Project Summary
Oceans provide resources and ecosystem services to multiple sectors and stakeholders. The goal of ocean management is to accomplish fair and sustainable resource use. This means simultaneously achieving economic development, environmental sustainability, social equity and inclusion across space and time, in a context of growing demand. Addressing these goals and making trade-off decisions can lead to conflict. Regions where pressures increase at a faster-than-average-rate (so-called “ocean change hotspots”) are particularly susceptible.
Conflict comes in many forms: between many stakeholders or few; persistent or new; and over diverse resources and services. Making trade-offs explicit and differentiating between marine conflict types is crucial to mitigate and resolve conflict. Management should result in enduring and legitimate outcomes, this is particularly challenging in ocean change hotspots.
This project will use a mixed method approach and cross-case study comparison to assess the origin, drivers, and mitigation strategies of ocean conflicts across six case study sites represents a hot spot where a different combination of social and ecological pressures, together with trade-off decisions, triggers ocean conflicts. More information on the project here.
Conflict comes in many forms: between many stakeholders or few; persistent or new; and over diverse resources and services. Making trade-offs explicit and differentiating between marine conflict types is crucial to mitigate and resolve conflict. Management should result in enduring and legitimate outcomes, this is particularly challenging in ocean change hotspots.
This project will use a mixed method approach and cross-case study comparison to assess the origin, drivers, and mitigation strategies of ocean conflicts across six case study sites represents a hot spot where a different combination of social and ecological pressures, together with trade-off decisions, triggers ocean conflicts. More information on the project here.
Project partners
Casey Study Hawaii: Fishery Management Areas & Resource conflicts
In 2016, the State of Hawaiʻi launched the Sustainable Hawaiʻi Initiative to ensure a healthy environment and economy. As part of this, the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources has committed to effectively manage Hawaiʻi’s nearshore waters, with 30% established as marine management areas by 2030. In collaboration with community, institutional and other stakeholders on Hawaiʻi Island we will study the relationships between centralized ocean use management and local, traditional community-based management across sites at different stages of implementing place-based fisheries management efforts. This collaborative effort seeks to understand the history, cultural and governance factors that shape(d) decisions and actions, to help address potential conflicts between marine management areas and other ocean uses.