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Stakeholder engagement in decision making and pathways of influence for Southern Ocean ecosystem services
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Solomonsz, J and Melbourne-Thomas, J and Constable, A and Trebilco, R and van Putten, I and Goldsworthy, LD, Stakeholder engagement in decision making and pathways of influence for Southern Ocean ecosystem services, Frontiers in Marine Science, 8 Article 623733. ISSN 2296-7745 (2021) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright Statement
Copyright © 2021 Solomonsz, Melbourne-Thomas, Constable, Trebilco, van Putten and Goldsworth. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
DOI: doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.623733
Abstract
Southern Ocean ecosystem management is characterized by a unique and complex international network of stakeholders and stakeholder relationships (a ‘transactional landscape’) relating to the globally significant services that these ecosystems support. This transactional landscape spans governments, industry (fishing and tourism), scientific research, conservation non-government organizations, civil society, and international decision-making forums. We used a network approach for stakeholder mapping to provide the first description of the transactional landscape for Southern Ocean ecosystem management – both in terms of the connections between stakeholders and ecosystem services, and directly between stakeholder groups. We considered 65 stakeholders and their relationships to 12 provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services. An analysis of the connections within this network reveals differences in the degree of connectivity between stakeholders and ecosystem services. Notably, ecosystem science facilitates high connectivity between stakeholders and provisioning services, but there is little connectivity between stakeholders and supporting services. We then applied a formal ‘values-rules-knowledge’ framework to a set of case studies to analyze the decision-making process in relation to Southern Ocean ecosystem services, as well as the relative importance of different stakeholder groups which were considered in the network analysis. Our analyses suggest that emphases for decision making have been on knowledge and rules, but that wider consideration of values across the broader stakeholder landscape – together with science (knowledge) and governance (rules) – might better support decision making for Southern Ocean ecosystem conservation and management, and provide a stronger foundation for sustainable provision of ecosystem services into the future.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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| Keywords: | stakeholder engagement, Southern Ocean, ecosystem services, knowledge values rules, transactional landscape, network mapping |
| Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
| Research Group: | Ecological applications |
| Research Field: | Ecosystem services (incl. pollination) |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
| Objective Group: | Management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean environments |
| Objective Field: | Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems |
| UTAS Author: | Melbourne-Thomas, J (Dr Jessica Melbourne-Thomas) |
| UTAS Author: | Constable, A (Dr Andrew Constable) |
| UTAS Author: | Trebilco, R (Dr Rowan Trebilco) |
| UTAS Author: | van Putten, I (Dr Ingrid Van Putten) |
| UTAS Author: | Goldsworthy, LD (Dr Lynda Goldsworthy) |
| ID Code: | 146057 |
| Year Published: | 2021 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 6 |
| Deposited By: | Directorate |
| Deposited On: | 2021-08-19 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-11-25 |
| Downloads: | 12 View Download Statistics |
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