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| Author(s): |
Debora Cristina Ferrari Ramalho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto Oceanográfico (IO/DIDC) |
| Defense date: | 2020-06-03 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria de los Angeles Gasalla;
Leo Ximenes Cabral Dutra;
Solange Teles da Silva
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| Advisor: | Maria de los Angeles Gasalla |
| Abstract | |
The sustainability of marine resorces is often associated with robust governance systems that facilitate rapid responses to environmental changes, including those related to climate change. Understanding the diverse socio-economic and governmental drivers affecting the management of marine resources is important to identify issues and soluions in decision-making processes.The ocean supports life on the planet, provid several ecosystem services. However, changes in climate affect ecosystems and people leaving these socio-ecological systems vulnerable. Fishing communities, which depend on marine resources for subsistence and livelihoods, are affected by climate change, which, together with other factors (decrease in fish stocks, inequality in access to resources and area restrictions) are currently in high degree of vulnerability. Brazil, where small-scale marine fisheries is an essential socioeconomic and cultural activity for many communities is a region that is currently undergoing surface seawater heating at rates higher than other locations, affecting habitats and fisheries resources, the present study aims to map of governance system, related to the fishing-climate change interface. The focus is on case studies in eight fishing communities on the southeastern coast of Brazil. The approach involves documenting political instruments, an identification of local agents (organizations and people) and rules governing to support the governance mapping exercise focused, on the issues the impacts of climate change on small scale fishing. It was identified that there are no public policies that address the issues vulnerability, exposure or adaptation of fishermen to the impacts of climate change. In addition, the instruments the instruments created (or used) to tackle climate change issues do not consider the broader implications of changes in fisheries to livelihoods do not directly address their implications for the fisheries sector. At the local level, it was found that in the communities studied there are few local organizations, and that issues related to climate change are not usually on agenda. The governance mapping carried out from the network analysis demonstrated that the main flow of information related to this interface would be of the top-down type, with the main actors being from the federal sphere. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/13978-2 - Mapping social agents of the interface climate change-fisheries associated to key-communities of the south Brazil bight |
| Grantee: | Debora Cristina Ferrari Ramalho |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |