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From sound economics to sound management: practical solutions to small-scale fisheries governance in the developing world
Type: Journal Article
This is a commentary on Daniel Bromley's paper (The crisis in ocean governance: conceptual confusion, spurious economics, political indifference). Taking into consideration the varied context of small-scale fisheries in ...
The politics of regional governance in the Mekong River Basin
Type: Journal Article
The opportunities for the six states that share the Mekong River to benefit directly from its joint management are more limited and the risks to the livelihoods of downstream communities from development schemes more ...
Environmental rights as a matter of survival
Type: Journal Article
When Ning Savat laid down his arms at the end of Cambodia’s civil war, he returned to what he hoped would be a simple, peaceful life as a fisherman. What he did not know was that he was stepping into one of the country’s ...
Sustainability as a dialogue of values: Challenges to the sociology of development
Type: Journal Article
Even in an increasingly polarized climate of global policy-making, the ideal of “sustainable development” retains currency across a remarkably broad swath of the political spectrum in debating alternative scenarios for the ...
Policy analysis and environmental services at different scales: Asking the right questions
Type: Journal Article
In this volume, we seek a common understanding of three environmental problems linked to land use change in Southeast Asia: smoke pollution, degradation of biodiversity functions, and degradation of watershed functions. ...
Community Driven Regulation: Balancing Development and the Environment in Vietnam ( by Dara O'Rourke)
Type: Journal Article
In Community-Driven Regulation, Dara O’Rourke focuses his attention on the other end of the spectrum of civic action, the local level. O’Rourke offers a detailed set of cases from Vietnam that demonstrate how pressure from ...
Reasserting Community: The Social Challenge of Wastewater Management in Panajachel, Guatemala
Type: Journal Article
This article assesses recent efforts in a multiethnic town in the Guatemalan highlands to address wastewater pollution, which threatens public health and tourism, the basis of the town's economy. Reporting on an ongoing ...
Equity, efficiency and identity: grounding the debate over population and sustainability
Type: Journal Article
If social scientists are to provide a more useful contribution to international debates over population and environment, we must find ways to combine the insights of our competing theoretical traditions. Political economy, ...
Coping with disaster: rehabilitating coastal livelihoods and communities
Type: Journal Article
This paper examines lessons from past approaches to natural disasters, as well as early lessons from the post-2004 Asian tsunami rehabilitation, to draw out general principles for rehabilitating livelihoods in poor coastal ...
Addressing the coral reef crisis in developing countries.
Type: Journal Article
Coral reefs, the storehouses of much of the world’s marine biodiversity, and the source of many socioeconomic benefits, are in decline worldwide. The causes of the ‘coral reef crisis’ are complex but there is general ...