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    • The impact of coastal grabbing on community conservation – a global reconnaissance 

      Bavinck, Jan Maarten; Berkes, Fikret; Charles, Anthony; Dias, Ana Carolina Esteves; Doubleday, Nancy; Nayak, Prateep; Sowman, Merle (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-14)
      "Coastal grab" refers to the contested appropriation of coastal (shore and inshore) space and resources by outside interests. This paper explores the phenomenon of coastal grabbing and the effects of such appropriation on community-based conservation of local resources and environment. The approach combines social-ecological systems analysis with socio-legal property rights studies. Evidence of ...

    • Informing a conservation policy-praxis disjuncture: A ‘commons’ perspective to tackling coastal-marine community-conserved area implementation in South Africa 

      Rice, Wayne Stanley; Sowman, Merle; Bavinck, Jan Maarten (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-08-19)
      Conventional ‘people-free’ conservation often fails to deliver both social and ecological outcomes. Communitybased conservation (CBC) – which is underpinned by local community participation, knowledge and priorities – offers a viable alternative in certain contexts. We explore the applicability of established ‘commons’ design principles, and factors enabling community-based conservation, to ...

    • Rethinking capitalist transformation of fisheries in South Africa and India 

      Menon, Ajit; Sowman, Merle; Bavinck, Jan Maarten (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The industrialization of fisheries and the growth of a capitalist sector within fisheries have received considerable scholarly attention. For the most part, scholars have emphasized how capitalism has led to privatization of the commons, forced small-scale resource users into wage labor, and marginalized the sector. This analysis does not, however, explain the continued presence of such a vibrant ...