Browsing by Author "Rodriguez, Vanessa"

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Community Management of Fishing at Scale: A View From Inside and Outside the Pachitea River Basin, Peru
(2010) Rodriguez, Vanessa; Collado, L.; Soria, Carlos
"At a superficial look, the Pachitea river basin gives the impression of being a space 'without' fisheries 'management' (absence of authority, uncertainty, exclusion). Nevertheless, following this general overview, we have observed the presence of institutional arrangements and various community management initiatives that reflect a 'local order for fishing.' This article analyzes the form and the options that such 'local order' has to become a co-management initiative in the river basin. To this end, we have cases located in different scales: low, medium and high areas; the same which have differentiated social and cultural composition and have different management needs (subsistence, commercial, sport and ornamental fishing) from which we explore various fishing management strategies. Without doubt, the decentralization process started years ago in Peru represents to the inhabitants as well as to their local and regional authorities a great challenge for the management of fisheries resources, but also provides a range of opportunities to be exploited to improve the management of fishery resources in the Amazonian area. These are the strategies that are constructed and reconstructed for each case, those that occur in each one of these areas of complex and dynamic socio environment."
Law, Public Policy and Customary Use of Fisheries in the Peruvian Amazon Relationships between the Legal System and the Customary Framework in the Pichis River, Peruvian Amazon
(2008) Soia, Carlos; Pinedo, Danny; Rodriguez, Vanessa
From p. 2-3: "Our aim is to understand the legal and customary framework in which the local subsistence fisheries take place in order to contribute with proposals for a sound environmental management of this activity. Our main questions are: 1. How specific norms at the local level are contributing to reduce conflict in the access to fisheries. 2. What are the implications of these norms for governance and for the development and reform of resource use practices? 3. What local and regional, political economic and discursive conditions explain the emergence of governance around fisheries management? 4. How decentralization can contribute to strengthen governance emerging from the grassroots?"
Manejo De Pesquerias Comunales en el Rio Pachitea: Los Desafíos Legales e Institucionales para el Manejo Sostenible en la Amazonia
(2006) Soria, Carlos; Pinedo, Danny; Rodriguez, Vanessa
"La visibilidad o no de estos conflictos también tiene un impacto sobre el marco estructural de políticas e instituciones que operan en estas áreas regulando dichas actividades. Así en los últimos años en el Perú se han dictado normas que favorecen el acceso de pequeños usuarios a los títulos maderero y minero. Mientras que el tema pesquero no ha sido aun trabajado en términos de políticas ambientales que permitan garantizar un manejo comunitario de recursos pesqueros. Esta investigación intenta entrar a analizar los conflictos derivados del manejo comunitario de pesquerías en la Selva Central Peruana. Esta investigación intenta hacer una caracterización de las demandas sobre los recursos pesqueros y la viabilidad de un régimen de manejo comunitario o la eventual necesidad de regimenes mixtos que garanticen la coexistencia de múltiples modalidades de manejo."
Socio Cultural Diversity and Ecological Changes, Complex Scenery for Community Management of Fishery in the Peruvian Amazonian
(2010) Collado, L.; Rodriguez, Vanessa; Treneman, A.
"The management of the fisheries resource in the Amazonian area is an important concern for its inhabitants. Efforts have been made to mitigate the over exploitation of this resource, the improper practices, control of illegal fishing and to improve the relationship among the fishermen, the traders, and the subsistence fishermen. As an outcome of the interventions it has been possible to have some relevant solutions but in some cases the problems are still unsolved. There are also ecological factors that increase the complexity, such as the changes in the river flow, the dry lagoons and deforestation of the riversides. One issue in the Amazonian area is its high socio-cultural diversity among 42 indigenous peoples grouped in 13 linguistic families living together also with human settlements of migrants usually known as mestizos, each group of indigenous people has its own cosmos visions, skills and they use in a different way their natural resources with different transcultural levels. Also, the national government has issued rules and policies with regard to fishing, oriented mainly to sea fishery, and has left aside the importance of subsistence fishing and there are inconsistencies with regard to the commercial fishing and the conservation of the Amazonian fisheries resources. This complex issue give way to the need for the institutional learning to be adapted to political reforms that may speed up decentralization as a key process for the strengthening of experiences that may allow to create participatory and inclusive governance for the management of fishery according to the condition and dynamics of the aquatic ecosystem by areas and communities taking into account the socio cultural features of the Amazonian people."