Crafting the success and failure of decentralized marine management.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the design and revision of a decentralized marine management scheme implemented on the island of Moorea, French Polynesia named Plan de Gestion de l'Espace Maritime (PGEM). Drawing on an analysis of over 50 consultative workshops and meetings, held from 2018 to 2021 during the PGEM revision, we document the materials, discourses, and practices local stakeholders (e.g., fishers, cultural and environmental activists, government staff, and scientists) combine to build their interpretations of PGEM success or failure. We examine the diversity of domains these interpretations draw from (ecology, marine livelihoods, culture, religion, and politics) and how they are put into practice in people's engagement with-or resistance to-the local marine ma

SUBMITTER: Wencelius J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9583987 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature