Toward institutions for community-based management of inshore marine resources in the Western Indian Ocean

Cinner, Joshua E.; Wamukota, Andrew; Randriamahazo, Herilala; Rabearisoa, Ando

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2008.11.001

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“…the use of several fishing gears) that allow people to switch among economic activities and targets (Turner et al 2007). Parts of the WIO have developed flexible and decentralized management systems that permit rapid implementation of locally appropriate management rules (Cinner et al 2009c), however rigid taboos and social norms may constrain adaptation options (Cinner et al 2009b).…”

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Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change

MacNeil

Graham

Cinner

et al. 2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Global climate change has the potential to substantially alter the production and community structure of marine fisheries and modify the ongoing impacts of fishing. Fish community composition is already changing in some tropical, temperate and polar ecosystems, where local combinations of warming trends and higher environmental variation anticipate the changes likely to occur more widely over coming decades. Using case studies from the Western Indian Ocean, the North Sea and the Bering Sea, we contextualize the direct and indirect effects of climate change on production and biodiversity and, in turn, on the social and economic aspects of marine fisheries. Climate warming is expected to lead to (i) yield and species losses in tropical reef fisheries, driven primarily by habitat loss; (ii) community turnover in temperate fisheries, owing to the arrival and increasing dominance of warm-water species as well as the reduced dominance and departure of cold-water species; and (iii) increased diversity and yield in Arctic fisheries, arising from invasions of southern species and increased primary production resulting from ice-free summer conditions. How societies deal with such changes will depend largely on their capacity to adapt—to plan and implement effective responses to change—a process heavily influenced by social, economic, political and cultural conditions.

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Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change

MacNeil

Graham

Cinner

et al. 2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…In that context, network structures have been broken (GS6/I8a/ I8b) and the capacity to join spontaneously in groups and self-organize (I7) has been lost in the middle of a long period of prohibition and political repression. Formal norms have not been determined by using social norms (GS5), and traditional knowledge and mental models from direct users (A7), as in many illustrative cases in the literature of commons (Basurto 2005;Basurto and Ostrom 2009;Cinner et al 2009, Basurto et al 2013. Institutions that can help in embedding collective-choice into the formal constitution of rules have not been developed (GS5c).…”

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“…Also variables related to monitoring activities seem to be the key to explain local variability between communities in forest management conditions (Ostrom and Nagendra 2006). Ten key design principles related to how community-based organizations are nested within other organizations, the historical and social context, flexibility of rule-making, monitoring and enforcement are shown as the most relevant in the co-manage of coral reefs in Kenya and Madagascar (Cinner et al 2009). …”

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Characterization of an artisanal fishery in Argentina using the social-ecological systems framework

London¹,

Rojas²,

Martín³

et al. 2017

Int J Commons

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Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) studies how institutions (the rules of the game of a society) determine the performance of a social-economic system. Elinor Ostrom extends the institutional analysis to the collective action for a particular case, the study of the social-ecological systems (SESs) (Ostrom 1990). Any group that attempts to manage a common resource (e.g. aquifers, pastures) for optimal sustainable production must solve a set of problems in order to create institutions to facilitate collective action. Some evidences show that following a set of design principles in creating institutions can lead to overcome these problems. The aim of the paper is to apply the SES framework to an artisanal fishery community in Argentina in order to: 1) describe the principal features, key variables and relations of the small-scale fishery system; 2) detect the principal drivers of a potential common-management and the leading detractors from the current communal performance; and 3) analyze the possibility that a self-governing for sustainable fishery may appear. Several drivers for potential common-management and some detractors from the current common performance are summarized. Artisanal fishery SES is currently at a bifurcation point. A common historical and cultural root, the presence of leaderships, the relevance of local knowledge, the dependence on the resource to sustainable livelihoods and the threat of big-scale fisheries area have generated incentives to collectiveaction. But, simultaneously, internal conflicts are the most important barrier for an integrated community-based management. The heterogeneity among actors and the relevant external conditions have resulted in two groups diverging in their self-organization. The work is framed by the project COMET-LA (COmmunitybased Management of Environmental challenges in Latin America; European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme of Research and Development), which aims to identify sustainable community-based governance for the management of natural resources that can be used in different social-ecological systems in a context of climate change and increasing competition in the use of resources.

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“…Many examples of the failure of MPAs in achieving their stated objectives have been ascribed to inappropriate governance (Cinner et al 2009, Jones 2014. Through a range of case studies, spanning several different countries and maritime regions, different governance approaches will be analysed with respect to their effectiveness in achieving MPA conservation objectives, employing the MPA Governance (MPAG, www.mpag.info) analysis framework (Jones et al 2016, Jones et al 2013.…”

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Advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas with the MarCons Action

Katsanevakis¹,

Mackelworth²,

Coll³

et al. 2017

RIO

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International audienceCumulative human impacts have led to the degradation of marine ecosystems and thedecline of biodiversity in the European and contiguous seas. Effective conservationmeasures are urgently needed to reverse these trends. Conservation must entail societalchoices, underpinned by human values and worldviews that differ between the countriesbordering these seas. Social, economic and political heterogeneity adds to the challenge ofbalancing conservation with sustainable use of the seas. Comprehensive macro-regionalcoordination is needed to ensure effective conservation of marine ecosystems andbiodiversity of this region. Under the European Union Horizon 2020 framework programme,the MarCons COST action aims to promote collaborative research to support marinemanagement, conservation planning and policy development. This will be achieved bydeveloping novel methods and tools to close knowledge gaps and advance marineconservation science. This action will provide support for the development of macro-regional and national policies through six key actions: to develop tools to analysecumulative human impacts; to identify critical scientific and technical gaps in conservationefforts; to improve the resilience of the marine environment to global change and biologicalinvasions; to develop frameworks for integrated conservation planning across terrestrial,freshwater, and marine environments; to coordinate marine conservation policy acrossnational boundaries; and to identify effective governance approaches for marine protectedarea management. Achieving the objectives of these actions will facilitate the integration ofmarine conservation policy into macro-regional maritime spatial planning agendas for theEuropean and contiguous seas, thereby offsetting the loss of biodiversity and ecosystemservices in this region

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Toward institutions for community-based management of inshore marine resources in the Western Indian Ocean

Cited by 97 publications

References 26 publications

Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change

Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change

Characterization of an artisanal fishery in Argentina using the social-ecological systems framework

Advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas with the MarCons Action

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