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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Marine Resource Management"”.
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Trends and challenges for sustainable marine resource management for rural Solomon Islanders
… about the positive benefits of the customary marine tenure (CMT) system in the South Pacific and its implications for resource management. In Solomon Islands the premise of effective community-based resource management (CBRM) as a contemporary management tool, rests to a great degree on CMT, …
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Towards Colombian small-scale marine fisheries management: Hacia un manejo de la pesca marina artesanal en Colombia
… of well being, in part because of inadequate marine resource management. As a consequence of inadequate management, some resources are already overexploited and depletion threatens the food security of these fishing villages. Lack of information on fisheries resources, open access artisanal …
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"Golden forests" of the sea: assessing values and perceptions of kelp in the Western Cape region of South Africa
… contribute to the implementation of successful marine resource management initiatives. The lack of consideration of non-market values is a gap in kelp valuation studies with kelp ecosystems and their use rarely valued outside of classical economic valuation frameworks. This study aims to fill …
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The Effectiveness of Periodically-Harvested Closures in Meeting Ecological and Socioeconomic Objectives
… (PHCs) are a widespread form of community-based marine spatial management used throughout the Indo-Pacific that also is currently being intensively advocated by conservation organizations for supporting productive fisheries and healthy marine ecosystems. However, local implementation of PHCs has …
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The perceptions of climate change among subsistence fishers in Paternoster, South Africa
… fishers who depend heavily on the fragile marine ecosystem and environment. This study looks at the experiences, perceptions and strategies concerning adapting to change of subsistence fishers in Paternoster. Paternoster is a historical coastal town on the West Coast of South Africa. The …
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Distribution, growth, and transport of larval fishes and implications for population dynamics
The early life stages of marine fishes play a critical role in population dynamics, largely due to their high abundance, high mortality, and ease of transport in ocean currents. This dissertation demonstrates the value of combining larval data, collected in the field and the laboratory, with model …
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At the interface : marine compliance inspectors at work in the Western Cape
… concerns in the contestations are over access to marine resources, which have been regulated through the Marine Living Resources Act of 1998. At the centre of these conflicts, is the figure of the marine compliance inspector, whose task is to enforce the state’s version of nature onto the …
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Heritage and change : the implementation of fishing policy in Kassiesbaai, South Africa, 2007
This dissertation looks at the Marine Living Resources Act of 1998, the manner in which it has been conceptualised and the way that this has influenced its implementation. The focus of the investigation is the historic fishing village of Kassiesbaai on the Cape's south coast, looking at the ways in …
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An analysis of the emergence of adaptive governance for sustainable management of marine resources
… of adaptive governance in a national system of marine governance, with particular emphasis on the role of marine planning. Using a social-ecological systems framework, a model was constructed to enable analysis of Scotland’s marine governance system, as a dynamic and interrelated mixture of …