Progress towards the cooperative management of marine hunting in the Great Barrier Reef

Agenda 21, a comprehensive global action plan for the environment, was adopted by 178 governments at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 and was endorsed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002. Chapter 6 of Agenda 21 (Anon 1992) explicitly recognizes: 'The need for developing institutional arrangements for integrated coastal zone management which involve indigenous peoples to ensure the ecologically sustainable use of marine and coastal resources tluough establishing a process which empowers indigenous people, strengthens their participation in policy formulation and involvement in natural resource management'.

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Fisheries Management, Progress Towards Sustainability

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978-1-4051-3932-8

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