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The Pacific Ways: The geography, histories and cultures of the Pacific island region, and its 14 small island developing states, represent unique challenges and opportunities
Type: Journal Article
This article argues that the geography, histories and cultures of the Pacific island region, and its 14 small island developing states, represent unique challenges and opportunities. It notes that the introduction of the ...
Keeping food on the table: Human responses and changing coastal fisheries in Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
Globally the majority of commercial fisheries have experienced dramatic declines in stock and catch. Likewise, projections for many subsistence fisheries in the tropics indicate a dramatic decline is looming in the coming ...
Food security versus environment conservation: A case study of Solomon Islands' small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
The sustainable management of small-scale fisheries in coral reef ecosystems constitutes a difficult objective not least because these fisheries usually face several worsening pressures, including demographic growth and ...
Getting beneath the surface in program planning, monitoring and evaluation: Learning from use of participatory action research and theory of change in the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems
Type: Journal Article
Many rural poor and marginalized people strive to make a living in social-ecological systems that are characterized by multiple and often inequitable interactions across agents, scale and space. Uncertainty and inequality ...
Exploring 'islandness' and the impacts of nature conservation through the lens of wellbeing
Type: Journal Article
Motivated by growing concern as to the many threats that islands face, subsequent calls for more extensive island nature conservation and recent discussion in the conservation literature about the potential for wellbeing ...
Mangrove ecosystem services and the potential for carbon revenue programmes in Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
Mangroves are an imperilled biome whose protection and restoration through payments for ecosystem services (PES) can contribute to improved livelihoods, climate mitigation and adaptation. Interviews with resource users in ...
Innovation and gendered negotiations: Insights from six small-scale fishing communities
Type: Journal Article
There has so far been limited investigation into gender in relation to innovation in fisheries. Therefore, this study investigates how gender relations shape the capacity and motivation of different individuals in fishing ...
Reaping the reef: Provisioning services from coral reefs in Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
Coral reefs are recognized as globally important ecosystems, for their fisheries, tourism and biodiversity values in particular, with an estimated annual contribution of $30 billion to the global economy. The benefits that ...
Social dynamics shaping the diffusion of sustainable aquaculture innovations in the Solomon Island
Type: Journal Article
Sustainably feeding the world's growing population represents one of our most significant challenges. Aquaculture is well positioned to make contributions towards this challenge. Yet, the translation of aquaculture production ...
Spreading community-based resource management: Testing the "lite-touch" approach in Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
In Solomon Islands, community-based resource management (CBRM) is the main strategy for managing coastal fisheries. Although hundreds of communities have implemented CBRM already, the majority of Solomon Islands communities ...