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<p>Coastal wetlands and lagoons sustain biodiversity, provide carbon storage, and support livelihoods, yet they are among the most threatened social–ecological systems globally. Increasing anthropogenic pressures, compounded by climate hazards, erode their ecological integrity and jeopardize the livelihoods of communities reliant on fisheries, aquaculture, and local eco-tourism. Addressing these intertwined challenges requires governance approaches that connect ecological knowledge, local experience, and socially legitimate action. Co-production of knowledge, collaborative processes that bring scientists, managers, and local actors into shared problem definition and solution design, has emerged as a promising pathway to improve the usability and legitimacy of science while strengthening adaptive capacity. In parallel, the resilience perspective reframes coastal sustainability beyond engineering stability toward dynamic learning, renewal, and transformation across scales. In this study, we comparatively examine three wetlands recognized under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in India, Ashtamudi, Chilika, and Kolleru, to analyze how management actions, co-production processes, and vulnerability contexts interact to shape resilience outcomes. Drawing on longitudinal field engagement, documentary evidence, and cross-case synthesis, we identify key co-production principles (boundary spanning, iterative learning, trust infrastructure, equity mainstreaming, and scalability) and use these to apply and extend a vulnerability–resilience–co-production (VRC) framework. The framework underscores that enduring resilience requires more than technical restoration; it depends on trust, equity, and iterative, knowledge-rich partnerships that can enable coastal systems to adapt and transform under accelerating global change. By foregrounding how co-production was present, partial, or absent across the three wetlands, the study offers a more explicit basis for designing collaborative resilience strategies in estuarine and coastal systems. </p>

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Co-Producing Coastal Resilience in India’s Ramsar-listed Lagoons and Wetlands: Lessons from Kolleru, Ashtamudi, and Chilika

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    2026年6月30日

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  • Navya Vikraman Nair,
  • Bala Raju Nikku,
  • Ajith Raj

摘要

Coastal wetlands and lagoons sustain biodiversity, provide carbon storage, and support livelihoods, yet they are among the most threatened social–ecological systems globally. Increasing anthropogenic pressures, compounded by climate hazards, erode their ecological integrity and jeopardize the livelihoods of communities reliant on fisheries, aquaculture, and local eco-tourism. Addressing these intertwined challenges requires governance approaches that connect ecological knowledge, local experience, and socially legitimate action. Co-production of knowledge, collaborative processes that bring scientists, managers, and local actors into shared problem definition and solution design, has emerged as a promising pathway to improve the usability and legitimacy of science while strengthening adaptive capacity. In parallel, the resilience perspective reframes coastal sustainability beyond engineering stability toward dynamic learning, renewal, and transformation across scales. In this study, we comparatively examine three wetlands recognized under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands in India, Ashtamudi, Chilika, and Kolleru, to analyze how management actions, co-production processes, and vulnerability contexts interact to shape resilience outcomes. Drawing on longitudinal field engagement, documentary evidence, and cross-case synthesis, we identify key co-production principles (boundary spanning, iterative learning, trust infrastructure, equity mainstreaming, and scalability) and use these to apply and extend a vulnerability–resilience–co-production (VRC) framework. The framework underscores that enduring resilience requires more than technical restoration; it depends on trust, equity, and iterative, knowledge-rich partnerships that can enable coastal systems to adapt and transform under accelerating global change. By foregrounding how co-production was present, partial, or absent across the three wetlands, the study offers a more explicit basis for designing collaborative resilience strategies in estuarine and coastal systems.