Coastal and fisheries co-management research
In South Africa, new policies and
legislation have been introduced to manage coastal and fisheries
resources and alternate approaches to governance are being sought. At
policy level, attempts have been made to move away from a top-down
authoritarian models of management to those that foster participation
co-operation and joint responsibility for national resource
management. However, the challenge is to put policy into
practice.
This research is aimed at enhancing our understanding of the
bio-physical and socio-economic conditions, contributing factors,
institutional arrangements and strategies for successful implementation
of coastal and fisheries co-management in order to contribute to
academic debates, influence policy and contribute to practical
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Key objectives
Key objectives of this research
include:
- Comparative analyses of co-management arrangements in other
developing countries with similar resources and/or social
conditions;
- Clarification of the policy, legal and institutional framework
supportive of co-management arrangements for coastal and fisheries
resources in South Africa;
- Identification of key conditions that inhibit or facilitate
co-management arrangements in South Africa;
- Assessment and analysis of fisheries compliance and the impact of
co-management on levels of compliance;
- Development and application of research methodologies and
experimental techniques that facilitate a co-management system and
include the participation of resource users and authorities;
- Development of a monitoring and evaluation framework to effectively
assess and analyse the impacts and outcomes of co-management
arrangements;
- Development of a user-friendly manual to outline a step-by-step
process for implementing and facilitating co-management arrangements in
South Africa.
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Publications and Reports
- Hauck, M. and M. Sowman (eds). 2003. Waves of Change: Coastal and
Fisheries Co-management in South Africa. UCT Press, Cape Town.
- Hauck, M. and M. Sowman. 2003. Introduction. In: M. Hauck and M.
Sowman (eds), Waves of Change: Coastal and Fisheries Co-management in
South Africa, pp. 1-12. UCT Press, Cape Town.
- Hauck, M. and M. Sowman. 2003. Co-management of Coastal and
Fisheries Resources in South Africa: Policy and Legislative Framework.
In: M. Hauck and M. Sowman (eds), Waves of Change: Coastal and
Fisheries Co-management in South Africa, pp. 37-60. UCT Press, Cape
Town.
- Hauck, M. & R. Hector. 2003. Towards abalone and rock lobster
co-management in the Hangklip-Kleinmond Area. In: M. Hauck and M.
Sowman, Waves of Change: Coastal and Fisheries Co-management in South
Africa, pp. 247-268. University of Cape Town Press: Cape Town.
- Sowman, M. 2003. Co-management of the Olifants River Harder
Fishery. In: M. Hauck and M. Sowman (eds), Waves of Change: Coastal and
Fisheries Co-management in South Africa, pp. 269-298. UCT Press, Cape
Town.
- Sowman, M., Hauck, M. and G. Branch. 2003. An Analysis of Coastal
and Fisheries Co-management in South Africa: Lessons Learned from Nine
Case Studies. In: M. Hauck and M. Sowman (eds), Waves of Change:
Coastal and Fisheries Co-management in South Africa, pp. 299-340. UCT
Press, Cape Town.
- Hauck, M., Sowman, M., Clark, B., Russell, E., Harris, J. M.,
Venter, A., Beaumont, J. and Z. Maseko. 2002. Perceptions of
subsistence and informal fishers in South Africa regarding the
management of living marine resources. S. Afr. J. mar. Sci. 24:
463-474.
- Hauck, M. & Sowman, M. 2001. Coastal and Fisheries
Co-Management in South Africa: An Overview and Analysis. Marine Policy
25: 173-185.
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Key Collaborators
Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (University of the Western
Cape):
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IFM: Insitute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community
Development
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World Fish Center:
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Fisheries Co-management: a worldwide, collaborative research project
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Waves of Change
Waves of Change: Fisheries
Co-management in South Africa (Maria Hauck and Merle Sowman editors)
2003, UCT Press
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