Browsing by Subject "small-scale fisheries"
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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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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. ... -
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 ... -
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, ...
