Building social resilience to environmental change in marginalised coastal communities

该项目为在边缘化沿海社区建立社会复原力的跨学科合作奠定了基础。海洋和沿海地区可以通过低碳能源、资源提供和减少灾害风险等方式，为建设更可持续的社会作出重大贡献。然而，与此同时，沿海社区可能更容易受到气候变化风险或新的近海和沿海开发的负面影响。根据可持续发展目标14，有必要更充分地了解如何管理社会与海洋的关系，使那些与海洋有最直接联系的人受益。因此，该提案将两个社会力量强大的国家，与海洋的文化和经济联系-苏格兰和日本-并将在理解和管理海洋和海岸环境变化的共同方向上工作的研究人员联系起来。该项目的总体目标是澄清不同的学科背景-环境社会学、地理学、海洋法、沿海区管理、环境科学传播和用于环境评估的海洋科学-如何能够共同努力，更有效地了解环境变化如何影响沿海社区，并将这些研究结果与法律的和环境评估及监测进程联系起来。预期的成果是一个概念和方法框架，这将成为随后更大的供资提案和更广泛的实证研究的基础，实现这一目标的关键是发展PI Mabon和日本Co-PI Kawabe与日本和苏格兰沿海社区建立的初步联系。具体来说，日本的福岛县的南相马市和北海道的驹市;苏格兰的奥克尼和阿伯丁郡。在该项目中，这些将被用作实地考察的铸造研究领域，使项目研究人员了解什么样的研究在后续资金中是可行的，并关键地允许与当地利益相关者互动的机会，共同创造新的研究问题在更广泛的研究之前。这将通过双边访问以及RGU和TUMSAT之间的长期学术访问来实现，该访问强调早期职业研究人员的发展以及与非学术合作伙伴建立联系。重点放在早期职业研究人员的参与和发展上，这些研究人员能够采取跨学科的方法来应对沿海社区的复原力。为此，每个国家都有一名早期职业研究人员作为共同研究者，并要求预算允许少量额外的ECR在每次双边访问期间参加现场访问和研讨会。

This project lays the groundwork for interdisciplinary collaboration on building social resilience in marginalised coastal communities. Seas and coasts can make a significant contribution to building a more sustainable society through, for example, low-carbon energy, resource provision and disaster risk reduction. At the same time, however, coastal communities may be more vulnerable to climate change risks or to negative effects from new offshore and coastal developments. In line with Sustainable Development Goal 14, there is hence a need to more fully understand how to manage society's relation with the sea in a way that benefits those who are most directly connected to the sea.This proposal therefore takes two countries with a strong social, cultural and economic connection to the sea - Scotland and Japan - and connects researchers working in the common direction of understanding and governing environmental change in seas and coasts. The overall objective of the project is to clarify how different disciplinary backgrounds - environmental sociology, geography, marine law, coastal zone management, environmental science communication, and marine science for environmental assessment - can work together to more effectively understand how environmental change affects coastal communities, and connect these findings with legal and environmental assessment and monitoring processes. The intended outcome is a conceptual and methodological framework, which will form the basis of subsequent larger funding proposals and more extensive empirical research.Key to attaining this objective is the development of initial links established by PI Mabon and Japanese Co-PI Kawabe with coastal communities in both Japan and Scotland. Specifically, Minamisoma in Fukushima Prefecture and Tomakomai in Hokkaido in Japan; and Orkney and Aberdeenshire in Scotland. In the project, these will be used as cast study areas for site visits, allowing project researchers to understand what kind of research would be feasible in follow-on funding and crucially allowing opportunity for interaction with local stakeholders to co-create new research questions ahead of more extensive research. This will be achieved through bilateral visits, and also through a longer-term academic visit between RGU and TUMSAT which emphasises development of early-career researchers and building of links with non-academic partners.Significant emphasis is placed on involvement and development of early-career researchers able to take an interdisciplinary approach to resilience in coastal communities. To this end, one early-career researcher from each country is included as a Co-Investigator, and budget is requested to allow a small number of additional ECRs to join the site visits and workshops during each bilateral visit.