ISBN:
9781138779808
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (395 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Coasts for People : Interdisciplinary Approaches to Coastal and Marine Resource Management
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Issues of sustainability and increased competition over coastal resources are changing practices of resource management. Societal concerns about environmental degradation and loss of coastal resources have steadily increased, while other issues like food security, biodiversity, and climate change, have emerged. A full set of social, ecological and economic objectives to address these issues are recognized, but there is no agreement on how to implement them. This interdisciplinary and ""big picture book"" - through a series of vivid case studies from environments throughout the world - suggests
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Ongoing Agenda; The Context; Rethinking Coastal and Marine Resources; Paradigm Change from Reductionism to a Systems View; Paradigm Change in Commons Theory; Paradigm Changes in Resource Governance; Elements of an Interdisciplinary Science of Coastal Resource Management; 2 Natural Resources and Management: Emerging Views; Changing Theory and Practice of Resource Management: An Overview; The "Intellectual Baggage" of Natural Resources and Management
Description / Table of Contents:
An Ecological Critique of Conventional ManagementA Social Critique of Conventional Management; Broadening Values and Objectives; Conclusions; 3 Social-Ecological Systems; Introduction; Context and Concept of Integrated Social-Ecological Systems; Social-Ecological Systems and Globalization; A Case Study on Transformations and Drivers: Aquaculture; Conclusions; 4 Resilience: Health of Social-Ecological Systems; Introduction; Social-Ecological Systems and Resilience; Change, Drivers, Thresholds and Uncertainty; Policy Options, Learning, Adaptation and Transformation
Description / Table of Contents:
Assessing Resilience and Building ResilienceConclusions; 5 Can Commons Be Managed?; Introduction; Property Rights: Ownership or Not?; Bringing Decisions Close to Resource Users: Communities and Institutions; Principles for Collective Action and Commons Use; Roving Bandits: Globalized Tragedy of the Commons; Conclusions; 6 Co-management: Searching for Multilevel Solutions; Introduction; Why Co-management?; What Makes Co-management Work?; Building Adaptive Co-management; Conclusions; 7 Coastal Zone: Reconciling Multiple Uses; Introduction; Horizontal and Vertical Integration of Multiple Uses
Description / Table of Contents:
The Liminal Nature of the CoastCoastal Zone Concepts and Application; Social-Ecological Systems-based Restoration; Citizen Science or Civil Empowerment?; Conclusions; 8 Conserving Biodiversity: MPAs and Stewardship; Introduction; Competing Models of Biodiversity Conservation; International Experiments with MPAs; Issues of Multiple Objectives and Community Benefits; Prospects and Conclusions; 9 Coastal Livelihoods: Resources and Development; Introduction; Context of Development Thinking; Coastal Resource Users and Poverty; Livelihood Diversification
Description / Table of Contents:
Incorporating Social Objectives into ManagementConclusions; 10 Local and Traditional Knowledge: Bridging with Science; Introduction; Indigenous Knowledge as Content, Indigenous Knowledge as Process; The Belief Component of Traditional Knowledge; Local and Traditional Knowledge in Practical Management; Traditional Knowledge and Science: Bridging and Coproducing Knowledge; Conclusions; 11 Social-Ecological System-based Management; Introduction; Lessons from Ecosystem-based Management Cases; Social-Ecological Systems and Wicked Problems; Governance Approaches: Diverse and Creative
Description / Table of Contents:
Implementing Governance: Cutting Complexity Down to Size
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
