Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Series Foreword
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reflections on Transdisciplinarity, Integrated Coastal Development, and Governance
- 3 Biodiversity and the Natural Resource Management of Coral Reefs in Southeast Asia
- 4 A Concerted Approach towards Managing Living Resources in a Marine Protected Area
- 5 ‘Making Do’: Integrating Ecological and Societal Considerations for Marine Conservation in a Situation of Indigenous Resource Tenure
- 6 Basic Principles Underlying Research Projects on the Links between the Ecology and the Uses of Coral Reef Fishes in the Pacific
- 7 The Marine Implementation of the EC Birds and Habitats Directives: the Cases of Shipping and Oil Exploration Compared
- 8 Stakeholder Conflicts and Solutions across Political Scales: the Ibiraquera Lagoon, Brazil
- 9 ‘The Rich Eat Fish and the Poor Eat Pork’: The Decline of the Livelihoods of Handpickers of Aquatic Organisms in North Vietnam
- Index
- List of Contributors
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2021
- Frontmatter
- Series Foreword
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Reflections on Transdisciplinarity, Integrated Coastal Development, and Governance
- 3 Biodiversity and the Natural Resource Management of Coral Reefs in Southeast Asia
- 4 A Concerted Approach towards Managing Living Resources in a Marine Protected Area
- 5 ‘Making Do’: Integrating Ecological and Societal Considerations for Marine Conservation in a Situation of Indigenous Resource Tenure
- 6 Basic Principles Underlying Research Projects on the Links between the Ecology and the Uses of Coral Reef Fishes in the Pacific
- 7 The Marine Implementation of the EC Birds and Habitats Directives: the Cases of Shipping and Oil Exploration Compared
- 8 Stakeholder Conflicts and Solutions across Political Scales: the Ibiraquera Lagoon, Brazil
- 9 ‘The Rich Eat Fish and the Poor Eat Pork’: The Decline of the Livelihoods of Handpickers of Aquatic Organisms in North Vietnam
- Index
- List of Contributors
Summary
This book is the first volume of the new MARE Publication Series. It brings together several papers showing different disciplinary perspectives on the complex and dynamic interface between people and the sea. People and the Sea was the title of the first International Conference organised by the newly established Netherlands Centre for Maritime Research. MARE was formally established in 2000 upon the initiative of social scientists at the University of Amsterdam, who were mostly involved in fisheries research in Europe and in Asia. During the first three years of its existence MARE has rapidly expanded both in scope and in size in close collaboration with the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Sociology and the Department of Human Geography of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), SISWO/Netherlands Institute of the Social Sciences, and the Chairgroup of Rural Development Sociology of Wageningen University (WUR). It now includes Ph.D. research and advisory research on marine anthropology and integrated coastal development topics ranging from sustainable fisheries and co-management issues to the transnationalisation of artisanal fisheries and the complex realities of marine park management in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The three-day conference People and the Sea was held in Amsterdam from August 30 to September 1, 2001. It was opened by the Netherlands State Secretary of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, and hosted a total number of 165 scientists who presented their work in many parallel sessions. Although MARE primarily consists of social scientists, research and training activities are often undertaken in a transdisciplinary context. The importance of transdisciplinary research was underlined by the organisation of two panels on the topic during this first international conference of 2001.
Why have the coastal zone and marine resources been recently receiving attention? Three parallel developments seem to be taking place at different scales and time perspectives. Changes in the biosphere and sea level rise, the increased economic valuation of marine resources, and demographic transformations in the coastal zone are processes that to a large extent run parallel to each other. But in the present-day political-economic discourse they often reinforce each other, and potential sea level rise becomes a perceived risk that needs to be controlled.
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- Challenging CoastsTransdisciplinary Excursions into Integrated Coastal Zone Development, pp. 11 - 22Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2004