Building Socio-Ecological Resilience to Coral Reef Degradation in the Islands of the Western Indian Ocean

建立西印度洋岛屿珊瑚礁退化的社会生态复原力

• 批准号: NE/P016073/1
• 负责人: Caroline Hattam
• 金额: $ 20.1万
• 依托单位: Plymouth Marine Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FP016073%2F1
• 关键词: Building; Socio; Ecological; Resilience; Coral

Half a billion people directly utilise coral reefs for essential ecosystem services (ES) such as food and coastal protection, many of whom live within rural areas of the poorest developing countries. This dependence is especially pronounced across the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region. Coral reefs have been experiencing major and sustained ecological degradation, exacerbated by climate change. The resultant changes to these ecosystems are potentially devastating to coastal communities.This project was co-developed with stakeholders from around the WIO and the UK, and involves a team with interdisciplinary expertise in natural science (coral reefs and ecosystem services), social science including governance and development studies, environmental economics, psychology, geography, theology, arts (a blend of fine art and design), and health. The project is ambitious in scope and is anticipated to generate novel and innovative outputs.The project aims to create a network of experts from local community, government, NGO and academic stakeholders from the UK, Mauritius, Zanzibar and other WIO islands to scope opportunities for using ES related research to define and refine strategies and priorities for building socio-ecological resilience to long-term change in coral reefs. The project will involve four interlinked activities that will draw on the diversity of expertise and disciplinary backgrounds of the project team, subcontractors and project partners:(1) Strategies that are currently used to manage coral reefs and which are often assumed to build resilience to climate change impacts will be mapped and assessed. The extent to which the ES framework is applied will be identified and assessment made of how it could be more effectively used in future to support the design of such strategies.(2) A workshop in Mauritius will involve stakeholders from Mauritius (including Rodrigues), Zanzibar, Madagascar, Comoros, Seychelles and Kenya. This will include assessment of i) perceptions of the role of community management and institutions, and actions needed to overcome barriers; ii) opportunities to incentivise action; iii) communication strategies for building resilience. The workshop will include interactive sessions to provide an in-depth analysis of risk (including differences between public and expert framings) and a visual arts approach to participatory mapping to create experiential learning and elicit the more nuanced and intangible aspects of perception, values and identities in the context of real world ecological risk. Drawing participant experience and expertise, a protocol of these activities (involving a film) for replication elsewhere and a synthesis report will be co-developed.(3) The protocol will be piloted in Mauritius and Zanzibar to explore the socio-cultural risks associated with different community-specific resilience strategies and different groups within the community, in order to validate the synthesis report and promote further reflection and dialogue on risks and values associated with coral reefs. It is anticipated that the culturally sensitive approach will allow a better means of investigating localised knowledge, more diverse identities and the dynamics of subject formation.(4) A UK workshop will bring together partners from Mauritius, Madagascar, Zanzibar and the UK to synthesise project outputs, focusing on identifying gaps that can be addressed using the ES framework and the potential for future UK-WIO collaborations, as well as reflecting on the project activities in terms of multi-disciplinary working, engagement with stakeholders and the lessons learnt from this process. The structure for a journal article together with initial draft text and a timetable for final submission will be developed to ensure an academic legacy from the work. The workshop will also provide a platform for the non-UK partners to present their work and access a wider network of potential UK collaborators.

5亿人直接利用珊瑚礁提供食物和海岸保护等基本生态系统服务，其中许多人生活在最贫穷的发展中国家的农村地区。这种依赖性在整个西印度洋（WIO）区域尤为明显。珊瑚礁正在经历严重和持续的生态退化，气候变化加剧了这种退化。由此产生的生态系统变化对沿海社区具有潜在的破坏性。该项目是与世界自然组织和英国的利益相关者共同开发的，涉及一个具有自然科学（珊瑚礁和生态系统服务）、社会科学（包括治理和发展研究）、环境经济学、心理学、地理学、神学、艺术（美术与设计的融合）和健康等跨学科专业知识的团队。该项目规模宏大，预计将产生新颖和创新的产出。该项目旨在建立一个由来自英国、毛里求斯、桑给巴尔和其他WIO岛屿的当地社区、政府、非政府组织和学术利益相关者的专家组成的网络，以寻找利用生态环境相关研究的机会，以确定和完善针对珊瑚礁长期变化建立社会生态复原力的战略和优先事项。该项目将涉及四项相互关联的活动，这些活动将利用项目团队、分包商和项目合作伙伴的专业知识和学科背景的多样性：(1)将绘制和评估目前用于管理珊瑚礁的战略，这些战略通常被认为可以建立对气候变化影响的恢复能力。我们将确定环境评估框架的应用范围，并评估未来如何更有效地使用环境评估框架，以支持此类策略的设计。(2)在毛里求斯举办的讲习班将有来自毛里求斯（包括罗德里格斯）、桑给巴尔、马达加斯加、科摩罗、塞舌尔和肯尼亚的利益攸关方参加。这将包括评估i)对社区管理和机构作用的看法，以及克服障碍所需的行动；Ii)激励行动的机会；Iii)建立韧性的沟通策略。研讨会将包括互动环节，提供对风险的深入分析（包括公共框架和专家框架之间的差异），并采用视觉艺术方法进行参与式绘图，以创造体验式学习，并在现实世界的生态风险背景下引出感知、价值观和身份的更细微和无形的方面。根据参与者的经验和专门知识，将共同拟订一份供其他地方复制的这些活动的议定书（包括一部影片）和一份综合报告。(3)该议定书将在毛里求斯和桑给巴尔进行试点，以探索与不同社区特定复原力战略和社区内不同群体相关的社会文化风险，从而验证综合报告，并促进对与珊瑚礁相关的风险和价值的进一步反思和对话。预计文化敏感的方法将允许一个更好的方法来调查本地化的知识，更多样化的身份和主体形成的动态。(4)英国研讨会将汇集来自毛里求斯、马达加斯加、桑给巴尔和英国的合作伙伴，以综合项目产出，重点是确定可以使用ES框架解决的差距和未来英国- wio合作的潜力，以及从多学科工作、与利益相关者的接触以及从这一过程中吸取的经验教训方面反思项目活动。期刊文章的结构以及初稿文本和最终提交的时间表将被制定，以确保工作的学术遗产。研讨会还将为非英国合作伙伴提供一个展示其作品的平台，并获得更广泛的潜在英国合作者网络。

项目成果

Building resilience in practice to support coral communities in the Western Indian Ocean

在实践中建立复原力，以支持西印度洋的珊瑚群落

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Environmental Science and Policy
• 影响因子: 6
• 作者: Hattam, C