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Two to tango: The role of government in fisheries co-management

Robert S. Pomeroy, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1997 - 
- Vol. 21, Iss: 5, pp 465-480
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In this article, the authors discuss the role of government, primarily national government, in fisheries co-management and investigate the critical role of decentralization in a strategy of comanagement using a number of international cases.
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This article is published in Marine Policy.The article was published on 1997-09-01. It has received 673 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fisheries law & Fisheries co-management.

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Enfoques alternativos en la valoración de ecosistemas: explorando la participación de los usuarios locales* Alternative approaches in ecosystem valuation: exploring the participation of local users Approches alternatives d'estimation de la valeur des écosystèmes: exploration de la participation des utilisateurs locaux

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a participative valuation on landscape social-ecological units in the hydrological complex of Cienaga Grande de Santa Marta, which is useful to know the relative value that communities assign to different land uses and identify differences among communities.
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Administrative co-management in special use forests of Vietnam

TL;DR: In this article, the degree to which co-management can be put in Vietnamese special use forests and the degree of "adaptiveness" it can engender is examined, and conditions of the economic, political and social context surrounding SUFs are analyzed.
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End-user Surveys: A Practical Approach to Evaluating Fisheries Research Performance

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that Australian fisheries research undertaken between 1990 and 1998 has performed well, averaging a score of 70 per cent when evaluated by end-users, however, areas where improvements may be required were identified, as were the most critical points in the life-cycle of a project.
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Sharing benefits from coastal resources with rual communities in South Africa : the influence of institutional arrangements

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a table of contents and a list of FIGURES, TABLES, ACRONYMS, boxes, and boxes, as well as a Table of Contents.
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Promoting Social Accountability for Equitable Fisheries Within Beach Management Units in Lake Victoria (Kenya)

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the validity of co-management assumptions about who benefits from a devolution of decision-making power through a case study analysis of political equity in fisherfolk organisations of BMUs in Lake Victoria (Kenya).
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