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Reconciling multiple societal objectives in cross-scale marine governance: Solomon Islands’ engagement in the Coral Triangle Initiative
Type: Journal Article
Environmental governance aims to reconcile an expanding set of societal objectives at ever-larger scales despite the challenges that remain in integrating conservation and development at smaller scales. The authors examine ...
Policies in harmony? Does the New Song agree with the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines?
Type: Journal Article
With the recent endorsement of two supra-national policies -- the New Song and the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines -- Pacific Island countries and territories are being called on to lead the process of national implementation ...
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 ...
Understanding adaptive capacity and capacity to innovate in social-ecological systems: Applying a gender lens
Type: Journal Article
Development policy increasingly focuses on building capacities to respond to change (adaptation), and to drive change (innovation). Few studies, however, focus specifically on the social and gender differentiation of ...
Identifying opportunities to improve governance of aquatic agricultural systems through participatory action research
Type: Journal Article
Challenges of governance often constitute critical obstacles to efforts to equitably improve livelihoods in social-ecological systems. Yet, just as often, these challenges go unspoken, or are viewed as fixed parts of the ...
Catch rates, composition and fish size from reefs managed with periodically-harvested closures
Type: Journal Article
Periodically-harvested closures are commonly employed within co-management frameworks to help manage small-scale, multi-species fisheries in the Indo-Pacific. Despite their widespread use, the benefits of periodic harvesting ...
Multi-scale policy diffusion and translation in Pacific Island coastal fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Multilateral consensus forged among heads of states must be value-additive and relevant at the national level to facilitate on-ground implementation. Yet, despite general optimism and advances in policy understanding, ...
Tinker, tailor or transform: Gender equality amidst social-ecological change
Type: Journal Article
Global visions of environmental change consider gender equality to be a foundation of sustainable social-ecological systems. Similarly, social-ecological systems frameworks position gender equality as both a precursor to, ...
‘Blue boats’ and ‘reef robbers’: A new maritime security threat for the Asia Pacific?
Type: Journal Article
Vietnamese ‘blue boats’ - small wooden-hulled fishing boats - are now entering the territorial waters of Pacific Island countries and illegally catching high-value species found on remote coastal reefs. Crossing several ...
Do governance networks build collaborative capacity for sustainable development? Insights from Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
To build capacity for addressing complex sustainable development challenges, governments, development agencies, and non-governmental organizations are making substantial investments in governance networks. Yet, enthusiasm ...