| Citation | Golden, A.S., Baskett, M.L., Holland, D., Levine, A., Mills, K. and Essington, T., 2024. Climate adaptation depends on rebalancing flexibility and rigidity in US fisheries management. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 81(2), pp.252-259. (https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsad189) |
| Title | Climate adaptation depends on rebalancing flexibility and rigidity in fisheries management |
| Publication Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Pages | 252-259 |
| Keywords | governance, resilience, adaptive capacity, vulnerability analysis, fishery social-ecological systems |
| Abstract | Fisheries are facing unprecedented environmental change. An important aspect of resilience to this change is the adaptive capacity of fishermen, managers, and scientists to respond to new conditions. A large and growing academic literature has demonstrated the value of fostering this adaptive capacity and highlighted key elements of fisheries social-ecological systems that can promote it. However, it is unclear to what extent managers and practitioners have adopted these academic concepts and whether they are able to incorporate ideas around adaptive capacity into their day-to-day decision making. Here, we first synthesize the existing literature on adaptive capacity to change and explore some hypothesized barriers to its uptake in fisheries management. Then we compare these academic concepts to how fishery scientists and managers conceptualize and implement these ideas in practice, elicited through interviews with key professionals in U.S. federal fishery management bodies. We find th |
| Official Citation | Golden, A.S., Baskett, M.L., Holland, D., Levine, A., Mills, K. and Essington, T., 2024. Climate adaptation depends on rebalancing flexibility and rigidity in US fisheries management. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 81(2), pp.252-259. |
| Links | (https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsad189) |