological dimension.
As such, meaningful quantification of the attributes’ contributions to resilience remains a challenge. Our synthesis and holistic framework represent a starting point for critical application of resilience concepts to fisheries social-ecological systems.
Language: | English |
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Year: | 2022 |
Pages: | 522-544 |
ISSN: | 14672979 and 14672960 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1111/faf.12630 |
ORCIDs: | 0000-0002-8828-353X , 0000-0003-1764-7524 , 0000-0002-0403-8423 , 0000-0002-2616-2740 , 0000-0002-2557-8920 , 0000-0001-6078-7747 , 0000-0002-6171-5187 , 0000-0001-6001-295X , 0000-0003-3154-8039 , 0000-0001-8517-8518 , 0000-0003-0192-4339 , 0000-0003-2675-9317 , 0000-0001-5821-3584 , 0000-0003-4663-1396 , 0000-0001-9176-8397 , 0000-0002-5831-2993 and 0000-0002-6918-1546 |