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A field-based framework for evaluating sustainable fishing gear in small-scale Plesionika edwardsii fisheries

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science
IntroductionPlastic pollution at sea is a critical global issue, but despite legislative requirements, scant information is available for the ongoing assessment of this threat.
Eleonora Monfardini   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Yemaya, No. 26, November 2007 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Asia/ India - Restricting Lives and Livelihoods. North America/ Mexico - Empowering Agenda?. Africa/ South Africa - Aren’t We Missing Something?. Africa/ Zanzibar - Winning Strategies.

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Handling A New Regulatory Era: The Influence of due Diligence Legislation on the Deliberative Capacity of Multi‐Stakeholder Initiatives

open access: yesBusiness Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In multi‐stakeholder initiatives, actors across sectors develop voluntary standards to guide firms' sustainability efforts. While multi‐stakeholder initiatives have long been a prevalent instrument of sustainability regulation, recently, there has been an uptake of legislation that makes it mandatory for firms to acknowledge sustainability ...
Leona A. Henry, Eva van der Zee
wiley   +1 more source

Analytical Appendix 2: The Challenges of Managing Small Scale Fisheries in West Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This is the Final Technical Report to the DFID regarding The Management of Conflict in Tropical Fisheries project R7334. Ghana's small-scale marine fisheries face considerably less problems and challenges than its neighbours.
E. Bennett
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A more‐than‐human political ecology of Indonesian songbird trade

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Since its inception, conservation science has considered wildlife trade a problem. In focusing on conservation outcomes, conservationists almost completely ignore the welfare of traded animals and plants and the harms they endure. We developed a political ecology approach that incorporates the interconnectedness of people with animals and ...
Sicily Fiennes   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The artisanal elasmobranch fishery of the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico, management implications

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2013
Artisanal fisheries in Mexico account for approximately 40% of the total national catch. In 2009, Baja California Sur (BCS) had the second largest catch of elasmobranchs on the Mexican Pacific coast.
Sergio R. Ramirez-Amaro   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A review of participatory mapping in conservation science and practice

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
There has been a recent increase and diversification in the use of participatory mapping in the field of conservation, however, methodological standards remain both disjointed and confounding. We conducted a comprehensive review of the conservation participatory mapping literature and synthesized geographical, temporal, and topical trends across a ...
Michael B. Kowalski   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The fisheries of Zanzibar: potential for new investments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Zanzibar, one of the poorest areas of sub-Saharan Africa, has a good potential for foreign investment in offshore (EEZ) marine capture fisheries, in aquaculture and in fi sheries infrastructure.
Feidi, I.H.
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Artisan fishing and the fishing company in Óbidos, Pará

open access: yesBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2006
This work is product of the Project "The time of the plant: the disciplinamento of the workers of the fishing industry (Óbidos-Pará): a comparative study", developed in the years of 2002 and 2003 in the municipality of Óbidos, Pará, objectifying to understand the importance of the time in the disciplinamento of the work in the obidense fishing company.
openaire   +1 more source

Roadblocks, Relationality and Resilient Resistance in Post‐coup Myanmar

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following Myanmar's military coup in February 2021, the State Administrative Council (SAC) established checkpoints between towns under its control and rural areas increasingly governed by anti‐junta resistance forces. Here, military personnel command trade and extort from people, inflating the price of consumer goods and agricultural inputs ...
Gerard McCarthy, Kyle Nyana
wiley   +1 more source

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