Harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose substantial health risks to seafood consumers, drinking water supplies, and recreationalists with apparent increases associated with anthropogenic eutrophication of freshwaters and coastal areas. Attempts to intervene in these blooms can be met with reticence by citizens, non-governmental organizations, and officials, often due to local perceptions and beliefs. Hence, the social sciences have an important role to play in HAB research and mitigation. Much of the social science HAB research to date has focused on how best to communicate associated risks and appropriate behavioral responses to affected local communities. The emphasis has been on the direct human impacts, particularly in the areas of health outcomes and identification of any sociocultural and economic barriers to proposed mitigation. While this focus is warranted and valuable, there is also a need to understand HABs as part of a larger human–environmental coupled system, where blooms trigger a wide range of cultural and behavioral responses that are driven by how blooms impact other social and ecosystem dynamics. The research presented here describes a case study of a Microcystis aeruginosa bloom in a lake in the Chesapeake Bay watershed where anthropologists worked with HAB researchers. The results of this interdisciplinary collaboration show that approaching the bloom and mitigation within a ‘socio-ecological systems’ framework provides stakeholders with a range of rationales and approaches for addressing HAB mitigation, enhancing both short-term successes and longer-term opportunities, even if M. aeruginosa is still present in the lake.

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采用社会生态系统方法来吸引有害藻华的利益相关者。

有害藻华（HABs）对海鲜消费者，饮用水供应和休闲主义者构成重大健康风险，而人为淡水和沿海地区的富营养化则明显增加。市民，非政府组织和官员通常会因当地的看法和信仰而保持沉默，以干预这些繁华。因此，社会科学在HAB研究和缓解中起着重要作用。迄今为止，HAB的许多社会科学研究都集中在如何最好地向受影响的当地社区传达相关风险和适当的行为对策。重点一直放在人类的直接影响上，特别是在健康成果和确定拟议缓解措施的任何社会文化和经济障碍方面。尽管此重点是必要且有价值的，但也有必要将HAB理解为更大的人与环境耦合系统的一部分，在该系统中，绽放引发了广泛的文化和行为响应，这些响应由绽放对其他社会和生态系统动态的影响来驱动。这里提出的研究描述了一个案例研究铜绿微囊藻在切萨皮克湾流域的一个湖中盛开，人类学家与HAB研究人员合作。这项跨学科合作的结果表明，在“社会生态系统”框架内实现繁荣和缓解，将为利益相关者提供一系列解决HAB缓解的理由和方法，即使短期成功和长期机会均得到提高，即使铜绿假单胞菌仍然存在于湖中。