Substantial efforts and investments are being made to increase the scale and improve the
effectiveness of marine conservation globally. Though it is mandated by international law …

There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in
conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet …

The term “ocean grabbing” has been used to describe actions, policies or initiatives that
deprive small-scale fishers of resources, dispossess vulnerable populations of coastal …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have the potential to conserve marine resources as well as
provide social and economic benefits to local communities. Yet the percentage of MPAs that …

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

People across the world have diverse economic, sociolegal, institutional, social and cultural
relationships with the ocean—both its littoral zones and the open sea spaces through which …

Small-scale fisheries make key contributions to food security, sustainable livelihoods and
poverty reduction, yet to date the economic value of small-scale fisheries has been poorly …

In the Western Indian Ocean (WIO), local communities are increasingly assuming
responsibility for inshore marine resources either on their own or through collaborative …

We present demographic, social, historical and ecological data to challenge the
generalization that traditional tenure and fishing taboos constitute cultural adaptations that …

Spatial marine closures are widely employed and advocated for marine resource
management and conservation. Temporal, non-permanent, rotational or periodically …