Tropical fisheries substantially contribute to the well-being of societies in both the tropics
and the extratropics, the latter through 'telecoupling'—linkages between distant human …

Governments and regional agencies of the Pacific Islands are strengthening their
commitment to sustainable oceans management through proactive policies and programs …

A social-ecological system (SES) framework increasingly underpins the “resilience
paradigm.” As with all models, the SES comes with particular biases. We explore these key …

Community-based management and co-management are mainstream approaches to
marine conservation and sustainable resource management. In the tropical Pacific, these …

Understanding how social-ecological systems are and can be resilient to climate change is
one of the world's most crucial problems today. It requires knowledge at local and global …

Food from the sea can make a larger contribution to healthy and sustainable diets, and to
addressing hunger and malnutrition, through improvements in production, distribution and …

Adaptive management of natural resources is an iterative process of decision making
whereby management strategies are progressively changed or adjusted in response to new …

This study assessed how the closed fishing season policy that was implemented in Davao
Gulf through the joint administrative order (JAO-2014 series 02) of the Department of …

This article explores the concept of “other effective area-based conservation
measures”(OECMs) in the context of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Aichi …

In this paper, we examine the role of gender in community-based management of marine
protected areas (MPAs) in the Central Philippines. MPAs are a common conservation and …