Posted in Fisheries on Apr 25th, 2006 Comments Off on Tourism and Fishing Communities Congress in Muros, Galicia
From April 20-23, 2006 I was an invited participant at the Muros Congress on Tourism and Fishing Communities. This event was organized by a variety of government and university centers, most notably the Centre for Studies in Tourism based at the University of Santiago de Compostella. The objective of the congress was to explore the […]
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Posted in Seminar on Apr 4th, 2006 Comments Off on Iain Davidson-Hunt on Mobilizing Local Knowledge: video
We are pleased to announce the publsihing of Dr. Iain Davidson-Hunt’s talk, Mobilizing Local Knowledge. The presentation can be viewed by clicking the following link: http://www.ecoknow.ca/podcasts/davidson_hunt.html
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Posted in Fisheries on Apr 3rd, 2006 Comments Off on Trans Atlantic Connections: A Study of North Atlantic Fisheries in the Global Economy
Fishing communities around the globe find themselves locked paradoxically between intensely local expressions of community and increasingly liberalized economic regimes. Commonly referred to as globalization, these trans-national processes are having a direct and often destabilizing effect on fishing communities. However, the changes are neither preordained nor uniform across different local settings. Furthermore, local level processes […]
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