[Coral-List] ICRS session announcement: participatory coral reef management

[Dr. Sebastian Ferse]

Dear Coral Listers,

We would like to draw your attention to our session at the upcoming 2020
International Coral Reef Symposium: “How to design participatory processes
to achieve transformations in reef management towards a sustainable future?”

Designing appropriate management approaches that ensure a protection and
sustainable use of coral reef ecosystems in light of projected environmental
and societal changes requires participatory and transdisciplinary approaches
in research and development of management plans. In this session, we want to
bring together a range of researchers and practitioners from a broad range
of backgrounds to exchange experiences with such approaches and distil
lessons learned by comparison across different cases. Potential topics
include, but are not limited to:
- participatory research with the aim of gathering actionable results
- the use of alternative scenarios for the co-design of management plans
- integration of natural and social science data in models to develop a
basis for policy decisions
- integration of local and traditional forms of knowledge with academic
scientific information
- characteristics of suitable fora for interaction and exchange of views
- analyses of participatory processes in policy design
- trade-offs between ecological, socio-economic and cultural targets
- incorporating uncertainty about future social-ecological system
configuration in decision-making
Target disciplines range from sociology, humanities, political sciences,
social-ecological modelling to legal studies and economics.
A final synthesis discussion is envisioned to lead to a review paper
(suggested topics: characteristics of suitable formats for co-design of
management, use of scenarios for planning, legal enabling conditions and
barriers to co-design of management).

Session chairs: Annette Breckwoldt, Valerie Cummins, Sebastian Ferse

This session is part of Theme 12, “Conservation and Management”. To submit
your abstract, follow this link:
https://mb.abstracts-online.de/ICRS2020/submission/en/login.html. 

We look forward to receiving your abstracts and to an exciting session next
year in Bremen!

On behalf of all chairs,

Sebastian
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Dr. Sebastian Ferse
Executive Director, Future Earth Coasts International Project Office
Phone: +49-421-238 00 114
Fax: +49-421-238 00 30
e-mail: sebastian.ferse at leibniz-zmt.de
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