Why Berau and Tarakan? To have a complete understanding about the coastal governance in
For the case study on marine conservation, Berau is the best place to me. This district will become a pilot project for district wide conservation in East Kalimantan initiated by international NGOs. The conservation would not just cover the marine area, but also the inland conservation -- dealing with the forest conservation. The question that interest me is: How will the district react to the national and international pressure to advance conservation?
Why Tarakan? I can say to you that Tarakan is the main area in East Kalimantan where shrimp industry is growing. In Tarakan, there are 8 active cold storage facilities supported by the fisheries and aquaculture industry from the northern part of East Kalimantan. Most of the shrimp farmers whose ponds supply these cold storage facilities are in Tarakan. The collectors (middle men, pos) are also based in Tarakan, while most of the productive shrimp pond locationsa are scattered between Berau, Bulungan and Tanah Tidung Districts. The second reason is related to what "The Shrimp King" said: "Asia is the biggest supplier for the tiger shrimp (p monodon), in Asia,
These two issues are the governance setting that I want to look at. So... by the end of this research I hope to learn which governance setting is more appropriate for the local conditions and practices of shrimp farming.
These are big issues indeed - but how are you going to combine them in 1 PhD. It is not sufficient to classify them as big issues to reserach them in one PhD - so the question is, what is the main object of research, your main hypothesis, reserach question - however you want to call it, with which you can justify the two subjects: what does conservation (of what?) have to do with production (of what: shrimp) in your research on goevrnance?
ReplyDeleteHi, I agreed with Paul too. It is not easy for you to combine both in one PhD that you call "governance". I still suggest you to select the case of Mahakam delta (mangrove planting in shrimp farm promoted by the Government last 5 years to compare with the case of WWW in Tarakan. One more thing that you can select is the case of CP group (if I am not mistaken) to compare with very extensive case in Tarakan.
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