Indigenous Bio-cultural Conservation, and blue justice

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Port developments and marine democracy in Latin America

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The worth of a chough : Contingent valuation of P Pyrrhocorax in Cornwall and the connections to Cornish identity

I would like to thank Dr Bruce Forrest, Dr Bryan Mills and all the participants in the project survey. I would also like to thank my family and Dr Loveday Jenkin for their help and encouragement.Non peer reviewe

The oxygenation of extraction and future global ecological democracy: the City of London, the alternative investment market and oil in frontiers in Africa

This article explores how the governance of the City of London Corporation perpetuates the oxygenation of extraction, with a focus on oil frontiers and ecological impacts in Africa. It shows how this extractive system limits environmental justice through a spider’s web of tax havens linked to the notoriously under-regulated Alternative Investment Market. The contemporary success of the City of London Corporation is supported by an archaic membership system drawn from financial services. This has also allowed it to support the establishment of the most successful network of secrecy jurisdictions of ‘tax havens’ on the planet, supporting flows for illicit business in commodity frontiers. As extractive operations are given life by the financial flows that circulate through the City and its offshore empire, and take control of land, the potential for local communities to utilise their local ecological knowledge is asphyxiated, limiting the protection of food systems and endangered species. The article explains how this system functions, and why it needs to be reformed to limit Earth’s sixth mass extinction. It does so through case studies of the City of London, the Niger Delta and Turkana Kenya, using ethnography and semi structured interviews. A new system of ecological direct democracy is proposed, limiting global corruption flows into the City’s tax havens, allowing instead for a flourishing globalisation of ecological democracy

The worth of a chough: Contingent valuation of P Pyrrhocorax in Cornwall and the connections to Cornish identity

The aim of this paper is to determine how people value species for conservation and apply it to policymaking. This paper is the first attempt to value one of the UK´s rarest birds specifically; the redbilled chough (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax). Classical economic theory struggles to assign value to resources that are not a product of markets, such as endangered wildlife. The contingent valuation method will be used to gauge how P pyrrhocorax is valued in Cornwall via a questionnaire method, eliciting responses to how much individuals are willing to pay to preserve this rare species. The methodology requires diligent questionnaire design, implementation and regression analysis. It was found that the average willingness to pay was £23.60 to mitigate habitat damage to this endangered and iconic bird. Economic valuation has a large role to play in determining policy for species conservation. However, there are other more complex and non-orthodox forms of valuation occurring such as aesthetic, intrinsic bequest and relational values that cannot be accounted for by direct valuation

From a Brown to a blue economy in Chile

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Port dumping and participation in England: Developing an ecosystem approach through local ecological knowledge

Globally, disposal from dredging continues to increase in this era of the blue capitalocene; a marine era dominated by capital and humans (Anbleyth-Evans, 2018b). Demand for larger ports and shipping is resulting in persistent changes to ecosystems (de Jonge et al., 2014), altering benthic community structure and reducing species richness and biodiversity (Ware et al., 2010; Bolam et al., 2016). From the expansion of the Panama Canal (Meek, 1923), to the beginning of the Nicaraguan Canal (Goffman, 1968), to the decrease of the seabed of the River Scheldt, and the construction of multiple ports in India, Australia (Goffman, 1968), China, Malaysia, and beyond (Manap and Voulvous, 2015), anthropogenic ecological change continues without local communities enjoying parity of participation in an environmentally just form. Many ports and harbours around the world, including Britain\u27s, are situated at river mouths, meaning that ports must conduct dredging to ensure that approach channels are sufficiently deep for vessels, and the amount of dredged material has increased over time, due to increasing draughts (Sys et al., 2008). While off-shore dumping might seem insignificant from land, the ecological impacts are significant to local communities, while dumping decision-making are based on national demands for economic growth (Mansfield, 2004; Pinkerton and Davis, 2015). Realising environmental justice requires using an ecosystem approach to inform governance by integrating local and expert knowledge (Agyeman, 2005). The case studies from Southern England presented here demonstrate a broader international significance: the value of marine local ecological knowledge (LEK), that is the knowledge of non-scientists working in ecosystems, who experience an evolving influence from science, technology, and governance (Anbleyth-Evans, 2018b). Local democratic decision-making on ecological-process impacts can include local expertise in participation and development while improving overall understanding. Participation can lead to adaptive co-management, with LEK detecting changes through monitoring (Armitage et al., 2009). However, integrating LEK into governmental monitoring and equalising power structures remains challenging, as different forms of evidence are not treated equally (Anbleyth-Evans and Lacy, 2019). Indeed, there is a need for the democratisation of the process, which would include how different value systems couch different forms of evidence. Marine LEK can play an enhanced role in ecological monitoring, filling gaps that scientists cannot reach (Wilson and Kleban, 1992; Pauly, 1995; Johannes et al., 2008). LEK\u27s participation in marine governance is not adequately acknowledged, with increased knowledge-sharing between fishers and scientists influencing scientific research, and with feedbacks returning to coastal communities (Anbleyth-Evans, 2018a). In this way, marine LEK can inform the ecological norms of civil society, and a better-informed society may have a greater appetite for stronger sustainability solutions (Eagle et al., 2018). LEK be can be linked to impact assessment on other cultural services, which it can preserve by identifying ecological risks. It shows why certain forms of evidence are validated while others are not, underlining why a major shift in political governance is needed in order to realise the parity of participation that is possible through decentralisation of marine governance. Here, we use a case-study approach, utilising two locales in Southern England to examine the ways that marine LEK was marshalled in order to improve local governance of areas affected by dumping of dredged sediments from nearby ports. Our objective was to (a) demonstrate the value of marine stakeholders’ LEK in port development and dumping and provide a participatory mechanism for its inclusion, and (b) indicates how LEK can spotlight environmental injustice

Recognising and Protecting the National Benefit of Sustainable Fisheries in the UK

\ua9 2025 The Author(s). Fish and Fisheries published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Sustainable commercial fishing makes valuable contributions to coastal regions and broader national benefits. This paper offers three arguments in relation to what is required for the societal benefits of sustainable fisheries to be fully realised and considers each in the context of the UK but with global relevance. First, there is a need to raise the profile of the full range of benefits that are delivered through sustainable fisheries to coastal communities and the broader public. In the UK, the delivery of a ‘national benefit’ objective through fisheries is now enshrined in law by the Fisheries Act, 2020; we operationalise this through a new framing that distils eight ‘national benefits’ that all sustainable fisheries should deliver. Second, better acknowledgement of what society gains from sustainable fisheries must be paralleled with recognition of what society is simultaneously at risk of losing through the decline of the fishing fleet. We detail this decline in a new analysis of long-term UK data, which highlights that the decline is unequally felt, with some regions of the UK, and small-scale fishing sectors, experiencing loss more acutely. This reality leads us to argue a third point, that if society is to retain and truly harness the benefits that flow from sustainable fisheries, governing bodies must act quickly to ensure that fisheries are environmentally sustainable, diverse and inclusive, pursuing fisheries that ‘leave no one behind’