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Decadal characteristics of small-scale fishing livelihoods in 13 Pacific Island Countries and Territories
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries are cornerstones of wealth, food, and tradition for people throughout the Pacific region. Yet, their governance is plagued by a lack of relevant data. Using data collected from household income and ...
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Partially protected areas are now the dominant global form of spatial management aimed at preserving ecosystem integrity and managing human use. However, most evaluations of their efficacy use only a narrow set of conservation ...
Community management yields positive impacts for coastal fisheries resources and biodiversity conservation
Type: Journal Article
Combining no-take marine reserves with exclusive access by communities to unreserved waters could provide the required incentives for community management to achieve positive impacts. However, few protected areas have been ...
Tongan socio-environmental spatial layers for marine ecosystem management
Type: Journal Article
Environmental conditions and anthropogenic impacts are key influences on ecological processes and associated ecosystem services. Effective management of Tonga’s marine ecosystems therefore depends on accurate and up-to-date ...
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 ...
Towards Ocean Equity
Type: Working Paper
This paper examines the distribution of the goods and services provided by the ocean, existing inequities and the resulting impacts on the environment, human health, and income distribution now and in the future. The paper ...
COVID-19 and Pacific food system resilience: opportunities to build a robust response
Type: Concept Note
The unfolding COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of the Pacific food system to externalities and has had farreaching impacts, despite the small number of COVID-19 cases recorded thus far. Measures adopted to ...
Incentivizing co-management for impact: mechanisms driving the successful national expansion of tonga’s special management area program
Type: Journal Article
The expansion of coastal marine protected areas can suffer from two key drawbacks: (a) the difficulty of incentivizing local communities to manage areas for conservation when their livelihoods also depend on resource use; ...
Support Pacific neighbours by strengthening indigenous food systems
Type: Blog
Across the island states of the Pacific, indigenous food systems have been shaped and refined over centuries to make the most of bountiful natural resources without exhausting them. The exchange of fish and crops is the ...