Coastal Management

Coasts are complex, coupled social-ecological systems; managing their diverse resources, users, and inhabitants (human and otherwise) is a challenge. Understanding the relationships between people and coastal ecosystems, including governance approaches, is an interdisciplinary challenge. As part of an ongoing collaboration with a colleagues at UC Irvine and at an international, coastal conservation NGO, the Save The Waves Coalition, I am drawing on common pool resource theory to evaluate the effectiveness of six countries' strategies for coastal governance through the World Surfing Reserve System.

• I presented our initial results at the International Marine Conservation Congress in St. John's, Newfoundland in July 2016: Reineman & Strong-Cvetich "The World Surfing Reserve system: Comparative analysis of an integrated approach to common-pool marine resource governance."

Wave Resource Management

This work examines relationships between local knowledge, sense of place, and resource stewardship—each of these has implications for sustainability—and the potential role of coastal resources users in management. These interdisciplinary components center around some of California's most iconic and important natural resources—beaches & waves—by engaging with the surfing community, whose local knowledge of these resources is unrivaled. I am collecting and recording their local ecological knowledge at science4surfing.org.

This project has resulted in several outputs, including:

• Reineman & Ardoin. 2018. Sustainable tourism and the management of nearshore coastal places: place attachment and disruption to surf-spots. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 26: 325-340. (view article)
• Reineman, Thomas, & Caldwell. 2017. Using local knowledge to project the impacts of sea level rise on wave resources in California. Ocean and Coastal Management 138: 181-191. (view article)
• Reineman. 2015. The human dimensions of wave resource management. Stanford University Dissertation. (information and background)

And forthcoming:

• Sancho & Reineman. In Prep. The impacts of climate change on wave resources on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Learn more here.