摘要
本文探讨了所罗门群岛罗维安纳泻湖海洋保有权制度如何调解人口、消费和环境之间的相互关系。焦点在于解释人口和消费的增长如何改变海洋保有权制度以及形成其健全或脆弱的制度的诸因素。本文还论述了海洋保有权制度安排之间的区域性差异,产生这些差异的过程和当这些制度约束外部力量和内部变化时这些制度的社会和环境后果。主要问题是现有的海洋保有权形式当面对并行的人口学转型和经济转型时如何作出相对的反应。在罗维安纳泻湖区域内代表不同的海洋保有权安排的两个村庄作了比较。结果表明,这些村庄的居民发觉他们的海洋保有权统治体系相似,而他们对由于人口和消费的增长所带来的变化在管理上的反应却不同,这些反应产生了截然不同的环境影响。
This paper investigates how sea tenure institutions in the Roviana Lagoon, Solomon Islands, mediate among population, consumption, and the environment. The focus is on explaining how growth in population and consumption alter sea tenure regimes, and the factors that shape either their institutional robustness or vulnerability. The paper also addresses the regional differences among sea tenure institutional arrangements, the processes that are producing them, and the social and environmental outcomes of these institutions as they engage external forces and internal changes. A major question is how existing forms of sea tenure respond comparatively when faced with parallel demographic and economic transformations? Two villages representing different sea tenure arrangements within the Roviana Lagoon are compared. Results show that inhabitants in these villages perceive their systems of sea tenure governance similarly; yet their managerial responses to changes brought about by growth in population and consumption differ, and the responses produce contrasting environmental effects.
