Essays about: "community fisheries"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 16 essays containing the words community fisheries.

  1. 1. The effects of fishing on stability of a food web under climate warming

    University essay from SLU/Dept. Of Aquatic Resources

    Author : Gabriel Nordström; [2023]
    Keywords : fishing; climate change; temperature; predator; consumer; resource; stage-specific; food webs; ontogenetic assymetry; biomass overcompensation; emergent Allee effects; limit cycles;

    Abstract : Predicting the effects of fishing in a warmer environment caused by climate change requires knowledge of what trophic level is fished on, the physiological effects of temperature on fish, and how these two affect ecological interactions. Both temperature and fishing are known to affect the stability of food webs in several ways. READ MORE

  3. 2. Just Sustainability Transitions in the Blue Economy: Towards Blue Justice in Small-Scale Artisanal Fisheries in the Pacific of Costa Rica

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Judith Baeta Humanes; [2022]
    Keywords : blue economy; small-scale artisanal fisheries; just transitions; blue justice; Costa Rica; fieldwork; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The blue economy emerged as sustainable, inclusive and equitable alternative to traditional oceans economy. However, the current paradigm of oceans as development spaces has led to an acceleration of competing uses of marine resources causing ecosystem deterioration and human rights abuses that disproportionately affect vulnerable small-scale fisheries. READ MORE

  4. 3. A fishery at risk and the limits to adaptation : a study of Cambodian Community Fishery organisations’ role in reducing livelihood vulnerability to climate change in their communities

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Hanna Wessling; [2020]
    Keywords : livelihood vulnerability; climate change adaptation; community fisheries; Cambodia;

    Abstract : Cambodia’s small-scale fisheries support the livelihoods of a major part of the country's rural population and play a crucial role in food security. Climate change-related impacts alongside geopolitical changes harm the aquatic ecosystems the fishery depends on, and thus contain a great threat to both food security and rural fishery-based livelihoods in the country. READ MORE

  5. 4. Analyzing the Santa María Bay through the social-ecological system framework : identifying leverage points for sustainability in La Reforma, Sinaloa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Alina Breceda Martos; [2020]
    Keywords : Socio-ecological system; socio-ecological systems framework; Santa María Bay; smallscale fisheries; common-pool resources; leverage points; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Small-scale fisheries are highly important in terms of economic productivity and environmental relevance in Mexico’s Northwest. The Santa María Bay (SMB), in Sinaloa, México, is the largest bay in the state and is highly productive in terms of fishing and the economic activities derived from it. READ MORE

  6. 5. People’s perception of seagrass ecosystems - a Step Zero analysis in establishing marine protection of seagrass around Gotland, Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Sofie Elggren; [2019]
    Keywords : Sustainable development; seagrass; ecosystem services; participation; natural resource management; Step Zero analysis;

    Abstract : The marine environment is under stress. This study will address seagrass around the island of Gotland, Sweden. Seagrass is a marine flowering plant which grows on the seabed and provide a multitude of important ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling, carbon sequestration, erosion mitigation and serve as habitats for primary fisheries. READ MORE