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Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef | |
Michele L. Barnes, Amber Datta, Sheriden Morris, Imogen Zethoven | |
2022-03-06 | |
发表期刊 | Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions |
出版年 | 2022 |
英文摘要 | A dramatic escalation of extreme climate events is challenging the capacity of environmental governance regimes to sustain and improve ecosystem outcomes. It has been argued that actors within adaptive governance regimes can help to steer environmental systems toward sustainability in times of crisis. Yet there is little empirical evidence of how acute climate crises are navigated by actors operating within adaptive governance regimes, and the factors that influence their responses. Here, we qualitatively assessed the actions key governance actors took in response to back-to-back mass coral bleaching – an extreme climate event – of the Great Barrier Reef in 2016 and 2017, and explored their perceptions of barriers and catalysts to these responses. This research was, in part, a product of collaboration and knowledge co-production with Great Barrier Reef governance actors aimed at improving responses to climate crises in the region. We found five major categories of activity that actors engaged with in the wake of recurrent mass coral bleaching: assessing the scale and extent of bleaching, sharing information, communicating bleaching to the public, building local resilience, and addressing global threats. These actions were both catalyzed and hindered by a range of factors that fall within different domains of adaptive capacity; such as assets, social organization, and agency. We discuss the implications of our findings as they relate to existing research on adaptive capacity and adaptive governance. We conclude by coalescing insights from our interviews and a participant engagement process to highlight four key ways in which the ability of governance actors, and the Great Barrier Reef governance regime more broadly, can be better prepared for, and more effectively respond to extreme climate events. Our research provides empirical insight into how crises are experienced by governance actors in a large-scale environmental system, potentially providing lessons for similar systems across the globe. |
领域 | 气候变化 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/347773 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Michele L. Barnes, Amber Datta, Sheriden Morris, Imogen Zethoven. Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef[J]. Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions,2022. |
APA | Michele L. Barnes, Amber Datta, Sheriden Morris, Imogen Zethoven.(2022).Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef.Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions. |
MLA | Michele L. Barnes, Amber Datta, Sheriden Morris, Imogen Zethoven."Navigating climate crises in the Great Barrier Reef".Global Environmental Change-Human and Policy Dimensions (2022). |
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