Overview
- A rare global scan, which enables coherent understanding of the governance of small-scale fisheries and their role in contributing to community development, poverty alleviation and food security
- A timely contribution, coinciding with the implementation of FAO Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication
- The first ever comparative analysis of small-scale fisheries governance across the globe, using a unifying theoretical framework
Part of the book series: MARE Publication Series (MARE, volume 13)
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Table of contents (37 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Governance and Governability – Introducing the Concepts
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Small-Scale Fisheries Diversity – Identifying Governability Challenges
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Governing System Complexity – Aligning Modes
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Rights and Justice Concerns – Securing Access
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About this book
Drawing on more than 30 case studies from around the world, this book offers a multitude of examples for improving the governance of small-scale fisheries. Contributors from some 36 countries argue that reform, transformation and innovation are vital to achieving sustainable small-scale fisheries - especially for mitigating the threats and vulnerabilities of global change. For this to happen, governing systems must be context-specific and the governability of small-scale fisheries properly assessed. The volume corresponds well with the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries adopted in 2014, spearheaded by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). These affirm the importance of small-scale fisheries for food security, nutrition, livelihoods, rural development and poverty reduction. The book arises from the project Too Big To Ignore: Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research (TBTI).
"A nuanced, diverse, vibrant and local-specific collection of essays – just as the small-scale fisheries around the world - dealt with by this versatile array of authors. Following on the heels of the recently adopted FAO Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines, here is an erudite compendium which I heartily recommend to policy makers, academics and activists who wish to come to terms with the complex issue of governance of this important field of human activity."
John Kurien - Founding Member of the International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF), and Former Professor, Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India
"Likely to become a classic in its field, this book is about small-scale fisheries and interactive governance – governance which is negotiated, deliberated upon, and communicated among stakeholders who often share governing responsibilities. The authors show that interactive governance is not just a normative theory but a phenomenon that can be studiedempirically, here with 34 case studies from as many countries around the world, north and south, east and west. Such "force of example" enables the editors to put together well-developed arguments and sometimes surprising conclusions about the way ahead. A must-read for managers, practitioners, stakeholders, and students!"
Fikret Berkes - University of Manitoba, Canada, and author of Coasts for People
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries
Book Subtitle: Global Reflections
Editors: Svein Jentoft, Ratana Chuenpagdee
Series Title: MARE Publication Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17034-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-17033-6Published: 11 June 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38451-1Published: 17 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-17034-3Published: 30 May 2015
Series ISSN: 2212-6260
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6279
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 775
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour