ABSTRACT The establishment and use of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) groups is now the established route towards conservation in large parts of the Pacific, especially in Fiji. One of the main strengths of CBNRM that is often mentioned is its adaptability to different contexts and to changing objectives among stakeholders, an aspect thoroughly tested by events such as ‘natural’ disasters. This paper is based on 10 months of fieldwork in Kubulau district in Fiji before, during and after Cyclone Winston. It provides an ethnographic account of how this ‘natural’ disaster affected a community and the local CBNRM group. It looks at how this event was experienced and managed by the group, and how the group’s involvement in disaster assistance shifted its role both within and outside of the community, as well as changing its future agenda during the months that followed. We can see in the aftermath of disaster a shift within the group away from the original primary focus on conservation and towards development. The paper provides an account of how the disaster seemingly strengthened the group and the ‘community’ in terms of organisation, knowledge and motivation, but also how it challenged previous norms and exposed weaknesses that are arguably inherent within CBNRM itself.

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气旋温斯顿和斐济的社区海洋保护

摘要 以社区为基础的自然资源管理（CBNRM）团体的建立和使用现在是太平洋大部分地区，特别是斐济的既定路线。经常被提及的 CBNRM 的主要优势之一是它对不同环境和利益相关者不断变化的目标的适应性，这一方面经过“自然”灾害等事件的全面测试。本文基于在飓风温斯顿之前、期间和之后在斐济 Kubulau 区进行的 10 个月实地调查。它提供了关于这场“自然”灾害如何影响社区和当地 CBNRM 团体的民族志描述。它着眼于该团体如何经历和管理该事件，以及该团体如何参与救灾，如何在社区内外改变其角色，以及在接下来的几个月中改变其未来议程。我们可以看到，在灾难发生后，该组织内部发生了从最初的主要关注点转向保护的转变。这篇论文阐述了灾难如何在组织、知识和动机方面似乎加强了团体和“社区”，但也说明了它如何挑战以前的规范并暴露出 CBNRM 本身固有的弱点。