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From conflict to collaboration in natural resource management: A handbook and toolkit for practitioners working in aquatic resource systems
Type: Manual
Natural resource management is closely linked to conflict management, prevention and resolution. Managing natural resources involves reconciling diverging interests that often lead to conflict, which can undermine management ...
When co-management fails: a review of theory and lessons learned from reservoir fisheries in dry-zone of Sri Lanka
Type: Conference Paper
Over recent decades co-management has become an increasingly popular form of governance reform in many developing countries. Viewed as a means of promoting sustainable and equitable management of natural resources, it has ...
From participation to governance : a critical review of the concepts of governance, co-management and participation, and their implementation in small-scale inland fisheries in developing countries
Type: Working Paper
This report reviews the role, nature and mechanisms of governance in inland fisheries. We do so by reviewing first the wider issues of governance, participation and co-management in natural resource management, and then ...
Collaborating for resilience: conflict, collective action, and transformation on Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake
Type: Journal Article
Tha authors report on outcomes and lessons learned from a 15-month initiative in Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake. Employing the appreciation-influence-control (AIC) model of participatory stakeholder engagement, the initiative ...
Institutional issues and perspectives in the management of fisheries and coastal resources in southeast Asia
Type: Report
In developing countries, institutional weaknesses and constraints are pervasive in the fisheries and coastal resources management sector. Legal, policy and institutional frameworks are not crafted to suit the unique features ...
Why marginality persists in a governable fishery: the case of New Zealand
Type: Journal Article
This paper examines reproduction of marginality evident in fisheries. Uneven relations are widespread across geography and scale; between distant water fishing nations and coastal developing countries; between fishers on ...
Rights, equity and justice: A diagnostic for social meta-norm diffusion in environmental governance
Type: Journal Article
Social meta-norms, including human rights, gender equality, equity and environmental justice, are mainstream principles of good environmental governance. The permeation of social meta-norms through global environmental ...
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, ...
Management of fisheries, coastal resources and the coastal environment in Cambodia institutional, legal and policy perspectives
Type: Working Paper
This working paper is an output of the project on Management of Fisheries, Coastal Resources and the Coastal Environment in Cambodia: Institutional, Legal and Policy Perspectives. It intends to provide a basis for a country ...