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Journal article
Long-distance Friends and Collective Action in Fisheries Management
Conservation letters, Vol.18(1), pp.n/a-n/a
01/01/2025
Abstract
Much received wisdom in the conservation literature is that individual connections across community boundaries undercut natural resource management. However, when multiple communities access the same resource, these long-distance relationships could generate interdependence and trust to motivate engagement in collective action to manage the resource. To test this, we interviewed 1317 people in 28 fishing villages in Tanzania about their participation in managing open-access fisheries and their social relationships in each village accessing the fishery. People with more friends in other villages trusted more people in those villages and were more likely to participate in collective action to manage the shared fishery, such as reporting others for destructive fishing practices. These results show that long-distance relationships may be a useful foundation upon which to build conservation efforts that cross community boundaries and bolster sustainable resource use.
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- Title
- Long-distance Friends and Collective Action in Fisheries Management
- Creators
- Kristopher Michael Smith - Washington State UniversityAnne C Pisor - Washington State UniversityBertha Aron - MaxKasambo Bernard - MaxPaschal Fimbo - MaxHaji Machano - MaxRose Kimesera - MaxJason Rubens - Sound Ocean Ltd, Dar Es Salaam, TanzaniaLorna Slade - Zanzibar UniversityJumanne Sobo - Zanzibar UniversityAli Thani - Coastal Carolina UniversityMonique Borgerhoff Mulder - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Publication Details
- Conservation letters, Vol.18(1), pp.n/a-n/a
- Academic Unit
- Department of Anthropology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 8
- Grant note
- National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Identifiers
- 99901228253001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article