- Title
- Small but strong: Socioeconomic and ecological resilience of a small European fishing community affected by a submarine volcanic eruption
- Creator
- De la Cruz-Modino, Raquel, Piñeiro-Corbeira, Cristina, Gutiérrez-Barroso, Josué, González-Cruz, Carla, Barreiro, Rodolfo, Batista-Medina, José A, Pascual-Fernández, José, González, José A, Santana-Talavera, Agustín, Aswani, Shankar
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2022
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/391397
- Identifier
- vital:68648
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2022.106124"
- Description
- Small-scale coastal fishing communities are facing many new challenges, such as rapid ecological changes created by anthropogenic and natural events like earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. This paper explores how a coastal population has responded to such an event and highlights the diverse coping strategies used to tackle it. This research was conducted on the island of El Hierro (Spain), where a submarine volcanic eruption occurred in 2011, affecting a multiple-use Marine Protected Area (MPA) and the nearby fishing community of La Restinga. Our study illustrates how the local population coped with this situation by combining multiple monetary and non-monetary activities (e.g., informal exchanges) as well as the role of institutions in increasing local resilience by supporting fishers' demands and allowing their participation in the decision-making process in the immediate wake of a catastrophic event. Local families also exploited various natural resources in and near the MPA, thus ensuring access to crucial marine resources and continued recreational/cultural services. The results suggest that collective action played a key role in the recovery process after the eruption, creating some advantages for different local groups despite the hazardous nature of the event.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (17 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ocean and Coastal Managemen, De la Cruz-Modino, R., Piñeiro-Corbeira, C., Gutiérrez-Barroso, J., González-Cruz, C., Barreiro, R., Batista-Medina, J.A., Pascual-Fernández, J.J., González, J.A., Santana-Talavera, A. and Aswani, S., 2022. Small but strong: Socioeconomic and ecological resilience of a small European fishing community affected by a submarine volcanic eruption. Ocean and Coastal Management, 223, p.106124, Ocean and Coastal Managemen volume 223 p. 106124 2022 1873-524X
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- Rights
- Open Access
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