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    • Beyond social-ecological traps: fostering transformations towards sustainability 

      Eriksson, H.; Blythe, J.; Osterblum, H.; Olsson, P.; Hampus Eriksson: 0000-0003-1199-6889 (2021)
      Type: Journal Article
      This Special Feature is motivated by the rigorous, and growing, theoretical and empirical body of literature on social- ecological traps. Building on the foundational literature, which describes the context in many of the ...

    • Beyond social-ecological traps: Pathways to a sustainable future 

      Eriksson, H.; Hampus Eriksson: 0000-0003-1199-6889
      Type: Blog
      In development and resilience research, the metaphor of a ‘trap’ is commonly employed to convey the rigidity that can be associated with complex systems. In practical meaning, and in their mechanical workings, traps are ...

    • Bias in lobster tethering experiments conducted for selecting low-predation release sites 

      Mills, D.J.; Johnson, C.R.; Gardner, C. (2008)
      Type: Journal Article
      Juvenile spiny lobsters <i>Jasus edwardsii</i>, grown in tanks for 1 yr following capture as pueruli, may be released to coastal reefs in Tasmania, Australia, to offset possible stock depletion resulting from the harvest ...

    • Bias in the Wetherall estimates of Z/K and L due to population disequilibria 

      Somerton, D.A.; Kobayashi, D.R. (1991)
      Type: Journal Article
      The method of Wetherall (1986, Fishbyte 4(1):12-14) for estimating Z/K and L sub( infinity ) from length-frequency data sampled from a population in equilibrium (constant recruitment and mortality) was examined through ...

    • Bibliographic impact of ICLARM 

      Maclean, J.L.; Temprosa, R.M.; Jhocson, N.I.; Diaz, A.F. (1990)
      Type: Report
      A study was made of the availability and impact of the publications and other contributions to the literature of the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), based in the Philippines. The ...

    • Bibliography on Indo-Pacific red tides 

      Maclean, J.L.; Temprosa, R.M. (1989)
      Type: Book
      This bibliography includes some 243 references to red tides in the central Indo-Pacific region. Author, geographic, subject and taxonomic indexes are also provided.

    • Bigger net mesh size will mean bigger catches in the Ivory coast trawl fishery 

      Caverivière, A. (1986)
      Type: Journal Article
      Yield-per-recruit analyses were performed on catch data of the Ivory Coast trawl fishery in order to identify the mesh size and levels of fishing effort most approprate. Results show that at present levels of fishing ...

    • Biodiversity of estuarine fish faunas in West Africa 

      Baran, E. (2000)
      Type: Journal Article
      In West Africa (between Ivory Coast and Sénégal), estuarine environments vary from lagoons to high discharge rivers to inverse hypersaline estuaries. This results in a high diversity of estuarine fish species, with an ...

    • Bioethics and biotechnology 

      Hallerman, E.M. (1997)
      Type: Journal Article
      his paper examines the practice and products of biotechnology from the viewpoint of bioethics, looking at four cases where aquatic biotechnology and bioethics intersect. The four cases applied are: Case 1. Genetic modification ...

    • Biology, epidemiology and management of Pyrodinium red tides 

      Hallegraeff, G.M.; Maclean, J.L. (eds.) (1989)
      Type: Conference Proceedings
      Red tide has become a frequent phenomenon in the coastal waters in many parts of the world. In Southeast Asia many lives have been lost and thousands taken ill from eating contaminated seafoods. Economic losses are also ...

    • Breaking with the past? The politics of land restitution and the limits to restitutive justice in Myanmar 

      Mark, S.; Belton, B. (2020)
      Type: Journal Article
      Land reforms, which include restitution and redistribution of land, often accompany political transitions, as new regimes attempt to break with the past by establishing new modes of governance. The political transition ...

    • Brief on Outcome/Impact Case Reports 

      Gutierrez, A.; Andressa Gutierrez: 0000-0003-2703-3040
      Type: Brief
      A guide in defining outcome-impact case reports (OICRs). An evidence-based report detailing any outcome or impact that has resulted from the work of one or more CGIAR centres. The purpose of an OICR is to document and ...

    • Building capacity for local planning 

      The WorldFish Center (2009)
      Type: Report
      When the administration of the fisheries sector in Cambodia was reformed, some roles and responsibilies, including cantonment planning, were delegated to the sub-national level. This was in line with the government's ...

    • Building coalitions across sectors and scales in Cambodia 

      Ratner, B.D.; Parnell, T. (2011)
      Type: Book Chapter
      Based on a comparative analysis of efforts by community groups, as well as domestic and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working to assist forest-dependent communities, this chapter explores the practical ...

    • Building resilience in rural livelihood systems as an investment in conflict prevention 

      Ratner, B.D. (2015)
      Type: Book Chapter
      This book explores how natural resource management initiatives in more than twenty countries and territories have supported livelihoods and facilitated post-conflict peacebuilding. This chapter sketches three principles ...

    • Bulletin of the Institute of Marine Biology and Oceanography: special edition 

      Findlay, I.O.W.; Vakily, J.M. (eds.) (1993)
      Type: Book
      This special edition of the Bulletin of the Institute of Marine Biology and Oceanography is dedicated to Professor Daniel Emanuel Babatunji Chaytor who has been Director of this Institute for two decades before he was ...

    • A call for action to the fish world: a guide to fish-related paragraphs of the plan of implementation of the world summit on sustainable development 

      WorldFish Center (2002)
      It contains tables and a selected verbatim set of the paragraphs and sub paragraphs of the recent Plan of Implementation of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from ...

    • Cambodia's aquarian reforms : the emerging challenges for policy and research 

      Kurien, J.; So Nam; Mao Sam Onn (2006)
      Type: Working Paper
      The main objective of the document is to make a modest attempt to highlight the challenges which are emerging with the current phase of Cambodia's aquarian reforms -- the most important component of which is the current ...

    • Capacity Development Strategy Review Workshop 

      Reale, P.; Paola Reale: 0000-0002-9759-1614 (2020)
      Type: Report
      Capacity Development (CapDev) is one of the key enablers of the impact pathways for the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Fish Agri-food systems (FISH) and one of the key performance indicators for the program’s success. The ...

    • Capacity to innovate from a system CGIAR research program perspective 

      Leeuwis, C.; Schut, M.; Waters-Bayer, A.; Mur, R.; Atta-Krah, K.; Douthwaite, B. (2014)
      Type: Brief
      The three system CGIAR research programs on Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics, Dryland Systems and Aquatic Agricultural Systems have included "capacity to innovate" as an intermediate development outcome in their ...