OUT NOW! MAST 9(1)

Journal Maritime Studies (MAST)

NOW FREE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD:

pdf files of MAST volume 1(1) - 7(2) and the 1988-1993 volumes

Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

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Call for Papers & Contributions

People in Places: Engaging Together in Integrated Resource Management

June 26-29, 2011
Halifax, NS, Canada

The Coastal Community-University Research Alliance (Coastal CURA) announces a conference in June 2011, focusing on the inclusion of resource dependent communities, including Aboriginal communities, in processes of spatial planning, integrated management and natural resource management. In addition to resource-based and aboriginal communities, the meeting will be of interest to governments, universities (academics and students), community based management and networking organizations, civil societies and NGOs, small scale natural resource industries, and all those interested in finding ways to engage together to better manage natural resources.

Conference Overarching Theme: How can place-based communities become better engaged in natural resource integrated management?

Conference Subthemes:
1. Participatory action research towards innovative change
2. Knowledge mobilization and transformative learning
3. Engaging with power, relationship building and governance
4. Enhancing resilient livelihoods and natural environments

People and the Sea Award 2009

The Netherlands based investigative reporter Wouter Klootwijk receives the People and the Sea Award 2009 for his outstanding contribution to the dissemination of knowledge about Dutch fisheries by popular media.

The jury report can be found here

Policy Day

Presentations

LECTURE SERIES ON WATER GOVERNANCE

Starting February 2010

For more info, click here

OUT NOW:

BRAVING TROUBLED WATERS :

Sea Change in a Dutch Fishing Community

Rob van Ginkel

Click here for an article on Braving Troubled Waters in Fish News International, March 2010

OUT NOW!

COASTAL CULTURES

an anthropology of fishing and whaling traditions. By Rob van Ginkel