Despite wide recognition of the multiple ecosystem services provided by mangroves, they continue to experience decline and degradation especially in the face of urbanization. Given the interplay between multiple resources and stakeholders in the fate of mangroves, mangrove management can be framed as a nexus challenge and nexus thinking used to identify potential solutions. Using the Klang Islands, Malaysia, as a case study site, this paper characterizes the mangrove nexus and stakeholders' visions for the future to identify potential options for future management. Through a series of stakeholder workshops and focus group discussions conducted over two years, results show that local communities can identify benefits from mangroves beyond the provisioning of goods and significant impacts to their lives from mangrove loss. While better protected and managed mangroves remained a central part of participants' visions for the islands, participants foresaw a limited future for fishing around the islands, preferring instead alternative livelihood opportunities such as eco-tourism. The network of influencers of the Klang Islands’ mangroves extends far beyond the local communities and many of these actors were part of the visions put forward. Stakeholders with a high interest in the mangroves typically have a low influence over their management and many high influence stakeholders (e.g. private sector actors) were missing from the engagement. Future nexus action should focus on integrating stakeholders and include deliberate and concerted engagement with high influence stakeholders while at the same time ensuring a platform for high interest/low influence groups. Fortifying existing plans to include mangroves more explicitly will also be essential. Lessons learnt from this study are highly relevant for coastal mangrove systems elsewhere in the Southeast Asian region.

尽管人们广泛认可红树林提供的多种生态系统服务，但它们仍在经历着衰退和退化，尤其是面对城市化。考虑到多种资源和利益相关者在红树林的命运中的相互作用，红树林的管理可以被看作是一种联系挑战和联系思想，用于确定潜在的解决方案。本文以马来西亚巴生群岛为案例研究站点，描述了红树林联系和利益相关者对未来的愿景，以识别未来管理的潜在选择。通过为期两年的一系列利益相关者研讨会和焦点小组讨论，结果表明，当地社区可以识别出红树林带来的好处，不仅仅是提供商品，还有红树林的丧失对他们的生活产生了重大影响。尽管更好地保护和管理红树林仍然是参与者对岛屿的愿景的中心部分，但参与者预见到了在岛屿周围捕鱼的有限前景，而是选择了生态旅游等替代生计机会。巴生群岛红树林的影响者网络远远超出了当地社区，其中许多参与者都是提出的愿景的一部分。对红树林怀有浓厚兴趣的利益相关者通常对其经营活动影响不大，而参与活动中缺少许多影响较大的利益相关者（例如私营部门参与者）。未来的联系行动应着眼于整合利益相关者，并包括与高影响力利益相关者的故意和一致的参与，同时确保高利益/低影响群体的平台。加强现有计划以更明确地包括红树林也将至关重要。从这项研究中吸取的教训与东南亚其他地区的沿海红树林系统高度相关。