Overlapping identities: The role of village and occupational group for small-scale fishers’ perceptions on environment and governance

摘要: Abstract Resource users’ perceptions are crucial for successful marine governance because they affect community support, participation and legitimacy. Efforts have been made to understand how fishers’ attitudes, understandings interpretations of the environment its emerge in small-scale fisheries. However, many quantitative studies focused on individual-level attributes like socio-demographics associated with perceptions, ignoring a fundamental scale at which humans arrive their views about world – social group. In multi-gear fisheries, fishers typically cluster two overlapping types group: occupational groups (defined by fishing gear) village communities. Taking into account also variables, group type is more particular environmental e.g. change fish stocks, collective action or appropriate management actions? Through questionnaires combination multivariate multi-model inference, this study reveals that, among villages Zanzibar (n = 172), than any other factor. Further, individual education age influence perceptions. The main finding implies that role social-cultural processes might underestimated research This has consequences policy shows both can be informed statistical analyses disentangles effects different levels belonging.