Governing the coastal commons: communities, resilience and transformation / edited by Derek Armitage, Anthony Charles and Fikret Berkes

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List of contributors.. Preface and acknowledgements.. 1. Toward Transformative Change in the Coastal Commons.. Part I.. Ingredients.. 2. Turning the Tide: Strategies, Innovation and Transformative Learning at the Olifants Estuary, South Africa.. 3. Emergence of Community Science as a Transformative Process in Port Mouton Bay, Canada.. 4. Rights-based Coastal Ecosystem Use and Management: From Open Access to Community Managed Access Rights.. 5. Transformations of the Reef, Transformations of the Mind: Marine Aquarium Trade in Bali, Indonesia.. 6. The Path to Sustainable Fisheries in Japan and the Transformative Impact of the Shiretoko World Natural Heritage Site.. 7. Community Participation and Adaptation to Change in Biosphere Reserves: A Review and a Mediterranean European Coastal Wetland Case Study (Rhone Delta Biosphere Reserve, Southern France.. Part II.. Opportunities.. 8. Navigating the Transformation to Community-Based Resource Management.. 9. Navigating from Government-centralized Management to Adaptive Co-management in a Marine Protected Area, Paraty, Brazil: Turbulence, Winds of Opportunity, and Progress Towards Transformation.. 10. Koh Pitak: A Community-Based, Environment and Tourism Initiative in Thailand.. 11. Sasi Laut In Maluku: Transformation and Sustainability of Traditional Governance in the Face of Globalization.. 12. The Messy Intertidal Zone: Transformation of Governance Thinking for Coastal Nova Scotia.. 13. Communities, Multi-level Networks and Governance Transformations in the Coastal Commons.. 14. Synthesis: Governing Coastal Transformations.. Index

Coastal communities depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods, but the common property nature of marine resources poses major challenges for the governance of such resources. Through detailed cases and consideration of broader global trends, this volume examines how coastal communities are adapting to environmental change, and the attributes of governance that foster deliberate transformations and help to build resilience of social and ecological systems. Governance here reflects how communities, societies and organisations (e.g. fisher cooperatives, government agencies) choose to organise themselves to make decisions about important issues, such as the use and protection of coastal commons (e.g. fishery resources). The book shows how a governance approach generates insights into the specific forms and arrangements that enable coastal communities to steer away from unsustainable pathways. It also provides an analytical lens to consider important questions of power, knowledge and legitimacy in linked social-ecological systems. Chapters highlight examples in which communities are engaging in deliberative transformations to build resilience and enhance their well-being. These transformations and efforts to build resilience are emerging through multi-level collaboration, shared learning, innovative policies and institutional arrangements (such as new property rights regimes and co-management), methodologies that engage with indigenous cultural practices, and entrepreneurial activities, including income and livelihood diversification. Case studies are included from a range of countries including Canada, Japan, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, Thailand, the South Pacific and Europe. The authors integrate theory with practical examples to improve coastal marine policy and governance, and draw upon emerging concepts from social-ecological resilience and transformations, adaptive governance and the scholarship on the commons. eng