➡️ Legitimacy and #equity principles are foundational to the success of marine restoration projects. This assumes involving and listening to affected communities and users of marine areas and their needs from the initiation phase onwards.
Comments
Log in with your Bluesky account to leave a comment
➡️ It requires explicit deliberation on underlying values and worldviews, of restoration goals and required knowledge(s), recognizing politics involved. What is needed is not just more science, but better ways of bringing different kinds of knowledge in dialogue together.
➡️ Successful marine restoration projects can serve as examples for upscaling elsewhere, but scaling up cannot be a copy-paste exercise. Social-political contexts matter and are dynamic. Restoration interventions in new places require revisiting legitimacy and equity implications in the new context.
➡️ Social science should play a central role improving understanding of social settings & impacts of restoration, the conditions for legitimate & fair decision making and the deeper structural social-political causes to marine biodiversity loss that need tackling for real transition to take place.
Comments