The Collected Works of R.E. Johannes: Publications on Marine Traditional Knowledge and Management

The Collected Works of R.E. Johannes:
Publications on Marine Traditional Knowledge and Management
Arranged and Introduced by Kenneth Ruddle

R. E. Johannes was a tropical marine ecologist who, from the mid-1970s, pioneered the idea of integrating for resource conservation the specialized ecological knowledge and traditional marine resource management systems of Pacific Island fishing communities with Western concepts of scientific management. In so doing he highlighted the importance of indigenous knowledge and community based systems as key factors in marine conservation.

Aware that the rapid disappearance of traditional knowledge and the lack of interest of younger people in acquiring it was a serious constraint on implementing his approach, Johannes sought to create a widespread awareness of this often encyclopedic knowledge base. He advocated a reawakening of traditional environmental ethics among youth and hereditary chiefs related to their exclusive reef and lagoon tenure, an ancient form of marine protection which, he contended, provides a practical and time-tested model of "limited entry" that Western fisheries biologists and economists were only then hitting on as an innovative way to manage their own fisheries.

Reprinted here in chronological order are 24 of Robert Johannes’ contributions in marine traditional knowledge and management that extend the ideas expressed in his renowned book, Words of the Lagoon.

311 pages.

ISBN 978-0-9795459-3-1 0-9795459-3-5 (download version); 978-0-9795459-4-8
0-9795459-4-3 (CD version); 978-0-9795459-5-5 0-9795459-5-1 (printed version).

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