Alternatives to conventional management: Lessons from small-scale fisheries

Environments

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-20

  Berkes, Fikret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex adaptive systems; Ecosystem based management; Fisheries; Livelihoods; Traditional knowledge

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH;

MARTES;

EID: 0141634103     PISSN: 07116780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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