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Acheson, James M. 2006. Lobster and groundfish management in the Gulf of Maine: A rational choice perspective. Human Organization 65:240-252. Author's Keywords: fisheries management, rational choice, lobster industry, groundfish industry, maine
Armitage, Derek R. 2005. Adaptive capacity and community-based natural resource management. Environmental Management 35:703-715. Author's Keywords: sustainability, resilience, adaptation, capacity, community-based management, collaboration, participatory management ACSC Keywords: scale, conservation, institutions, politics, fisheries management, central sulawesi, comanagement, indonesia, histories, lessons, Southeast Asia
Coit, Katherine. 2002. The mismatch between politics, aid and environmental health with particular reference to cholera in Madagascar. Politics and Environmental Health 14:247-259. Author's Keywords: fisheries management, United States, fisheries anthropology ACSC Keywords: politics, Madagascar, government, aid, NGO, environmental health, cholera, Medecins sans frontieres, MSF
Colburn, L. L., Abbott-Jamieson, S., and Clay, P. M. 2006. Anthropological applications in the management of federally managed fisheries: Context, institutional history, and prospectus. Human Organization 65:231-239. Author's Keywords: fisheries management, United States, fisheries anthropology
Grafton, R. Q. and Kompas, T. 2005. Uncertainty and the active adaptive management of marine reserves. Marine Policy 29:471-479. Author's Keywords: adaptive management, marine reserves, uncertainty ACSC Keywords: conservation, sustainability, population, protected areas, benefits, fisheries management, ecosystems, dispersal, patterns, design
Jentoft, Svein, van Son, Thijs C., and Bjorkan, Maiken. 2007. Marine protected areas: A governance system analysis. Human Ecology 35:611-622. Author's Keywords: governance, resilience, marine protected areas, ecosystem management, fisheries, integrated coastal management, system theory, coastal zone ACSC Keywords: conservation, knowledge, community, fisheries management, California, reserves, el-nino, la-nina
McCay, Bonnie J. and Jentoft, Svein. 1998. Market or community failure? Critical perspectives on common property research. Human Organization 57:21-29. Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, environmental policy, embeddedness ACSC Keywords: fisheries management, organizations
McClanahan, T. R., Cinner, J., Kamukuru, A. T., Abunge, C., and Ndagala, J. 2008. Management preferences, perceived benefits and conflicts among resource users and managers in the Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania. Environmental Conservation 35:340-350. Author's Keywords: attitudes, fisheries management, Kenya, Tanzania, rights, co-management, protected area, perceptions, coral reefs, economic growth, marine protected area, park management, Indian Ocean, fishery closure, gear, NIMBY (not in my back yard), socioeconomic factors, artisanal fishers
Murray, Grant, Neis, Barbara, and Johnsen, Jahn P. 2006. Lessons learned from reconstructing interactions between local ecological knowledge, fisheries science, and fisheries management in the commercial fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Human Ecology 34:549-571. Author's Keywords: fisheries management, local ecological knowledge, Newfoundland, Labrador
Olsen, Stephen and Christie, Patrick. 2000. What are we learning from tropical coastal management experiences?. Coastal Management 28:5-18. Author's Keywords: community-based management, comanagement, tropics, learning, management regimes ACSC Keywords: fisheries management, teaming
Olson, Julia. 2006. Changing property, spatializing difference: The sea scallop fishery in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Human Organization 65:307-318. Author's Keywords: common property, property rights, fisheries management, fisheries anthropology, new bedford massachusetts ACSC Keywords: management, comanagement, rights, chaos, icelandic cod fishery, per-recruit analysis, placopecten-magellanicus
Russ, G. R. and Alcala, A. C. 1999. Management histories of Sumilon and Apo Marine Reserves, Philippines, and their influence on national marine resource policy. Coral Reefs 18:307-319. Author's Keywords: conservation, fisheries management, Philippines, marine reserves, community based management, coral reef fisheries, marine policy ACSC Keywords: fish, recovery, reefs
Stewart, Romola R. and Possingham, Hugh P. 2005. Efficiency, costs and trade-offs in marine reserve system design. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 10:203-213. Author's Keywords: trade-offs, marine reserves, conservation planning, reserve selection, decision theory, irreplaceability, bioeconomics ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, protected areas, fisheries management, networks, selection algorithms, persistence, bioeconomic model, principles
Warner, Gary. 1997. Participatory management, popular knowledge, and community empowerment: The case of sea urchin harvesting in the Vieux-Fort area of St. Lucia. Human Ecology 25:29-46. Author's Keywords: fisheries management, caribbean, resources, participatory development, co-management, sea urchin, st. lucia ACSC Keywords: commons, tragedy
Wilson, Douglas Clyde, McCay, Bonnie J., Rowan, Veronica, and Grandin, Barbara. 2002. Institutional differences among marine fisheries scientists' views of their working conditions, discipline, and fisheries management. Fisheries 27:14-24. ACSC Keywords: fisheries management, perceptions, fisheries scientists, fisheries managers, National Marine Fisheries Service, NMFS

Citation

Acheson, James M. 2006. Lobster and groundfish management in the Gulf of Maine: A rational choice perspective. Human Organization 65:240-252.

Author's Keywords: fisheries management, rational choice, lobster industry, groundfish industry, maine

Armitage, Derek R. 2005. Adaptive capacity and community-based natural resource management. Environmental Management 35:703-715.

Author's Keywords: sustainability, resilience, adaptation, capacity, community-based management, collaboration, participatory management

ACSC Keywords: scale, conservation, institutions, politics, fisheries management, central sulawesi, comanagement, indonesia, histories, lessons, Southeast Asia

Coit, Katherine. 2002. The mismatch between politics, aid and environmental health with particular reference to cholera in Madagascar. Politics and Environmental Health 14:247-259.

Author's Keywords: fisheries management, United States, fisheries anthropology

ACSC Keywords: politics, Madagascar, government, aid, NGO, environmental health, cholera, Medecins sans frontieres, MSF

Colburn, L. L., Abbott-Jamieson, S., and Clay, P. M. 2006. Anthropological applications in the management of federally managed fisheries: Context, institutional history, and prospectus. Human Organization 65:231-239.

Author's Keywords: fisheries management, United States, fisheries anthropology

Grafton, R. Q. and Kompas, T. 2005. Uncertainty and the active adaptive management of marine reserves. Marine Policy 29:471-479.

Author's Keywords: adaptive management, marine reserves, uncertainty

ACSC Keywords: conservation, sustainability, population, protected areas, benefits, fisheries management, ecosystems, dispersal, patterns, design

Jentoft, Svein, van Son, Thijs C., and Bjorkan, Maiken. 2007. Marine protected areas: A governance system analysis. Human Ecology 35:611-622.

Author's Keywords: governance, resilience, marine protected areas, ecosystem management, fisheries, integrated coastal management, system theory, coastal zone

ACSC Keywords: conservation, knowledge, community, fisheries management, California, reserves, el-nino, la-nina

McCay, Bonnie J. and Jentoft, Svein. 1998. Market or community failure? Critical perspectives on common property research. Human Organization 57:21-29.

Author's Keywords: common property, resource management, environmental policy, embeddedness

ACSC Keywords: fisheries management, organizations

McClanahan, T. R., Cinner, J., Kamukuru, A. T., Abunge, C., and Ndagala, J. 2008. Management preferences, perceived benefits and conflicts among resource users and managers in the Mafia Island Marine Park, Tanzania. Environmental Conservation 35:340-350.

Author's Keywords: attitudes, fisheries management, Kenya, Tanzania, rights, co-management, protected area, perceptions, coral reefs, economic growth, marine protected area, park management, Indian Ocean, fishery closure, gear, NIMBY (not in my back yard), socioeconomic factors, artisanal fishers

Murray, Grant, Neis, Barbara, and Johnsen, Jahn P. 2006. Lessons learned from reconstructing interactions between local ecological knowledge, fisheries science, and fisheries management in the commercial fisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Human Ecology 34:549-571.

Author's Keywords: fisheries management, local ecological knowledge, Newfoundland, Labrador

Olsen, Stephen and Christie, Patrick. 2000. What are we learning from tropical coastal management experiences?. Coastal Management 28:5-18.

Author's Keywords: community-based management, comanagement, tropics, learning, management regimes

ACSC Keywords: fisheries management, teaming

Olson, Julia. 2006. Changing property, spatializing difference: The sea scallop fishery in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Human Organization 65:307-318.

Author's Keywords: common property, property rights, fisheries management, fisheries anthropology, new bedford massachusetts

ACSC Keywords: management, comanagement, rights, chaos, icelandic cod fishery, per-recruit analysis, placopecten-magellanicus

Russ, G. R. and Alcala, A. C. 1999. Management histories of Sumilon and Apo Marine Reserves, Philippines, and their influence on national marine resource policy. Coral Reefs 18:307-319.

Author's Keywords: conservation, fisheries management, Philippines, marine reserves, community based management, coral reef fisheries, marine policy

ACSC Keywords: fish, recovery, reefs

Stewart, Romola R. and Possingham, Hugh P. 2005. Efficiency, costs and trade-offs in marine reserve system design. Environmental Modeling & Assessment 10:203-213.

Author's Keywords: trade-offs, marine reserves, conservation planning, reserve selection, decision theory, irreplaceability, bioeconomics

ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, conservation, protected areas, fisheries management, networks, selection algorithms, persistence, bioeconomic model, principles

Warner, Gary. 1997. Participatory management, popular knowledge, and community empowerment: The case of sea urchin harvesting in the Vieux-Fort area of St. Lucia. Human Ecology 25:29-46.

Author's Keywords: fisheries management, caribbean, resources, participatory development, co-management, sea urchin, st. lucia

ACSC Keywords: commons, tragedy

Wilson, Douglas Clyde, McCay, Bonnie J., Rowan, Veronica, and Grandin, Barbara. 2002. Institutional differences among marine fisheries scientists' views of their working conditions, discipline, and fisheries management. Fisheries 27:14-24.

ACSC Keywords: fisheries management, perceptions, fisheries scientists, fisheries managers, National Marine Fisheries Service, NMFS