The decision space framework serves to bring together ancestral Kwakiutl knowledge and governance principles, contemporary community values, and future management practices (teal boxes) to inform ecologically resilient and socially just kelp management decisions amidst external forces like social norms and social license, climate change, governance processes, and market forces (red bubbles).The hands represent humans stewarding the decision space while being intrinsically part of the social-ecological system, and the teal arrow shows the path we took through the decision space – as detailed in Gutzmann 2023.