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This chapter focuses on factors affecting the capacity of co-management to contribute to building resilient social–ecological fishery systems. Drawing on co-management examples from Africa and South America, we show that, while creating co-management and enabling legal frameworks may be relatively easy, the challenge lies in sustaining the institutional initiatives over the long-term. The chapter concludes that key aspects for successful and sustainable co-management include the presence of mechanisms for building learning and adaptive capacity at government and community levels. By reorganizing themselves through co-management, fishing communities have an adaptive mechanism in the face of disturbance to respond to and cope with fisheries crisis. However not all the co-management case-studies we review have shown the capacity to adapt and recover from disturbance, once locally defined customary systems have been eroded. Imposed self-organization through externally-conceived co-management did not allow for learning and adaptation. Institutional rigidity, lack of appropriate management time-frame and insufficient flexibility of management instruments associated with a lack of fisher's participation into co-management systems all characterize the challenges to adaptive capacity in these cases.
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Kalikoski, D.C., Allison, E.H. (2010). Learning and Adaptation: The Role of Fisheries Comanagement in Building Resilient Social–Ecological Systems. In: Armitage, D., Plummer, R. (eds) Adaptive Capacity and Environmental Governance. Springer Series on Environmental Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12194-4_4
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