Co-management - An attainable partnership? Two cases from james bay, northern quebec and torres strait, northern queensland

Anthropologica

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 197-213

  Mulrennan, M E ^a   Scott, C H ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Co management; Hunter fishers; Indigenous rights; James Bay Crees; Torres Strait Islanders

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644959657     PISSN: 00035459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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