Inclusion of the 'Youth Voice for Nature' in Regional Marine Planning

将“青年自然之声”纳入区域海洋规划

• 批准号: 2891774
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Heriot-Watt University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2891774
• 关键词: Inclusion; Youth; Voice; Nature; Regional

The Scottish Government has set out a long-term ambition for Scotland's Blue Economy to 2045. This vision sees our marine environment as maintaining economic prosperity for the nation and playing an important role in ensuring human wellbeing, but that this should be done in a way that protects and enhances our marine assets. The vision also recognises that to do this, we need to transform the way that we manage our 'blue' resources, in a way that is ambitious yet also inclusive.There has, to date, been inadequate attention paid to what an inclusive and just marine governance might look like. The adoption of UN Convention of the Law of the Sea in 1982 created optimism for marginalised groups such as indigenous peoples and coastal communities that they may (re)gain control of marine resources, yet this has not yet occurred. Indeed, marginalisation and exclusion of various groups in marine planning processes continues today.We know that securing public engagement in consultation processes, and the wider planning and management of our seas is a significant challenge. This is for many reasons, including poor communication and perceptions that processes are deliberately exclusionary, a lack of ocean literacy, resource intensity of the process, and the domination of top-down processes. When engagement is successful, such processes tend to be dominated by well-established (often older) voices; generally representing vested interests.Despite the environment (particularly climate change) and biodiversity being regularly cited as one of the major concerns of younger people, youth voices do not feature regularly in marine planning decisions and processes. This is in contravention to international agreements on environmental sustainability, with the role of youth being recognised in several of the SDGs including education (SDG4) and reduction of inequalities (SDG11). If the Scottish Government is to achieve their ambitious vision for Scotland's Blue Economy in a way that is not only sustainable but also inclusive and equitable, then marine planning must consider how to incorporate the youth voice.This project will explore governance mechanisms and engagement processes that might be used to increase youth voices, including the testing of softer measures and potential good practice. It will analyse existing processes, looking to the past and present, and explore ways in which engagement processes may be adapted to ensure the 'youth voice for nature' is included into the future.This project will take a case study approach to investigating options for the inclusion of the 'youth voice for nature' in regional marine planning. Three potential mechanisms will be analysed: a) Scottish Youth Parliament (currently tentative); b) Young Scottish Sea Changers Charity; c) Regional Marine Planning Partnerships (Clyde and Western Isles - tentative interest expressed for the latter).A desk-based policy/regulatory analysis will investigate the barriers and incentives to youth voice inclusion for each of the case study mechanisms. Interviews with regional marine planning stakeholders will take a deep dive into past and present experiences of youth voice inclusion. Focus group workshops with young people, including members of the Scottish Youth Parliament and Young Scottish Sea Changers will provide an honest reflection on ocean literacy levels, access to decision-making and preferred approaches.The findings will be synthesised to identify the lessons learnt across the three mechanisms to develop recommended processes and methods for inclusion of the 'youth voice for nature'. These lessons will be taken up in the CASE component with NatureScot towards the end of the project - identifying how to build upon and move forward 'Reroute', Scotland's Youth Biodiversity Panel.

苏格兰政府已经制定了苏格兰蓝色经济到2045年的长期目标。这一愿景将我们的海洋环境视为维持国家经济繁荣，并在确保人类福祉方面发挥重要作用，但这应该以保护和增强我们海洋资产的方式进行。该愿景还认识到，要做到这一点，我们需要改变我们管理“蓝色”资源的方式，以一种雄心勃勃但又具有包容性的方式。迄今为止，人们对包容和公正的海洋治理可能会是什么样的关注不够。1982年通过的《联合国海洋法公约》使土著人民和沿海社区等边缘化群体乐观地认为，他们可能（重新）获得对海洋资源的控制权，但这种情况尚未发生。事实上，在海洋规划过程中，各种群体被边缘化和排斥的情况今天仍在继续。我们知道，确保公众参与协商过程以及更广泛的海洋规划和管理是一项重大挑战。这是由于许多原因，包括沟通不畅和认为进程是故意排外的，缺乏海洋知识，进程的资源密集，以及自上而下的进程占主导地位。在参与取得成功的情况下，这些进程往往由根深蒂固的声音（往往是年长的声音）主导，通常代表既得利益，尽管环境（特别是气候变化）和生物多样性经常被认为是年轻人的主要关切之一，但在海洋规划决策和进程中，青年的声音并不经常出现。这违反了关于环境可持续性的国际协议，青年的作用在包括教育（SDG 4）和减少不平等（SDG 11）在内的几个SDG中得到了认可。如果苏格兰政府要以一种不仅可持续而且包容和公平的方式实现其对苏格兰蓝色经济的宏伟愿景，那么海洋规划必须考虑如何纳入青年的声音，该项目将探讨可用于增加青年声音的治理机制和参与过程，包括测试软性措施和潜在的良好做法。该项目将分析现有的进程，回顾过去和现在，并探讨如何调整参与进程，以确保“青年为自然发声”纳入未来。该项目将采用案例研究方法，调查将“青年为自然发声”纳入区域海洋规划的备选方案。将分析三个可能的机制：a）苏格兰青年议会（目前是暂定的）; B）苏格兰海洋变革青年慈善机构; c）区域海洋规划伙伴关系（克莱德和西部群岛-对后者表示了暂定的兴趣），将进行案头政策/监管分析，调查每个案例研究机制纳入青年声音的障碍和激励措施。与区域海洋规划利益攸关方的访谈将深入探讨过去和现在的青年声音包容经验。与年轻人，包括苏格兰青年议会和苏格兰青年海洋改变者的成员的焦点小组研讨会将提供一个诚实的反思海洋识字水平，获得决策和首选的方法。研究结果将被综合，以确定在三个机制中吸取的经验教训，制定推荐的过程和方法，以纳入“青年的声音为自然”。这些经验教训将在项目结束时与NatureScot一起在CASE组件中进行-确定如何在苏格兰青年生物多样性小组“Reroute”的基础上继续前进。