How locally designed access and use controls can prevent the tragedy of the commons in a Mexican small-scale fishing community

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 643-659

  Basurto, Xavier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Comunidad y Biodiversidad AC ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Access controls; Common pool resources; Community based management; Gulf of California; Marine protected areas; Mexico; Self governance; Seri people; Small scale fisheries; Tragedy of the commons

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; FISHING COMMUNITY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PROPERTY RIGHTS;

GULF OF CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

BIVALVIA; SERI;

EID: 22544465306     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920590959631     Document Type: Review

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