Commonisation and decommonisation: Understanding the processes of change in the Chilika Lagoon, India

Conservation and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 132-145

  Nayak, Prateep Kumar ^a,b   Berkes, Fikret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

access rights; aquaculture; Chilika Lagoon; commonisation; commons; decommonisation; global markets; India; Odisha; prawn; property; small scale fisheries

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052106671     PISSN: 09724923     EISSN: 09753133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.83723     Document Type: Article

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