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The contribution of nearshore fish aggregating devices (FADs) to food security and livelihoods in Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
Fish aggregating devices, or FADs, are used widely in developing countries to concentrate pelagic fish, making them easier to catch. Nearshore FADs anchored close to the coast allow access for rural communities, but despite ...
Livelihoods and fisheries governance in a contemporary Pacific Island setting
Type: Journal Article
Inshore marine resources play an important role in the livelihoods of Pacific Island coastal communities. However, such reliance can be detrimental to inshore marine ecosystems. Understanding the livelihoods of coastal ...
Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining the commons
Type: Journal Article
Efforts to confront the challenges of environmental change and uncertainty include attempts to adaptively manage social–ecological systems. However, critical questions remain about whether adaptive management can lead to ...
Unpacking pathways to diversified livelihoods from projects in Pacific Island coastal fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Livelihood diversification has become an integral focus of policies and investments aiming to reduce poverty, vulnerability, and pressure on fishery resources in coastal communities around the globe. In this regard, coastal ...
Malnutrition in rural Solomon Islands: An analysis of the problem and its drivers
Type: Journal Article
Solomon Islands, like many Pacific Island nations, suffer from the burden of malnutrition. External drivers including population growth, declining agriculture and fisheries productivity and global food trade have contributed ...
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, ...
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 ...
Access to marine ecosystem services: Examining entanglement and legitimacy in customary institutions
Type: Journal Article
Ecosystem services have become a dominant paradigm for understanding how people derive well-being from ecosystems. However, the framework has been critiqued for over-emphasizing the availability of services as a proxy for ...
Governance interactions in small-scale fisheries market chains: Examples from the Asia-Pacific
Type: Journal Article
Small-scale fisheries are subject to various governing institutions operating at different levels with different objectives. At the same time, small-scale fisheries increasingly form part of domestic and international ...