 | Participatory Methods in Community-based Coastal Resource Management - Volume 1 - Introductory Papers (IIRR, 1998) |
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| | Funding partners |
| | Collaborating organizations |
| | Members of the management team and steering committee |
| | Acknowledgement |
|  | Introduction |
| | (introduction...) |
| | The first booklet |
| | The second booklet |
| | The third booklet |
| | A distillation of practical field experiences |
| | How this sourcebook was produced |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Workshop objectives |
| | Workshop process |
| | Coastal communities living with complexity and crisis in search for control |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Coastal communities |
| | Complexity |
| | Crisis |
| | Who owns this sea? |
| | Coastal resource management |
| | Community-based coastal resource management |
| | Community-based coastal resource management |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Principles of CBCRM |
| | Components of CBCRM |
| | The CBCRM cycle |
| | References |
| | Community organizing and development process |
| | Definition |
| | Purpose |
| | The community organizer |
| | Time frame |
| | Commonly-used approach |
| | Participation and participatory methods |
| | What is participation? |
| | Why participation? |
| | Degrees of participation |
| | Obstacles to participation |
| | Participatory methods and other research methods |
| | References |
| | General guidelines for using participatory tools |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Guidelines for facilitating groups |
| | While working with a community... |
| | Glossary |
| | Workshop participants |
| | Workshop staff |
Coastal communities
Coastal communities have multiple sources of income but there are often serious threats to food security.
They live at the edge of the "bountiful
sea"
but they are generally poor, crowded
and
marginalized.
However, they are resourceful when resources are
degraded;
they may lack monetary resources but they
survive.
Figure
Fishers have traditionally been migratory, as families or as individuals. Recently, the increased population pressures in many countries have pushed inland people to the coast in the hopes of maintaining a livelihood based on marine resources which are often considered common property. Some of these migrants, either as families or individually, move to cities or foreign countries in search of work. All of these migrants contribute to change in local populations, mixing ethnic groups, cultures and language. Whether from inland or from other coastal areas, these migrants are people without previous ties to the locality, which means less local ecological knowledge but they add richness to the communities with different cultures.
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