Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Understanding Coupled Biological and Cultural Resilience across Coastal Pacific Island Systems

沿海 SEES 合作研究：了解太平洋沿海岛屿系统的生物和文化耦合复原力

• 批准号: 1427453
• 负责人: Stacy Jupiter
• 金额: $ 29.58万
• 依托单位: Wildlife Conservation Society
• 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: 2014-09-15 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1427453&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Coastal; SEES; Collaborative; Research; Understanding

Coastal systems are changing rapidly across the globe, resulting in the need for human societies to adapt. Given the combination of environmental changes, population growth, and climate impacts, projections suggest that subsistence agriculture and coastal fisheries will fail to support the food needs of many Pacific countries by 2030. The Solomon Islands in the Western Pacific, with their unique cultural, agricultural, and biological diversity could constitute models for how systems adapt to recurrent change. Although Solomon Island communities have a long history of effectively addressing major unpredictable environmental and social changes, traditional strategies such as reef closures or fisheries restrictions are now faltering in many areas in response to outside forces such as emerging markets for marine resources that were previously unexploited by local people. This project will study the relationship among pressures such as climate change and increasing human population size, the health of inter-related human-natural systems, and benefits derived from these systems such as food security, clean water, and biodiversity in order to better inform effective management of people and the land and seascapes that support them. The project will inform future scenarios and resource management planning across a community-driven conservation network developed over the last decade in partnership with the principle investigators. This project will also contribute to recommendations for incorporating resilience thinking into policy development for climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and natural resource management in the Pacific and globally. The researchers will also engage in innovative ways to evaluate and broaden who is participating in the research and management process, in part by exploring technologies that embrace and use local knowledge and cultural identity. The project will improve the ability of social and biological scientists and of decision makers to manage community landscapes for sustainability at local levels. Additional broader impacts include training postdoctoral researchers and master's students from the United States and undergraduates from the Solomon Islands. This project is supported as part of the National Science Foundation's Coastal Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability program - Coastal SEES.Across Pacific Island human and natural communities, recent social and ecological pressures may be changing "biocultural" states, defined by coupled and interwoven sets of feedbacks among social, ecological, and evolutionary processes that shape land- and seascape mosaics, communities, and resource values. Resource use may be shifting due to underlying pressures from demographic, market, and climate changes. Use of the term biocultural emphasizes that resource management cannot be fully understood from social or biological standpoints alone. This project will uncover relationships among changing pressures, biocultural states, and socio-ecological benefits. Researchers will use a pressure-state-benefit-response framework to describe and inform reef-to-ridge management across Solomon Island communities in a multivariate analysis of biocultural state and potential system resilience to ongoing or future shocks. This project will: 1) evaluate the impact of contemporary landscape mosaic transformation on biocultural state, as defined by indicators of local ecological knowledge, biocultural connectivity, and governance; and 2) assess relationships between the current biocultural state and the state of well-being, both human (as measured by food security and access to sufficient freshwater resources) and ecological (as measured by biodiversity values at the ecosystem scale). Researchers will analytically relate landscape transformation, biocultural state and well-being benefits to inform future scenario planning. Researchers will model future shifts with an emphasis on the influence of climate change, market forces, and resource use scenarios to understand how components of a given biocultural state foster resilience potential. The co-creation of empirical, culturally relevant indicators of biocultural state, combined with participatory scenario planning, will serve as a model for effective integration across western scientific and local knowledge. This project represents a key advance for the broader scenario planning community by integrating cultural, economic and ecological considerations in a spatially explicit, transparent, and dynamic manner.

全球沿海系统正在迅速变化，导致人类社会需要适应。 鉴于环境变化、人口增长和气候影响的综合作用，预测表明，到 2030 年，自给农业和沿海渔业将无法满足许多太平洋国家的粮食需求。西太平洋的所罗门群岛以其独特的文化、农业，生物多样性可以构成系统如何适应经常性变化的模型。 尽管所罗门群岛社区在有效应对重大、不可预测的环境和社会变化方面有着悠久的历史，但在许多地区，为了应对外部力量，例如以前未开发的海洋资源的新兴市场，关闭珊瑚礁或限制渔业等传统战略现在正在动摇。当地人。 该项目将研究气候变化和人口规模增加等压力、相互关联的人类自然系统的健康以及粮食安全、清​​洁水和生物多样性等这些系统带来的好处之间的关系，以便更好地为人们提供信息对人员以及支持他们的土地和海洋景观进行有效管理。 该项目将为过去十年与主要研究人员合作开发的社区驱动的保护网络中的未来情景和资源管理规划提供信息。 该项目还将有助于提出建议，将复原力思维纳入太平洋和全球气候变化适应、减少灾害风险和自然资源管理的政策制定中。 研究人员还将采用创新方式来评估和扩大参与研究和管理过程的人员，部分方式是探索拥抱和使用当地知识和文化特征的技术。 该项目将提高社会和生物科学家以及决策者管理社区景观以实现地方可持续发展的能力。 其他更广泛的影响包括培训来自美国的博士后研究人员和硕士生以及来自所罗门群岛的本科生。 该项目作为国家科学基金会沿海科学、工程和可持续发展教育计划 - 沿海 SEES 的一部分得到支持。在太平洋岛屿人类和自然社区中，最近的社会和生态压力可能正在改变“生物文化”状态，其定义为耦合和社会、生态和进化过程之间相互交织的反馈，塑造了陆地和海洋景观马赛克、社区和资源价值。 由于人口、市场和气候变化的潜在压力，资源使用可能会发生变化。 生物文化一词的使用强调了资源管理不能仅从社会或生物学的角度得到充分理解。 该项目将揭示不断变化的压力、生物文化状态和社会生态效益之间的关系。 研究人员将使用压力-状态-效益-响应框架来描述和告知所罗门群岛社区的从珊瑚礁到山脊的管理，对生物文化状态和潜在系统对当前或未来冲击的恢复能力进行多元分析。 该项目将： 1）评估当代景观镶嵌改造对生物文化状态的影响，根据当地生态知识、生物文化连通性和治理指标来定义； 2) 评估当前生物文化状态与福祉状态之间的关系，包括人类福祉（通过粮食安全和充足淡水资源的获取来衡量）和生态福祉（通过生态系统规模的生物多样性价值来衡量）。 研究人员将通过分析将景观转变、生物文化状态和福祉效益联系起来，为未来的情景规划提供信息。 研究人员将对未来的转变进行建模，重点关注气候变化、市场力量和资源利用情景的影响，以了解特定生物文化状态的组成部分如何增强复原力潜力。 共同创造生物文化状态的实证、文化相关指标，结合参与性情景规划，将成为有效整合西方科学和当地知识的模型。 该项目通过以空间明确、透明和动态的方式整合文化、经济和生态考虑因素，代表了更广泛的情景规划界的重大进步。