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Aug 18-21: Conference on Fisheries and Coastal Environment in Accra, Ghana ...read more1 November 2018
Nov 8: CRC to host RIMTA’s Annual MeetingCRC will be hosting the RI Marine Trades Association’s annual ...read more25 October 2018
Nov 8 and Nov 9: Game of FloodsCRC is teaming up with Providence, RI Emergency Management Agency – ...read moreTrainings for small pelagic fisheries data collectors.
read moreThis document serves as an appendix to the Rhode Island Shellfish Management Plan,.
read moreThis paper analyzes the intensive process of applied research and sustained dialogue with the stakeholders that produced Rhode Island's Ocean Special Area Management Plan, which defines regulatory policies and a site suitability assessment process for future forms of human activity and development. Published in Elsevier, December 2013.
read moreYear 5, Fiscal Year 2014, Quarter 2 Report, Jan. 1 -- March 31, 2014
read moreThis document reviews a range of customary laws, beliefs and practices for governing the Greater Amanzule wetlands system shared by Jomoro and Ellembelle Districts in Ghana’s Western Region.
read moreIn 2011 and 2012, Hen Mpoano assessed 77 Western Region coastal communities in the Districts of Jomoro, Ellembelle, Nzema East and Ahanta West to gain an understanding of both the concerns and capacity reveals that adaptive capacity is greatly dampened in coastal communities, which are already enduring economic problems related to reliance on access to farmland, fish and natural resources. Some locations are faring better than others for some dimensions of adaptation capacity, but overall coastal communities have weak ability to respond to emergencies generated by natural hazards, suffer social and economic development challenges that will only be worsened, and have a relatively low ability to manage coastal areas and resources in a way that will assure sustained productivity and environmental quality.
read moreThe West Africa Coastal Climate Change National Adaptation Planning workshop was hosted by USAID West Africa (USAID/WA) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in collaboration with USAID’s Global Climate Change Office and its Climate Change Resilient Development (CCRD) Program and the Water Office’s Sustainable Coastal Communities and Ecosystems (SUCCESS) Program and was implemented by the University of Rhode Island/Coastal Resources Center. The objectives of the workshop were to demonstrate and refine methods for national adaptation planning and facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation into development plans, processes, and strategies, as well as to agree on a road map for a regional plan of action that supports the NAP process in each country. Finally, the workshop aimed to document experiences to inform and influence the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and other relevant international processes.
read moreBiodiversity threats and management opportunities for SUCCESS in Fumba, Bagamoyo, and Mkuranga
read moreThe Third National Fisheries Governance Dialogue was a direct follow up on the Second National Fisheries Governance Dialogue held in Elmina in April 2012. It was agreed at the Second dialogue that co-management was the way forward for sustaining Ghana’s fisheries and that its success would depend on a supportive legal framework (Mills et al., 2012).The Third Fisheries Dialogue aimed to: inform stakeholders of the outcomes from the stakeholder consultation process, inform stakeholders on outcomes of the policy analysis, and the steps required to move towards a supportive legal environment for co-management, and provide a forum for discussions of ideas that could feed into the development of a co-management structure and legal framework for Ghana.
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