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Collaborative Coastal Management in Brazil: Advancements, Challenges, and Opportunities

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Viability and Sustainability of Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America and The Caribbean

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In Brazil, during the past 20 years, several dynamic collaborative coastal management (CCM) arrangements have emerged in response to a variety of changing social and ecological conditions. These arrangements have led to an equally large range of outcomes, such as the fishing agreements in the Amazon basin and marine extractive reserves in coastal areas. This chapter describes the evolution of these collaborative management arrangements in coastal Brazil. We begin by introducing the major policies related to environmental management in Brazil, focusing particularly on the evolution of fisheries management and protected areas management. We continue with an overview of (i) key events and issues that have shaped CCM in Brazil; (ii) the achievements for the advancement of CCM over the past years; and (iii) current challenges to the advancement of CCM. We conclude the chapter with our ideas and associated thinking about what lies ahead to promote CCM in Brazil.

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  1. Environmental Study and Research Center, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

    Cristiana Simão Seixas

  2. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Iain Davidson-Hunt & Fikret Berkes

  3. FAO, Rome, Italy

    Daniela C. Kalikoski

  4. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Brian Davy

  5. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Fabio de Castro

  6. Centro de Estudo do Mar, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

    Rodrigo Pereira Medeiros

  7. State University of Maringa, Maringá, Brazil

    Carolina V. Minte-Vera

  8. University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil

    Luciana G. Araujo

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Seixas, C.S. et al. (2019). Collaborative Coastal Management in Brazil: Advancements, Challenges, and Opportunities. In: Salas, S., Barragán-Paladines, M., Chuenpagdee, R. (eds) Viability and Sustainability of Small-Scale Fisheries in Latin America and The Caribbean. MARE Publication Series, vol 19. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76078-0_18

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