Social-ecological vulnerability of fishing communities to climate change: A U.S. West Coast case study.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is already impacting coastal communities, and ongoing and future shifts in fisheries species productivity from climate change have implications for the livelihoods and cultures of coastal communities. Harvested marine species in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem support U.S. West Coast communities economically, socially, and culturally. Ecological vulnerability assessments exist for individual species in the California Current but ecological and human vulnerability are linked and vulnerability is expected to vary by community. Here, we present automatable, reproducible methods for assessing the vulnerability of U.S. West Coast fishing dependent communities to climate change within a social-ecological vulnerability framework. We first assessed the ecological risk

SUBMITTER: Koehn LE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9385011 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature