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The Marine Resilience Program seeks to apply a resilience approach to marine
social-ecological systems. Marine science has undergone a dramatic paradigm-shift
in recent years, with increased recognition of the role of people in the dynamics
of all marine ecosystems. In addition, marine ecology is scaling-up, fisheries
science is becoming more ecological-based, and no-take areas are being used
as adaptive tools for managing resilience.
The Marine Resilience program, initiated in 2004, has three focal areas: coral
reefs, coastal oceans, and pelagic fisheries. An initial workshop, held at the
Beijer Institute, Stockholm in October 2004, focused on the dynamics of three
marine linked social-ecological systems (coral reefs, kelp beds and coastal
fisheries). A second meeting was held in Cairns, Australia in August 2005. A third
meeting "Social-ecological traps and transformations in marine fisheries"
took place August 2006 in Maine.
Dr. Terry Hughes leads the RA's Marine Resilience program. Dr. Hughes is Scientific
Director at the Centre for Coral Reef Biodiversity, James Cook University and
the inaugural director of ARC Centre of Excellence - Innovative science for
sustainable management of coral reef biodiversity.
Recent Events:
Marine Resilience Meeting - August 24-31 2006, Maine's
Darling Marine Center and Monhegan Is.
Participants include Terry Hughes, Bob Steneck and Jim Wilson (Co-organizers),
as well as Neil Adger, Kate Brown, Carl Folke, Lance Gunderson, Marten Scheffer,
Jim Wilson, Brian Walker, Boris Worm, and local graduate students. The theme
is "Social-ecological traps and transformations in marine fisheries".
The meeting is funded by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence
for Coral Reef Studies.
Selected Publications:
2006
Berkes, F, et al. (2006) ECOLOGY: Globalization, Roving
Bandits, and Marine Resources. Science. Vol:311(5767). 1557-1558
Lebel, L., J. M. Anderies, B. Campbell, C. Folke, S. Hatfield-Dodds, T. P.
Hughes. and J. Wilson. 2006. Governance and the capacity
to manage resilience in regional social-ecological systems. Ecology
and Society 11(1): 19. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art19/
Steneck, RS. (2006) Staying connected in a turbulent
world. Science. Vol:311(5760). 480-481
2005
W. N. Adger, et al. (2005) Social-ecological resilience
to coastal disasters. Science. Vol:309(5737). 1036-1039
S. R. Connolly, et al. (2005) Community structure
of corals and reef fishes at multiple scales. Science. Vol:309(5739).
1363-1365
C. Folke, et al. (2005) Adaptive governance of social-ecological
systems. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. Vol:30(441-473
T. P. Hughes, et al. (2005) New paradigms for supporting
the resilience of marine ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
Vol:20(7). 380-386
J. M. Pandolfi. (2005) Are U.S. coral reefs on the
slippery slope to slime? (vol 307, pg 1725, 2005). Science. Vol:308(5729).
1742-1743
2004
D.R. Bellwood, T.P. Hughes, C. Folke, and M. Nyström. 2004. Confronting
the coral reef crisis. Nature 429: 827-833.
2003
Hughes TP, Baird AH, Bellwood DR, Card M, Connolly SR, Folke C, Grosberg R,
Hoegh-Guldberg O, Jackson JBC, Kleypas J, Lough JM, Marshall P, Nyström
M, Palumbi SR, Pandolfi JM, Rosen B and Roughgarden J (2003) Climate
change, human impacts and the resilience of coral reefs. Science
301: 929-933.
Web Links:
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies http://www.coralcoe.org.au/
The Nature Conservancy - Marine Conservation; Building Resilience into Protected Areas. http://www.nature.org/initiatives/marine/strategies/resilient.html
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