Barriers and opportunities for social-ecological adaptation to climate change in coastal British Columbia

摘要: Abstract Climate change poses novel and complex challenges to planning, management, policies for marine coastal social-ecological systems. Despite ongoing discussion of adopting interventions improving adaptation adaptive capacity climate change, practitioners often continue carry out conventional management strategies that do not effectively incorporate impacts projections. Using a web-based survey semi-structured interviews, we explored the perceptions (coastal managers planners) in British Columbia, Canada relative risks, actions social ecological systems, barriers within region. Overall, shared concern is currently well incorporated or policy this region, noted significant implementation gaps. Practitioners expressed more support are suited regional implementation, such as incorporating projections into reducing fisheries overexploitation, than protecting specific areas. Social were overall perceived less useful actions, would local monitoring efforts viewed developing alternative livelihoods. The main associated opportunities included political action, scientific uncertainty, communication, increasing (both funding staff). Additional include effective engagement with Indigenous governance, including monitoring, focusing on communication education programs communities. This study demonstrates necessity collaboration across scales adaptation.