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Artisanal Fisheries Research: A Need for Globalization?

Given limited funds for research and widespread degradation of ecosystems, environmental scientists should geographically target their studies where they will be most effective. However, in academic areas such as conservation and natural resource management there is often a mismatch between the geog...

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Autores principales: Oliveira Júnior, José Gilmar C., Silva, Luana P. S., Malhado, Ana C. M., Batista, Vandick S., Fabré, Nidia N., Ladle, Richard J.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4778908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26942936
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150689
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author Oliveira Júnior, José Gilmar C.
Silva, Luana P. S.
Malhado, Ana C. M.
Batista, Vandick S.
Fabré, Nidia N.
Ladle, Richard J.
author_facet Oliveira Júnior, José Gilmar C.
Silva, Luana P. S.
Malhado, Ana C. M.
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description Given limited funds for research and widespread degradation of ecosystems, environmental scientists should geographically target their studies where they will be most effective. However, in academic areas such as conservation and natural resource management there is often a mismatch between the geographic foci of research effort/funding and research needs. The former frequently being focused in the developed world while the latter is greater in the biodiverse countries of the Global South. Here, we adopt a bibliometric approach to test this hypothesis using research on artisanal fisheries. Such fisheries occur throughout the world, but are especially prominent in developing countries where they are important for supporting local livelihoods, food security and poverty alleviation. Moreover, most artisanal fisheries in the Global South are unregulated and unmonitored and are in urgent need of science-based management to ensure future sustainability. Our results indicate that, as predicted, global research networks and centres of knowledge production are predominantly located in developed countries, indicating a global mismatch between research needs and capacity.
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spelling pubmed-47789082016-03-23 Artisanal Fisheries Research: A Need for Globalization? Oliveira Júnior, José Gilmar C. Silva, Luana P. S. Malhado, Ana C. M. Batista, Vandick S. Fabré, Nidia N. Ladle, Richard J. PLoS One Research Article Given limited funds for research and widespread degradation of ecosystems, environmental scientists should geographically target their studies where they will be most effective. However, in academic areas such as conservation and natural resource management there is often a mismatch between the geographic foci of research effort/funding and research needs. The former frequently being focused in the developed world while the latter is greater in the biodiverse countries of the Global South. Here, we adopt a bibliometric approach to test this hypothesis using research on artisanal fisheries. Such fisheries occur throughout the world, but are especially prominent in developing countries where they are important for supporting local livelihoods, food security and poverty alleviation. Moreover, most artisanal fisheries in the Global South are unregulated and unmonitored and are in urgent need of science-based management to ensure future sustainability. Our results indicate that, as predicted, global research networks and centres of knowledge production are predominantly located in developed countries, indicating a global mismatch between research needs and capacity. Public Library of Science 2016-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4778908/ /pubmed/26942936 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150689 Text en © 2016 Oliveira Júnior et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Artisanal Fisheries Research: A Need for Globalization?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26942936
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