Marine resource conservation and management through a traditional community based institution - Case of Kadakkody (Sea-court) in Malabar Coast of India

Ramachandran, C and Sathiadhas, R (2006) Marine resource conservation and management through a traditional community based institution - Case of Kadakkody (Sea-court) in Malabar Coast of India. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India, 48 (1). pp. 76-82.

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    Abstract

    This case study is about a unique institution called Kadakkody (literally meaning "sea court") prevalent in Kerala, in Malabar coast of India. Its presence as well as the institutional reinvention it has undergone raises interesting questions like 1) how and why this institution has survived? 2) what role does it play in resource management? 3) status and validity of regulations endorsed by the Kadakkody and 4) does it offer any policy insights for resource management in tropical waters? It has been found that its persistence depends on a multiplicity of factors and so defies any bureaucratic duplication in its instifutionalisation. The role of the State should be to enable political contexts that nurture the genesis and co-evolution df people's own resource management initiatives and institutions. What is required is the emergence of a new political ethos built on the foundations of ecology and ethics.

    Item Type: Article
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Resource conservation, Kadakkody; Kerala, Fisheries science
    Subjects: Marine Fisheries > Fisheries Management
    Aquaculture > Fisheries Management
    Divisions: CMFRI-Kochi > Socio-Economic Evaluation and Technology Transfer Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Socio-Economic Evaluation and Technology Transfer Division
    CMFRI-Kochi > Socio-Economic Evaluation and Technology Transfer Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Socio-Economic Evaluation and Technology Transfer Division

    CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division
    CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division
    Depositing User: Users 5 not found.
    Date Deposited: 05 Aug 2010 11:44
    Last Modified: 09 Sep 2015 15:15
    URI: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/2076

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