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  Tropical fisheries conflicts: the search for a better understanding

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002

  Most research on natural resource conflicts in general - fisheries conflicts in particular - has focussed on site-specific violent conflict (such as the shrimp wars in Kerala). It is assumed that resource allocation is the primary issue. But is this always the case?
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  The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA): 2002

  Fisheries Department, FAO, 2002

  This publication collates the latest information on the status of fisheries and issues affecting fisheries and aquaculture globally.
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  Social literature review for the knowledge in fisheries management project

  Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development, 2001

  This paper aims to find out what we know about how knowledge is used by fisheries management institutions, in order to help design co-management institutions to meet these goals.It examines two critical questions about the institutional aspects of the knowledge base of fisheries management: What difference does it make how and by whom the knowledge is produced that management uses to make and j
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  The fishery effects of marine reserves and fishery closures

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2002

  Marine reserves, areas permanently closed to all fishing, are frequently proposed as a tool for managing fisheries. Fishery benefits claimed for reserves include increases in spawning stock size, animal body size, and reproductive output of exploited species.
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  Marine reserves: a tool for ecosystem management and conservation

  Pew Oceans Commission, 2002

  This paper considers the variety of threats and competition for use faced by the ocean ecosystems of the U.S. The author argues that seemingly separate threats such as pollution and fishing are linked in that both affect entire marine ecosystems.
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  Fire use, peatland transformation and local livelihoods

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2001

  The biodiversity and carbon sequestration value of tropical peatlands is damaged by logging, burning, drainage and other activities. In many cases this may also damage local livelihood benefits such as fisheries support.
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  International symposium on women in Asian fisheries

  The WorldFish Center, 2001

  This site contains documents from all speeches held at the symposium.Papers include:women in Asian fisheries: a generalist's perspectiveThe role of networks in addressing research and development issues on women in fisheriesempowerment of women in Asian fisheriestechnological changes and their implications for women in fisheriesstrategies for addressing gender issues thr
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  MPAs and tourism: stakeholders work to build a productive relationship & MPA perspective: MPA revenue generation and the user fee option

  Marine Protected Area News, 2001

  This issue contains a series of brief articles from a number of authors looking at contributions of a variety of stakeholders in the MPA process.Specifically, the authors explore:training scuba divers to minimise their impact and increase their environmental sensibilitieseconomic benefits from tourism to fisheriesthe role of recreational fishing in marine reservesmanagement
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  Integration of biodiversity into national fishery sectors

  United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2002

  This report is one of eight thematic reviews prepared for the Biodiversity Planning Support Programme (BPSP), a programme created to help countries strengthen national capacity to prepare and implement National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans in compliance with Article 6 of the Convention on Biological Diversity.The study consists of the following:a primer for planners on biodi
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  Transformation of middle eastern natural environments: legacies and lessons

  Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1998

  Collection of papers looking at environmental change resulting from human interactions with nature in the middle east.

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