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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 ...
Winners and losers in area-based management of a small-scale fishery in the Colombian Pacific
Type: Journal Article
The Pacific coast of Colombia has some of the most extensive mangrove forests in South America. As an isolated region and one of the country's poorest, coastal communities rely on fishing as a main source of animal protein ...
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 ...
Critical reflections from fostering adaptive community-based, co-management in Solomon Islands' small-scale fisheries
Type: Journal Article
Adaptive co-management approaches have been at the core of attempts to apply resilience principles to small-scale fisheries. Although recommendations of what should be done to promote resilience are commonplace, insights ...
Strengthening post-hoc analysis of community-based fisheries management through the social-ecological systems framework
Type: Journal Article
Community-based fisheries management (CBFM) is held up as one of the most promising approaches for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries. Yet, the complex features that shape CBFM outcomes remain inadequately understood. ...
Evaluating the Fit of Co-management for Small-Scale Fisheries Governance in Timor-Leste
Type: Journal Article
Fisheries co-management is an increasingly globalized concept, and a cornerstone of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, adopted ...
Gender norms and relations: implications for agency in coastal livelihoods
Type: Journal Article
Improving livelihoods and livelihood opportunities is a popular thrust of development investments. Gender and other forms of social differentiation influence individual agency to access, participate in, and benefit from ...
Addressing conflict through collective action in natural resource management
Type: Journal Article
The food security crisis and international "land grabs" have drawn renewed attention to the role of natural resource competition in the livelihoods of the rural poor. While significant empirical research has focused on ...
Conflict and collective action in Tonle Sap fisheries: adapting governance to support community livelihoods
Type: Journal Article
This paper presents the results of action research conducted from 2009 to 2015 on the dynamics of resource conflict concerning fisheries and livelihoods in the Tonle Sap Lake, as well as the institutional context and ...