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Abstract
Sea level rise and other stressors in the mid-Atlantic U.S. are impacting the resilience of coastal communities, and increase their overall physical and socio-economic vulnerabilities. The Deal Island Peninsula on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, MD is used as a case study of a coastal heritage community that is undergoing these stressors and is involved in stakeholder-driven resilience and adaptation planning. In this interdisciplinary socio-ecological project funded by the NERRS Science Collaborative, a socio-economic analysis of a culturally rich coastal community is performed as a sub-study. The goals of the socio-economic analysis are to 1) better understand stakeholder relationships with marsh ecosystems and services they provide, 2) bring stakeholder perceptions and values of socio-ecological services into a coastal decision-making framework, and 3) bridge the gap between science and decision-making through improved communication and collaboration. The methodologies employed take the nature of a collaborative learning approach, coupled with the Q-sort technique. In this presentation, discussion topics include the collaborative approach taken toward a socio-economic assessment, preliminary results of the Q-sort, and indicators of community adaptation efforts.
Publication Date
2-2014
Document Type
Presentation
Recommended Citation
Diessner, Natallia Leuchanka; Wainger, Lisa; Needelman, Brian; Johnson, Katherine J.; and Becker, Mimi Larsen, "A collaborative approach to socio-economic assessment to increase coastal marsh and community resilience on the Chesapeake Bay" (2014). Natural Resources & the Environment. 136.
https://scholars.unh.edu/nren_facpub/136