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Management Anarchy in Complex Commons: A Study of Cochin Lagoon Fisheries in Kerala, India

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dc.contributor.author Kaleekal, Thomson en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:38:40Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:38:40Z
dc.date.issued 2008 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-11-12 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2008-11-12 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/1674
dc.description.abstract "The development of international markets and failure of local communities to manage fisheries have been a major policy concern. Communitarian institutions that regulated access to fishing grounds and ensured a fair distribution of resources weakened. The response to this move within community was diverse. Individual fishermen violated traditional resource sharing customs and practices and resorted to illegal fishing in an attempt to sustain livelihoods. The State on the other hand strategically refrained from enforcing regulations which further fastened resource degradation and livelihood vulnerabilities. Hence the management anarchy that prevails in the lagoon fishery today is the product of both state and community failures. This paper focuses on the reasons for the community and state failures in the management of traditional fisheries in Cochin lagoon and analyses the livelihoods strategies adopted by local communities. The paper argues that the anarchy in lagoon fisheries prevents immediate solutions to resource degradation and livelihood vulnerabilities." en_US
dc.subject complex systems en_US
dc.subject resource management en_US
dc.subject fisheries en_US
dc.subject governance and politics en_US
dc.subject livelihoods en_US
dc.subject lagoons en_US
dc.subject IASC en_US
dc.title Management Anarchy in Complex Commons: A Study of Cochin Lagoon Fisheries in Kerala, India en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en_US
dc.type.published unpublished en_US
dc.coverage.region Middle East & South Asia en_US
dc.coverage.country India en_US
dc.subject.sector Fisheries en_US
dc.identifier.citationconference Governing Shared Resources: Connecting Local Experience to Global Challenges, the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Commons en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfdates July 14-18, 2008 en_US
dc.identifier.citationconfloc Cheltenham, England en_US


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