PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 8 Participatory methods for community-based coastal resource management

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 8 Participatory methods for community-based coastal resource management Gregory C. Ira A workshop or `write-shop' on participatory BOX 1 methods for community-based coastal resource ADAPTING PRA TO THE COASTAL ZONE management (CBCRM) was held from 28 July to 8 August 1997 at International Institute of · Mapping tools suggest that the marine area Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) in the that can be mapped is much larger than the Philippines. The workshop documented field- terrestrial area; tested participatory methods used by CBCRM · The use of community logbooks is seen as practitioners. More than 30 community-based a useful method of recording events affecting the common pool resources of the coastal resource management practitioners coastal zone; from four different countries prepared · The transect walk is usually oriented approximately 50 short papers on the theme. perpendicular to the shoreline and includes a `walk through' and `swim through' portion; While many of the methods documented were · Institutional analysis appears to be more similar to those used in terrestrial settings, complicated in marine areas as a result of there were significant differences because of multiple stakeholders and institutional the focus on the coastal zone (see Box 1). It ...