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Redefining community based on place attachment in a connected world
Type: Journal Article
The concept of community is often used in environmental policy to foster environmental stewardship and public participation, crucial prerequisites of effective management. However, prevailing conceptualizations of community ...
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 ...
Lake Nasser fisheries: Recommendations for management, including monitoring and stock assessment
Type: Report
This study sought to improve the baseline knowledge of the fisheries of Lake Nasser and to make recommendations for the improved management of the fisheries, including stock assessment. The study included the review of key ...
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 ...
Two steps forward, two steps back: The role of innovation in transforming towards community-based marine resource management in Solomon Islands
Type: Journal Article
In many coastal nations, community-based arrangements for marine resource management (CBRM) are promoted by government, advocated for by non-government actors, and are seen by both as one of the most promising options to ...
Dialogue to address the roots of resource competition: Lessons for policy and practice
Type: Report
Conflict management is an intrinsic element of natural resource management, and becomes increasingly important amid growing pressure on natural resources from local uses, as well as from external drivers such as climate ...
Illuminating hidden harvests: The contribution of small-scale fisheries to sustainable development
Type: Brief
FAO, WorldFish and Duke University are working in partnership with experts globally to revisit and build on the Hidden Harvest study in 2012. Encompassing the pre-harvesting, harvesting and post-harvesting sectors of inland ...
Innovations to strengthen aquatic resource governance on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
Type: Report
Cambodia's recent freshwater fishery sector reform, instigated at the top level of government, is one of the country's most significant contemporary policy developments addressing natural resources management and rural ...
Aquaculture and food security, poverty alleviation and nutrition in Ghana: Case study prepared for the Aquaculture for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition project
Type: Report
This study provides an overview of the aquaculture sector in Ghana. It assesses the actual and potential contribution of aquaculture to poverty reduction and food security, and identifies enabling conditions for and drivers ...
Lake Nasser fisheries: Literature review and situation analysis
Type: Report
This study sought to improve the baseline knowledge of the fisheries of Lake Nasser and to make recommendations for the improved management of the fisheries, including stock assessment. This review draws heavily from the ...