EAPSI: Assessing Potential for Adaptive Governance and Joint Knowledge Production in the Presence of Rapid Environmental Change

该项目评估沿海社区适应快速环境变化的潜力。海洋温度上升、珊瑚白化和过度捕捞威胁着沿海生态系统和依赖它们的社区。该项目的重点是在所罗门群岛进行的一项个案研究，评估了《所罗门群岛渔业管理法》在提高沿海社区适应当前环境变化的能力方面的潜力。所罗门群岛受到海洋温度上升和日益频繁的珊瑚白化的影响，而过度捕捞和沿海开发使这一问题更加严重。由此造成的海洋资源损失威胁到沿海生态系统和依赖这些生态系统的社区。需要灵活的海洋治理形式，以确保利益攸关方和决策者能够适应这些影响。以前的研究表明，让社区参与进来，为管理人员、研究人员和当地人民之间的共享学习创造空间，是灵活治理体系的重要组成部分。该项目将利用政策分析和与区域专家的访谈来评估渔业法建立这样一个系统的潜力。这项研究将在澳大利亚国立大学（ANU）与著名的知识治理研究员货车Kerkhoff博士一起进行。堪培拉是太平洋岛屿研究的中心，是采访渔业管理专业人士的理想场所。这项工作的结果将与大洋洲地区和面临类似威胁的美国太平洋岛屿有关。本项目将环境治理作为一个透镜，评价所罗门群岛渔业管理法作为新兴适应性治理的一个潜在例子。将特别关注这一行动在促进所罗门群岛利益攸关方之间共同创造知识方面的潜力。适应性治理被认为是一种非常适合迅速变化的社会生态系统的复杂性的系统。人们对适应性治理如何与现有的知识体系，特别是太平洋岛屿社区的知识体系相结合知之甚少。这项研究采用了演绎政策分析和半结构化的采访太平洋渔业政策专家，以更好地了解适应性治理如何为土著系统和西方科学之间的知识共同生产和传播创造空间。该奖项是东亚和太平洋夏季研究所计划下的一个奖项，支持美国研究生的夏季研究，由NSF和澳大利亚科学院共同资助。

This project assesses the potential for coastal communities to adapt to rapid environmental changes. Rising ocean temperatures, coral bleaching and overfishing threaten coastal ecosystems and the communities that rely on them. This project focuses on a case study carried out in the Solomon Islands where the Solomon Islands Fishery Management Act is assessed for its potential to increase the ability of their coastal communities to adapt to currently occurring environmental changes. The Solomon Islands are impacted by rising ocean temperature and increasingly frequent coral bleaching, which are compounded by overfishing and coastal development. The resulting loss of marine resources threatens coastal ecosystems and the communities that rely on them. Flexible forms of marine governance are needed to ensure that stakeholders and decision-makers are able to adapt to these effects. Previous research suggests that engaging communities, and creating space for shared learning between managers, researchers, and local people, are important components of a flexible governance system. This project will use policy analysis and interviews with regional experts to assess the potential of the fisheries act to create such a system. This research will be conducted at Australia National University (ANU) with Dr. Lorrae van Kerkhoff, a noted knowledge governance researcher. Canberra is a hub for Pacific island research, making it ideal for interviews with fisheries governance professionals. The results of this work will be relevant to the Oceania region and to U.S. Pacific islands facing similar threats.This project applies environmental governance as a lens to evaluate the Solomon Islands Fishery Management Act as a potential example of emerging adaptive governance. Specific attention will be given to the potential for this act to foster knowledge coproduction between stakeholders in the Solomon Islands. Adaptive governance has been proposed as a system well-suited to the complexity of rapidly changing social-ecological systems. Little is known about how adaptive governance integrates with existent knowledge systems, especially those of Pacific Island communities. This study employs a deductive policy analysis and semi-structured interviews with Pacific fisheries policy experts to better understand how adaptive governance may create space for knowledge coproduction and transmission between indigenous systems and Western science.This award, under the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program, supports summer research by a U.S. graduate student and is jointly funded by NSF and the Australian Academy of Science.