Integrating societal perspectives and values for improved stewardship of a coastal ecosystem engineer

Oyster reefs provide coastal societies with a vast array of ecosystem services, but are also destructively harvested as an economically and culturally important fishery resource, exemplifying a complex social-ecological system (SES). Historically, societal demand for oysters has led to destructive a...

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Main Authors: Steven B. Scyphers, J Steven. Picou, Robert D. Brumbaugh, Sean P. Powers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2014-09-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss3/art38/