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      Opportunities and constraints for implementing integrated land–sea management on islands

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          Despite a growing body of literature on integrated land–sea management (ILSM), very little critical assessment has been conducted in order to evaluate ILSM in practice on island systems. Here we develop indicators for assessing 10 integrated island management principles and evaluate the performance of planning and implementation in four island ILSM projects from the tropical Pacific across different governance structures. We find that where customary governance is still strongly respected and enabled through national legislation, ILSM in practice can be very effective at restricting access and use according to fluctuations in resource availability. However, decision-making under customary governance systems may be vulnerable to mismanagement. Government-led ILSM processes have the potential to design management actions that address the spatial scale of ecosystem processes and threats within the context of national policy and legislation, but may not fully capture broad stakeholder interests, and implementation may be poorly coordinated across highly dispersed island archipelagos. Private sector partnerships offer unique opportunities for resourcing island ILSM, although these are highly likely to be geared towards private sector interests that may change in the future and no longer align with community and/or national objectives. We identify consistent challenges that arise during island ILSM planning and implementation and offer recommendations for improvement.

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                Journal
                applab
                Environmental Conservation
                Envir. Conserv.
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                0376-8929
                1469-4387
                September 2017
                March 13 2017
                September 2017
                : 44
                : 03
                : 254-266
                Article
                10.1017/S0376892917000091
                70b83878-dc86-450f-89b9-c977d7dbd5cb
                © 2017
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