Descrizione del progetto
Un altro sguardo ai sistemi costieri e marini a livello socio-ecologico
Riunire scienza e società nella realizzazione di uno sforzo comune volto ad affrontare sfide legate alla sostenibilità è un obiettivo che richiede una prospettiva integrata a livello socio-ecologico. Sebbene risulti essenziale per il raggiungimento degli obiettivi internazionali di sviluppo della natura, la messa in atto dell’integrazione socio-economica resta un compito impegnativo. Alla luce di queste premesse, il progetto SocioEcoFrontiers, finanziato dall’UE, condurrà due casi di studio sui sistemi costieri e marini a livello socio-ecologico e sulla pianificazione dello spazio marittimo. Gli studi e le interviste sul campo effettuati presso aree di pesca su piccola scala a São Tomé e Príncipe e in Mozambico consentiranno di effettuare un’analisi esaustiva di tali questioni, nonché delle implicazioni per la biodiversità marina e il benessere umano.
Obiettivo
People and nature are inextricably linked. Overcoming global challenges (e.g. food security and sustainable development) thus requires an integrated social-ecological perspective. Although essential for achieving international nature-development goals (e.g. Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services – IPBES; Blue Growth agenda; Sustainable Development Goals - SDG), the operationalization of social-ecological integration remains challenging. In particular, functional integration (i.e. bridging of science with policy or practice) is crucial for social and ecological resilience in light of current environmental change. Focusing on coastal and marine social-ecological systems (SES) and marine spatial planning (MSP), I will combine field-based studies, systematic reviewing and in-depth interviews to critically explore conditions facilitating or hindering social-ecological integration at global, European and national scales and enhance benefits of using integrative approaches. Two impactful case-studies (small-scale fisheries in São Tomé and Príncipe and Mozambique) will allow me to undertake a comprehensive analysis of these issues and their implications for marine biodiversity and human wellbeing, including socio-economic and gender aspects. This project will contribute towards addressing calls for enhanced and multifaceted social-ecological integration and facilitate interdisciplinary career development of a researcher moving from Biosciences Department (University of Exeter, UK) to Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal). By reframing environmental sciences as a field centred on social-ecological dynamics, this project will bring science and society together in a common effort to deal with sustainability challenges, while advancing cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral (academic and non-academic) knowledge exchange and facilitating academic development (researcher and host organization).
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinatore
1099 085 Lisboa
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