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The black box of power in polycentric environmental governance
Type: Journal Article
Failure to address unsustainable global change is often attributed to failures in conventional environmental governance. Polycentric environmental governance—the popular alternative—involves many centres of authority ...
Inter-sectoral governance of inland fisheries
Type: Book
Inland fisheries are ubiquitous and provide multi-pronged and significant benefits to society. They are also predominantly small-scale, as they appear in diverse forms of capture and culture practices. However, the current ...
Transboundary research in fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Spatial boundaries have become an indispensable part of regimes and tools for regulating fisheries, with examples including marine protected areas, regional fisheries management organizations and Exclusive Economic Zones. ...
Intersectorality in the governance of inland fisheries
Type: Journal Article
One of the defining characteristics of inland fisheries is that they are closely impacted by other essential human activities that rely on the same fresh or brackish water ecosystems, such as hydroelectricity generation ...
Inter-sectoral governance of inland fisheries: Research needs and foci
Type: Book Chapter
One of the defining characteristics of inland fisheries is their connection to other essential human activities, such as hydroelectricity generation, irrigated agriculture, and transportation, which rely on the same fresh ...
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, ...
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 ...
Reconstructing governability: How fisheries are made governable
Type: Journal Article
Governability is an important concept in the political and environmental social sciences with increasing application to socio-ecological systems such as fisheries. Indeed, governability analyses of fisheries and related ...
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 ...