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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 1366-1380Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.08.001
Keywords
Benthic small-scale fisheries; Social-ecological system (SES) framework; Mexico; Chile; Human dimensions
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- FORMAS through the program Human Cooperation to Manage Natural Resources (COMMONS)
- US National Science Foundation
- Christensen Fund
- Duke University
- Directorate For Geosciences [1114964] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Ostrom proposed the underpinnings of a framework for the systematic study of the governance of complex social-ecological systems. Here we hypothesize that Ostrom's social-ecological system framework can be useful to build a classification system for small-scale benthic fisheries, regarding their governance processes and outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to knowledge accumulation of benthic fisheries. To tailor the framework, we relied on discussions among experts and a systematic literature review of benthic fisheries from 1980 to 2010. This literature review helped us refine variable definitions and provide readers with illustrative reference papers. We then illustrate the approach and its potential contributions through two studies of the emergence of self-organization in Mexico and Chile. We highlight synthetic lessons from the cases and the overall approach as well as reflect on remaining challenges to the development of a social-ecological system framework as a diagnostic tool for knowledge accumulation and synthesis. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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