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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 784, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147078
Keywords
Fish community; Marine biodiversity; Resilience; Rocky reef; Social-ecological associations; Temperate regions
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [CGL2013-49122-C3-1R]
- Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [RTI2018-098970-B-100]
- Biodiversity Foundation of the Spanish Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge [PRCV00676]
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This study operationalized the SEV framework to assess the social-ecological implications of fishing and tourism in temperate coastal systems, highlighting the need for distinctive management intervention due to different dimensions contributing differently to the SEV. Livelihood diversification and marine areas protection are plausible strategies to build resilience in temperate coastal systems facing fishing and tourism pressures.
Detecting areas with high social-ecological vulnerability (SEV) is essential to better inform management interventions for building resilience in coastal systems. The SEV framework, developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is a robust method to identify SEV of tropical coastal systems to climate change. Yet, the application of this framework to temperate regions and other drivers of change remains underexplored. This study operationalizes the SEV framework to assess the social-ecological implications of fishing and tourism in temperate coastal systems. We spatially represented the SEV of coastal systems and identified the social and ecological vulnerability dimensions underpinning this SEV. Our results demonstrate that different dimensions contribute differently to the SEV, suggesting the need for distinctive management intervention to reduce the vulnerability of coastal systems. Our findings also highlight that livelihood diversification and the protection of marine areas may be plausible strategies to build resilience in temperate coastal systems that face fishing and tourism pressures. With this study, we hope to encourage the application of the SEV framework to other drivers of change for building more resilient coastal systems. (c) 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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