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

健康的生态系统所产生的许多惠益是共同的资源，这给环境政策和管理带来了特别的挑战。然而，地方机构往往能够有效地管理这些资源，并建立对环境变化的社会和生态复原力。该项目的目的是探索与墨西哥加利福尼亚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。以前的学术研究关注的是海湾地区和其他治理、执法和监测能力较低的地区，通常强调生态或制度动态，但很少像本文所建议的那样将生态、经济和制度分析结合起来。通过概念和定量建模以及实地研究的结合，我们正在开发一种创新的跨学科方法来分析自然和人类耦合的沿海海洋系统。通过这些活动以及与该地区其他科学家和实践者的相关互动，我们正在收集大量的社会、经济和生态数据，为海湾地区人类与环境联系的定量模型的发展提供信息，并为培养下一代可持续发展科学学者做出贡献。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、抵御沿海风暴以及娱乐和旅游的机会。要确保持续提供这些好处，就需要了解生态系统与生活在生态系统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，特别是面对气候变化，至关重要。在这个项目中，我们关注的是墨西哥加利福尼亚湾的小规模或手工渔业。为了维持墨西哥湾的渔业，各种管理工具正在考虑之中，包括海洋保护区和其他海洋保护区、捕捞份额和领土使用权。此外，由于最近修订的《渔业法》，预期渔业管理的权力下放将改变该区域内的生态和社会经济动态。通过建立一个跨学科的框架来了解沿海海洋环境与社会之间的联系，以及对海湾的具体分析，我们将帮助为本地区以及世界其他沿海和海洋地区的创新海洋管理战略的发展提供信息。

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.