Managing Coastal and Inland Waters - Pre-existing Aquatic Management Systems in Southeast Asia

Besides the erroneous assumption that tropical fisheries are 'open access', the cases demonstrate that pre-existing systems (1) are concerned with the community of fishers and ensuring community harmony and continuity; (2) involve flexible, multiple and overlapping rights adapted to changing needs and circumstances; (3) that fisheries are just one component of a community resource assemblage and depend on both the good management of linked upstream ecosystems and risk management to ensure balanced nutritional resources of the community; and (4) pre-existing systems are greatly affected by a constellation of interacting external pressures.

List of contents

An Introduction to Pre-existing Local Management Systems in Southeast Asia.- Pre-existing Fisheries Management Systems in Indonesia, Focusing on Lombok and Maluku.- Open to All?: Reassessing Capture Fisheries Tenure Systems in Southern Laos.- Seasonal Ritual and the Regulation of Fishing in Batanes Province, Philippines.- Pre-existing Inland Fisheries Management in Thailand: The Case of the Lower Songkhram River Basin.- Vietnam: The van chai System of Social Organization and Fisheries Community Management.- Conclusion: Errors and Insights.

Summary

Besides the erroneous assumption that tropical fisheries are ‘open access’, the cases demonstrate that pre-existing systems (1) are concerned with the community of fishers and ensuring community harmony and continuity; (2) involve flexible, multiple and overlapping rights adapted to changing needs and circumstances; (3) that fisheries are just one component of a community resource assemblage and depend on both the good management of linked upstream ecosystems and risk management to ensure balanced nutritional resources of the community; and (4) pre-existing systems are greatly affected by a constellation of interacting external pressures.

Product details

• Assisted by: Kennet Ruddle (Editor), Kenneth Ruddle (Editor), Satria (Editor), Satria (Editor), Arif Satria (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9789401780605
• ISBN: 978-94-0-178060-5
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 13 mm x 236 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Illustrations: XIV, 188 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; B, fish, Sustainability, Anthropology, Sustainable Development, Social Policy, Wildlife, Social & ethical issues, Environmental Social Sciences, Conservation Biology, Nature Conservation, Political Economy, Conservation of the environment, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Ocean Sciences, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Human Geography