SEES Fellows: The true meaning of "success": Developing adaptive social-ecological frameworks for evaluation of marine protected areas

SEES 研究员：“成功”的真正含义：制定用于评估海洋保护区的适应性社会生态框架

• 批准号: 1414267
• 负责人: Tara Whitty
• 金额: $ 41.93万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1414267&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SEES; Fellows; true; meaning; success

The project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. Sustainability science is an emerging field that addresses the challenges of meeting human needs without harm to the environment, and without sacrificing the ability of future generations to meet their needs. A strong scientific workforce requires individuals educated and trained in interdisciplinary research and thinking, especially in the area of sustainability science. With the SEES Fellowship support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish herself in an independent research career related to sustainability. This project focuses on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and biodiversity.MPAs are widely prescribed to conserve marine biodiversity (by protecting marine habitats and species) and to ensure sustained production of marine resources. Currently, about 2.3% of the world's oceans are protected in MPAs. While there are recommendations to significantly increase this coverage, assessments suggest that existing MPAs have been largely ineffective at reaching ecological and social objectives. This project addresses the critical need to evaluate and promote MPA success. This project incorporates interdisciplinary, multi-scale approaches to meaningfully contribute to the evaluation and management of MPAs as complex adaptive systems to: 1. Develop, test, and refine adaptable and informative social-ecological frameworks for evaluating MPA "success" at large- and local-scales; 2. Use frameworks to guide data collection and analyses of social-ecological attributes and MPA outcomes at sites in Baja California, Micronesia, and Myanmar; 3. Create metrics for comparably characterizing diverse MPA sites globally; 4. Collaborate with three open-access databases (MPAtlas, DataMARES, and the Information System for Small-scale Fisheries) on the presentation of final data and distribution of frameworks for future data collection; 5. Develop, test, and refine a streamlined, holistic toolkit and training module for collecting social and ecological data on selected priority indicators. This effort builds upon and moves beyond previous MPA evaluation research, linking multiple disciplines and projects to develop conceptual frameworks and systematic, applied approaches for MPA evaluation and implementation that incorporate sustainability concepts. The SEES Fellow, Dr. Tara Whitty, works with host mentor Dr. Aburto Oropeza at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and with parnter mentor Dr. Ratana Chuenpagdee at Memorial University in St. John's, Newfoundland. NSF's International Science and Engineering (ISE) program has co-funded this project.

该项目得到了 NSF 科学、工程和可持续发展教育研究员 (SEES Fellows) 计划的支持，其目标是帮助实现所需的发现，为实现环境、能源和社会可持续发展的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来解决这些问题挑战。可持续性科学是一个新兴领域，旨在解决在不损害环境、不牺牲子孙后代满足其需求的能力的情况下满足人类需求的挑战。强大的科学队伍需要受过跨学科研究和思维教育和培训的人员，特别是在可持续发展科学领域。在 SEES 奖学金的支持下，该项目将使一位有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续发展相关的独立研究生涯中奠定基础。该项目重点关注海洋保护区 (MPA) 和生物多样性。海洋保护区的广泛规定是为了保护海洋生物多样性（通过保护海洋栖息地和物种）并确保海洋资源的持续生产。目前，世界上约 2.3% 的海洋受到海洋保护区的保护。虽然有人建议大幅增加覆盖范围，但评估表明，现有海洋保护区在实现生态和社会目标方面基本上无效。该项目满足了评估和促进 MPA 成功的关键需求。 该项目采用跨学科、多尺度的方法，为海洋保护区作为复杂的适应性系统的评估和管理做出有意义的贡献： 1. 开发、测试和完善适应性强、信息丰富的社会生态框架，以评估海洋保护区的总体“成功”和局部尺度； 2. 使用框架指导下加利福尼亚州、密克罗尼西亚和缅甸地点的社会生态属性和 MPA 结果的数据收集和分析； 3. 创建指标来比较描述全球不同 MPA 站点的特征； 4. 与三个开放获取数据库（MPAtlas、DataMARES 和小规模渔业信息系统）合作，呈现最终数据并分发未来数据收集框架； 5. 开发、测试和完善简化的整体工具包和培训模块，用于收集选定优先指标的社会和生态数据。这项工作建立在并超越了之前的 MPA 评估研究的基础上，将多个学科和项目联系起来，为 MPA 评估和实施制定概念框架和系统的应用方法，其中纳入了可持续性概念。 SEES 研究员 Tara Whitty 博士与斯克里普斯海洋学研究所的宿主导师 Aburto Oropeza 博士以及纽芬兰圣约翰纪念大学的合作导师 Ratana Chuenpagdee 博士合作。 NSF 的国际科学与工程 (ISE) 计划共同资助了该项目。