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Fishing for Fairness : Poverty, Morality and Marine Resource Regulation in the Philippines.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Asia-Pacific Environment MonographsPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (246 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781921862663
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fishing for FairnessDDC classification:
  • 333.91609599
LOC classification:
  • SH307.P5 -- .F335 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminary -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Selected Tagalog Glossary -- 1. Introduction: Fishing for Fairness -- 2. Resource Frontiers: Palawan, the Calamianes Islands and Esperanza -- 3. Economic, Class and Status Relations in Esperanza -- 4. The 'Poor Moral Fisher':Local Conceptions of Environmental Degradation, Fishing and Povertyin Esperanza -- 5. Fishing, Dive Tourism and Marine Protected Areas -- 6. Fishing in Marine Protected Areas: Resistance, Youth and Masculinity -- 7. The Politics of Patronage and Live Fish Trade Regulation -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Summary: Fishing for Fairness develops a cultural perspective on environmental politics in the Philippines by analysing the responses of fishers to marine resource regulations. In the resource frontier of the Calamianes Islands, fishing, conservation and tourism provide the context where competing visions of engagement with marine resources are played out.
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Preliminary -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Selected Tagalog Glossary -- 1. Introduction: Fishing for Fairness -- 2. Resource Frontiers: Palawan, the Calamianes Islands and Esperanza -- 3. Economic, Class and Status Relations in Esperanza -- 4. The 'Poor Moral Fisher':Local Conceptions of Environmental Degradation, Fishing and Povertyin Esperanza -- 5. Fishing, Dive Tourism and Marine Protected Areas -- 6. Fishing in Marine Protected Areas: Resistance, Youth and Masculinity -- 7. The Politics of Patronage and Live Fish Trade Regulation -- 8. Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Fishing for Fairness develops a cultural perspective on environmental politics in the Philippines by analysing the responses of fishers to marine resource regulations. In the resource frontier of the Calamianes Islands, fishing, conservation and tourism provide the context where competing visions of engagement with marine resources are played out.

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