Towards Sustainable Human-Nature Relations: Coastal Management Revisited

Towards Sustainable Human-Nature Relations: Coastal Management Revisited reviews two decades of research by the authors, including a review of changing societal needs and scientific outlooks: from conflict resolution to governance issues and disaster management, and most recently to linking social and ecological factors through typologies of coastal and marine social-ecological systems. Theoretical aspects are embedded and grounded in empirical case studies, taken from economically developed countries (such as Sweden and Germany) and from economically developing countries in tropical zones (including Brazil and Indonesia). This book provides an immediate access point to the diverse field of Coastal Management. Beginning with a concise introductory chapter, setting the scene and summarizing the arguments in upcoming chapters, the text explores both theoretical perspectives and methods, including empirical analysis throughout the chapters leading to a cohesive storyline for the whole publication. Additionally, the concluding chapter identifies emerging issues, synergies and outcomes for theory, practice and research. This broad, and multidisciplinary approach makes the book a must read for graduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers in the fields of geography, anthropology, human ecology, social ecology, anthroecology, coastal and ocean management, disaster management and planning, environmental and development studies. Presents theoretical insights and mental constructs to illuminate the relations between human societies and physical natureIntroduces a selection of tools to better comprehend the dynamics of human-nature relationsExplores real world project-level approaches towards constructing sustainable coastal managementProposes pathways towards establishing a social-ecological typology INDICE: PART ONE: Conceptual framings for the Human-Nature Relation 1. The social dimension in ecosystem management: Strengths and weaknesses of human-nature mind maps 2. The social dimension of social-ecological management 3. The changing human-nature relationships in the context of Global Environmental Change 4. Towards global sustainability analysis in the Anthropocene PART TWO: Methods to approach human-nature dynamics 5. Social-ecological systems analysis in coastal and marine areas: A path toward integration of interdisciplinary knowledge 6. Nested participation in hierarchical societies? Lessons for social-ecological research and management 7. Measuring and understanding sustainability-enhancing processes in tropical coastal and marine social-ecological systems 8. Transdisciplinary multi-agent modelling for social-ecological systems analysis: Achievements and Potentials PART THREE: Navigating scales - Temperate and tropical cases 9. Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Sweden: Assessing Conflicts to Attain Sustainability 10. Coastal Management and Sustainability in Baltic East Germany: Learning from Scandinavia? 11. Linking Partners in Joint Coastal Management Research: Strategies toward Sustainability 12. The Social Science Responses to New Challenges for the Coast 13. Ecosystem, local economy and social sustainability: A case study of Caeté estuary, North Brazil 14. Local vulnerability as an advantage: Mangrove forest management in Pará state, North Brazil under conditions of illegality 15. Global change and coastal threats: The Indonesian case 16. Of exploited reefs and fishers - a holistic view on participatory coastal and marine management in an Indonesian Archipelago PART FOUR: Ethics and governance 17. Beyond natural hazard maps: Ethical and political perspectives 18. National strategies 19. The future of coastal areas. Challenges for planning practice and research 20. Decentralization and participation in integrated coastal management: Policy lessons from Brazil and Indonesia PART FIVE: Outlook - Linking research to governance 21 Cross scale and multi-level analysis of coastal and marine social-ecological systems dynamics 22 From global sustainability research matrix to typology: A tool to analyze coastal and marine social-ecological systems

• ISBN: 978-0-12-818194-2
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 500
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2020
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés