Governance fit for climate change in a Caribbean coastal-marine context |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Environment and Resource Studies and Environmental Change and Governance Group, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;2. CARIBSAVE Partnership, 2½ Kingsway, Unit 27, Devon House East, Kingston 10, Jamaica;1. Department of Environment and Resource Studies and Environmental Change and Governance Group, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;2. CARIBSAVE Partnership, 2½ Kingsway, Unit 27, Devon House East, Kingston 10, Jamaica;1. Korea Marine Litter Institute, Our Sea of East Asia Network, 1570-8 Gwangdo-myon, Tongyoung-shi 650-826, South Korea;2. Pukyong National University, 45, Yongso-ro, Nam-Gu, Busan, 608-737, South Korea;3. Oil and POPs Research Group, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, 391 Jangmok-myon, Geoje-shi 656-834, South Korea;4. Marine Environmental Chemistry and Biology, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon 305-350, Republic of Korea;1. Department of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics Research Center), Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA;2. Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA;3. Center for Innovation to Implementation, VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA;4. Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA;5. Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA;6. Department of Surgery, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA;7. Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA;8. Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA;9. Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA |
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| Abstract: | Coastal-marine systems in small island developing states of the Caribbean are highly vulnerable to both current and future climate change. Societies navigate these changes in part through processes of governance and the institutions through which governance takes place. The concept of institutional adaptive capacity is used to explore how governance processes and institutional arrangements can be adapted to match the scale and extent of climate change in a case study of the Soufriere Marine Management Area, St. Lucia. Institutional adaptive capacity is analyzed based on the following factors: institutional variety, analytical deliberation and nesting and networks. The analysis is based on 36 semi-structured interviews conducted with key informants from NGOs, cooperatives, management authorities and government agencies. The findings suggest that governance to address climate change in the case study is contingent upon developing holistic, integrated management systems, improving flexibility in existing collaborative decision making processes, augmenting the capacity of local management authorities with support from higher-level government, exploring opportunities for private–social partnerships, and developing adequate social–environmental monitoring programs. These findings have potential implications and lessons for similar settings throughout the Caribbean. |
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| Keywords: | Institutional adaptive capacity Adaptive governance Governance fit Coastal-marine social-ecological systems |
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