Abandoning Fish: The Vulnerability of Salmon as a Cultural Resource in a Post-Soviet Commons

Anthropology of Work Review

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 77-89

  Gerkey, Drew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective action; Commons; Conservation; Development; Fisheries; Institutions; Kamchatka; Salmon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861373219     PISSN: 0883024X     EISSN: 15481417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1417.2011.01060.x     Document Type: Article

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