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The idea of fisheries co-management is that ‘communities’ and the ‘state’ should work together to manage fisheries. The role of this chapter is to introduce the section on co-management and multiple stakeholders. This section is about multiple and competing uses of the fisheries resources, in other words, about co-management’s relationship to existing and potential conflicts. This chapter, however, is about scale. The argument is that understanding fisheries co-management, or more specifically understanding the relationship between the state and the community in fisheries management, requires understanding the intersection of conflict and scale.
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Wilson, D.C. (2003). Conflict and Scale. In: Wilson, D.C., Nielsen, J.R., Degnbol, P. (eds) The Fisheries Co-management Experience. Fish and Fisheries Series, vol 26. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3323-6_12
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