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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.003
	A sea change on the African coast? Preliminary social and ecological outcomes of a governance transformation in Kenyan fisheries
	Cinner J.E.; McClanahan T.R.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	30
英文摘要	We examined social and ecological outcomes over a period of transformational change in the governance of Kenyan fisheries. Devolving decision-making power to local communities initially promoted a perception of winners and losers among resource users, but after just 6 years, there were virtually no resource users who felt that the new governance arrangement was detrimental to their livelihood. The current lack of negative perceptions toward co-management provides a critical window of opportunity to strengthen local governance institutions by investing in leadership capacity, transparency, and enforcement. This newly acquired authority to capture the benefits from local management resulted in an unexpected proliferation of community-based marine reserves - a substantial change to the anti-reserve discourse that halted the government's most recent attempt to establish a national marine reserve. Several community-based reserves showed increases in fish biomass and coral cover, while others did not and likely suffered from poor compliance and weak management. Despite some seemingly positive early social and ecological outcomes, co-management should not be viewed as a panacea to Kenya's fisheries challenges, but rather as one of many tools for improving the chances of achieving social-ecological sustainability. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Co-management; Decentralization; Fisheries; Social-ecological systems
学科领域	comanagement; decentralization; fishery; local government; marine park; perception; sea level change; sustainability; Kenya; Anthozoa
语种	英语
scopus关键词	comanagement; decentralization; fishery; local government; marine park; perception; sea level change; sustainability; Kenya; Anthozoa
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117567
作者单位	Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia; Wildlife Conservation Society, Bronx, NY 10460-1099, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Cinner J.E.,McClanahan T.R.. A sea change on the African coast? Preliminary social and ecological outcomes of a governance transformation in Kenyan fisheries[J],2015,30.
APA	Cinner J.E.,&McClanahan T.R..(2015).A sea change on the African coast? Preliminary social and ecological outcomes of a governance transformation in Kenyan fisheries.Global Environmental Change,30.
MLA	Cinner J.E.,et al."A sea change on the African coast? Preliminary social and ecological outcomes of a governance transformation in Kenyan fisheries".Global Environmental Change 30(2015).