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Building blocks of economic resilience to climate change: a south east Australian fisheries example

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posted on 2023-05-17, 19:59 authored by Van Putten, IE, Sarah JenningsSarah Jennings, Stewart Frusher, Caleb GardnerCaleb Gardner, Marcus HawardMarcus Haward, Hobday, AJ, Nursey-Bray, M, Gretta PeclGretta Pecl, Punt, A, Revill, H
Climate change will impact on ecological, social, and economic elements of fisheries; however, the three are seldom considered in an integrated fashion. We develop a fishery-level assessment of economic resilience to climate change for the Tasmanian rock lobster fishery, a linked social–ecological system. We outline the main climate change forcing influences that link climate change to the fishery via changes in lobster abundance, distribution, and phenology. Using a bottom-up approach, we identify twelve economic attributes strongly related to the fisheries’ economic resilience to climate change. Resilience attributes are grouped according to the level of the economic domain (business, sectoral, and governance). Attributes are then evaluated to determine the overall economic resilience of the rock lobster fishery in the context of the specific nature of predicted climate change effects. We identify areas of low resilience in the economic sub-system for this fishery. Evaluating the economic resilience of regional fisheries using this integrated, interdisciplinary framework provides a practical, parsimonious, and conceptually sound basis for undertaking comprehensive and contextually tailored assessments of climate change impacts and economic vulnerability. The framework can be extended to include a broader range of climate change impacts and the social domain of the human sub-system.

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Publication title

Regional Environmental Change

Volume

13

Issue

6

Pagination

1313-1323

ISSN

1436-3798

Department/School

TSBE

Publisher

Springer-Verlag

Place of publication

Heidelberg, Berlin

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Copyright 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

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