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Sustainable Fishery Systems, 2nd Edition

Hillary Web Designer — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:49:31 +0000

Sustainable Fishery Systems

“Sustainable Fishery Systems (2nd edition)” written by Dr. Anthony Charles is an interdisciplinary guide to managing fisheries for sustainability, through an understanding of fisheries using a systems approach – one that includes both natural and human elements, and their many interactions. The book is based on a recognition that all fisheries are filled with complexity and uncertainty, so making the right management decisions for sustainability, resilience and long-term well-being requires assembling a diverse range of fishery knowledge.

Sustainable Fishery Systems explores the structure of fishery systems, and discusses issues of conflict, collapse and conservation, as well as fishery connections with climate change, protected areas, aquatic ecosystems and multi-sectoral management. The book places an emphasis on the role of fishing communities and Indigenous communities, and how they use diverse knowledge sources to pursue conservation, both on land and in marine environments.

Sustainable Fishery Systems is aimed at audiences ranging from government agencies, fisher organizations and fisheries managers to universities, colleges and research institutions.

“[This second edition], which builds on an extensive body of earlier research and writings, is thus a ‘must have’ for every self-respecting fisheries library or office, a textbook to be regularly consulted. In its breadth of approach and target audience, it spreads the net wider than is frequently done.”

– Maarten Bavinck, Maritime Studies (2024)

Inside the Book:

Author's Introduction

Table of Contents & Guide to the Book

Key Links (in new tabs):

Publisher's Website

Community Conservation Research Network

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Hillary Web Designer — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:54:20 +0000

MOTHER OCEAN “What’s your relationship with the ocean?” – Voices from Okinawan Coral Reef Island

Hillary Web Designer — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 20:10:24 +0000

This short movie was produced to communicate scientific findings that describe the plurality of human-ocean relationships and their associated values on Yaeyama islands, Okinawa, Japan. Through a collaboration with local people, marine scientists and other various creators (manga artists, musicians, designers, cinematographers, etc.), this movie vividly conveys the “real bountifulness of mother ocean”. Our hope is to increase public awareness of the urgent need for coral reef conservation as climate change unfolds, which should also encourage relevant policy changes.

今回制作したショートムービーは、お金に換算できない「海の価値」を、出演してくださった14人のみなさん、そして調査に協力してくださったのべ200人の八重山の地域住民の皆さん自身の声をもとに科学的に実証し、クリエイターたちとの協働により表現したものです。研究成果をより広く伝えるため、マンガ『海獣の子供』（2019年にアニメーション映画化）の作者・五十嵐大介氏に、ご本人曰く ”心の故郷” でもある八重山諸島の伝統行事や風景、生き物などのスケッチを描いていただき、ムービーの中に散りばめました。サンゴ礁の海と世代を越えて寄り添ってきた八重山の皆さんの想いを伝えるこのムービーが、かけがえのないサンゴ礁の海を守るムーブメントにつながっていくことを願っています。そして私たち研究者も、この研究をふまえての政策提言はもちろん、志を同じくする世界中の研究者たち、そして海と暮らす人々とともに、世界に向けた発信を続けていきます。作画：五十嵐大介／音楽：武徹太郎／アニメーション制作：エレファントストーン ◆水産研究・教育機構　水産資源研究所 https://www2.fra.go.jp/xq/851-2/

Introducing the Community Conservation Research Network

Hillary Web Designer — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:42:22 +0000

The Community Conservation Research Network (CCRN) is an international initiative to understand and support the links between communities, conservation and livelihoods, and to seek out best governance practices to support the combination of community-based conservation and sustainable livelihoods.

The CCRN is a partnership of indigenous, community, university, governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The CCRN undertakes local-level community-based research and capacity building activities at our sites around the world, and works globally (notably through this website) to provide a focal point on the crucial themes of Communities, Conservation and Livelihoods. The CCRN’s research, which applies a consistent social-ecological systems lens, is producing a range of insights – on such themes as regional and community environmental governance, indigenous self-governance, local networking and the success of conservation initiatives – that will yield important lessons for communities, policy makers and decision makers at all levels, from local to global.

Network Director Dr. Anthony Charles discusses the CCRN’s central conceptual themes communities, conservation and livelihoods

Community-based responses to climate hazards: typology and global analysis

Hillary Web Designer — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:00:05 +0000

Abstract

Barbara Paterson & Anthony Charles

The severity and frequency of climate change hazards are increasing around the world. Because the impacts are most acutely felt in local communities, it is critical to improve understanding of the response options that are available for and being chosen by communities. We conducted a mixed methods analysis of case studies reporting community-based responses to climate change hazards. Based on content analysis of published case studies, we generated an emergent evidence-based typology of such responses according to their nature and goals. Using this typology, we quantitatively analysed more than 1500 response examples and determined the patterns with which community-level climate change adaptation and disaster mitigation strategies vary across world regions and across economic and governance conditions. Specifically, diversity of responses is lower in developing countries, and implementation of local-level policy and planning responses is less frequent in countries characterised by low governance quality. Our results confirm that, although there is much that local communities can do to respond to the challenges of climate change, there is also a need for increased support of local activities. By synthesising data from many local studies, our research provides a first global evidence base for local-level climate change adaptation policy.

Paterson & Charles 2019 Community-based Responses to Climate – click image to download PDF.

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Power and Politics in Community Conservation

Hillary Web Designer — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 21:49:43 +0000

Issues of power and politics are at the heart of community conservation which in turn influences its ultimate success and failure. Power is central to understanding processes and structures associated with resource and environmental conservation. This may be particularly important in the case of community conservation which is widespread throughout the world. Despite its importance, there remains limited empirical attention to the actual workings of power in environmental settings, and particularly with regards to conditions determining the success and failure of community conservation (i.e. lack of attention to the complex and dynamic economic, social, historical, cultural and political conditions). A limited attention to empirical analysis of power is also apparent in fisheries and coastal management. For example, power is considered an understated and understudied issue in coastal and fisheries management, and there is in reality little discussion on what it means and how it manifests. Drawing from these insights, I will focus on power and politics as they relate to community conservation with specific reference to the strategies and tactics used by various actors either to grab power or ways in which communities in conservation respond to forces causing disempowerment. I plan to provide some initial insights on possible methods and tools used by the community conservation groups to realize their rights, deal with injustices, and gain power to further livelihood and conservation objectives. My reflections in this webinar be largely based on the contents of a paper on which several CCRN members are currently working.

Balancing social justice and conservation concerns in an era of expanded protected area targets

Hillary Web Designer — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:48:08 +0000

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are increasingly recognised across the world as an important strategy for protecting marine resources, conserving biodiversity, rebuilding threatened fish stocks and restoring degraded habitats. The value of MPAs has been discussed at various global gatherings such as the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 and the Fifth World Parks Congress in Durban in South Africa in 2003, as well as various Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meetings. Furthermore, several conservation and fisheries development agencies have also called for action to speed up the process of marine protection and have encouraged governments to establish MPAs and MPA networks. Various conventions, protocols and agreements, all recognise the importance of the conservation of coastal and marine resources and areas, but they also highlight the need to take account of the socio-economic and cultural rights and interests of local communities living in and adjacent to such areas. Governments are faced with calls to expand MPAs and establish a representative network of MPAs but also to address the potential impacts of MPA’s, on rights, livelihoods and social wellbeing of coastal communities. This webinar explores the tensions between efforts to manage existing and extend protected areas and requirements to respect rights and livelihoods of local communities living in and adjacent to such areas. It draws on cases from South Africa to illustrate some of the tensions and challenges on the ground and explores possible shifts – in thinking, values and approaches – required to move towards an approach to marine conservation that embraces social justice principles.

International Environmental Law in the Context of Communities, Conflict, Conservation and Peace by Britta Sjöstedt and Elaine Hsiao

Hillary Web Designer — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:47:14 +0000

Nature conservation and protected areas have had a complex history with violence, conflict and peace. The advent of fortress model conservation created a legacy of disenfranchisement, coercion and human rights abuses, while wildlife wars are creating a new trend towards armament in the call to save endangered species. International environmental law has sought to support sustainable development and international cooperation through protected areas and conservation and may also have an important role in cultivating peace in war-torn States. However, the impact of applying international environmental law on the lives and livelihoods of local communities is not always straightforward. In fact, it can lead to militarization of protected areas involving strategies that drive local communities out. Thus, conservation activities may even destabilise peacebuilding processes.

Britta Sjöstedt’s presentation will focus on the World Heritage Convention and its application to World Heritage Sites during and after armed conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Elaine Hsiao further explores this and other issues around conservation and conflict focusing on transboundary protected areas of the Greater Virunga Landscape between DRC, Rwanda and Uganda and the Kidepo Landscape between South Sudan and Uganda. Together, in this webinar by Britta Sjöstedt and Elaine Hsiao, we have an opportunity to look at the community dimensions of conflict and conservation in protected areas and to discuss opportunities for conflict transformation and ecological peacebuilding.

The significance of arts in community conservation: Lessons from Inuit art by Kaitlyn Rathwell

Hillary Web Designer — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 21:45:51 +0000

Inuit art reflects a cultural response to shifting sea ice and climate change. The Inuit people are tightly linked to ecological systems that include both land and sea. Vital as they are to community well-being, both land and sea ice are changing rapidly due to global climate change. Conservation efforts see the importance of both the unique arctic sea ice and tundra as ecological systems, and the important ecological knowledge carried for millennia by the indigenous people of Canada’s north. In this webinar, I present recent research that links Inuit art with community conservation and resilience. I unpack how different artistic practices, and art objects, can make significant contributions to conservation practice in these communities. Art making occurs both individually and collaboratively in Inuit communities. Art objects can travel between social worlds to influence governance and policy outcomes beyond the community of production. Inuit artists intentionally embed their traditional and ecological knowledge into their works. In this way, art functions as storage and maintenance of knowledge, and as mechanisms for social cohesion by connecting this knowledge amongst generations. When used strategically, art and artistic processes can contribute to conservation policy and practice by generating novel insights about places, and by revealing community outlook and priorities.

Indigenous Engagement in Conservation by Larry McDermott

Hillary Web Designer — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 21:44:27 +0000

What are the fundamental principles of engagement of First Nations governments, organizations and peoples in community conservation, land use and resource management issues? How can these principles, such as respect, guide process and action?

This talk will cover these questions, as well as what reconciliation means in this context. Much has been written about the importance of reconciling Traditional Knowledge with Western Natural and Social Sciences. How to reconcile the natural world with cross-cultural capacity development for equitable and sustainable conservation and livelihoods outcomes, however, is less clear. Connected people leads to healthy communities – so what needs to happen for true reconciliation to occur?