- Title
- One size does not fit all: critical insights for effective community-based resource management in Melanesia
- Creator
- Aswani, Shankar
- Creator
- Albert, Simon
- Creator
- Love, Mark
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/145392
- Identifier
- vital:38434
- Identifier
- DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2017.03.041
- Description
- In recent years, Fiji's approach of combining traditional systems of community-based coastal management and modern management systems has become a successful blueprint for marine conservation, particularly the Locally Managed Marine Area (LMMA) network model. As a result of this success, conservation practitioners have imported the Fiji LMMA model to the Solomon Islands and in Vanuatu in hope of replicating the purported success attained in Fiji. This paper argues that because tenure systems and associated political systems in Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu are substantially different, one cannot simply extrapolate the more centralized tenurial and political Fiji model to the decentralized tenurial and politically eclectic Solomons and Vanuatu. This paper provides an analysis of some of the various approaches used in these countries to make a case for why socio-political diversity and historical particulars matter to resource management and conservation-in-practice (and for any development interventions).
- Format
- 11 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Marine Policy
- Relation
- Aswani, S., Albert, S. and Love, M., 2017. One size does not fit all: critical insights for effective community-based resource management in Melanesia. Marine Policy, 81, pp.381-391.
- Relation
- Marine Policy volume 81 number 381 391 March 2017 1872-9460
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- Rights
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