Institutional effects on ecological outcomes of community-based management of fisheries in the Amazon.

ABSTRACT: Communities throughout the globe are increasingly being given the responsibility of resource management, making it necessary to understand the factors that lead to success in community-based management (CBM). Here, we assessed whether and how institutional design principles affect the ecological outcomes of CBM schemes for Arapaima sp., an important common-pool fishery resource of the Amazon Basin. We quantified the degree of presence of Ostrom's (Science 325:419-422, 1990) institutional design principles in 83 communities using a systematic survey, and quantitatively linked the design principles to a measure of ecological outcome (arapaima density) in a subset of 39 communities to assess their influence. To understand regional patterns of institutional capacity for CBM, we evaluated the d

SUBMITTER: Arantes CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8800982 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature