SOCIALSHIFT · Social transformations of marine fisheries
Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
- Duration
- 2021-09-01 → 2023-09-19
- EU contribution
- €172,932
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MSCA-IF
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Results in brief
Social transformations of marine fisheries
SOCIALSHIFT investigates how fisheries can respond successfully to environmental and social challenges. Due to pressing local and global issues, fisheries are undergoing profound and long-lasting changes. These so-called transformations are hard to predict, difficult to reverse, and can have far-reaching impacts on fish stocks, ecosystems, economic outcomes, and social wellbeing. However, social transformations remain largely unexplored in the marine realm. This project aims to better understand the social transformations of global fisheries and use this knowledge to identify pathways towards sustainability. The objectives of the project are (1) explaining large-scale shifts in marine fisheries based on a new interdisciplinary database, (2) understanding the interplay between people, social transformations and the ecological system, and (3) piloting and comparing methods to visualize desirable futures for marine fisheries. Through the qualitative and quantitative analysis of primary and secondary data in three work packages, as well as the activities in one project management and synthesis work package, SOCIALSHIFT advanced the field of fisheries science, raised awareness of social issues in fisheries, contributed to the understanding of complex systems, and provided guidance to decision-makers on how to steer successful transformations into resilient trajectories.
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Project objective
SOCIALSHIFT investigates how fisheries can respond successfully to environmental and social challenges. Due to pressing local and global issues, fisheries are undergoing profound and long-lasting changes. These so-called transformations are hard to predict, difficult to reverse, and can have far-reaching impacts on fish stocks, ecosystems, economic outcomes, and social wellbeing. However, social transformations remain largely unexplored in the marine realm. Why are some fisheries capable of going through transformations with positive, desirable effects while others collapse or take an undesirable route? SOCIALSHIFT reunites studies from different disciplines in a global database to identify the drivers and inhibiting and enabling conditions for social transformations of marine fisheries. We combine this structural perspective with biographical interviews to explore what social transformations mean to individual people in marine fisheries and how their actions and mental processes shape these transformations and link to ecological factors. From case studies, we aim to develop a generalizable methods to systematically assess individual life histories and scale up qualitative approaches to make social aspects more accessible to fisheries management. Based on that, we identify tipping points and create scenarios to develop together with stakeholders inspirational visions for the future and resilient management strategies. The results will advance the field of fisheries science, raise awareness of social issues in fisheries, contribute to the understanding of complex systems, and provide guidance to decision-makers on how to steer successful transformations into resilient trajectories.
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Participants
- UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA · Santiago De CompostelaCoordinatorSpain
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