Integrating diverse values into the sustainable management of marine resources in the UK

该项目的总体目标是在英国海洋政策利益相关者和研究界的跨学科能力方面产生持久和世界级的转变，以实施决策的不同价值，并支持英国海洋资源的可持续管理。多元价值是指价值的许多维度，包括经济价值、社会和文化价值、审美价值和自然价值，以及它们在决策框架（如工具价值、内在价值和关系价值）中如何被考虑在内。通过跨越陆地、沿海和海洋领域的复杂多层次社会生态系统，海洋环境与人类福祉密不可分。虽然这种复杂性在理论上得到广泛承认，但目前的海洋资源管理实践模型（本身高度复杂、多尺度和相互关联）没有充分采用必要的跨学科方法来使用不同的价值，也没有办法使它们与决策和政策制定相一致。向跨学科和多元化价值观的过渡是全球海洋科学和政策界面临的挑战，被公认为联合国海洋科学促进可持续发展十年（教科文组织2019年）的全球科学优先事项。这是一个跨领域的挑战，影响到所有海洋管理的优先事项。在英国海洋管理过程中纳入不同的价值观，特别是定性的价值观是至关重要的，但目前在海洋管理研究和从业者社区的许多机构和个人的经验、能力和舒适区之外。该项目的目标是推动变革研究的创新议程，这既大大提高了我们对基于价值的海洋管理的理解，又提供了可操作的工具和方法，可以直接用于英国当代海洋管理实践。在朴茨茅斯/纽黑文，上塞文河口和设得兰群岛三个测试研究地点工作，本研究的目的是：1。为跨学科的海洋管理和研究创造一个新的概念基础，使多种多样的人类价值被纳入英国的海洋管理。将现有的生态和经济数据与新的不同价值方法（使用主要来自海洋社区以外的方法收集）综合起来，对沿海社区如何评估海洋资源及其管理产生开创性的跨学科和整体理解。通过实地测试，评估如何利用不同的价值观：1)释放海洋素养的潜力，使其成为一项可操作的政策工具；2)整合到海洋治理机构和实践中，以实现可持续成果的阶段性变化。创建并实施一项全国性的过渡计划，以支持英国海洋管理和研究界将跨学科方法纳入主流。该项目的一个关键目标是在英国海洋部门的能力上创造一个阶梯式的变化，以考虑不同的价值观和实现这些价值观所需的跨学科方法。我们通过开发一项研究计划来解决这个问题，该计划的重点是通过在学术界和更广泛地与不同的利益相关者开展跨学科的工作实践，共同构建如何在政策和实践中使用不同的价值观。该项目的目的是在英国海洋管理实践中创造一个变化。该项目的遗产将是增加对海洋政策和决策中不同价值观的理解和实施，并为机构创建过渡计划，以促进将跨学科实践融入组织的运营中。

The overarching goal of the project is to generate an enduring and world-class step-change in the transdisciplinary capability of the UK marine policy stakeholder and research community to implement diverse values for decision making and support the sustainable management of the UK's marine resources. Diverse values refer to the many dimensions of value including economic values, social and cultural values, aesthetic values, and natural values and how they might be accounted for in decision-making frameworks such as instrumental values, intrinsic values and relational values. Marine environments and human well-being are inextricably linked through complex and multi-layered socio-ecological systems that span terrestrial, coastal and ocean domains. While this complexity is widely acknowledged in theory, current models of marine resource management practice (which themselves are highly complex, multi-scaled and interconnected) do not adequately adopt the necessary transdisciplinary approaches to use diverse values or have the means to align them to decision making and policy development. The transition to transdisciplinarity and diverse values is a challenge faced by marine science and policy communities worldwide and is acknowledged as a global science priority for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (UNESCO 2019). It is a cross-cutting challenge which affects all marine management priorities. The inclusion of diverse values, particularly of a qualitative nature, into UK marine management processes is crucial, but at present is outside the experience, capability and comfort zone of many institutions and individuals in the marine management research and practitioner community. The aims of this project drive an innovative agenda of transformational research that both significantly advances our understanding of values-based marine management and which provides actionable tools and approaches that can feed directly into contemporary marine management practice in the UK. Working across three test study sites of Portsmouth / Newhaven, Upper Severn Estuary and the Shetland Islands the aims of this research are:1. to generate a new conceptual basis for transdisciplinary marine management and research that allows multiple and diverse human values to be incorporated into marine management in the UK.2. to synthesise existing ecological and economic data with new diverse values approaches (collected using methods from largely outside the marine community) to produce groundbreaking transdisciplinary and holistic understanding of how coastal communities value marine resources and their management.3. to evaluate, through on-the-ground testing, how diverse values can: 1) be used to unlock the potential of ocean literacy to become an actionable policy tool; and 2) be integrated into marine governance institutions and practices to unlock a step-change in sustainable outcomes.4. to create and implement a national-scale transition plan to support the UK marine management and research community to mainstream transdisciplinary approaches.A key aim of the project is to create a step-change in the capability of the UK marine sector to consider diverse values and the transdisciplinary approaches needed to operationalise those values. We have approached this by developing a research programme that is focused on co-constructing how diverse values can be used in policy and practice by developing transdisciplinary working practices both within academia and more broadly with diverse stakeholders. The aim of the project is to create a change in the practices of marine management in the UK. The project legacy will be an increased understanding and implementation of diverse values into marine policy and decision making and the creation of transition plans for institutions to facilitate embedding transdisciplinary practices into the operations of organisations.