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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Morrissey, Karyn
• Fleming, Lora E.
• Ha, Nguyen Thu
• Roberts, Bethany
• Ngoc Thao, Le
• White, Mathew
• Zandberg, Kim

Titel

The role of economic and ecosystem change on mental wellbeing: A case study of the Tân Hiêp island commune within Vietnam's Cù Lao Chàm UNESCO biosphere reserve

Ist Teil von

• Ocean & coastal management, 2023-10, Vol.244, p.106820, Article 106820

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper explores the complex relationships between changes in the state of a coral reef, rapid economic growth, and mental wellbeing for residents of Tân Hiệp commune (Vietnam). With its designation as a UNESCO Biosphere reserve status 10 years previously, the Tân Hiệp coral reef offers an important example of an ecosystem that remains central to the coastal community, but whose associated ecosystem services have largely transferred from provisioning (fishing) to cultural (tourism). Using the ‘ecosystems enriched’ Driver, Pressure, State, Exposure, Effect, Action framework (eDPSEEA), to help develop a theoretical model of the relationships between changes to the coral ecosystem, it's capacity to provide ecosystem services and the impacts on human wellbeing using the Cù Lao Chàm UNESCO biosphere reserve as a case study site. Mediation analysis found that when examined through the pathways of the eDPSEEA framework, the social and environmental pressures associated with the rapid economic development of the island over the last 10 years have a significant negative association with resident mental wellbeing. Using the eDPSEEA framework to examine the pathways in which ecosystem change impacts human wellbeing, this analysis demonstrates the complexity of our dependence on coastal ecosystems, and the nuance required to develop and sustain effective ‘actions’ to manage human and ecosystems health in the future. •eDPSSEA framework used to explore the role of rapid economic growth and ecosystem change on mental wellbeing.•Drivers of rapid economic growth have a positive but insignificant association with mental wellbeing.•Mediation analysis used to examine the impact of these drivers through a pressures pathway.•Drivers' positive association with mental wellbeing was fully mediated when examined via a pressure's pathway.