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Recentering the role of marine restoration science to bolster community stewardship

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EARTH SYSTEM GOVERNANCE
Volume 13, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.esg.2022.100149

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Ecosystem restoration; Engagement; Ocean literacy; Social legitimacy; Socio-economics

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  1. Australian Research Council [ARC LP200201000]
  2. Environment Institute

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This paper explores ways for researchers to engage stakeholders and improve marine restoration practices by incorporating culturally informed socio-economic well-being into restoration practice.
The restoration of marine habitats is becoming a primary strategy for managing healthy coastal ecosystems, but initiatives often fail due to conflicts with social or industry activities. Confronting the challenge of expanding marine restoration for the `Ocean Decade', this paper explores the ways that researchers could improve the way Governments and practitioners engage stakeholders with restorations of high socio-ecological and economic value. We seek to recenter the role of scientific knowledge-making in marine restoration by incorporating culturally informed socio-economic well-being into restoration practice; a process for encouraging greater marine stewardship by an engaged, more ocean literate public set to co-benefit from successful restoration practices. Using Australia's shellfish reef restoration program as a case study, we underscore the value of understanding diverse perspectives on marine restoration to foster a more inclusive restoration practice, one that nurtures a meaningful knowledge base to shift how restoration is viewed, engaged with, and funded.

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