Beyond regulations in fisheries management: The dilemmas of the "Beach Recorders" Bwana Dikos in Zanzibar, Tanzania

Ecology and Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  de la Torre Castro, Maricela ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Common pool resources; Fisheries management; Fisheries monitoring; Institutional performance; Institutions; Regulations; Resilience; Social ecological systems; Tanzania; Zanzibar

Indexed keywords

FISHERY REGULATION; NATURAL RESOURCE; POVERTY; SUSTAINABILITY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TANZANIA; ZANZIBAR ISLAND;

EID: 33846069681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-01876-110235     Document Type: Article

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