Overview
- Concentrates exclusively on the participative mode of fisheries governance
- Contains chapters written by leading scholars and participants in fisheries governance
- Covers state-of-the-art techniques of public participation in fisheries governance
- Develops a new concept of environmental stewardship as a form of fisheries governance
Part of the book series: Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries (REME, volume 4)
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The chapters focus on three main themes: first, what value does stakeholder participation bring to fisheries governance? Its advocates claim that participation improves the quality of decision-making; resolves conflicts; and increases compliance with regulations. On the other hand, critics argue that participation is often unnecessary, ineffective, costly, time-consuming, and cosmetic. The second theme is the relationship between the participatory mode and the current switch from single species-based fisheries management to the ecosystem-based approach (EBA). In what way does widening the extent of public participation contribute to the EBA? Third is the vexed question of the relationship between fishers’ experiential knowledge and fisheries science: how far does fishers’ knowledge improve our understanding of the marine environment?
The central message of the book is that while stakeholder participation is beneficial, it carries with it responsibilities as well as rights: all stakeholders have a public duty to act as stewards for the marine environment.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Participation in Fisheries Governance
Editors: Tim S. Gray
Series Title: Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3778-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3777-1Published: 09 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6962-7Published: 28 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3778-8Published: 30 June 2006
Series ISSN: 1571-3075
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 366
Topics: Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Human Geography, Environmental Management, Political Science