Browsing by Subject "small-scale fisheries"
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A Global Database of Tenure and Access Rights for Small-Scale Fisheries: A Preliminary Assessment
(2022-04-21)Small-scale fisheries (SSF) provide essential protein and nutrition to billions of people worldwide, employ more than 90 percent of the world’s fishers, and account for about 40% of the global fisheries catch. Yet, their ... -
A spark for collective action: Challenges and opportunities for self-governance in temporary fisher-designed Fish Refuges in Mexico
(2020)Despite decades of study, the question of how to achieve sustainable small-scale fisheries is unresolved. Because small-scale fishing is diverse and hard to control, one management approach places fishers at the center of ... -
Community‐based conservation strategies to end open access: The case of Fish Refuges in Mexico
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Contribution of Subsidies and Participatory Governance to Fishers’ Adaptive Capacity
(Journal of Environment and Development, 2016-12-01)© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. The need for strengthening fishers' adaptive capacity has been proposed in the literature as an important component of effective fisheries governance arrangements in the presence of rising numbers ... -
Defining Small-Scale Fisheries and Examining the Role of Science in Shaping Perceptions of Who and What Counts: A Systematic Review
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(En)gendering Change in Small-Scale Fisheries Science and Policy
(2021)Increasingly the challenges of environmental governance are understood as global in nature and scope. Within fisheries, industrial fisheries have long been the global priority in fisheries science, policy instruments, and ... -
Integrating simultaneous prosocial and antisocial behavior into theories of collective action.
(Sci Adv, 2016-03)Trust and cooperation constitute cornerstones of common-pool resource theory, showing that "prosocial" strategies among resource users can overcome collective action problems and lead to sustainable resource governance. ... -
Learning from 20 Years of Small-Scale Fisheries Co-Management in Africa
(2021-04-30)In small-scale fisheries (SSFs), co-management is emerging as one of the most promising and common governance approaches available to managers. In developing contexts, co-management has been implemented as part of the broader ... -
Local Institutional Responses to Global Market Pressures: The Sea Cucumber Trade in Yucatán, Mexico
(World Development, 2018-02-01)© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The expansion of global seafood trade creates opportunities as well as risks for small-scale fisheries (SSFs) livelihoods. Markets provide economic opportunity, but without effective governance, high ... -
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to assess sustainability.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-05-12)Environmental governance is more effective when the scales of ecological processes are well matched with the human institutions charged with managing human-environment interactions. The social-ecological systems (SESs) framework ... -
Participation for Conservation: The Role of Social Capital in Multi-level Governance of Small-scale Fisheries
(2015)The need for effective multi-level governance arrangements is becoming increasingly apparent because of the high functional interdependencies between biophysical and socioeconomic factors in the realm of natural resource ... -
Rethinking scale in the commons by unsettling old assumptions and asking new scale questions
(International Journal of the Commons, 2020-01-01)© 2020 The Author(s). Scale is a powerful concept, a lens that shapes how we perceive problems and solutions in common-pool resource governance. Yet, scale is often treated as a relatively stable and settled concept in commons ... -
Small-scale Fisheries and the Global Economy: Understanding Common-pool Resource Governance in the Context of Market Pressures, Neoliberal Policies, and Transnational Institutions
(2016)The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to a better understanding of how global seafood trade interacts with the governance of small-scale fisheries (SSFs). As global seafood trade expands, SSFs have the potential ... -
Using Social and Ecological Data to Identify Trends in Three Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of California
(2017-04-18)Marine protected areas (MPAs) have become an increasingly common conservation tool in marine environments, yet few studies have focused on impacts to fisheries and communities in addition to ecological impacts. In this study, ... -
Weaving Governance Narratives: Multi-Level Cooperativist Institutions and the Governance of Small-Scale Fisheries in Mexico
(2020)Environmental governance refers to a number of possible arrangements and decision-making processes that aim to structure the activities of humans in relation to the environment or natural resources. Governing the world’s ...
