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Stakeholder perceptions of links between environmental changes to their socio-ecological system and their adaptive capacity in the region of Troms, Norway
Tiller, R.; De Kok, J.-L.; Vermeiren, K.; Richards, R.; Van Ardelan, M.; Bailey, J. (2016). Stakeholder perceptions of links between environmental changes to their socio-ecological system and their adaptive capacity in the region of Troms, Norway. Front. Mar. Sci. 3: 267. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2016.00267
In: Frontiers in Marine Science. Frontiers Media: Lausanne. e-ISSN 2296-7745
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    stakeholders; climate change; policy makers; coastal communities;adaptive capacity; participatory modeling; scenarios; fuzzy cognitivemap
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  • Tiller, R.
  • De Kok, J.-L.
  • Vermeiren, K.
  • Richards, R.
  • Van Ardelan, M.
  • Bailey, J.
Abstract
    Climate change affects the marine environment at all levels of governance. At a global level, researchers expect the projected increase in sea surface temperature to facilitate large changes in the marine food web, which in turn will affect both global fisheries and aquaculture. At the local level, government and stakeholders want to know whether and how this affects their local communities and their adaptive capacity in light of this. Research suggests that risk communication of the effects of changes in the marine food web suffers from stakeholders' short-term mentality and narrow boundaries. This in turn can lead to an underestimation of the potential risks associated with climate change. We explore this theory by mapping the perceptions of marine stakeholders in the region of Troms, Norway. We first developed cognitive maps in a workshop setting, and then used system conceptualization to analyze the feedback mechanisms of the system qualitatively using fuzzy cognitive mapping. We examined the outcomes and compared them for different scenarios using a simple MatLab script. Results demonstrated that stakeholders did not underestimate their risks to climate change. They were aware of environmental changes, and they perceived that a changing climate was the cause of this change, and that it was indeed affecting their livelihoods-and would continue to do so in the future.
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