Testing resilience thinking in a poverty context: experience from the Niger River basin

cg.contribution.worldfishauthorBene, C.
cg.contribution.worldfishauthorMills, D
cg.contribution.worldfishauthorAndrew, N.L.
cg.description.themeFisheriesen_US
cg.identifier.ISIindexedISI indexed
cg.identifier.statusLimited access
cg.identifier.urlhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378011001075
cg.identifier.worldfish2880
cg.subject.agrovocEnvironmental Impact Assessment
cg.subject.agrovocfood security
cg.subject.agrovoclivelihoods
cg.subject.agrovocresilience
cg.subject.agrovocwatersheds
cg.subject.agrovocsmall-scale fisheries
cg.subject.worldfishfisheries management
cg.subject.worldfishenvironmental assessment
cg.subject.worldfishriver basins
dc.creatorBene, C.
dc.creatorEvans, L.
dc.creatorMills, D.J.
dc.creatorOvie, S.
dc.creatorRaji, A.
dc.creatorTafida, A.
dc.creatorKodio, A.
dc.creatorSinaba, F.
dc.creatorMorand, P.
dc.creatorLemoalle, J.
dc.creatorAndrew, N.L.
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-06T11:50:12Z
dc.date.available2018-10-06T11:50:12Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractResilience thinking is an important addition to the range of frameworks and approaches that can be used to understand and manage complex social–ecological systems like small-scale fisheries. However, it is yet to lead to better environmental or development outcomes for fisheries stakeholders in terms of food security, improved livelihoods and ecological sustainability. This paper takes an empirical approach by focusing on the fundamentals of resilience thinking to evaluate its usefulness in developing relevant management interventions in small-scale fisheries in the Niger River Basin in West Africa. The paper presents the outputs of a participatory assessment exercise where both fishery communities and local experts were involved at two different scales. The resilience frame used was designed to facilitate the identification of socially defined thresholds that help delineate the desirability of the current system configuration and provides a diagnosis framework that tailors management solutions to problems in local context. The analysis highlights some key contributions from resilience thinking to the challenge of diagnosis in small-scale fisheries management in developing countries, as well as important contributions that emerge from taking a pragmatic and critical approach to its application.
dc.description.versionPeer Review
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dc.identifierhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378011001075
dc.identifier.citationGlobal Environmental Change 21(4): 1173-1184
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.07.002en_US
dc.identifier.issn0959-3780
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12348/1116
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.sourceGlobal Environmental Change
dc.titleTesting resilience thinking in a poverty context: experience from the Niger River basin
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBéné, C. et al. (2011). Testing resilience thinking in a poverty context: experience from the Niger River basin. Global Environmental Change 21(4): 1173-1184

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