Transitions toward co-management: The process of marine resource management devolution in three east African countries

Cinner, Joshua E.; Daw, Tim M.; McClanahan, Tim R.; Muthiga, Nyawira A.; Abunge, Caroline; Hamed, Salum Soud; Mwaka, B.; Rabearisoa, Ando; Wamukota, Andrew; Fisher, Eleanor; Jiddawi, Narriman

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.03.002

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“…When the AMERB provided fishers with a harvestable resource, there was an incentive for fishermen to create and enforce their own rules, maintaining the functioning of the organization and creating democracy in resource management (Cinner et al 2012a). However, when the resource abundance declined, the low density made the fishery unattractive , the incentives were lost, and the governance institution was abandoned and did not recover even when the resource itself recovered.…”

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Social-Ecological Collapse: TURF Governance in the Context of Highly Variable Resources in Chile

Aburto¹,

Stotz²,

Cundill³

2014

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ABSTRACT. In Chile, a Territorial User Rights for Fisheries system was developed to manage benthic fisheries. This system is referred to as Management Areas for the Exploitation of Benthic Resources. Management areas involved a shift from top-down control by governments to comanagement. We have analyzed the effects of a highly variable fishery, characterized by boom-and-bust cycles, on the governance of local institutions designed for resource management. We focused on a case study in north central Chile, in which the surf clam fishery experienced high levels of variability when the fishery was in an open access system. The management areas were established for the fishery in 1999. As a result, a set of rules for the fishery were created and enforced by fishers and local fishery authorities. Despite intense efforts on the part of all stakeholders, the fishery collapsed after three years of management area policy. This approach has been shown to be an effective management option for other species; however, for resources with boom-and-bust cycles, it is important to understand the response pattern of users confronting this spatial and temporal variability before the establishment of territorial user rights. Defining the appropriate spatial scale of the territorial rights could allow fishers to switch among different surf clam beds to maintain their livelihood and support the sustainability of local institutions for resource management.

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Social-Ecological Collapse: TURF Governance in the Context of Highly Variable Resources in Chile

Aburto¹,

Stotz²,

Cundill³

2014

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“…For example, in the Solomon Islands, indigenous knowledge and sea tenure systems were used in combination with scientific knowledge to establish marine protected areas for bumphead parrotfish conservation (Aswani and Hamilton 2004). Community-based and collaborative (e.g., co-management) initiatives have reduced exposure to threats such a stock declines (Pinto da Silva and Kitts 2006) and have created a greater degree of democracy in regard to resource governance (Cinner et al 2012a) in many coastal communities, although the impacts of collaborative initiatives vary widely within the social-ecological complexity of coastal systems (Cohen and Alexander 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Communities and change in the anthropocene: understanding social-ecological vulnerability and planning adaptations to multiple interacting exposures

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The majority of vulnerability and adaptation scholarship, policies and programs focus exclusively on climate change or global environmental change. Yet, individuals, communities and sectors experience a broad array of multi-scalar and multi-temporal, social, political, economic and environmental changes to which they are vulnerable and must adapt. While extensive theoreticaland increasingly empirical-work suggests the need to explore multiple exposures, a clear conceptual framework which would facilitate analysis of vulnerability and adaptation to multiple interacting socioeconomic and biophysical changes is lacking. This review and synthesis paper aims to fill this gap through presenting a conceptual framework for integrating multiple exposures into vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning. To support applications of the framework and facilitate assessments and comparative analyses of community vulnerability, we develop a comprehensive typology of drivers and exposures experienced by coastal communities. Our results reveal essential elements of a pragmatic approach for localscale vulnerability analysis and for planning appropriate adaptations within the context of multiple interacting exposures. We also identify methodologies for characterizing exposures and impacts, exploring interactions and identifying and prioritizing responses. This review focuses on coastal communities; however, we believe the framework, typology and approach will be useful for understanding vulnerability and planning adaptation to multiple exposures in various social-ecological contexts.

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“…Consequently, modern management requires the challenging task of integrating modern legislation with traditional and emerging customs (Rakotoson and Tanner 2006). Recent papers describe the social and institutional aspects of transitions toward fisheries co-management (Cinner et al 2009c(Cinner et al , 2012a.…”

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Perceived Benefits of Fisheries Management Restrictions in Madagascar

McClanahan¹,

Cinner²,

Abunge³

et al. 2014

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ABSTRACT. Perceptions of the benefits of fisheries management restrictions were evaluated in coastal Madagascar to identify restrictions that are likely to be self-and community enforced. The survey focused on 24 Malagasy fishing villages adjacent to coral reefs. Resource users' perceptions of the benefits of restrictions were generally high and widespread, but some less positive perceptions were found in three villages located near marine protected areas. Perceptions of the benefits of gear restrictions had widespread support; closed areas, seasons, and minimum sizes of fish were less common; and restrictions on species were supported infrequently. We therefore advocate a management implementation approach that uses these scales of perceived benefits and prioritizes support for the most widely accepted restrictions most broadly, with the less accepted restrictions matched to specific supportive locations. At the village level, socioeconomic and wealth variables were not clearly associated with perceived benefits, which we suggest results from a stronger influence of village history than socioeconomic conditions. At the individual fisher level, however, there was evidence that experienced people involved in decision-making, having livelihood alternatives, and having permanent housing had more opinions and frequently were more supportive of management restrictions. Incorporating this information into forums and management plans is expected to increase the rate of adoption and compliance with needed fisheries restrictions.

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Transitions toward co-management: The process of marine resource management devolution in three east African countries

Cited by 129 publications

References 49 publications

Social-Ecological Collapse: TURF Governance in the Context of Highly Variable Resources in Chile

Social-Ecological Collapse: TURF Governance in the Context of Highly Variable Resources in Chile

Communities and change in the anthropocene: understanding social-ecological vulnerability and planning adaptations to multiple interacting exposures

Perceived Benefits of Fisheries Management Restrictions in Madagascar

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