Early-stage transformation of coastal marine governance in Vietnam?

Armitage, Derek; Marschke, Melissa; Tuyen, Truong Van

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2011.02.011

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“…Commons literature is poorly developed with regard to aquaculture; exceptions include studies of Vietnamese shrimp aquaculture (Armitage et al 2011;Huong and Berkes 2011;Marschke et al 2012) and collective management in Indian small-scale shrimp aquaculture (Umesh et al 2010). Given that many resources in Sri Lanka are managed by commons institutions, our results are perhaps not surprising.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…Apparently, scholars consider aquaculture not to be part of the main commons area, as there are only a few references to it in the commons literature (Bush et al 2010;Galappaththi and Berkes 2014). Exceptions include Huong and Berkes (2011), Armitage et al (2011) and Marschke et al (2012). Can aspects of commons theory be applied to aquaculture?…”

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confidence: 99%

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Drama of the commons in small-scale shrimp aquaculture in northwestern, Sri Lanka

Galappaththi

Berkes²

2015

Int J Commons

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Aquaculture, and shrimp aquaculture in particular, can have major social and environmental impacts. However, aquaculture remains an understudied area in commons research. Can aspects of commons theory be applied to solve problems of aquaculture? We examined three coastal community-based shrimp aquaculture operations in northwestern Sri Lanka using a case study approach. These shrimp farms were individually owned by small producers and managed under local-level rules designed by cooperatives (samithi). The common-pool resource of major interest was water for aquaculture ponds, obtained from an interconnected water body. We evaluated the shrimp farming social-ecological system by using Ostrom's design principles for collective action. Key elements of the system were: clearly defined boundaries; collaboratively designed crop calendar, bottom-up approach involving community associations, multi-level governance, and farmers-and-government collaborative structures. Together, these elements resolved the excludability and subtractability problems of commons by establishing boundary and membership rules and collective choice rules.

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Drama of the commons in small-scale shrimp aquaculture in northwestern, Sri Lanka

Galappaththi

Berkes²

2015

Int J Commons

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“…Armitage and Marschke (2013) were probably the first to claim that the lagoon had entered a social-ecological trap. Because the historical origins and persistence of the socialecological trap in the Tam Giang lagoon have been described in detail elsewhere , Armitage et al 2011, Boonstra and Nhung 2012, Ho et al 2016, we present only a summary (Fig. 2).…”

Section: A Social-ecological Trap In the Tam Giang Lagoonmentioning

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“…Since the middle 2000s, the provincial government has tried to halt the degradation through comanagement (Armitage et al 2011, Armitage andMarschke 2013) and reduction of exploitation efforts. So far, these interventions have not appeared to improve the situation (Ho et al 2016) because households continue to be highly dependent on the ecosystems in the lagoon.…”

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Can income diversification resolve social-ecological traps in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in the global south? A case study of response diversity in the Tam Giang lagoon, central Vietnam

Hanh¹,

Boonstra²

2018

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ABSTRACT. Small-scale fishers and aquaculturists in the global south often face reinforcing feedbacks between resource degradation and livelihood impoverishment, a situation conceptualized as a social-ecological trap. It is argued that these traps can be overcome through income diversification, i.e., livelihoods that are maintained from variable income sources. Our aim was to further scrutinize that claim using the concept of response diversity. To do so, we applied the concept and analyzed income diversification in the Tam Giang lagoon, central Vietnam. Based on our analysis, we argue that high diversity in income activities does not necessarily lead to an escape from social-ecological traps. Although diversity in income activities in the case of the Tam Giang lagoon is relatively high, fisheries-and aquaculture-related income activities continue to dominate livelihood portfolios. The various gear and structures that these activities include all exploit the same ecologies, habitats, and niches of the lagoon. This finding triggers questions concerning the relative contribution of income activities to household income, but also how activities are (differently) connected to natural environments. Income diversification can only sustain natural resources and improve human well-being if it truly transforms livelihoods by connecting local users in new ways to ecologies and societies.

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“…For example, the Ministry of Fisheries has created a series of master plans and issued decrees and ordinances aimed at the preservation of marine resources (Boonstra and Nyugen 2010). The new Fisheries Law (2003) also recognizes the role of community members in the management of their natural resources (Armitage et al 2011). Provincial and District authorities have used the law to enact specific decisions enabling community forms of management and to formally transfer rights to village level associations.…”

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Do collective property rights make sense? Insights from central Vietnam

Marschke

Armitage

et al. 2012

Int J Commons

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Abstract:We draw on empirical results from three case studies of property rights change across forest and fisheries ecosystems in central Vietnam to investigate the circumstances under which collective property rights may make sense. A generic property rights framework was used to examine the bundles of rights and associated rights holders in each case, and to assess these arrangements with regard to their contextual fit, legitimacy and enforceability. The cases illustrate the interactions between private and collective rights to lands and resources, and the trade-offs inherent with different mixes of rights.

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Early-stage transformation of coastal marine governance in Vietnam?

Cited by 49 publications

References 16 publications

Drama of the commons in small-scale shrimp aquaculture in northwestern, Sri Lanka

Drama of the commons in small-scale shrimp aquaculture in northwestern, Sri Lanka

Can income diversification resolve social-ecological traps in small-scale fisheries and aquaculture in the global south? A case study of response diversity in the Tam Giang lagoon, central Vietnam

Do collective property rights make sense? Insights from central Vietnam

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