Development and evaluation of social indicators of vulnerability and resiliency for fishing communities in the Gulf of Mexico
| Autor: | Michael Jepson, Priscilla Weeks, Steve Jacob, Ben Blount |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Economics and Econometrics
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Environmental resource management Fishing Vulnerability Management Monitoring Policy and Law Aquatic Science Recreational fishing Geography Deepwater horizon Oil spill Psychological resilience Social indicators business Law General Environmental Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Marine Policy. 37:86-95 |
| ISSN: | 0308-597X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.marpol.2012.04.014 |
| Popis: | With the devastating impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and more recently the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, disaster questions about the vulnerability and resiliency of fishing communities in the Gulf of Mexico have been on the minds of local, regional, and national governmental agencies as well as numerous researchers and non-governmental organizations. The continued natural and now technological disasters in the Gulf of Mexico have placed a great deal of strain on communities dependent upon both commercial and recreational fishing. In 2008 a two-year long study to develop social indicators of vulnerability and resiliency for fishing-reliant communities in the Gulf of Mexico was undertaken. In addition, as part of the research design the accuracy of the social indicator descriptions of these places with ethnographic studies was triangulated. Comparisons of the combined ethnographic rankings with the quantitative indicators were positive and statistically significant. The research design thus confirmed that the developed indicators were, in fact, reliable measures for the concepts under consideration. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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