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Book SynopsisDuring the last decade, there has been a shift in the governance and management of fisheries to a broader approach that recognizes the participation of fishers, local stewardship, and shared decision-making. Through this process, fishers are empowered to become active members of the management team, balancing rights and responsibilities, and working in partnership with government. This approach is called co-management. This handbook describes the process of community-based co-management from its beginning, through implementation, to turnover to the community. It provides ideas, methods, techniques, activities, checklists, examples, questions and indicators for the planning and implementing of a process of community-based co-management. It focuses on small-scale fisheries (freshwater, floodplain, estuarine, or marine) in developing countries, but is also relevant to small-scale fisheries in developed countries and to the management of other coastal resources (such as coral reefs, mangro
Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: Why This Handbook? 3: What is Community-based Co-management? 4: What is a Process for Community-based Co-management? 5: Who Are You and What is Your Role in Community-based Co-management?Pre-Implementation 6: "Beginnings" or Pre-implementationImplementation 7: Community Entry and Integration 8: Research and Participatory Research 9: Environmental Education, Capacity Development and Social Communication 10: Community Organizing 11: Co-management Plan and Agreement 12: Conflict Management 13: Co-management Plan Implementation Post-Implementation 14: "Turnover" or Post-implementationConclusion 15: Making it Happen!
