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Personal Networks and Fisheries Co-Management on Lake Victoria, East Africa

The methodological approaches related to social network analysis (SNA) have gained a growing prominence in the field of natural resource governance, where it has become an important tool for understanding how natural resources and ecosystems are embedded in social relations. However, while most cases of SNA studies explored complete networks—both on micro-level (Bodin & Crona, 2008 ; Crona & Bodin, 2006, 2010, Turner et al., 2014), and macro-level of analysis (Prell et al., 2009, Stein et al., 2011)—personal networks, or ego-networks, were rarely used in the literature. Personal networks, however, entail important advantages over complete networks: less time-consuming and costly data collection, richer data, as well as easier generalization from the observation in the sample to larger populations. In this paper, a personal network study of fisheries stakeholders on Lake Victoria, East Africa, will be presented.

personal networks ; small-scale fisheries ; natural resource management

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