Fisheries and aquaculture make a crucial contribution to global food security, nutrition and
livelihoods. However, the UN Sustainable Development Goals separate marine and …

Individual transferable quota (ITQ) programmes have been incorporated into many marine
fisheries management strategies for 30 years, but their implementation and utility remains …

The relationship between private property and common property has engaged both legal
and economic scholars in a long series of controversies over the meaning, the sequence of …

In fisheries management—as in environmental governance more generally—regulatory
arrangements that are thought to be helpful in some contexts frequently become panaceas …

Individual fishery quotas (IFQs) are an increasingly prevalent form of fishery management
around the world, with more than 170 species currently managed with IFQs. Yet, because of …

Individuals relying on natural resource extraction for their livelihood face high income
variability driven by a mix of environmental, biological, management, and economic factors …

A growing push to implement catch share fishery programs is based partly on the
recognition that they may provide stronger incentives for ecological stewardship than …

In one way or another, all environmental and natural resource problems associated with
overexploitation or under provision of public goods, arise from incompletely defined and …

Resource allocation is a fundamental and challenging component of common pool resource
governance, particularly transboundary fisheries. We highlight the growing importance of …

Summary 1 Methods for assessing habitat sensitivity to human impacts are needed to gauge
the sustainability of existing impacts, develop spatial management plans and support …