Fisheries decline, local livelihoods and conflicted governance: An Indonesian case

Livelihoods and Fisheries Governance in a Contemporary Pacific Island Setting

Inshore marine resources play an important role in the livelihoods of Pacific Island coastal communities. However, such reliance can be detrimental to inshore marine ecosystems. Understanding the livelihoods of coastal communities is important for devising relevant and effective fisheries management strategies. Semi-structured household interviews were conducted with householders in Langalanga ...

Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods

Sustainable Livelihoods and an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management

Multilateral Governance of Fisheries: Management and Cooperation in the Western and Central Pacific Tuna Fisheries Short title: Multilateral Governance of Fisheries: The case of WCP tuna

The tuna resources of the Western and Central Pacific are the world's largest and most valuable fisheries of their type and are of significant economic importance to the Pacific island countries through whose waters they migrate. Two major concerns exist with the current governance of the fishery. First, Pacific island countries are receiving only a small share of the resource rents from the tu...

Multilevel embeddedness: The case of the global fisheries governance complex

This paper explores how bilateral and multilateral clustering are embedded in a multilevel system of interdependent networks. We argue that, in a complex system such as global fisheries governance, in which bilateral and multilateral relations are themselves interrelated, embeddedness cannot be reduced to unipartite or bipartite clustering but implicates potential multilevel closure. We elabora...