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1 ESCAP. 1983. Proceedings of the Meeting on Water Resources Development in the South Pacific, held at Suva, Fiji, 14-19 March 1983. New York, NY, USA: UN. 170 p. (ESCAP water resources series no. 57)
Surface water ; Water resources development ; Groundwater development ; Training ; Technology transfer ; Environmental effects ; Data processing / Pacific Islands / American Oceania / Fiji / Niue / Marshall Islands / Mariana Islands / Solomon Islands / Samoa / Tonga / Vanuatu
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G956 ESC Record No: H0824)
2 ESCAP. 1990. Forecasting, preparedness and other operational measures for water-related natural disaster reduction in Asia and The Pacific. Bangkok, Thailand: UN. vii, 173p. (Water resources series no.69)
Water resources ; Flood water ; Forecasting ; Case studies / Asia / Pacific Islands / Sri Lanka / Vanuatu / Philippines / Afghanistan / Australia / China / Guam / Hong Kong / India / Iran / Japan / Laos / Malaysia / Mongolia / Myanmar / Nepal / New Zealand / Cook Islands / Pakistan / Korea Republic / Samoa / Singapore / Solomon Islands / Thailand / Tonga / Vietnam / Niue
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 363.34 G570 ESC Record No: H011988)
Contains the report and notes of the Workshop on Forecasting, Preparedness and Other Operational Measures for Water-related Natural Disaster Reduction held at Bangkok, 29 April - 3 May 1991.
3 UNESCO. 1992. Water and health. Paris, France: UNESCO. 48p. (IHP Humid tropics programme series no.3)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 2744 Record No: H012565)
4 Wijeyratna, C. M. 1995. Status of irrigation management in Asia and the Pacific. In APO, Agricultural water management technology in Asia and the Pacific: Report of an APO seminar 12-16 July 1994, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Tokyo, Japan: APO. pp.13-42.
Irrigation management ; Irrigation systems ; Performance ; Investment ; Privatization ; Irrigated farming / Asia / Pacific Islands / Bhutan / Cambodia / Fiji / Indonesia / Papua New Guinea / Laos / Mayanmar / New Zealand / Solomon Islands
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 631.7.8 G570 APO Record No: H017487)
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5 ESCAP. 1995. Guidebook to water resources, use and management in Asia and the Pacific. Volume one: Water resources and water use. New York, NY, USA: UN. xi, 305p. (Water resources series no.74)
Water resources ; Water use ; Water management ; Water demand ; Groundwater ; Surface water ; Water quality ; Water availability ; Water supply ; Statistics / Asia / Pacific Islands / Afghanistan / American Samoa / Australia / Bangladesh / Bhutan / Brunei Darussalam / Cambodia / China / Cook Islands / Korea Republic / Fiji / French Polynesia / Guam / India / Indonesia / Iran / Japan / Kiribati / Laos / Malaysia / Maldives / Marshall Islands / Micronesia / Mongolia / Myanmar / Nauru / Nepal / New Caledonia / New Zealand / Niue / Northern Mariana Islands / Pakistan / Palau / Papua New Guinea / Philippines / Samoa / Singapore / Solomon Islands / Sri Lanka / Thailand / Tonga / Tuvalu / Vanuatu / Vietnam
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333.91 G570 ESC Record No: H018420)
6 Fleming, E. M. 1996. Research options for high-value agricultural exports in South Pacific Island nations. Hague, Netherlands: ISNAR. xvii, 206p. (ISNAR research report no.10)
Agricultural economics ; Agricultural research ; Research priorities ; Marketing policy ; Exports ; Developing countries / Pacific Islands / Cook Islands / Fiji / Kiribati / Niue / Papua New Guinea / Solomon Islands / Tonga / Tuvalu / Vanuatu / Western Samoa
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.1 G936 FLE Record No: H019962)
7 Hunt, C. 1999; 2000. Transposing of water policies from developed to developing countries: The case of user pays. Water International; Water Resources Journal, 24(4):293-306; 205:86-99.
Water policy ; Developing countries ; Water rates ; User charges ; Models ; Water supply ; Water delivery ; Case studies / Solomon Islands
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: PER Record No: H025791)
8 Gilman, E. L.; Ellison, J.; Jungblut, V.; Van Lavieren, H.; Wilson, L.; Areki, F.; Brighouse, G.; Bungitak, J.; Dus, E.; Henry, M.; Kilman, M.; Matthews, E.; Sauni, I.; Teariki-Ruatu, N.; Tukia, S.; Yuknavage, K. 2006. Adapting to Pacific Island mangrove responses to sea level rise and climate change. Climate Research, 32:161-176.
Mangroves ; Wetlands ; Monitoring ; Climate change ; Sea level ; Coastal area ; Ecosystems / Pacific Islands / Fiji / Kiribati / Marshall Islands / Micronesia / Nauru / Oalau / Papua New Guinea / Samoa / Solomon Islands / Tonga / Tuvalu / Vanuatu
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: P 7838 Record No: H039940)
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9 Chemin, Yann. (Ed.) 2012. Remote sensing of planet earth. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech. 240p.
Remote sensing ; GIS ; Vegetation ; Water resources ; Surface Water ; Mapping ; Monitoring ; Wetlands ; Lakes ; Satellite surveys ; Satellite imagery ; Image analysis ; Image processing ; Data ; Analytical methods ; Time series analysis ; Land cover ; Land classification ; Land use ; Tsunamis ; Snow cover ; Models ; Environmental effects ; Water vapour / Brazil / China / Italy / Indonesia / Thailand / Chile / Japan / Solomon Islands / Samoa Islands / Indonesia / Peruacu watershed / Tibet Plateau / Umbria / Subasio Mountain Regional Park / Banda Aceh / Phang Nga / Phuket / Tohoku / Okushiri Island / Banda Aceh
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H044692)
http://www.intechopen.com/books/show/title/remote-sensing-of-planet-earth
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044692.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H044692.pdf
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10 Douthwaite, B.; Apgar, J. M.; Schwarz, A.; McDougall, C.; Attwood, S.; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali; Clayton, T. 2015. Research in development: learning from the CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. Penang, Malaysia: CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems. 96p. (CGIAR Research Program on Aquatic Agricultural Systems Working Paper: AAS-2015-16)
Development theory ; Agricultural research ; Less favoured areas ; Partnerships ; Gender ; Equity ; Women's participation ; Men ; Households ; Aquatic environment ; Ownership ; Community involvement ; Stakeholders ; Empowerment ; Floodplains ; Reclaimed land ; Farmers ; Fish culture ; Participatory approaches ; Social aspects ; Ecology ; Resource management ; Capacity building ; Case studies / Zambia / Bangladesh / Solomon Islands / Philippines / Cambodia / Barotse / Malaita / Visayas-Mindanao / Tonle Sap
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047452)
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11 Apgar, J. M.; Cohen, P. J.; Ratner, B. D.; de Silva, Sanjiv; Buisson, Marie-Charlotte; Longley, C.; Bastakoti, Ram C.; Mapedza, Everisto. 2017. Identifying opportunities to improve governance of aquatic agricultural systems through participatory action research. Ecology and Society, 22(1):1-13. [doi: https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08929-220109]
Aquatic environment ; Agricultural systems ; Equity ; Participatory approaches ; Collective action ; Research ; Governance ; Authorities ; Resource management ; Floodplains ; Living standards ; Ownership ; Stakeholders ; Accountability ; Ecological factors / Zambia / Solomon Islands / Bangladesh / Cambodia
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047980)
http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss1/art9/ES-2016-8929.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047980.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H047980.pdf
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Challenges of governance often constitute critical obstacles to efforts to equitably improve livelihoods in social-ecological systems. Yet, just as often, these challenges go unspoken, or are viewed as fixed parts of the context, beyond the scope of influence of agricultural, development, or natural resource management initiatives. What does it take to get governance obstacles and opportunities out in the open, creating the space for constructive dialogue and collective action that can help to address them? We respond to this question by comparing experiences of participatory action research (PAR) in coastal and floodplain systems in four countries (Zambia, Solomon Islands, Bangladesh, and Cambodia) with a focus on understanding how to build more equitable governance arrangements. We found that governance improvement was often an implicit or secondary objective of initiatives that initially sought to address more technical natural resource or livelihood-related development challenges. We argue that using PAR principles of ownership, equity, shared analysis, and feedback built trust and helped to identify and act upon opportunities to address more difficult-to-shift dimensions of governance particularly in terms of stakeholder representation, distribution of authority, and accountability. Our findings suggest that the engaged and embedded approach of researcher-facilitators can help move from identifying opportunities for governance change to supporting stakeholders as they build more equitable governance arrangements.
12 Arulingam, Indika; Nigussie, Likimyelesh; Senaratna Sellamuttu, Sonali; Debevec, Liza. 2019. Youth participation in small-scale fisheries, aquaculture and value chains in Africa and the Asia-Pacific. Penang, Malaysia: CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems. 66p. (CGIAR Research Program on Fish Agri-Food Systems Program Report: FISH-2019-14)
Small-scale fisheries ; Youth employment ; Participation ; Aquaculture ; Value chains ; Fishers ; Gender ; Women's empowerment ; Access to information ; Education ; Land access ; Financing ; Income generation ; Policies ; Strategies ; Technology ; Living standards ; Decision making ; Social status ; Working conditions ; State intervention ; Stakeholders ; International organizations ; Economic aspects ; Political aspects ; Agricultural sector ; Ecosystems / Africa / Asia and the Pacific / Egypt / Nigeria / United Republic of Tanzania / Zambia / Bangladesh / Cambodia / Myanmar / Solomon Islands
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H049615)
https://digitalarchive.worldfishcenter.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12348/3937/5872a0e98fae8e846953753d08558376.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049615.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H049615.pdf
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IWMI, a managing partner of FISH, conducted an assessment of youth participation in SSF, aquaculture and value chains between November 2017 and May 2018. The assessment was conducted in Africa and the Asia-Pacific, with a particular focus on the FISH focal countries of Egypt, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia in Africa and Bangladesh, Cambodia, Myanmar and Solomon Islands in the Asia-Pacific. The objectives of this study were to (i) assess the participation of youth in fisheries and aquaculture, including opportunities and challenges for participation, (ii) understand what WorldFish and key partners (government organizations, nongovernmental organizations [NGOs] and others) are doing in the focal countries in relation to youth participation, and (iii) (based on the former two points) provide potential areas for further research that could support improved youth participation in aquaculture, SSF and value chains. In this report, definitions of SSF and aquaculture are adopted from WorldFish.
13 Lawless, S.; Cohen, P. J.; Mangubhai, S.; Kleiber, D.; Morrison, T. H. 2021. Gender equality is diluted in commitments made to small-scale fisheries. World Development, 140:105348. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105348]
Gender equality ; Small-scale fisheries ; Sustainable Development Goals ; Goal 5 Gender equality ; Gender equity ; Women ; Strategies ; Environmental management ; Governance ; Policies ; Livelihoods ; Communities ; Nongovernmental organizations / Pacific Islands / Fiji / Solomon Islands / Vanuatu
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050221)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X20304769/pdfft?md5=14344cbecec1db5a72e7f6356159a53e&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X20304769-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050221.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050221.pdf
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Gender equality is a mainstream principle of good environmental governance and sustainable development. Progress toward gender equality in the fisheries sector is critical for effective and equitable development outcomes in coastal countries. However, while commitments to gender equality have surged at global, regional and national levels, little is known about how this principle is constructed, and implemented across different geographies and contexts. Consequently, progress toward gender equality is difficult to assess and navigate. To identify influential policy instruments (n = 76), we conducted key-informant interviews with governance actors engaged in small-scale fisheries (n = 26) and gender and development (n = 9) sectors across the Pacific Islands region. We systematically analysed these instruments according to (1) representations of gender and gender equality, (2) rationales for pursing gender, and (3) gender strategies and actions. We found that fisheries policy instruments frequently narrowed the concept of gender to a focus on women, whereas gender and development policy instruments considered gender as diverse social identities, norms and relations. In fisheries policy instruments, rationales for pursuing gender equality diverged substantially yet, overall the principle was predominantly pursued for instrumental (i.e., improved environmental outcomes) rather than intrinsic (i.e., an inherent value in fairness) reasons. Over two-thirds of gender equality strategies focused on an organization’s own human resourcing and project assessments, rather than on direct action within communities, or for women and men reliant on fisheries. Our findings illustrate gender equality commitments and investments to be narrow and outdated. Critical shifts in dominant gender equality narratives and objectives, and an embrace of multi-level strategies, provide opportunities for fisheries governance and development agendas to rise to current best practice, and ultimately make meaningful (opposed to rhetorical) progress toward gender equality. The methodological approach we develop holds value for other development sectors to critically examine, and subsequently enhance, commitment toward gender equality.
14 Colloff, M. J.; Gorddard, R.; Abel, N.; Locatelli, B.; Wyborn, C.; Butler, J. R. A.; Lavorel, S.; van Kerkhoff, L.; Meharg, S.; Munera-Roldan, C.; Bruley, E.; Fedele, G.; Wise, R. M.; Dunlop, M. 2021. Adapting transformation and transforming adaptation to climate change using a pathways approach. Environmental Science and Policy, 124:163-174. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.06.014]
Climate change adaptation ; Knowledge management ; Decision making ; Political aspects ; Empowerment ; Social aspects ; Ecological factors ; Livelihoods ; Communities ; Sustainability ; Uncertainty ; Case studies / Indonesia / Solomon Islands / Colombia / Australia / France
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050525)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146290112100174X/pdfft?md5=73150bf4987bfdac57f138dcf6344e18&pid=1-s2.0-S146290112100174X-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050525.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H050525.pdf
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Human actions have driven earth systems close to irreversible and profound change. The need to shift towards intentional transformative adaptation (ITA) is clear. Using case studies from the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA), we explore ITA as a way of thinking and acting that is transformative in concept and objectives, but achieved through a mix of incremental and transformative co-production processes that ultimately lead to the social-ecological system being transformed. Central to ITA are social and political issues of how individuals and collectives address environmental and social change and deal with power imbalances. ITA approaches are claimed to help overcome adaptation challenges, including: 1) re-framing human-nature relationships; 2) dealing with uncertainty; 3) engendering empowerment and agency and 4) addressing conflicting values and interests. However, it is unclear if these approaches work in practice. We examined six adaptation case studies in which participants used processes of: 1) co-producing visions of the future; 2) re-framing values, rules and knowledge to shift decision contexts for adaptation and 3) implementing actions using theories of change and adaptation pathways. We assessed the extent to which participants could use these processes to address their adaptation challenges. We found evidence of many positive achievements towards the implementation of ITA, but also examples where processes were not working, such as communities having difficulties in finding ways to work co-operatively. Different processes will be needed to address these issues, such as promoting pluralism, knowledge contestation, and deliberative re-politicisation of the adaptation agenda to shift power imbalances and enable change.
15 Lawless, S.; Cohen, P. J.; McDougall, C.; Mangubhai, S.; Song, A. M.; Morrison, T. H. 2022. Tinker, tailor or transform: gender equality amidst social-ecological change. Global Environmental Change, 72:102434. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102434]
Gender equality ; Social aspects ; Ecological factors ; Small-scale fisheries ; Environmental management ; Governance ; Sustainability ; Women ; Livelihoods ; Equity ; Policies / Pacific Islands / Vanuatu / Solomon Islands / Fiji
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H050786)
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Global visions of environmental change consider gender equality to be a foundation of sustainable social-ecological systems. Similarly, social-ecological systems frameworks position gender equality as both a precursor to, and a product of, system sustainability. Yet, the degree to which gender equality is being advanced through social-ecological systems change is uncertain. We use the case of small-scale fisheries in the Pacific Islands region to explore the proposition that different social-ecological narratives: (1) ecological, (2) social-ecological, and (3) social, shape the gender equality priorities, intentions and impacts of implementing organizations. We conducted interviews with regional and national fisheries experts (n = 71) and analyzed gender commitments made within policies (n = 29) that influence small-scale fisheries. To explore these data, we developed a ‘Tinker-Tailor-Transform’ gender assessment typology. We find that implementing organizations aligned with the social-ecological and social narratives considered social (i.e., human-centric) goals to be equally or more important than ecological (i.e., eco-centric) goals. Yet in action, gender equality was pursued instrumentally to achieve ecological goals and/or shallow project performance targets. These results highlight that although commitments to gender equality were common, when operationalized commitments become diluted and reoriented. Across all three narratives, organizations mostly ‘Tinkered’ with gender equality in impact, for example, including more women in spaces that otherwise tended to be dominated by men. Impacts predominately focused on the individual (i.e., changing women) rather than driving communal-to-societal level change. We discuss three interrelated opportunities for organizations in applying the ‘Tinker-Tailor-Transform’ assessment typology, including its utility to assist organizations to orient toward intrinsic goals; challenge or reconfigure system attributes that perpetuate gender inequalities; and consciously interrogate discursive positions and beliefs to unsettle habituated policies, initiatives and theories of change.
16 Mangubhai, S.; Lawless, S.; Cowley, A.; Mangubhai, J. P.; Williams, M. J. 2022. Progressing gender equality in fisheries by building strategic partnerships with development organisations. World Development, 158:105975. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.105975]
Gender equality ; Fisheries ; Development organizations ; Gender mainstreaming ; Gender equity ; Inclusion ; Sustainable development ; Strategies ; Partnerships ; Non-governmental organizations ; Human rights ; Political attitudes ; Policies ; Empowerment ; Livelihoods ; Interdisciplinary research / Melanesia / Fiji / Solomon Islands / Vanuatu
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051265)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22001656/pdfft?md5=cb19265b59990fc5a9f8bb96230e2049&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X22001656-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051265.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051265.pdf
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Gender equality, a universal agreed principle and value, has been adopted widely but implemented to varying levels in different sectors. Our study was designed to contrast how gender development (hereafter 'development') and fisheries sectors view and invest in gender, and then explore opportunities to strengthen collaborative relationships and networks between the two, with the aim of improving capacity for gender inclusion in practice in fisheries. We conducted key informant interviews with fisheries (n = 68) and development (n = 32) practitioners (including managers) in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu between 2018 and 2019. We found three points of divergence between fisheries and development practitioners and/or their organisations when it comes to the inclusion of gender into their work: (1) fundamental differences in organisational motivations for working on gender – (i.e., fisheries organisations viewed gender equality as a means to achieve fisheries objectives (instrumental), while development organisations viewed it as a core value or principle (inherent); (2) fisheries practitioners had comparatively little to no access to qualified gender focal points and training, and limited networks with gender experts; and (3) differences in what each considered successful versus failed approaches to gender integration. Our findings illustrate opportunities, as well as limitations or challenges (e.g. resistance and indifference), to transfer knowledge and capacity to integrate gender into fisheries policies and practice. We suggest using these divergences to ‘pivot change’ in the fisheries sector by building on decades of knowledge, learning and experience from the development sector focusing on four areas for strategic partnership: (1) shifting values; (2) gender mainstreaming; (3) adopting gender best practice; and (4) investing in gender networks and coalitions. We argue that fundamental to the success of such a partnership will be the ability and willingness of fisheries and development practitioners and their organisations to break down silos and work collaboratively towards gender equality in the fisheries sector.
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