The effectiveness and outcomes of management are expected to improve when people are informed, engaged and influential in governance and management procedures. The social-ecological and demographic contexts should, however, influence an individual's perceptions and willingness to engage and access appreciable benefits from management. To evaluate how engagement, procedures and perceived outcomes varied with geographic and social-ecological context, we asked 1582 heads-of-households in 38 fishing villages in four tropical countries to evaluate the benefits of their local fisheries management. Responses to 10 collective action, social performance and management procedure questions fell along three response axes, namely (a) the potential benefits of management, (b) resource status and the reliability of yields and (c) the respondents' ability to influence management decisions. Respondents were most positive about the organization of the existing management systems but more sceptical about their ability to influence decision-making and subsequent yields and resource status. More frequent negative opinions increased with urbanization (distance to cities and population density), which could arise from challenges of group cohesion, local control and subsequent management efficacy. Consequently, we argue that some common rural, decentralized, or collective fisheries management systems are inappropriate for engaging participation in urban contexts. Across all locations, there is a need to increase participation with management decisions and actions, and to transparently evaluate and respond to resource and yield outcomes. Crafting recommendations appropriate for urban contexts will be increasingly relevant as urbanization and commercialized fisheries expand in tropical countries.

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热带珊瑚礁渔业管理成效的看法

当人们在治理和管理程序中了解情况、参与其中并具有影响力时，管理的有效性和结果有望得到改善。然而，社会生态和人口背景应该会影响个人参与并从管理中获得可观利益的看法和意愿。为了评估参与、程序和感知结果如何随地理和社会生态背景而变化，我们询问了四个热带国家 38 个渔村的 1582 位户主，以评估他们当地渔业管理的收益。对 10 个集体行动、社会绩效和管理程序问题的回答分为三个回答轴，即 (a) 管理的潜在收益，(b) 资源状况和产量的可靠性，以及 (c) 受访者的 影响管理决策的能力。受访者对现有管理系统的组织最为积极，但对其影响决策以及后续产量和资源状态的能力持怀疑态度。随着城市化（到城市的距离和人口密度），更频繁的负面意见增加，这可能来自群体凝聚力、地方控制和后续管理效率的挑战。因此，我们认为一些常见的农村、分散或集体渔业管理系统不适合参与城市环境。在所有地点，都需要增加对管理决策和行动的参与，并透明地评估和响应资源和产出结果。