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informe técnico
Título:
D4.4: Community based sustainable management and governance models in marine and coastal areas
Autor/es:
LONDON, SILVIA; ROJAS, MARA; ZILIO, MARIANA; PERILLO, GERARDO; PICCOLO, CINTIA; SCORDO, FACUNDO; HUAMANTINCO CISNEROS, ANDREA; BUSTOS, MA. LUJÁN; FERRELLI, FEDERICO; PASCALE, JUAN CARLOS; VITALE, VALERIA; BERNINSONE, LEONARDO; BORDINO, PABLO
Fecha inicio/fin:
2014-09-15/2015-09-14
Páginas:
1-23
Naturaleza de la
Producción Tecnológica:
Social
Campo de Aplicación:
Des.Socioecon.y Serv.-Politica y Planif.del
Descripción:
The aim of the Deliverable 4.4 is to provide tools to build a community-based governance
model for coastal and marine systems. Based on the Argentina case study of COMET-LA
project, we analyze the relation between the governance system and the sustainable
management of artisanal fishery and tourism. Several conflicts arise due to industry
concentration, government legislation and intervention, and port activities, which contrast
with artisanal activities and production. The exploitation patterns, the anthropic impacts and
the climate change increase the tension on system, leading to one of the major environmental
challenges: the construction of a governance system for sustainability.
The main purpose of the Argentinean group during the COMET-LA three years research
period was to propose community-based sustainable management and governance models in
marine and coastal systems by analyzing its application in the Argentina case study, and upscaling
the results to higher geographical levels. A first step was the characterization of the
social-ecological system adopting the Ostrom?s framework. Participative methodological
approaches have been used to capture the key characteristics of these social-ecological
systems in the area of study and the impact of climate change. The results of the analysis of
the information gathered from previous studies of the Argentine team, but mostly from the
input provided by stakeholders and decision makers clearly show that Argentine case differs
from the Colombia and Mexico cases from the governance system. Second step of the
analysis was the structural prospective study (PSA). Note that the methodology allowed
building meeting-spaces to discuss the common use and management of resources. From
PSA workshops the consensus about the needed of a common management plan in coastal
and marine system was strengthened in order to ensure the sustainability of the system. Last
step of the analysis was scenarios analysis. This was a defiant methodology, in particular at
the Argentine case, because our society has a cultural focus on present problems and
challenges; the conjuncture prevails over the future. Nevertheless, the outcome of the activity
was constructive and promising, in particular because the SHs noticed the importance of their
participation in all the actions aimed to construct their ?future?. They recognized the
relevance of their own participation in the creation process of rules and laws, also
understanding that they could be involved in several activities for controlling resource
management.
More, due to the big extension of the area under study, different coastal environments are
involved and then the interaction between the different localities is made more difficult. This
situation implies a huge diversity of environmental and socioeconomic problems in the area.
In many cases, the boundaries between them are confused and even overlapped, generating future conflicts. In this sense, spatial heterogeneity makes more difficult the communitarian
action.