- Title
- Perspectives in coastal human ecology (CHE) for marine conservation
- Creator
- Aswani, Shankar
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/125576
- Identifier
- vital:35797
- Identifier
- https://doi.10.1016/j.biocon.2019.05.047
- Description
- Coastal human ecology (CHE) is a mixture of different theoretical and thematic approaches straddling between the humanities and social and natural sciences which studies human and coastal/marine interactions at the local-scale and through intense fieldwork. Topics of interest include human coastal adaptations past and present; the historical ecology of fisheries and future implications; local forms of marine governance and economic systems; local food security and livelihoods, and indigenous/local ecological knowledge systems among many research themes. In this paper, I explore different strands of CHE in the study of tribal, artisanal, and small-scale industrial fisheries from the mid-90s onward that can contribute to the foundational knowledge necessary for designing and implementing successful coastal fisheries management and conservation programs. Marine conservation has often failed due to a lack of understanding of the fine grained marine human-environmental interactions at the local scale. In this context, I also examine developing and future research directions in CHE, and discuss their potential contribution for filling the gap in existing approaches to actionable scholarship in marine conservation. The strength of many CHE approaches lies in their potential for bridging humanism and natural science, and thus CHE approaches are well equipped to address many of the challenges faced by marine conservation practitioners today.
- Format
- 13 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Biological Conservation, Aswani, S., 2019. Perspectives in coastal human ecology (CHE) for marine conservation. Biological conservation, 236, pp.223-235, Biological Conservation volume 236 number 223 235 2019 0006-3207
- Rights
- Biological Conservation
- Rights
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