National Science Foundation, DRMS, Grant #0721067

Marine Aquaculture Partnerships

Groups with participants from industry and government (and other stakeholders) who regularly collaborate on policy and/or research to support the development and/or regulation of marine aquaculture.

Marine Aquaculture Partnerships in 2010

global aquaculture advocate November/December 2012

Research Question:

Why are some partnerships more successful than others?

Measures of success:

•Promoting learning and belief change among participants

• Identifying data gaps to prioritize future research

•Conducting new research

• Influencing public policy (local, state, fed.)

• A computer-assisted search for patterns in qualitative (yes/no) data.

• Patterns can reveal necessary and sufficient conditions (e.g. “Condition X is necessary for Outcome Y”)

• Conditions may involve combinations of variables (representing non-linear relationships and interaction effects).

• Workable for small data sets (as well as large ones)

Good outcomes follow from good process.

A strong process characterized by a respected mediator and fair and civil deliberation is a necessary condition for three outcomes: belief change, agreement on data gaps, and major influence on policy. Moreover, a weak process is a sufficient condition for weak influence on policy. Including aquaculture critics in partnerships is also conducive to learning and belief change.

Success requires frequent meetings or a decade of effort.

Meeting fewer than six times per year is nearly a sufficient condition for failure to have major policy impact. Four out of five partnerships that had fewer than six meetings per year failed to achieve major influence on policy.

A young partnership (under 4 years) is a necessary condition for failure to influence policy; none of the failed cases are older. But youth isn’t a sufficient condition. In fact, two of the most influential cases were quite young, 1-3 years, but they met frequently, 6-12 times per year.

Policy influence follows strong science.

Adequate science is associated with influence on policy adoption and major policy influence.

High trust catalyzes a positive effect of belief diversity on cognitive learning

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NSF DRMS “Evaluating Aquaculture Partnerships”January 2008 through December 2011 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0721067&HistoricalAwards=falsehttps://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0913001&HistoricalAwards=false

Resulting Publications

Kim, J., & Siddiki, S. (2018). Linking diversity of collaborative policymaking venues with procedural justice perceptions: A study of US marine aquaculture partnerships. The American Review of Public Administration, 48(2), 159-174.

Siddiki, S., Kim, J., & Leach, W. D. (2017). Diversity, trust, and social learning in collaborative governance. Public Administration Review, 77(6), 863-874.

Siddiki, S., & Goel, S. (2017). Assessing collaborative policymaking outcomes: An analysis of US marine aquaculture partnerships. The American Review of Public Administration, 47(2), 253-271.

Siddiki, S., & Goel, S. (2015). A stakeholder analysis of US marine aquaculture partnerships. Marine Policy, 57, 93-102.

Calanni, J. C., Siddiki, S. N., Weible, C. M., & Leach, W. D. (2015). Explaining coordination in collaborative partnerships and clarifying the scope of the belief homophily hypothesis. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 25(3), 901-927.

Resh, W., Siddiki, S., & McConnell, W. R. (2014). Does the network centrality of government actors matter? Examining the role of government organizations in aquaculture partnerships. Review of Policy Research, 31(6), 584-609.

Leach, W. D., Weible, C. M., Vince, S. R., Siddiki, S. N., & Calanni, J. C. (2014). Fostering learning through collaboration: knowledge acquisition and belief change in marine aquaculture partnerships. Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, 24(3).

Calanni, J., Siddiki S., Weible, C., Leach, W.D., Vince, S. (2012). Measuring impacts of marine aquaculture partnerships. Global Aquaculture Advocate Nov/Dec: 50-51.

Byron, C., Bengtson, D., Costa-Pierce, B., & Calanni, J. (2011). Integrating science into management: ecological carrying capacity of bivalve shellfish aquaculture. Marine Policy, 35(3), 363-370.

Siddiki, S., Weible, C. M., Basurto, X., & Calanni, J. (2011). Dissecting policy designs: An application of the institutional grammar tool. Policy Studies Journal, 39(1), 79-103.

Coastal Resilience Research and Climate Education Network

CRRACEN

Research TeamUSC Price School of Public Policy• Bill Leach, Associate Professor (teaching), PI• Frank Zerunyan, Prof. of the Practice of Governance. 3-term Mayor, City Council Member, Rolling Hills Estates

USC Dornsife College• Sergey Nuzhdin, Professor of Biological Sciences, Co-PI

▪ Nathan Churches, PhD expected 2019, CSO of HoldFast Aquaculture▪ Ariel Levi Simons, PhD expected 2020, Credentialed California Teacher

• Doug Capone, Chair, Department of Biological Sciences• Jed Fuhrman, Professor and McCulloch-Crosby Chair in Marine Biology• David Ginsburg, Associate Professor (teaching), Environmental Studies• Karla Heidelberg, Director of the Environmental Studies Program• Diane Kim, Director of Undergraduate Programs, USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies• Fengzhu Sun, Professor of Biological Sciences and Mathematics

USC School of Architecture• Esther Margulies, Assoc. Prof. of Practice, Interim Director of Landscape Architecture Program, Co-PI

USC Rossier School of Education• Gale Sinatra, Stephen H. Crocker Chair of Education, Co-PI

USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work• Larry Palinkas, Professor, Chair of Dept. of Children Youth & Families

USC Viterbi School of Engineering• Gisele Ragusa, Professor. Director of USC’s STEM Education Consortium

Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District• Alex Cherniss, EdD, Superintendent

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County• Dean Pentcheff, Director, Diversity Initiative for the Southern California Ocean

The Opportunity

Malaga Cove School

▪ 24-mile drive from USC

▪ Adjacent riparian habitat

▪ Near PV Land Conservancy and

Pt. Vicente Marine Protected Area

▪ Coastal access road

(scientific diving, collecting)

▪ 7,000 sq. ft. MPR

Future Lab

USC

The Challenge: Resilience to Environmental Change in SoCal Coastal Communities

Restoring endangered coastal species & habitats

Designing strategies for resilience to fire in the

wildland-urban interface

Building sustainable coastal industries

Adapting coastal communities to

sea-level rise

Managing and adaptingto changing urban ecology

Educating new generations of citizens and scientists for

resilience in a changing world