Managing inequality or managing stocks? An ethnographic perspective on the governance of small-scale fisheries

Fish and Fisheries

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 471-485

  Fabinyi, Michael ^a,b   Foale, Simon ^a   Macintyre, Martha ^c  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Governance; Inequality; Papua new guinea; Philippines; Small scale fishers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937073393     PISSN: 14672960     EISSN: 14672979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/faf.12069     Document Type: Article

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