Managing Coastal and Inland Waters Pre-existing Aquatic Management Systems in Southeast Asia /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ruddle, Kenneth (Editor), Satria, Arif (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Wildlife.; Fish.; Nature conservation.; Sustainable development.; Social policy.; Anthropology.; Human geography.; Life Sciences.; Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management.; Human Geography.; Social Policy.; Sustainable Development.; Nature Conservation.

This book examines pre-existing management systems in fishing communities in Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam. Besides the erroneous assumption that tropical fisheries are ‘open access’, the cases demonstrate that pre-existing systems (1) are concerned with the community of fis...

Table of Contents:

• An Introduction to Pre-existing Local Management Systems in Southeast Asia
• Pre-existing Fisheries Management Systems in Indonesia, Focusing on Lombok and Maluku
• Open to All?: Reassessing Capture Fisheries Tenure Systems in Southern Laos
• Seasonal Ritual and the Regulation of Fishing in Batanes Province, Philippines
• Pre-existing Inland Fisheries Management in Thailand: The Case of the Lower Songkhram River Basin
• Vietnam: The van chai System of Social Organization and Fisheries Community Management
• Conclusion: Errors and Insights.