- What has worked/hasn’t worked to see assessment results communicated to an incorporated by management, communicated to the public, etc.? (E.g., framing of results, stakeholder involvement, perceptions or attitudes of management bodies)
- Are there instances of stakeholders involved from the beginning to increase buy-in?
6. Collaboration and capacity building
- Identify platform for communicating results, indicators, lessons/case studies, and any other resources (e.g. online database for open access, serving future assessments)
- Tool/indicator suggestions based on resource availability (human and financial) - table
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Introduction
As the impacts of climate change in marine ecosystems become more frequent and severe, there is a growing need for resource managers and users to monitor ongoing impacts and plan for change. Climate change can lead to spatial shifts of target fishery species \cite{Morley_2018} and/or introduce challenges for local populations \cite{Pankhurst_2011,Hoegh_Guldberg_2010}. In turn, a socio-economic system including fishers, resource managers, distributors, and other stakeholders may need to adapt to sustain their activities in this changing environment \cite{Aguilera_2015}.
There is a growing body of climate vulnerability assessments that take a coarse scale ‘triage’ approach \cite{Hare_2016,Foden_2013,Pecl_2014,CHIN_2010}, as well as geographically \cite{Winder_2004,Thomson_2014,Nagelkerken_2015} and species-focused \cite{Waltham_2017,Rosa_2014,Jeuthe_2015} studies that assess response to climate stressors with experimentation or long-term monitoring . This wealth of methodologies and indicators employed across these assessments and studies presents a challenge in terms of common ground and interoperability, but also an opportunity; here, we synthesize physiological and ecological indicators of vulnerability to climate change in marine species and populations, and identify how to implement these indicators in management and monitoring, depending on availability financial and human capital.
Strategic frameworks for climate vulnerability assessments
Vulnerability indicators