The deep structural crisis that affects the small-scale fisheries sector can be seen as one among several shortcomings of the Brazilian development style. This crisis is becoming more and more acute, in the context of an asymmetrical globalization process. It challenges the performance of rigid, centralized and technocratic systems of common-property resource management. This article focuses on the opportunities and barriers for the re-creation of these systems, taking into account the advances in human-ecological research and eco-development principles.
adaptive co-management of common-property resources; small-scale fisheries; eco-development; Santa Catarina state