Ocean conflicts for whom and why? Participatory conflict assessment in the southeast coast of Brazil.

Autor: Martins, I. M., Prado, D. S., Gonçalves, L. R., Jacobi, P. R., Kefalas, H. C., Oliveira-Monteiro, N. R., Scachetti, R. E., Taddei, R., Vianna, L. P., Vivacqua, M., Quito, L., Vilches, V. N., Xavier, L. Y., Christofoletti, Ronaldo A.
Zdroj: Maritime Studies; Sep2023, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p1-14, 14p
Abstrakt: Conditions and pathways for transforming ocean conflicts require an understanding of the wide range of perspectives and values from all relevant stakeholders. In such cases, participatory assessment of conflicts can lead to knowledge co-production and collective learning. In this approach, the different views and the relevance assigned to conflicts are described by the involved stakeholders. In this paper, we aim to present a participatory assessment of conflicts involving small-scale fishing communities of São Paulo coastline, southeastern Brazil from the perspective of the multiple actors involved with the marine-coastal ecosystems of the region. The conflicts were assessed through an online survey and virtual participatory workshops. The survey was used to assess the conflicts related to the fishing activities in the territory. Participatory workshops were carried out to validate and complement the conflict assessment by the online survey and to establish a ranking of the most important conflicts by different stakeholders. A total of 132 conflicts were systematized into 12 categories, and the most relevant were as follows: legislation and surveillance, large-scale enterprises in coastal areas, pollution, fishing regulation, and fisheries management and planning. We argue that a collaborative identification of conflicts has the potential to refine and validate different interpretations and to foster social learning among the stakeholders that is essential to promote sustainability in the territory. This participatory process seeks to increase the social legitimacy for future marine spatial planning processes and to contribute with a novel process of coproducing transformative knowledge action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index
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