State and Community in Fisheries Management: Power, Policy, and Practice

by E. Paul Durrenberger, Thomas King

Overview

Those who are involved with fishing and fisheries resource management—including fishermen, their communities, production, processing, distribution, and marketing industries, and various government and non-governmental organizations—confront the contradictions arising from the appropriation, allocation, and distribution of fisheries and marine resources in a variety of ways.

The authors call into question the assumptions of policy prescriptions to common resource problems by examining the experiences of people and societies confronted with and adapting to these resource appropriation, allocation, and distribution problems. They suggest that tragedies of resource depletion and institutional failure to deal with them are not characteristic of human nature, but rather are by products of particular cultural practices, institutions, and assumptions. The detailed, empirical ethnographic study of these relationships holds great potential for informing those who are making future policy decisions as well as contributing to the theories of human behavior and cooperation to solve such problems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897897068
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/2000
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

E. PAUL DURRENBERGER is Professor of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University.

THOMAS D. KING is pursuing his doctorate in anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Folk Management
State and Centralized Management
Co-Management
Bibliography

Editorial Reviews

Studies on fisheries management, from decentralized systems of folk management to highly centralized trans-state bureaucratic systems that encompass continental waters, bring ethnographic detail to bear on practical questions of management. Part I presents cases of folk management from the Philippines, Mexico, and Belize; and Part II offers examples of state management from Thailand, the EU, and Africa. Part III discusses co-management, with examples from Maine, Florida, and British Columbia. Durrenberger teaches anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University; King is a researcher and student there. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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