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In Uruguay, as globally, small-scale fisheries sustain numerous communities. Changes in wind patterns and ocean warming in the southwest South Atlantic affect small-scale and large-scale fisheries. This chapter analyses the small-scale fishery of Piriápolis, Uruguay, where a multistakeholder participatory action research (PAR) group was formed in 2011 to address local problems. The objective was to study the contributions of this PAR to building five domains of fishers’ adaptive capacity. The findings show that the PAR contributed to integrally developing adaptive capacity since the five domains were positively impacted: national financial support was obtained, there was flexibility in creating a new fishing gear, new commercial skills were developed, relationships and trust were built throughout the process, participants highlighted learning, and bottom-up institutional changes were triggered.
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Trimble, M., Santos, P. (2021). Building Small-Scale Fishers’ Adaptive Capacity Through Participatory Action Research in Coastal Uruguay. In: Campello Torres, P.H., Jacobi, P.R. (eds) Towards a just climate change resilience. Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81622-3_2
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