Cross-scale linkages and adaptive management: Fisheries co-management in Asia

Douglas Clyde Wilson, Mahfuzuddin Ahmed, Susanna V. Siar and Usha Kanagaratnam

Marine Policy, 2006, vol. 30, issue 5, 523-533

Abstract: The present paper reviews research done in Asian countries during the second phase of the Worldwide Collaborative Research Project on Fisheries Co-management. Building on the results of the first phase, the paper focuses on stakeholder conflict, and social and geographical scale. Several conclusions emerge from common patterns. Community motivations for co-management are often related more to the protection of fisheries resources from outsiders than to conservation. Access rights are important but exclusion from food resources in a context of widespread poverty should be approached carefully. Cross-scale institutional linkages make adaptive management possible by bringing together groups with broad local foci and ones with narrow trans-local mandates. The role of the government is balancing interactions between these various groups. This is not a role that is compatible with top-down management.

Keywords: Co-management; Scale; Conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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