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Wellfish Project
"Developing a social wellbeing approach for sustainable fisheries in South Asia" [WellFish project]
UK ESRC Funded (January 2011-January 2014)
Principal Investigator: Dr Sarah Coulthard [Ulster University], in collaboration with Prof. Oscar Amarasinghe and Dr Dilanthi Koralgama [Ruhuna University, Sri Lanka] and Prof. Ramesh Ramachandran and Dr Ahana Lakshmi [Institute for Ocean Management, Anna University, India].
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Governing Small-scale Fisheries for Wellbeing and Resilience
A Canada-WorldFish Center Collaborative Project funded by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) for the period 2009-2012
It brings together Canadian and international fisheries scholars and WorldFish scientists to think through the potential contributions of social wellbeing approach for fisheries governance.
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A 3 year PhD project at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (2009 - 2012), funded by Department for Employment and Learning (DEL)
Assessing the wellbeing of Northern Ireland’s fishing society using a three-dimensional approach: implications for sustainable fisheries
There is growing interest in how the concept of wellbeing might be applied to fisheries, especially in terms of deepening assessment of the ways in which decline in the fisheries sector is affecting fishing-dependent families, and the wider community. This research applies a three-dimensional wellbeing framework and methodology to gain insight into the wellbeing of fishing society in Northern Ireland
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Building Sustainable Governance Project (BSG)
A pilot project funded by the NERC-ESRC-DFID Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme, led by the Institute for Development Studies, Brighton, UK between Jan 2009 and Jan 2010
The purpose of the Building Sustainable Governance project, is to advance deliberative policy networks in which key stakeholders in fisheries are able to bring together their distinctive expertise and knowledge to build new approaches to governance that directly address this clash.