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DOI	10.3389/frwa.2024.1269717
	Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed socio-ecological system through the Circles of Coastal Sustainability framework
	Ollivier, Maria Esther Leyva; Newton, Alice; Kelsey, Heath
发表日期	2024
EISSN	2624-9375
起始页码	6
卷号	6
英文摘要	The concern with preserving natural resources for the future has been capturing global attention due to the state of decline of productive ecosystems. Chesapeake Bay, a large estuary located on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States of America is such a productive ecosystem supporting thousands of animal and plants species, and the surrounding human population. Despite the concept of sustainable development, there has been continued pressure on the natural resources and the ecosystem services of the Bay. Institutional restoration and management efforts have been extensive, generating organizations, agreements, regulations and projects, among others. This research assesses Chesapeake Bay's sustainability in four domains: environment, social, economy, and governance, using the Circles of Coastal Sustainability methodology. Each of the four domains has five categories, and each category is evaluated by the authors' expert judgment using indicators related to the socio-ecological system and the definition of sustainable development. The article proposes a global sustainability score developed by a literature review of sustainability evaluated through the expert judgment of the authors. The results from the framework gave a Satisfactory score to the overall system; the environment and economic domains obtained the Satisfactory score, whilst the government and social domains obtained Good and Poor scores, respectively. The categories ranged between Excellent and Poor scores. The Excellent score was obtained by organization. The Poor score was obtained by five categories across the domains including social benefits, demographic, identity, security, and economic wellbeing. The assessment showed that the system has degradation problems, but the results have provided a general foundation for management bridges and barriers for sustainable development, with the barriers used to discuss new bridges towards holistic management proposals. The framework is a tool in progress to communicate to various actors the current sustainability development with the available information, provide a holistic system view, and find knowledge gaps in the research of a system. Similarly, the framework and assessment can be complemented, adapted, refined, and improved with each application as part of an adaptive management iterative cycle.
英文关键词	Chesapeake Bay watershed; socio-ecological system; indicators; sustainability assessment; coastal management
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Water Resources
WOS类目	Water Resources
WOS记录号	WOS:001198675600001
来源期刊	FRONTIERS IN WATER
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/305743
作者单位	Universidade do Algarve; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ollivier, Maria Esther Leyva,Newton, Alice,Kelsey, Heath. Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed socio-ecological system through the Circles of Coastal Sustainability framework[J],2024,6.
APA	Ollivier, Maria Esther Leyva,Newton, Alice,&Kelsey, Heath.(2024).Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed socio-ecological system through the Circles of Coastal Sustainability framework.FRONTIERS IN WATER,6.
MLA	Ollivier, Maria Esther Leyva,et al."Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay watershed socio-ecological system through the Circles of Coastal Sustainability framework".FRONTIERS IN WATER 6(2024).