FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Participatory Qualitative Modeling to Assess the Sustainability of a Coastal Socio-Ecological System BT AF Gourguet, Sophie Marzloff, Martin Bacher, Cedric Boudry, Pierre Cugier, Philippe Dambacher, Jeffrey Mark Desroy, Nicolas Gangnery, Aline Le Mao, Patrick Monnier, Léa PEREZ, Jose Thébaud, Olivier AS 1:1;2:2;3:2;4:3;5:2;6:4;7:5;8:2,6;9:5;10:1;11:1;12:1; FF 1:PDG-RBE-EM;2:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-LEBCO;3:PDG-ODE-DYNECO;4:PDG-RBE-PFOM;5:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-LEBCO;6:;7:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN;8:PDG-ODE-DYNECO-LEBCO;9:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN;10:;11:PDG-RBE-EM;12:PDG-RBE-EM; C1 Ifremer, Univ Brest, CNRS, UMR 6308, AMURE, Unité d’Economie Maritime, IUEM, Plouzané, France Ifremer, DYNECO, Plouzané, France Ifremer, Univ Brest, CNRS, IRD, LEMAR, Plouzané, France Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Hobart, TAS, Australia Ifremer, LITTORAL, Dinard, France Ifremer, LITTORAL, Port-en-Bessin, France C2 IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE CSIRO, AUSTRALIA IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST DINARD SE PDG-RBE-EM PDG-ODE-DYNECO-LEBCO PDG-ODE-DYNECO PDG-RBE-PFOM PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBN UM AMURE LEMAR IN WOS Ifremer UPR WOS Ifremer UMR DOAJ copubli-int-hors-europe IF 4.496 TC 8 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00718/83050/88003.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00718/83050/88004.zip https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00718/83050/88005.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;socio-ecological system (SES);participatory approach;sustainability;shellfish aquaculture;Normand-Breton Gulf;loop analysis AB Assessing the sustainability of socio-ecological systems requires understanding the interactions between numerous ecological, economic and social components. Models are often used to investigate how interactions shape system feedbacks and drive the complex dynamics at play in such systems. However, building these models is a non-trivial exercise, which often neglects stakeholder knowledge and perceptions. We adopted a participatory approach that relies on conducting workshops to engage stakeholders into the development of qualitative models of system feedback. This type of participatory qualitative modeling is well suited to address the complexity of socio-ecological systems in a holistic manner, identify key stakes and feedbacks, and predict responses to perturbations. We use this approach to investigate the factors that condition sustainability of the socio-ecological system associated with shellfish aquaculture in the Normand-Breton Gulf in France. Six region-specific workshops were organized with shellfish producers, managers and other stakeholders to identify and describe key components, interactions and pressures that contribute to overall socio-ecological dynamics. Differences and commonalities in system perceptions were identified across the different regions and focus groups. We reconciled stakeholder-specific discrepancies in model structure into a synthetic representation that conciliates alternative views of the system. Next, we predicted how the system might respond to alternative scenarios of change. Overall, our participatory qualitative modeling exercise identified key drivers of the system under study that constitute effective management levers to maintain system sustainability. For instance, low social acceptability of the aquaculture industry generally appears to be a major constraint on the sustainability of shellfish aquaculture in the Normand-Breton Gulf, while reducing rearing density appears to be a key driver of sustainability. PY 2021 PD AUG SO Frontiers In Ecology And Evolution SN 2296-701X PU Frontiers Media SA VL 9 UT 000693650900001 DI 10.3389/fevo.2021.635857 ID 83050 ER EF