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Integrating indigenous livelihood and lifestyle objectives in managing a natural resource
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-19, 08:07 authored by Plaganyia, EE, Elizabeth Van PuttenElizabeth Van Putten, Hutton, T, Deng, RA, Dennis, D, Pascoe, S, Skewes, T, Campbell, RAEvaluating the success of natural resource management approaches requires methods to measure performance against biological, economic, social, and governance objectives. In fisheries, most research has focused on industrial sectors, with the contributions to global resource use by small-scale and indigenous hunters and fishers undervalued. Globally, the small-scale fisheries sector alone employs some 38 million people who share common challenges in balancing livelihood and lifestyle choices.We used as a case study a fishery with both traditional indigenous and commercial sectors to develop a framework to bridge the gap between quantitative bio-economic models and more qualitative social analyses. For many indigenous communities, communalism rather than capitalism underlies fishers' perspectives and aspirations, and we find there are complicated and often unanticipated trade-offs between economic and social objectives. Our results highlight that market-based management options might score highly in a capitalistic society, but have negative repercussions on community coherence and equity in societies with a strong communal ethic. There are complex trade-offs between economic indicators, such as profit, and social indicators, such as lifestyle preferences. Our approach makes explicit the "triple bottom line" sustainability objectives involving trade-offs between economic, social, and biological performance, and is thus directly applicable to most natural resource management decision-making situations.
History
Publication title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaVolume
110Issue
9Pagination
3639-3644ISSN
0027-8424Department/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Natl Acad SciencesPlace of publication
2101 Constitution Ave Nw, Washington, USA, Dc, 20418Rights statement
Copyright 2013 PNASRepository Status
- Open