Inclusion of the 'Youth Voice for Nature' in Regional Marine Planning

将“青年自然之声”纳入区域海洋规划

• 批准号: 2891774
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Heriot-Watt University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2891774
• 关键词: Inclusion; Youth; Voice; Nature; Regional

The Scottish Government has set out a long-term ambition for Scotland's Blue Economy to 2045. This vision sees our marine environment as maintaining economic prosperity for the nation and playing an important role in ensuring human wellbeing, but that this should be done in a way that protects and enhances our marine assets. The vision also recognises that to do this, we need to transform the way that we manage our 'blue' resources, in a way that is ambitious yet also inclusive.There has, to date, been inadequate attention paid to what an inclusive and just marine governance might look like. The adoption of UN Convention of the Law of the Sea in 1982 created optimism for marginalised groups such as indigenous peoples and coastal communities that they may (re)gain control of marine resources, yet this has not yet occurred. Indeed, marginalisation and exclusion of various groups in marine planning processes continues today.We know that securing public engagement in consultation processes, and the wider planning and management of our seas is a significant challenge. This is for many reasons, including poor communication and perceptions that processes are deliberately exclusionary, a lack of ocean literacy, resource intensity of the process, and the domination of top-down processes. When engagement is successful, such processes tend to be dominated by well-established (often older) voices; generally representing vested interests.Despite the environment (particularly climate change) and biodiversity being regularly cited as one of the major concerns of younger people, youth voices do not feature regularly in marine planning decisions and processes. This is in contravention to international agreements on environmental sustainability, with the role of youth being recognised in several of the SDGs including education (SDG4) and reduction of inequalities (SDG11). If the Scottish Government is to achieve their ambitious vision for Scotland's Blue Economy in a way that is not only sustainable but also inclusive and equitable, then marine planning must consider how to incorporate the youth voice.This project will explore governance mechanisms and engagement processes that might be used to increase youth voices, including the testing of softer measures and potential good practice. It will analyse existing processes, looking to the past and present, and explore ways in which engagement processes may be adapted to ensure the 'youth voice for nature' is included into the future.This project will take a case study approach to investigating options for the inclusion of the 'youth voice for nature' in regional marine planning. Three potential mechanisms will be analysed: a) Scottish Youth Parliament (currently tentative); b) Young Scottish Sea Changers Charity; c) Regional Marine Planning Partnerships (Clyde and Western Isles - tentative interest expressed for the latter).A desk-based policy/regulatory analysis will investigate the barriers and incentives to youth voice inclusion for each of the case study mechanisms. Interviews with regional marine planning stakeholders will take a deep dive into past and present experiences of youth voice inclusion. Focus group workshops with young people, including members of the Scottish Youth Parliament and Young Scottish Sea Changers will provide an honest reflection on ocean literacy levels, access to decision-making and preferred approaches.The findings will be synthesised to identify the lessons learnt across the three mechanisms to develop recommended processes and methods for inclusion of the 'youth voice for nature'. These lessons will be taken up in the CASE component with NatureScot towards the end of the project - identifying how to build upon and move forward 'Reroute', Scotland's Youth Biodiversity Panel.

苏格兰政府已经为苏格兰的蓝色经济设定了长期的野心，直到2045年。这种愿景将我们的海洋环境保持在国家的经济繁荣，并在确保人类的福祉方面发挥着重要作用，但这应该以保护和增强我们的海洋资产的方式来完成。愿景还认识到，要做到这一点，我们需要以一种雄心勃勃但也包容的方式来改变我们管理“蓝色”资源的方式。迄今为止，人们对包容性和仅仅是海上治理的外观不足。 1982年，《联合国海洋法公约》对土著人民和沿海社区等边缘化群体产生了乐观，他们可能会（重新）控制海洋资源，但尚未发生这种情况。的确，今天仍在边缘化和排除各个群体，今天仍在继续。我们知道，确保公众参与咨询过程，以及我们海洋的更广泛的规划和管理是一个重大挑战。这是出于许多原因，包括沟通不畅和疏远过程是故意排他性的，缺乏海洋识字，流程的资源强度以及自上而下的过程的统治。当订婚成功时，这种过程往往会受到建立良好（通常更老）的声音的主导。通常代表既得利益。尽管环境（尤其是气候变化）和生物多样性通常被认为是年轻人的主要关注点之一，但青年声音在海洋规划决策和过程中并不定期。这违反了关于环境可持续性的国际协议，在包括教育（SDG4）在内的几种可持续发展目标和减少不平等（SDG11）中，青年人的作用得到了认可。如果苏格兰政府要以一种不仅可持续的和包容性和公平的方式实现苏格兰对苏格兰蓝色经济的雄心勃勃的愿景，那么海洋规划必须考虑如何纳入青年语音。该项目将探索治理机制和参与过程，这些过程可能会用于增加青年人的声音，包括对较高的措施的测试和潜在的良好实践和潜在的良好实践。它将分析现有过程，展望过去和现在，并探索可以调整参与过程以确保未来的“青年声音”的方式。该项目将采用一种案例研究方法来调查在区域海洋规划中包含“青年声音”的选择。将分析三种潜在的机制：a）苏格兰青年议会（目前暂定）； b）年轻的苏格兰海洋规则慈善机构； c）区域海洋规划合作伙伴关系（克莱德和西部群岛 - 后者表示的暂定利益）。基于办公桌的政策/监管分析将调查针对每种案例研究机制的青年语音包容的障碍和激励措施。与区域海洋规划利益相关者的访谈将深入了解过去和现在的青年语音包容性。与年轻人的焦点小组讲习班，包括苏格兰青年议会和年轻的苏格兰海洋规则改变者，将对海洋识字水平，获得决策和首选方法进行诚实的反映。将合成这些发现，以识别在三种机制中所学的经验教训，以开发推荐的过程和方法，以使年轻的年轻人融入自然的自然语音。这些课程将在项目结束时与NaturesCot的案例组成部分进行 - 识别如何在苏格兰的青年生物多样性小组中继续前进并前进“ Reroute”。