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

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Title Marine resource conservation and management through a traditional community based institution - Case of Kadakkody (Sea-court) in Malabar Coast of India
 
Creator Ramachandran, C
Sathiadhas, R
 
Subject Fisheries Management
 
Description 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.
 
Publisher MBAI
 
Date 2006
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/2076/1/Ramachandran_76-82.pdf
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.