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Alternatives to conventional management: lessons from small-scale fisheries.


by Berkes, Fikret
Environments • August, 2003 •

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Dr. Berkes, Canada Research Chair in Community-Based Resource Management, works in the area of common-property theory and the interrelations between societies and their resources. He has spent some 25 years studying community-based resource management systems in northern Canada and in developing countries, and researching the conditions under which 'the tragedy of the commons" may be avoided. He can be reached through the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg Manitoba R3T 2N2 or at berkes@cc.umanitoba.ca


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