Co‑creating coastal sustainability goals and indicators
Indicators can be powerful tools to measure progress towards achieving societal goals, and many indicators have been developed for sustainability goals nationally and internationally. When indicators are developed solely through top-down approaches without engaging local knowledge, they often fall s...
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ftnofima:oai:nofima.brage.unit.no:11250/3137953 2024-09-15T18:25:53+00:00 Co‑creating coastal sustainability goals and indicators Engen, Sigrid Hausner, Vera Helene Mikkelsen, Eirik Inge Gundersen, Hege Christie, Hartvig C Falk-Andersson, Jannike Halpern, Benjamin S. Fauchald, Per 2024 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3137953 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01521-6 eng eng Egen institusjon: Norwegian institute for nature research (NINA) Framsenteret: CoastShift Norges forskningsråd: 280778 urn:issn:1862-4065 https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3137953 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01521-6 cristin:2278852 Sustainability Science Peer reviewed Journal article 2024 ftnofima https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-024-01521-6 2024-07-10T23:32:34Z Indicators can be powerful tools to measure progress towards achieving societal goals, and many indicators have been developed for sustainability goals nationally and internationally. When indicators are developed solely through top-down approaches without engaging local knowledge, they often fall short of capturing local perceptions and concerns relevant to decision-making. The aim of this project was to co-create a Coastal Barometer and its component indicators, together with local knowledge-holders and communities, using the Ocean Health Index as a framework. As a frst step, local knowledgeholders from six communities dispersed across Northern Norway were invited to articulate local sustainability goals and the required knowledge for eight broad topics pertaining to global OHI goals: small-scale fsheries, food production, sense of place, tourism, food production, clean waters, carbon storage and economy and livelihoods. In this paper, our main focus is the co-design phase of the Coastal Barometer, namely eliciting sustainability goals. We thus, present locally desired sustainability goals and sub-goals and the process of eliciting these goals. We also include suggestions from local knowledge-holders on how to reach these goals (i.e. proposed management measures), along with researchers’ assessment of data availability (part of the co-production process) for developing indicators to measure progress towards these goals. Finally, we discuss the benefts and challenges of co-developing sustainability goals and indicators with local knowledge-holders. We conclude that co-design can increase the quality of sustainability assessments by enriching the view of coastal sustainability. This knowledge can subsequently be used to align indicators with local sustainability goals as well as to the local context where the indicators will be applied. Blue growth · Ecosystem services · Public participation · Sustainability indicators · Sustainable development goals · Ocean health index publishedVersion Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Norway Nofima Knowledge Archive (Brage) Sustainability Science 19 4 1327 1343 |
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Indicators can be powerful tools to measure progress towards achieving societal goals, and many indicators have been developed for sustainability goals nationally and internationally. When indicators are developed solely through top-down approaches without engaging local knowledge, they often fall short of capturing local perceptions and concerns relevant to decision-making. The aim of this project was to co-create a Coastal Barometer and its component indicators, together with local knowledge-holders and communities, using the Ocean Health Index as a framework. As a frst step, local knowledgeholders from six communities dispersed across Northern Norway were invited to articulate local sustainability goals and the required knowledge for eight broad topics pertaining to global OHI goals: small-scale fsheries, food production, sense of place, tourism, food production, clean waters, carbon storage and economy and livelihoods. In this paper, our main focus is the co-design phase of the Coastal Barometer, namely eliciting sustainability goals. We thus, present locally desired sustainability goals and sub-goals and the process of eliciting these goals. We also include suggestions from local knowledge-holders on how to reach these goals (i.e. proposed management measures), along with researchers’ assessment of data availability (part of the co-production process) for developing indicators to measure progress towards these goals. Finally, we discuss the benefts and challenges of co-developing sustainability goals and indicators with local knowledge-holders. We conclude that co-design can increase the quality of sustainability assessments by enriching the view of coastal sustainability. This knowledge can subsequently be used to align indicators with local sustainability goals as well as to the local context where the indicators will be applied. Blue growth · Ecosystem services · Public participation · Sustainability indicators · Sustainable development goals · Ocean health index publishedVersion |
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