Restoring Unity: The Concept of Marine Social-Ecological Systems

World Fisheries: A Social-Ecological Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 9-28

  Berkes, Fikret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Co management; Complexity; Drivers; Fisher knowledge; Globalization; Governance; Social learning; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864050755     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444392241.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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