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Social-ecological vulnerability of fishing communities to climate change: A U.S. West Coast case study — Europe PMC PMID:35976855

Source: Europe PMC (en)
Original: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/35976855
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272120
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@misc{dcff5c190176cb,
  title = {Social-ecological vulnerability of fishing communities to climate change: A U.S. West Coast case study — Europe PMC PMID:35976855},
  howpublished = {Europe PMC (en)},
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/MED/35976855},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_ff5c190176cb; sha256 b1c573b43fec594fea4265f2d54d7c0578b9ccae1fdccdfdfca9e35104c94e07},
  year = {2026}
}

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Climate change is already impacting coastal communities, and ongoing and future shifts in fisheries species productivity from climate change have implications for the livelihoods and cultures of coastal communities. Harvested marine species in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem support U.S. West Coast communities economically, socially, and culturally. Ecological vulnerability assessments exist for individual species in the California Current but ecological and human vulnerability are linked and vulnerability is expected to vary by community. Here, we present automatable, reproducible methods for assessing the vulnerability of U.S. West Coast fishing dependent communities to climate change within a social-ecological vulnerability framework. We first assessed the ecological risk of marine resources, on which fishing communities rely, to 50 years of climate change projections. We then combined this with the adaptive capacity of fishing communities, based on social indicators, to assess the potential ability of communities to cope with future changes. Specific communities (particularly in Washington state) were determined to be at risk to climate change mainly due to economic reliance on at risk marine fisheries species, like salmon, hake, or sea urchins. But, due to higher social adaptive capacity, these communities were often not found to be the most vulnerable overall. Conversely, certain communities that were not the most at risk, ecologically and economically, ranked in the category of highly vulnerable communities due to low adaptive capacity based on social indicators (particularly in Southern California). Certain communities were both ecologically at risk due to catch composition and socially vulnerable (low adaptive capacity) leading to the highest tier of vulnerability. The integration of climatic, ecological, economic, and societal data reveals that factors underlying vulnerability are variable across fishing communities on the U.S West Coast, and suggests the need to develop a variety of well-aligned strategies to adapt to the ecological impacts of climate change.

Tema degli esploratori: terra, clima ed energia (ricerca Europe PMC «climatology», solo open access).
Pubblicazione: PloS one, 2022 (prima pubblicazione 2022-08-17).
Identificativi: PMID 35976855 · PMCID PMC9385011 · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0272120.
Descrittori MeSH principali: Ecosystem; Climate Change.
Pagina: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/35976855 — https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272120. Autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
Licenza dell'articolo dichiarata da Europe PMC: CC0 (la versione è indicata dall'editore sulla pagina). Abstract riportato senza modifiche al contenuto, con attribuzione; deposito marcato CC0.
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