Lecture 3. Coastal Resilience 30 January 2013

Leading Discussions Feb 6 th : Coastal Policy – Ian, Rose, Jaclyn Feb 13 th : Coastal Development, Recreation, Access – Chris W, Nichole Feb 20 th : Sea Level Rise – Julia, Anthony, Shayne Feb 27 th : Hazards – Kerry, Mitch March 13 th : Coastal Planning Case Studies – Evan, Nichole March 27 th : Fisheries Management, Commons, Four Fish – Kara, JJ, Andrew April 17 th : Community-based Management – Max, Liz

Regime Shifts Folke et al Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management

Ecosystem Services “Ecosystem services are the benefits people obtain from ecosystems. These include provisioning services such as food and water; regulating services such as regulation of floods, drought, land degradation, and disease; supporting services such as soil formation and nutrient cycling; and cultural services such as recreational, spiritual, religious and other nonmaterial benefits.”

RESLIENCE: A measure of the persistence of systems and of their capacity to absorb change and disturbance and still maintain the same relationships between populations or state variables. Holling Definition:

Coastal Planning Dimensions Resilience of Land Use and Built Environment Ecological Resilience Social Resilience Economic Resilience

Qualities of a Resilient World (Walker and Salt 2006) 1.Diversity 2.Ecological Variability 3.Modularity 4.Acknowledging Slow Variables 5. Tight Feedbacks 6.Social Capital 7.Innovation 8.Overlap in Governance 9.Ecosystem Services