RCUK-SEA: Using Nexus Thinking to Empower Community-Based Management of Mangrove Fisheries

RCUK-SEA：利用 Nexus 思维增强红树林渔业的社区管理

• 批准号: NE/P020925/1
• 负责人: Caroline Hattam
• 金额: $ 6.18万
• 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%2FP020925%2F1
• 关键词: RCUK; SEA; Using; Nexus; Thinking

Malaysia formally recognises the national and international value of its mangrove resources and has awarded them extensive protection. Nevertheless, the total area of mangroves continues to decline and mangroves are threatened by environmental degradation as natural resources are traded-off against population growth and economic development. The solution to mangrove degradation no longer lies in resource protection, but in fostering understanding that mangroves are embedded within a context of complex interactions of multiple uses involving stakeholders with different interests, i.e. the mangrove nexus.Mangroves support highly productive fisheries, but mangrove destruction has severely affected the livelihoods of fishermen who are known to be among the most economically disadvantaged in Malaysia and many other developing countries. While efforts are made at many scales by different stakeholders against mangrove fishery loss, there has been a tendency for them to work in isolation with little communication between them. Opportunities for mangrove dependent fishing communities to engage in the management of the resource on which they depend have been limited.Through an application of nexus thinking, this project will improve understanding of the interdependencies, tensions and trade-offs between the mangroves, their associated fishery and their users, in the context of human and environmental change. The Klang Islands mangrove forest will be used as a case study. This forest (ca. 15,000ha) forms part of a larger tract of mangrove forest stretching over 100km along the coast of the state of Selangor. The coastline maintains some of the most productive cockle and coastal fisheries in Malaysia. To support the continued and sustainable use of the Klang Islands fishery and the communities dependent upon them, this project has three aims: 1) to progress the application of nexus thinking to the sustainable management of Klang Island fishery resources; 2) to set the foundations for community-based fishery management in the Klang Islands mangrove system, 3) develop a programme of environmental education emphasising the importance of mangroves.Working with three project partners (Penang Inshore Fishermen Welfare Association, Department of Fisheries, Selangor and Wetlands International) these aims will be achieved through a series of stakeholder workshops, supported by student projects and effective knowledge exchange. The project will initiate communication between stakeholders (fishermen, government, industry and NGOs) and begin a process of empowerment that will encourage fisheries dependent communities to directly participate in fishery resource management. This will directly support the mission "Creating a developed, independent and progressive fishermen community" outlined by the Fisheries Development Authority of Malaysia. It will also contribute to strengthening the participation of stakeholders and cooperation between planning and implementation agencies, one of four objectives identified for the implementation of coastal zone management since the Ninth Malaysia Plan. To ensure that this project legacy can be capitalised upon, the structure and mechanisms for ongoing community engagement projects will be established (e.g. appointment of appropriate local community heads, creation of lines of communication between local fishermen associations and local government, identification of roles for project partners).

马来西亚正式承认其红树林资源的国家和国际价值，并给予其广泛的保护。然而，由于自然资源与人口增长和经济发展之间的权衡，红树林总面积持续下降，红树林受到环境退化的威胁。红树林退化的解决方案不再在于资源保护，而是在于促进人们认识到红树林植根于涉及不同利益相关者的多种用途的复杂相互作用的背景下，即红树林关系。红树林支持高产渔业，但红树林的破坏严重影响了渔民的生计，而这些渔民被认为是经济上最弱势的群体之一。 马来西亚和许多其他发展中国家。尽管不同利益相关者为防止红树林渔业损失做出了多方面的努力，但他们倾向于孤立工作，彼此之间很少沟通。依赖红树林的渔业社区参与其所依赖的资源管理的机会受到限制。通过应用联系思维，该项目将在人类和环境变化的背景下加深对红树林、其相关渔业及其用户之间的相互依赖性、紧张关系和权衡的理解。巴生群岛红树林将被用作案例研究。这片森林（约 15,000 公顷）是沿着雪兰莪州海岸绵延 100 多公里的大片红树林的一部分。海岸线上保留着马来西亚一些生产力最高的贝类和沿海渔业。为了支持巴生群岛渔业以及依赖渔业的社区的持续和可持续利用，该项目有三个目标： 1) 推进关系思维在巴生岛渔业资源可持续管理中的应用； 2）为巴生群岛红树林系统的社区渔业管理奠定基础，3）制定环境教育计划，强调红树林的重要性。与三个项目合作伙伴（槟城近海渔民福利协会、渔业部、雪兰莪和湿地国际）合作，这些目标将通过一系列利益相关者研讨会在学生项目和有效知识交流的支持下实现。该项目将启动利益相关者（渔民、政府、行业和非政府组织）之间的沟通，并启动赋权进程，鼓励依赖渔业的社区直接参与渔业资源管理。这将直接支持马来西亚渔业发展局提出的“创建一个发达、独立和进步的渔民社区”的使命。它还将有助于加强利益相关者的参与以及规划和实施机构之间的合作，这是自第九个马来西亚计划以来为实施沿海地区管理确定的四个目标之一。为了确保该项目遗产能够得到​​利用，将建立正在进行的社区参与项目的结构和机制（例如任命适当的当地社区负责人、在当地渔民协会和当地政府之间建立沟通渠道、确定项目合作伙伴的角色）。

项目成果

Using nexus thinking to identify opportunities for mangrove management in the Klang Islands, Malaysia

利用联系思维寻找马来西亚巴生群岛红树林管理的机会

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106917
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
• 作者: Hattam C

Mangrove ecosystem services: Contribution to the well-being of the coastal communities in Klang Islands

红树林生态系统服务：对巴生群岛沿海社区福祉的贡献

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Marine Policy
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Nur Fatin Nabilah Ruslan