Preferred resource spaces and fisher flexibility: Implications for spatial management of small-scale fisheries

Human Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 213-226

  Teh, Lydia C L ^a   Teh, Louise S L ^a   Meitner, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fisher flexibility; Fisher spatial behaviour; Human dimension of fisheries; Sabah Malaysia; Small scale fisheries

Indexed keywords

FISHERY MANAGEMENT; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; PARAMETERIZATION; PERCEPTION; SMALL SCALE INDUSTRY; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH;

EID: 84859780513     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-012-9464-9     Document Type: Article

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