Governing uncertainty: Resilience, dwelling, and flexible resource management in Oceania

Governing uncertainty: Resilience, dwelling, and flexible resource management in Oceania

This article examines the flexible, customary land and sea tenure practices on a small island in Melanesia. I use the dwelling concept to analyse how governance practices on the island function during three different kinds of social-ecological change: 1) rapid demographic expansion; 2) a destructive...

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Main Author: Matthew Lauer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2016-01-01
Series:Conservation & Society
Subjects:
governance
politics
social-ecological systems
nature-culture dichotomy
Solomon Islands
resilience framework
Online Access:http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2016;volume=14;issue=1;spage=34;epage=47;aulast=Lauer

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http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2016;volume=14;issue=1;spage=34;epage=47;aulast=Lauer

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