There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in
conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet …

Increased interest in oceans is leading to new and renewed global governance efforts
directed toward ocean issues in areas of food production, biodiversity conservation …

The effects of observed and future changes in climate are spatially and socially
differentiated. The impacts of future changes will be felt particularly by resource-dependent …

Analyzing emerging practices of collaboration in planning and public policy to overcome the
challenges complexity, fragmentation and uncertainty, the authors present a new theory of …

The purpose of this paper is discuss the role of government, primarily national government,
in fisheries co-management. This paper investigates the critical role of decentralization in a …

Co-management is a tool of fisheries management that has received much attention in
recent years. Although there are great hopes about what it may accomplish, there are also …

T he balance of evidence from the commons literature of the past few decades is that neither
purely local-level management nor purely higher level management works well by itself …

How can the governance of environment and resources be devolved in a way that
incorporates effective user participation and feedback learning? Approaches that use the …

Most research in the area of common and common-pool resources in the past two or three
decades sought the simplicity of community-based resource management cases to develop …

In this illuminating new book, James M. Acheson examines the management of the lobster
industry. He shows that resource degradation is not inevitable. Indeed, the Maine lobster …