Sammendrag
This poster will address the Theme 3 session on People, Models, Places, Numbers: case studies on science, narratives, and communication in fisheries. The central case study area for the LoVeSe-SDG PhD Project is the Lofoten, Vesterålen, and Senja (LoVeSe) regions of Norway where fisheries represent the rich cultural history, economic structure, and social makeup of the LoVeSe communities. This poster will illustrate the process of applying an academic research lens – the social-ecological systems framework – to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to operationalize these global goals to a local context in ways that are legitimate, salient, and credible. In doing so, the poster will also describe key issues revealed by local stakeholders (representing multiple sectors) regarding coastal development and planning for the region, and the challenges faced by decision-makers to balance the need for economic development and the preservation of traditional ways of life. The research will also present preliminary results of the localization methodology developed for the case study area: Andøy municipality in Vesterålen, and reveal the social-ecological interactions that define the community, the multi-sector relationships of the people that make up those interactions (for instance, qualifying individual perceptions towards sustainability), and reveal potential pathways for operationalizing the SDGs at the local level. This research makes the argument that global efforts to address sustainability, such as the SDGs, may be groundbreaking in their multilateral nature but they lack the roots required to anchor sustainability practices for people and institutions. By applying a social-ecological systems framework to the Norwegian case study, policy transformations and community intervention points can be identified for the SDGs to become fit-for-purpose.
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