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Fishing strategy diversification and fishers' ecological dependency

Yletyinen, J., J. Hentati-Sundberg, T. Blenckner, and Ö. Bodin

2018 - Journal / article

 Sustainable fisheries management plays a critical role in supporting healthy marine ecosystems and the livelihoods of millions of people. An emerging view on fisheries management emphasizes the need to manage fisheries as complex social-ecological systems. Yet, our understanding of the outcomes of fisheries management from a social-ecological perspective is limited in comparison to that provided by either the biophysical or t...

Untangling the drivers of community cohesion in small-scale fisheries

Alexander, S.M., Bodin, Ö. & Barnes, M.L.

2018 - Journal / article

 Sustainable fisheries require strong management and effective governance. However, small-scale fisheries (SFF) often lack formal institutions, leaving management in the hands of local users in the form of various governance approaches (e.g., local, traditional, or co-management). The effectiveness of these approaches inherently relies upon some level of cohesion among resource users to facilitate agreement on common policies ...

Participation in planning and social networks increase social monitoring in community-based conservation

Alexander, S., M., Epstein, G., Bodin, Ö., Armitage, D., Campbell, D.

2018 - Journal / article

Biodiversity conservation is often limited by inadequate investments in monitoring and enforcement. However, monitoring and enforcement problems may be overcome by encouraging resource users to develop, endorse, and subsequently enforce conservation regulations. In this article, we draw upon the literature on common-pool resources and social networks to assess the impacts of participation and network ties on the decisions of ...

Social Networks: Uncovering Social–Ecological (Mis)matches in Heterogeneous Marine Landscapes

Bodin Ö., B.I. Crona

2017 - Book chapter

Ecological and socioeconomic processes often operate over different spatial and temporal scales. This can lead to increased risks of resource misuse and overexploitation if management is not well aligned with ecological processes operating in the landscape. One important way to ensure better alignment of social and ecological processes is through improved communication among relevant stakeholders operating at different scales ...