1. Lecture 4. Coastal Resilience

2. Leading Discussions Sep 19th: Coastal Development, Recreation, Access
Daniel, Shereen
Sep 26th : Hazards
Patricia, Jim
Oct 3rd: Sea Level Rise
Hannah, Miles
Oct 24: Fisheries Management/Four Fish
Emily, Wiley
Nov 14: MPAs, IFQs, Knowledge
Zoe, Lucia
Dec 5: Marine Debris/Ocean Acidification
Kimberly, Natalie, Micheal

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

6. 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.”

7. Holling Definition:
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.

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

11. NOAA

12. NOAA: Ecosystem Research Challenge Workshop GOALS
A comprehensive Ecosystem Research Agenda would strategically align and integrate the agency’s science assets, partnerships, and capabilities to facilitate the research needed to support the sustainable use, protection, and restoration of coastal and marine ecosystems, as well as the ecosystem services they provide. NOAA should develop and implement a comprehensive strategy for an ecosystem approach to research. NOAA’s Ecosystem Research Agenda should build a greater understanding of the ecosystem processes and dynamics that support and sustain the ecosystem services that are key to meeting NOAA’s mandates and mission. This approach should be structured around key questions about the environmental and societal factors that affect ecosystems, the responses of ecosystems to these factors, and the subsequent effects on ecosystem services, as well as questions about the ecosystem services that affect the human condition.

13. Ecosystem
Definition: A geographically specified system of organisms (including humans), the environment, and the processes that control its dynamics (NOAA)
NOAA defines ecosystem research as the systematic study directed toward fuller scientific knowledge or understanding of geographically determined systems of organisms (including humans), the environment, and the processes that control the system dynamics. Environment is the biological, chemical, physical, and social conditions that surround organisms Adapted from Murawski & Matlock, and OMB, 20042

14. Ecosystem Service Themes:
Safe and Sustainable Seafood
Sustained Cultural & Recreational Benefits from Coasts & Oceans
Vibrant & Robust Coastal Communities & Economies
Abundant & Diverse Wildlife (including all organisms)

15. Qualities of a Resilient World (Walker and Salt 2006)
Diversity
Ecological Variability
Modularity
Acknowledging Slow Variables
Tight Feedbacks
Social Capital
Innovation
Overlap in Governance
Ecosystem Services