Conflicts over Marine and Coastal Common Resources

This book explores the types of conflicts that occur over marine and coastal resources, the underlying causes, and attempts to prevent them.

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Karen A. Alexander is a research fellow in the Centre for Marine Socioecology, and the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, at the University of Tasmania, Australia. She is a human geographer with wide-ranging interests, centring on marine governance. Karen specialises in issues around the transition to a blue economy and her research has focused on marine and coastal conflict, societal support for sectors such as offshore energy and aquaculture, coastal ecosystem-based management, and marine spatial planning.

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Foreword by Marcus Haward Preface and acknowledgements 1. All at sea 2. The marine and coastal 'commons' 3. The fit of existing conflict theory 4. A collection of conflict cases 5. The changing marine social-ecological environment 6. The rules, rights and effects of marine resource use 7. A new theory of marine and coastal conflict 8. Conflict and the rule of law 9. Spatial planning for conflict prevention 10. Co-managing conflict 11. Stemming the tide