Stormy Waters

Socio-environmental conflicts are ubiquitous and they have historically been perceived as obstacles to the successful management of ecosystems. This has prevented deepening understanding of what governance trajectories are possible amid dissensus. Through this project, we aim to challenge this view by adopting a complex understanding of conflicts as composed of multiple issues and considering it as a phenomenon that can be entangled to collaboration, as well as playing a positive role in organizing political priorities. For that purpose, we focus on the conflicts between the conservation of seals and cormorants and the management of the fisheries in the Swedish Baltic Coast.

Stormy Waters - moving forward amidst dissensus to accomplish holistic ecosystem-based management is funded by grant number 2024-00157 from Naturvårdsverket, Havs- och Vattenmyndigheten and FORMAS (the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development).