Strengthening Capacity in Ocean Governance

Strengthening governance of ocean fishery resources

Governance of the world’s marine fisheries is ill-adapted to sustainability. Twenty years after the expansion of exclusive economic zones over most of the continental shelves, fisheries worldwide face problems of stock depletion, declining yields and increasing conflict. Other human activities in the ocean compound the effect. What is wrong? This paper is about the internal workings of fishery ...

Strengthening capacity for health research in Africa

Health research has a key role in the development of low-income and middle-income countries. There are several current initiatives that have greatly contributed to capacity strengthening of health research in sub-Saharan Africa, including those supported by WHO and Tropical Disease Research (TDR), the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and Department for Research Cooperation (SAREC...

The role of science in ocean governance

Sustainable governance of the ocean demands a more integral and timely role for science. Although, science hasplayed a limited role in global ocean governance regimes, science has made essential contributions to governance onregional scales, particularly when there is strong scientific consensus, clear identification of problems and solutions,and convergence with cultural ideas. Sci...

Mysore Declaration: capacity strengthening in nutrition.

Understanding Adaptive Capacity in Forest Governance: Editorial

INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: UNDERSTANDING ADAPTIVE CAPACITY The term adaptive capacity has often been used to indicate the role that various factors may play in determining the extent to which adaptation to climate change different actions to deal with the consequences of climate change is possible. While the focus on adaptive capacity has been pronounced within climate change liter...