کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
1054684 946850 2011 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Testing resilience thinking in a poverty context: Experience from the Niger River basin
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم محیط زیست علوم زیست محیطی (عمومی)
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Testing resilience thinking in a poverty context: Experience from the Niger River basin
چکیده انگلیسی

Resilience thinking is an important addition to the range of frameworks and approaches that can be used to understand and manage complex social–ecological systems like small-scale fisheries. However, it is yet to lead to better environmental or development outcomes for fisheries stakeholders in terms of food security, improved livelihoods and ecological sustainability. This paper takes an empirical approach by focusing on the fundamentals of resilience thinking to evaluate its usefulness in developing relevant management interventions in small-scale fisheries in the Niger River Basin in West Africa. The paper presents the outputs of a participatory assessment exercise where both fishery communities and local experts were involved at two different scales. The resilience frame used was designed to facilitate the identification of socially defined thresholds that help delineate the desirability of the current system configuration and provides a diagnosis framework that tailors management solutions to problems in local context. The analysis highlights some key contributions from resilience thinking to the challenge of diagnosis in small-scale fisheries management in developing countries, as well as important contributions that emerge from taking a pragmatic and critical approach to its application.


► Resilience is conceptually complex and its operationalization remains difficult.
► We operationalizes resilience thinking in the context of rural poverty in Africa.
► The approach provides a useful framework to tailor solutions to specific problems.
► The importance of combining human agency and system perspectives is highlighted.
► Legitimate processes of decision-making for resilience in practice is also emphazised.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Global Environmental Change - Volume 21, Issue 4, October 2011, Pages 1173–1184
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