Social and institutional arrangements in coastal common pool resource systems: preliminary results of a study of community-based coastal management in Fiji

Abstract

This paper reports on the social and institutional arrangements of community-based coastal resource management (CBCRM) in Fiji. Through the analysis guided by Ostrom’s design principles (1990), it highlights how external organizations have affected CBCRM. For future research, the discussion suggests that the multi-dimensional nature of social capital, expressed as bonding and bridging social capital, be used to explain the mechanisms that encourage people involved in CBCRM to cooperate with others.