How resilience is framed matters for governance of coastal social-ecological systems.

ABSTRACT: Effective governance of social-ecological systems (SES) is an enduring challenge, especially in coastal environments where accelerating impacts of climate change are increasing pressure on already stressed systems. While resilience is often proposed as a suitable framing to re-orient governance and management, the literature includes many different, and sometimes conflicting, definitions and ideas that influence how the concept is applied, especially in coastal environments. This study combines discourse analysis of the coastal governance literature and key informant interviews in Tasmania, Australia, demonstrating inconsistencies and confusion in the way that resilience is framed in coastal governance research and practice. We find that resilience is most often framed as (1) a rate of rec

SUBMITTER: Clement S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10953812 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature