Fisheries co-management: a comparative analysis

Sen, Sevaly; Nielsen, Jesper Raakjær

doi:10.1016/0308-597x(96)00028-0

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“…Relative levels of power between government and private actors also vary from predominantly private to predominantly government run [3,12]. In developing countries, co-management is predominantly government driven and pre-designed, and the devolution of authority and resource rights to users is often partial [1,13].…”

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Bringing People Back into Protected Forests in Developing Countries: Insights from Co-Management in Malawi

Zulu¹

2013

Sustainability

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This study examines struggles to bring people back into protected forests to enhance sustainable forest management and livelihoods using insights emerging from a co-management project in Malawi. It uses mixed social science methods and a process-based conceptualization of co-management to analyze experiences, and theory of reciprocal altruism to explain major findings of continuing local forest-user commitment to co-management despite six years of conservation burdens largely for minimal financial benefits. It argues that overemphasis on cash incentives as the motivation for -self-interested‖ users to participate in co-management overlooks locally significant non-cash motivations, inflates local expectations, and creates perverse incentives that undermine socio-ecological goals. Some non-cash incentives outweighed cash-driven ones. Findings support broadening of incentives mechanisms, including via nested cross-scale institutional arrangements for holistic management that integrates adjacent forests into forest-reserve co-management. Strengthened institutions, improving community/government and intracommunity trust, improved village forests easing pressure on the reserve, measures minimizing elite capture, and impetus from an external threat, enhanced forest condition. Generous forest rights and appropriate community licensing and benefit-sharing systems also helped. Bureaucratic/donor inefficiencies, wood-extraction challenges, poor forest-based enterprise development, and low resource value undermined performance. Insights on forest-management planning, fair cost-sharing, targeting the poor, and need for social learning are highlighted.

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Bringing People Back into Protected Forests in Developing Countries: Insights from Co-Management in Malawi

Zulu¹

2013

Sustainability

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“…In so doing, one avoids the jump in scales between the national level, where fisheries management decisions are taken by public authorities intending to exploit these resources for the good of the national community according to rules they have defined, and the local level, where fishing is practiced daily and where these management rules are generally applied poorly due to a desire to maintain full use of the fisheries resources on the territory. When the decision to set aside fishing grounds is taken in concertation or in agreement with national authorities, it is possible to speak of co-management, collaborative management or community-based management (Barrow et al 2000;Nurse and Kabamba 2000;Sen and Nielsen 1996).…”

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Kanak coastal communities and fisheries meeting new governance challenges and marine issues in New Caledonia

Leblic

Cornier

2016

Fisheries in the Pacific

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“…It is important to note that the performance of collaborative arrangements has been constantly brought in the limelight in terms of their significance in contributing to the maintenance of ecosystem services (Sen and Raakjaer-Nielson 1996). Although the literature in general provides several examples of successful collaborative arrangements (Dietz et al 2003, Pomeroy et al 2010, there are studies that reveal many examples of failure (Meizen-Dick et al 2004).…”

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A Typology of Benefit Sharing Arrangements for the Governance of Social-Ecological Systems in Developing Countries

Nkhata¹,

Mosimane²,

Downsborough³

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. 2012. A typology of benefit sharing arrangements for the governance of social-ecological systems in developing countries. ABSTRACT. This study explores and interprets relevant literature to construct a typology of benefit sharing arrangements for the governance of social-ecological systems in developing countries. The typology comprises three generic categories of benefit sharing arrangements: collaborative, market-oriented, and egalitarian. We contend that the three categories provide a useful basis for exploring and classifying the different societal arrangements required for governance of social-ecological systems.The typology we present is founded on a related set of explicit assumptions that can be used to explore and better understand the linkages among ecosystem services, benefit sharing, and governance. Issues that are strongly related to sustainability in developing countries form the core basis of our assumptions. Our aim is not to write a definitive exposition, but to spark debate and engage ongoing dialogue on governance and benefit sharing in the field of social-ecological systems.

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Fisheries co-management: a comparative analysis

Cited by 375 publications

References 3 publications

Bringing People Back into Protected Forests in Developing Countries: Insights from Co-Management in Malawi

Bringing People Back into Protected Forests in Developing Countries: Insights from Co-Management in Malawi

Kanak coastal communities and fisheries meeting new governance challenges and marine issues in New Caledonia

A Typology of Benefit Sharing Arrangements for the Governance of Social-Ecological Systems in Developing Countries

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