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The role of family in shaping adaptation and adaptive capacity in small-scale fishing communities: The yellow clam fishers in Uruguay

2025· article· en· W4407864848 on OpenAlexaff
Farah El-Shayeb, Jeremy Pittman, Gabriela Jorge-Romero, Ignacio Gianelli, Omar Defeo

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Rural Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicCoral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
FundersInter-American Institute for Global Change Research
KeywordsFishingAdaptation (eye)FisheryScale (ratio)Adaptive capacityGeographyEnvironmental resource managementEcologyBiologyEconomicsClimate changeCartography

Abstract

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Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) face numerous challenges, including resource overexploitation and precarious livelihoods due to limited or ineffective formal and institutional governance systems. In addressing the multifaceted challenges SSFs confront, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and livelihood security, understanding their adaptive capacity becomes fundamental. Various social factors, including family dynamics, influence adaptive capacity. This paper presents an in-depth case study from Uruguay, examining the role of families in the yellow clam SSFs' adaptive capacity. It explores the influence of family ties and their impact on adaptation processes. The study draws on diverse datasets to highlight families' role in building adaptive capacity within SSFs. We find that family networks are a significant driver of other types of important social networks in communities (e.g., labor, governance, and knowledge). Additionally, family structures within communities influence key adaptive processes, such as the marketing of harvest within value chains. Our findings emphasize the significance of family as local, informal institutions and networks to strengthen capacity to manage diverse stressors and resources. Empirically, the paper sheds light on the intricate web of connections that are pivotal for the functioning of fisheries communities and the complex interplay between fisheries and family dynamics, and our work is important for informing policy interventions aimed at enhancing adaptive capacity through existing social capital. • Family is an important informal institution, which influences adaptation in rural, small-scale fishing communities. • Family ties are strong predictors of other networks within communities (e.g., governance , labour, and knowledge). • Family influences key adaptive processes, such as the degree of adoption of an innovation.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.303
Threshold uncertainty score0.991

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.067
GPT teacher head0.245
Teacher spread0.178 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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