The blessing of the commons: Small-scale fisheries, community property rights and coastal natural assets

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The blessing of the commons: Small-scale fisheries, community property rights and coastal natural assets

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John Kurien (Centre for Development Studies)

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The first part of this paper describes the nature of the oceans and human use of the living natural assets therein. It discusses the technology and institutional arrangements through which coastal communities interacted with these living resources, and the political economy of the movement from small-scale to large-scale fishing operations and from community rights to open access. The second part of the paper examines the potential of natural asset-building strategies. This draws upon examples from the Asia-Pacific region to highlight how small-scale, community-based fishing is both ecologically and economically suited to make a blessing of the coastal commons that will simultaneously ensure sustainable natural resource use and community well-being.

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Paper provided by Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum, India in its series Centre for Development Studies, Trivendrum Working Papers with number 349.

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Length: 56 pages
Date of creation: Aug 2003
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Handle: RePEc:ind:cdswpp:349

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Q22 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Fishery
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James Boyce, 2001. "From Natural Resources to Natural Assets," Published Studies ps13, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. [Downloadable!]
Ruddle, K. & Hviding, E. & Johannes, R. E., 1992. "Marine Resources Management in the Context of Customary Tenure," Marine Resource Economics, Marine Resources Foundation, vol. 7(4). [Downloadable!]

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