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Cooperatives, concessions, and co-management on the Pacific coast of Mexico
Bonnie J. McCay,Fiorenza Micheli,Germán Ponce-Díaz,Grant Murray,Geoff Shester,Saudiel Ramirez-Sanchez,Wendy Weisman +6 more
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In this article, a case study of ten fishery cooperatives of the Pacific coast of Mexico was studied to examine reasons for successful community-based management of the fishery commons.About:
This article is published in Marine Policy.The article was published on 2014-02-01. It has received 139 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Community-based management & Catch share.read more
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Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework.
Nathan J. Bennett,Tara Sayuri Whitty,Elena M. Finkbeiner,Jeremy Pittman,Hannah R. Bassett,Stefan Gelcich,Edward H. Allison +6 more
TL;DR: The aim is to raise the profile of environmental stewardship as a valuable and holistic concept for guiding productive and sustained relationships with the environment.
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Towards a network of locally managed marine areas (LMMAs) in the Western Indian Ocean.
TL;DR: The first ever inventory and assessment of the region’s locally managed marine areas (LMMAs) is presented and it is found that whilst LMMAs protect more than 11,000 square kilometres of marine resource in the WIO, they are hampered by underdeveloped local and national legal structures and enforcement mechanisms.
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A systematic review of co-managed small-scale fisheries: Social diversity and adaptive management improve outcomes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conduct a systematic review of academic literature to examine the context and attributes of co-management initiatives in small-scale fisheries, and their expected outcomes, and suggest that a supporting legal and institutional framework facilitates the emergence of comanagement, because it contributes to clarify and legitimize property rights over fish resources.
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The role of diversification in dynamic small-scale fisheries: Lessons from Baja California Sur, Mexico
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the relative importance of diversification strategies for achieving resilient small-scale fishing communities and cooperatives of Baja California Sur, Mexico and found that while diversification was important for risk mitigation and stabilizing income, the ability of cooperatives to specialize during favorable conditions may be important for poverty reduction and wealth accumulation.
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Re-defining co-management to facilitate small-scale fisheries reform: An illustration from northwest Mexico
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for moving beyond traditional conceptualizations of co-management, to multi-level comanagement, in order to explicitly emphasize the principles of power devolution based on subsidiarity, cooperative partnerships, democratic participatory involvement, polycentricity, and governance networks.
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
TL;DR: In this paper, an institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations is presented, along with a framework for analysis of selforganizing and selfgoverning CPRs.
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
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The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the economic theory of natural resource utilization as it pertains to the fishing industry and showed that most of the problems associated with the words "conservation" or "depletion" or ''overexploitation" in the fishery are, in reality, manifestations of the fact that the natural resources of the sea yield no economic rent.
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Adaptive comanagement for building resilience in social-ecological systems.
TL;DR: It is proposed that the self-organizing process of adaptive comanagement development, facilitated by rules and incentives of higher levels, has the potential to expand desirable stability domains of a region and make social–ecological systems more robust to change.
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Leadership, social capital and incentives promote successful fisheries
TL;DR: Examining 130 co-managed fisheries in a wide range of countries with different degrees of development, ecosystems, fishing sectors and type of resources demonstrates the critical importance of prominent community leaders and robust social capital for successfully managing aquatic resources and securing the livelihoods of communities depending on them.
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