1. Understanding decision networks in coastal resource management
Approaches to meaningful inclusion
WD-NACE
An ESPA Programme Framework project
2010-2012
Nilufar Matin
&
WD-NACE Team

2. The Purpose
The WD-NACE team is working with partners in Kenya and in
Bangladesh to develop a conceptual framework that links
ecosystems and livelihood domains in coastal resource
management, and the implications of these linkages for human
well-being and poverty alleviation.
How ecosystems respond to changes in global drivers and more
importantly to human pressure;
How human actors generate, share and select knowledge for
managing natural resources;
How social-ecological interactions across multiple scales produce
non-linear feedbacks that pose a challenge to sustainability.

3. Conceptualising social–ecological linkages and feedbacks

4. Conceptual framework – ReAL-D
Resources in question - coastal resources and ecosystem
services, and
Actors, along with perceived actor-attributes,* and their
Inter-Linkages and feedbacks,
that are nested within global, national and macro contexts,
determine
choice, Decision, and action that leads to
ecological and social dynamics
-> processes leading to wellbeing or poverty or both among
resource users.

5. WD-NACE Approach
• Mapping decision space
• Ecosystem based poverty analyses
• Sustainability analysis
• Ecosystem modelling
• Agent based social simulation

6. Mapping decision space: using ReAL-D framework
Activity 1 Resources (Re)
What are the main resources, ecological dynamics,
information and knowledge is available and required for
sustainable use
Activity 2 Actors, attributes, inter-Linkages (AL)
Who are the main actors and how are they linked, their
influence, attributes etc.
Activity 3 Decision processes (D)
What are the key decisions in relation to the management
and use of resources - why, who and how?

7. Ecosystem based poverty analyses
A 3 –way approach:
 Environmental poverty –spatial dimension
 Dynamic poverty – ecosystem and livelihood changes over time
 Ecosystem based poverty indicators – multi-dimensional assessment

8. Sustainability analysis
Using Q-sort - A way of structuring subjective
opinions of respondents
•
Collect a variety of statements
•
Ask a variety of stakeholders to sort these
•
Use factor analysis programme to identify factors
•
Do qualitative interpretation of the statistics
•
Use results to set beliefs of agent sub-groups
Emergent groups and beliefs

9. ReAL-D: A conceptual framework
Model of coastal
ecosystems and their
inter-relationships
alongside their
interactions with
human actors and
feedbacks.
Model of decision-
making by human
actors focusing on their
attributes and inter-
relationships alongside
their interactions with
the ecosystems.

10. WD-NACE study areas in Bangladesh and Kenya
Bangladesh Kenya

11. Thank you