Local Perceptions of the Sustainability of Alaska's Highly Contested Cook Inlet Salmon Fisheries

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 185-199

  Loring, Philip A ^a   Harrison, Hannah L ^b   Gerlach, S Craig ^b  

^a University of Alaska Fairbanks   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; co management; environmentality; information theory; local ecological knowledge; salmon fisheries; sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84895067349     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2013.819955     Document Type: Article

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