Focusing on living marine resource governance: The Caribbean Large Marine Ecosystem and Adjacent Areas Project

Coastal Management

Volumn 37, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 219-234

  Fanning, L ^a   Mahon, R ^b   McConney, P ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

Governance; Large Marine Ecosystem; Scale; Transboundary

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKERS; ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY; GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE; HIGH INCIDENCE; INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT; LARGE MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; MARINE RESOURCES; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS; SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATE; TRANS-BOUNDARY; UNITED NATIONS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

MARINE BIOLOGY; NATURAL RESOURCES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; MARINE RESOURCE; SMALL ISLAND STATE; TRANSBOUNDARY COOPERATION; UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS;

EID: 70449625335     PISSN: 08920753     EISSN: 15210421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08920750902851203     Document Type: Article

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