Sustainable development and resilience of UK coastal communities

英国沿海社区的可持续发展和复原力

• 批准号: NE/V016601/1
• 负责人: Louisa Evans
• 金额: $ 205.96万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FV016601%2F1
• 关键词: Sustainable; development; resilience; UK; coastal

The climate and ecological emergencies, Brexit and Covid-19 illustrate the enormity of change and disturbance currently impacting coastal communities in the UK, and the urgency of building resilience to accelerating, multi-faceted and new forms of risk. Our research aims to build the knowledge and know-how to enhance the resilience of marine resource-users to environmental, regulatory and socio-cultural change, while simultaneously improving their wellbeing and reducing adverse impacts on the marine environment. Marine investment, policy and management decisions are often understood as prioritisation decisions ("this or that"), but they can also involve system interactions and trade-offs, and so create winners and losers. Trade-off conflicts manifest in policy consultation, planning and licensing decisions, and in the everyday behaviours of resource-users choosing to support (or not) particular interventions. There is, therefore, increasing impetus to be explicit about trade-offs where they can explain the political acceptability, effectiveness and durability of marine plans, fisheries regulations, protected area designations or offshore wind farms. To date, research has focused on ecological trade-offs or social-ecological trade-offs related to tensions between environmental sustainability and human welfare and wellbeing, with little attention to resilience. Yet, emerging research shows trade-offs between resilience and wellbeing, and between resilience and sustainability with important implications for marine policy and practice. Our research will be the first to develop a nexus perspective on resilience, wellbeing and sustainability to acknowledge that any solution for one objective must equally consider the other two in the nexus. We apply the nexus perspective to on-the-ground and policy interventions to systematically evaluate synergies and trade-offs among resilience, wellbeing and sustainability across scales and sectors, and to identify opportunities to improve these outcomes together. We address the three call themes by:THEME 1: Investigating how diverse marine resource-users respond to varied disturbance events, how their resilience intersects with their wellbeing and engagement with sustainability, and what they VALUE as important for maintaining and improving nexus outcomes. THEME 2: Applying the nexus perspective to the policy context to understand how diverse values and nexus dynamics are traded off in decision-making currently. Working closely with policy and industry stakeholders we will develop a DECISION-SUPPORT FRAMEWORK to interrogate the acceptability of trade-off decisions within and across marine sectors.THEME 3: Applying the nexus perspective to on-the-ground INTERVENTIONS to assess how initiatives intend to improve resilience, wellbeing and/or sustainability, and currently deal with trade-offs across the nexus. Working closely with practitioners, we will identify opportunities to improve future iterations of these interventions so they can better deliver triple benefits across the nexus. Project deliverables include: a new nexus perspective; a low-tech trade-off decision-support framework for use by policy-makers and implementers, and; evidence that applying a nexus perspective can improve both policy and on-the-ground interventions in marine social-ecological systems in the UK across the domains of marine heritage, sustainable development of communities, and marine environmental regulation. This research will be world leading and of international importance. The resilience of people, communities and ecosystems underpins global action to sustainably manage aquatic ecosystems (SDG14), respond to climate change (SDG13), and deliver enduring improvements in wellbeing (SDG1+2). Our research addresses a significant gap in knowledge of how nexus dynamics play out across scales that will be fundamental to successful delivery of these Sustainable Development Goals.

气候和生态紧急情况、英国脱欧和2019冠状病毒病表明，当前英国沿海社区面临巨大变化和动荡，迫切需要建立抵御不断加速的、多方面的新形式风险的能力。我们的研究旨在建立知识和技能，以增强海洋资源使用者对环境、监管和社会文化变化的适应能力，同时改善他们的福祉，减少对海洋环境的不利影响。海洋投资、政策和管理决策通常被理解为优先级决策（“这个或那个”），但它们也可能涉及系统交互和权衡，因此产生赢家和输家。权衡冲突体现在政策咨询、规划和许可决策中，也体现在资源使用者选择支持（或不支持）特定干预措施的日常行为中。因此，越来越多的动力要求明确权衡，以便解释海洋计划、渔业法规、保护区指定或海上风力发电场的政治可接受性、有效性和持久性。迄今为止，研究主要集中在与环境可持续性与人类福利和福祉之间的紧张关系相关的生态权衡或社会生态权衡，很少关注复原力。然而，新兴研究表明，恢复力与福祉之间、恢复力与可持续性之间存在权衡，这对海洋政策和实践具有重要意义。我们的研究将是第一个对复原力、幸福感和可持续性提出联系观点的研究，承认任何一个目标的解决方案都必须在联系中平等地考虑其他两个目标。我们将联系视角应用于实地和政策干预，系统评估跨规模和部门的复原力、福祉和可持续性之间的协同效应和权衡，并确定共同改善这些结果的机会。主题1：调查不同的海洋资源使用者如何应对各种干扰事件，他们的复原力如何与他们的福祉和可持续发展的参与相交叉，以及他们对维持和改善关系结果的重要价值。主题2：将关系视角应用于政策背景，以了解当前决策中如何权衡不同的价值观和关系动态。我们将与政策和行业利益相关者密切合作，制定一个决策支持框架，以询问海洋部门内部和跨部门权衡决策的可接受性。主题3：将关联视角应用于实地干预措施，以评估举措如何打算提高复原力、福祉和/或可持续性，以及目前如何处理跨关联的权衡。我们将与从业人员密切合作，确定改进这些干预措施的未来迭代的机会，以便它们能够更好地在整个关系中提供三重效益。项目可交付成果包括：新的关系视角；一个供决策者和实施者使用的低技术权衡决策支持框架；证据表明，应用联系视角可以在海洋遗产、社区可持续发展和海洋环境监管等领域改善英国海洋社会生态系统的政策和实地干预。这项研究将是世界领先的，具有国际重要性。人类、社区和生态系统的复原力是可持续管理水生生态系统（可持续发展目标14）、应对气候变化（可持续发展目标13）和持久改善福祉（可持续发展目标1+2）的全球行动的基础。我们的研究解决了一个重要的知识缺口，即联系动态如何在各个尺度上发挥作用，这将是成功实现这些可持续发展目标的基础。

项目成果

What is the evidence that reports on the interactions between human resilience, human wellbeing and environmental sustainability in marine and coastal areas around the UK? An evidence map protocol

有哪些证据表明英国周围海洋和沿海地区的人类复原力、人类福祉和环境可持续性之间的相互作用？

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Proceed
• 作者: Eales J

Marine Planning Trade-off Analysis (MaPTA) Faciliator Guide.

海洋规划权衡分析 (MaPTA) 协调员指南。

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Fortnam M