Social climate resilience: Evidence from a traditional surf clam fishery community in Chile

IF 4.8 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 OCEANOGRAPHY

Ocean & Coastal Management Pub Date : 2024-10-29 DOI:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107435

Jaime A. Aburto , Elena Ojea , Jacinta Arthur , Franco Contreras , Laura Ramajo

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Regulatory frameworks and management systems are key determining the resilience of small-scale fishing communities to climate change, as they can either enhance or hinder the ability of fishers to sustain their livelihoods and well-being. In Chile, the fishing sector holds significant economic and social importance. The management of specific resources has evolved with the introduction of territorial user rights, which have overlapped with existing traditional and customary fishing communities. Caleta San Pedro (CSP) is one of those traditional communities with a rich legacy dating back to the mid-1800s that since 1997, has operated under a spatial property rights system (AMERB) granted to a neighboring community who hold the official property rights. In this study, we focused on understanding the extent to which property rights, operating alongside customary rules at CSP, can confer social climate resilience. Through the application of face-to face semi-structured questionnaires to 48 fishers, we investigated a range of social factors that are theoretically linked to foster climate resilience in fishing communities (i.e., fisher mobility, resource stewardship). Fishers’ responses were categorized in 23 indicators that relate to the different resilience factors, both at the individual (fisher) and the collective (CSP guild) levels. Our study reveals some mismatches in resilience indicators between the individual and collective scales partly due to differing capacities within the embedded regulatory system (e.g. long-term stewardship is high for the individual fishers however lower at the collective scale). However, our findings also illustrate the potential of the system to promote resilience by involving fishers more extensively in decision-making processes, addressing existing inequalities, and implementing adaptive management strategies. Results can shed some light on how resilience may be fostered in similar customary fishing communities embedded in property rights systems elsewhere.

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社会气候复原力：智利传统海蚌渔业社区的证据

监管框架和管理系统是决定小型渔业社区抵御气候变化能力的关键，因为它们可以增强或阻碍渔民维持生计和福祉的能力。在智利，渔业具有重要的经济和社会意义。随着领土使用权的引入，特定资源的管理发生了变化，与现有的传统和习惯捕鱼社区重叠。卡莱塔圣佩德罗（Caleta San Pedro，CSP）就是这样一个传统社区，其丰富的历史可追溯到 1800 年代中期，自 1997 年以来，该社区一直在空间产权制度（AMERB）下运作，该制度授予了拥有官方产权的邻近社区。在这项研究中，我们重点了解产权与 CSP 的习惯规则一起运作时，能在多大程度上赋予社会气候复原力。通过对 48 名渔民进行面对面的半结构式问卷调查，我们调查了一系列理论上与促进渔业社区气候复原力相关的社会因素（即渔民流动性、资源管理）。渔民的回答被归类为 23 项指标，这些指标涉及个人（渔民）和集体（CSP 行会）层面的不同复原力因素。我们的研究揭示了个体和集体尺度之间复原力指标的一些不匹配，部分原因是嵌入式监管系统内的能力不同（例如，个体渔民的长期管理能力较高，但集体尺度较低）。不过，我们的研究结果也说明，通过让渔民更广泛地参与决策过程、解决现有的不平等问题以及实施适应性管理战略，该系统具有促进复原力的潜力。这些结果可以为其他地方嵌入产权制度的类似传统渔业社区如何提高复原力提供一些启示。

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Ocean & Coastal Management 环境科学-海洋学

CiteScore

8.50

自引率

15.20%

发文量

321

审稿时长

60 days

期刊介绍： Ocean & Coastal Management is the leading international journal dedicated to the study of all aspects of ocean and coastal management from the global to local levels. We publish rigorously peer-reviewed manuscripts from all disciplines, and inter-/trans-disciplinary and co-designed research, but all submissions must make clear the relevance to management and/or governance issues relevant to the sustainable development and conservation of oceans and coasts. Comparative studies (from sub-national to trans-national cases, and other management / policy arenas) are encouraged, as are studies that critically assess current management practices and governance approaches. Submissions involving robust analysis, development of theory, and improvement of management practice are especially welcome.