Ecologically sustainable but unjust? Negotiating equity and authority in common-pool marine resource management

Ecology and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Klain, Sarah C ^a   Beveridge, Rachelle ^b   Bennett, Nathan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benthic fisheries; Common pool resources; CPR design principles; Environmental governance; Indigenous or aboriginal peoples; Resource management; Small scale fisheries; Social ecological system framework

Indexed keywords

CLAM FISHERY; COMMON PROPERTY RESOURCE; ECHINODERM FISHERY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; MARINE RESOURCE; STOCK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

HOLOTHUROIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84924425301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-07123-190452     Document Type: Article

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