Marine social and ecological systems around the world face multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors associated with global change. The resulting changes can create hardship for local societies that depend on them for food, livelihoods and wellbeing. Knowing how to respond to global change in a timely and appropriate manner is increasingly occupying the attention of researchers, policy makers, decision makers and practitioners around the world.
Written by an international group of researchers from the natural and social sciences, Global Change in Marine Systems: Integrating Natural, Social and Governing Responses analyses and appraises societal and governing responses to change, highlighting and explaining similarities and distinctions between successful and less successful responses. The authors present ‘I-ADApT’, an analytical framework that enables decision makers to consider possible responses to global change based on experiences elsewhere. Within this volume, I-ADApT is applied to 20 enlightening case studies covering a wide range of marine systems that have been challenged by critical global change issues around the world.
Introducing innovative research to work towards a range of possible responses to global change, Global Change in Marine Systems: Integrating Natural, Social and Governing Responses will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers and practitioners interested in fields such as Environment & Natural Resources, Marine Resources and Social Sciences.
Patrice Guillotreau is Professor of Economics at the University of Nantes, France.
Alida Bundy is a Research Scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
R. Ian Perry is a Research Scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.