CNH-Ex: Aligning Marine Management Institutions with Key Ecological and Economic Linkages in the Gulf of California, Mexico

CNH-Ex：使海洋管理机构与墨西哥加利福尼亚湾的主要生态和经济联系保持一致

• 批准号: 1114964
• 负责人: Heather Leslie
• 金额: $ 24.34万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1114964&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CNH; Ex; Aligning; Marine; Management

Many benefits produced by healthy ecosystems are common pool resources, which create particular challenges for environmental policy and management. Yet local institutions often enable effective stewardship of these resources, and build social and ecological resilience to environmental change. The objective of this project is to explore the interplay between key ecological, economic, and institutional processes related to small-scale fisheries in Mexico's Gulf of California, and how interactions among these processes influence both ecological and economic outcomes. Previous scholarship focused on the gulf and other areas with low governance, enforcement, and monitoring capacity has often emphasized either ecological or institutional dynamics, but rarely integrates ecological, economic, and institutional analyses as proposed here. Through a combination of conceptual and quantitative modeling and field research, we are developing an innovative interdisciplinary approach for analyzing coupled natural and human coastal marine systems. Through these activities and associated interactions with other scientists and practitioners in the region, we are collecting substantial primary social, economic and ecological data to inform the development of quantitative models of human-environment linkages in the gulf, and contributing to the training of the next generation of sustainability science scholars. Well-functioning coastal and marine ecosystems provide a wide array of societal benefits, including food production, protection from coastal storms, and opportunities for recreation and tourism. Stewardship to ensure continued provision of these benefits requires understanding the connections between ecosystems and the people who live with them. Knowledge of the mechanisms underlying these interactions is vital for mitigation and adaptation to our changing world, particularly in the face of climate change. In this project, we focus on small-scale, or artisanal, fisheries in the Gulf of California, Mexico. To sustain fisheries in the gulf, a variety of management tools are under consideration, including marine reserves and other marine protected areas, catch shares, and territorial use rights. Moreover, the expected decentralization of fisheries management due to the recently amended Fisheries Law is anticipated to alter both ecological and socioeconomic dynamics within the region. Through the development of an interdisciplinary framework for understanding coastal marine environment-society connections, along with gulf-specific analyses, we will help inform development of innovative marine management strategies in this region and other coastal and marine areas worldwide.

健康的生态系统所产生的许多惠益是共同的资源，这对环境政策和管理造成了特殊的挑战。然而，地方机构往往能够有效地管理这些资源，并建立社会和生态对环境变化的复原力。本项目的目标是探讨与墨西哥加州湾小规模渔业相关的关键生态、经济和制度过程之间的相互作用，以及这些过程之间的相互作用如何影响生态和经济结果。以前的奖学金集中在海湾和其他地区的低治理，执法和监测能力，往往强调生态或制度的动态，但很少整合生态，经济和制度分析，这里提出的。通过概念和定量建模与实地研究相结合，我们正在开发一种创新的跨学科方法，用于分析耦合的自然和人类沿海海洋系统。通过这些活动以及与该地区其他科学家和从业者的相关互动，我们正在收集大量的主要社会，经济和生态数据，以告知海湾人类与环境联系的定量模型的发展，并为下一代可持续发展科学学者的培训做出贡献。运转良好的沿海和海洋生态系统提供了广泛的社会效益，包括粮食生产、免受沿海风暴的影响以及娱乐和旅游机会。要确保持续提供这些惠益，就需要了解生态系统与生活在其中的人们之间的联系。了解这些相互作用背后的机制对于减缓和适应我们不断变化的世界至关重要，特别是在面临气候变化的情况下。在这个项目中，我们关注墨西哥加州湾的小规模或手工渔业。为了维持海湾的渔业，正在考虑各种管理工具，包括海洋保护区和其他海洋保护区、渔获量份额和领土使用权。此外，由于最近修订的《渔业法》，渔业管理的权力下放预计将改变该区域的生态和社会经济动态。通过制定一个了解沿海海洋环境与社会联系的跨学科框架，沿着海湾具体分析，我们将帮助为该区域和世界其他沿海和海洋地区制定创新的海洋管理战略提供信息。