Breaking the Bounds of Rationality: Values, Relationships, and Decision-making in Mexican Fishing Communities

In fishing communities in Baja California Sur, Mexico, fisheries management is heavily influenced by models of individual economic rationality held by biologists and others involved in management, in which fishermen ′choose′ to overfish because they are motivated by selfish individual rationality. Y...

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Main Author: Nicole D Peterson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-01-01
Series:Conservation & Society
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Online Access:http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2014;volume=12;issue=3;spage=245;epage=256;aulast=Peterson