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Scientific foundation: towards integration
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Scientific foundation: towards integration
J.C. Rice, S.Jennings*, A.T. Charles
Science has a central role in informing governance, with "science" defined broadly to include traditional knowledge and concepts from post-normal science. Fisheries management and biodiversity conservation occurs in an integrated social – ecological system, requiring support from ecological, social, and economic sciences. Each component of the system is individually complex with many linkages within and among sub-components. The uncertainties arising from the structural complexity of the social-ecological system are amplified by incomplete monitoring of all components. Despite these uncertainties governance of fisheries and biodiversity conservation have found ways to use the science that is available. Although the science-based decision-support systems are designed to take risks and uncertainties into account, the fisheries and biodiversity streams may evaluate and manage the risks with different tolerances. Hence even the best integrated social and ecological sciences may be insufficient to result in full coherent decisions among the governance streams.
Reference:
J.C. Rice, S.Jennings*, A.T. Charles (2014) Scientific foundation: towards integration. In: Governance for fisheries and marine conservation: interaction and co-evolution (eds S.M. Garcia, J.C. Rice and A.T. Charles), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 124-136
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J.C. Rice, S.Jennings*, A.T. Charles
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- July 2014
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In: Governance for fisheries and marine conservation: interaction and co-evolution (eds S.M. Garcia, J.C. Rice and A.T. Charles), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 124-136
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