Cross-scale linkages and adaptive management: Fisheries co-management in Asia |
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Authors: | Douglas Clyde Wilson Mahfuzuddin Ahmed Susanna V. Siar Usha Kanagaratnam |
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Affiliation: | 1. The North Sea Centre, Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development (IFM), 9850 Hirtshals, Denmark;2. WorldFish Center, Jalan Batu Maung, Batu Maung, Penang, Malaysia |
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Abstract: | The present paper reviews research done in Asian countries during the second phase of the Worldwide Collaborative Research Project on Fisheries Co-management. Building on the results of the first phase, the paper focuses on stakeholder conflict, and social and geographical scale. Several conclusions emerge from common patterns. Community motivations for co-management are often related more to the protection of fisheries resources from outsiders than to conservation. Access rights are important but exclusion from food resources in a context of widespread poverty should be approached carefully. Cross-scale institutional linkages make adaptive management possible by bringing together groups with broad local foci and ones with narrow trans-local mandates. The role of the government is balancing interactions between these various groups. This is not a role that is compatible with top-down management. |
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Keywords: | Co-management Scale Conflict |
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