TY - JOUR
T1 - Attributes of climate resilience in fisheries
T2 - From theory to practice
AU - Mason, Julia G.
AU - Eurich, Jacob G.
AU - Lau, Jacqueline D.
AU - Battista, Willow
AU - Free, Christopher M.
AU - Mills, Katherine E.
AU - Tokunaga, Kanae
AU - Zhao, Lily Z.
AU - Dickey-Collas, Mark
AU - Valle, Mireia
AU - Pecl, Gretta T.
AU - Cinner, Joshua E.
AU - McClanahan, Tim R.
AU - Allison, Edward H.
AU - Friedman, Whitney R.
AU - Silva, Claudio
AU - Yáñez, Eleuterio
AU - Barbieri, María
AU - Kleisner, Kristin M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper resulted from the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) Climate Resilient Fisheries Working Group. SNAPP is a partnership of The Nature Conservancy and Wildlife Conservation Society. This SNAPP working group is part of a cohort of research funded by the generosity of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Grant #2018‐68222 to address the theme of Oceans, Climate, and Equity. The manuscript greatly benefited from all working group leaders, members and advisors and from additional external experts (see Supplementary Information for full list) who assisted in the development, conceptualization and peer review of the resilience attributes. George Freduah was a core part of the literature review and thematic coding. We are particularly grateful to Pat Sullivan for thoughtful comments that improved the manuscript and Hannah Epstein and Hugo Harrison for their thoughtful discussions and inputs to the resilience attributes. We thank Derek Armitage, Lyall Bellquist, Merrick Burden, Beth Fulton, Rod Fujita, Steve Gaines, Christopher Golden, Anne Hollowed, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Essam Mohammed, Myron Peck, Andy Pershing, Jöern Schmidt and Lynne Shannon for their peer review of the resilience attributes and Petri Tuohimaa for his graphic design work. We are also grateful for the financial support of the David R. and Patricia D. Atkinson Foundation (to JGM), the National Science Foundation (CNH 1826668 to JGE), the ARC Centre of Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, the CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri‐Food Systems (FISH) led by WorldFish, and the CGIAR Trust Fund (to JDL) and the Australian Research Council (CE140100020, FT160100047 to JEC). The manuscript greatly benefited from the input of two anonymous reviewers.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors. Fish and Fisheries published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - In a changing climate, there is an imperative to build coupled social-ecological systems—including fisheries—that can withstand or adapt to climate stressors. Although resilience theory identifies system attributes that supposedly confer resilience, these attributes have rarely been clearly defined, mechanistically explained, nor tested and applied to inform fisheries governance. Here, we develop and apply a comprehensive resilience framework to examine fishery systems across (a) ecological, (b) socio-economic and (c) governance dimensions using five resilience domains: assets, flexibility, organization, learning and agency. We distil and define 38 attributes that confer climate resilience from a coupled literature- and expert-driven approach, describe how they apply to fisheries and provide illustrative examples of resilience attributes in action. Our synthesis highlights that the directionality and mechanism of these attributes depend on the specific context, capacities, and scale of the focal fishery system and associated stressors, and we find evidence of interdependencies among attributes. Overall, however, we find few studies that test resilience attributes in fisheries across all parts of the system, with most examples focussing on the ecological dimension. As such, meaningful quantification of the attributes’ contributions to resilience remains a challenge. Our synthesis and holistic framework represent a starting point for critical application of resilience concepts to fisheries social-ecological systems.
AB - In a changing climate, there is an imperative to build coupled social-ecological systems—including fisheries—that can withstand or adapt to climate stressors. Although resilience theory identifies system attributes that supposedly confer resilience, these attributes have rarely been clearly defined, mechanistically explained, nor tested and applied to inform fisheries governance. Here, we develop and apply a comprehensive resilience framework to examine fishery systems across (a) ecological, (b) socio-economic and (c) governance dimensions using five resilience domains: assets, flexibility, organization, learning and agency. We distil and define 38 attributes that confer climate resilience from a coupled literature- and expert-driven approach, describe how they apply to fisheries and provide illustrative examples of resilience attributes in action. Our synthesis highlights that the directionality and mechanism of these attributes depend on the specific context, capacities, and scale of the focal fishery system and associated stressors, and we find evidence of interdependencies among attributes. Overall, however, we find few studies that test resilience attributes in fisheries across all parts of the system, with most examples focussing on the ecological dimension. As such, meaningful quantification of the attributes’ contributions to resilience remains a challenge. Our synthesis and holistic framework represent a starting point for critical application of resilience concepts to fisheries social-ecological systems.
KW - adaptive capacity
KW - coastal communities
KW - fisheries management
KW - global change
KW - social-ecological systems
KW - synthesis science
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85120178051&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/faf.12630
DO - 10.1111/faf.12630
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120178051
JO - Fish and Fisheries
JF - Fish and Fisheries
SN - 1467-2960
ER -