Overview
- Provides a comprehensive reader on of the status of small-scale fisheries in Europe, the challenges they are facing and their potential for economic growth and synergies with other sectors
- Contributors to the book are scholars from different disciplines, facilitating a transdisciplinary analysis
- Analyzes the main challenges to implementing the FAO Small-scale Fisheries Guidelines
Part of the book series: MARE Publication Series (MARE, volume 23)
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book offers a comprehensive account of the status and dynamics of people participating in the small-scale fisheries (SSF) of Europe. It covers the situation of SSF in 25 coastal countries, thereby providing a portrait of almost every coastal country on the continent and analyzing the recent evolution of the sector. Small-scale fisheries are argued to be extremely important in Europe, as they provide employment and welfare, while increasing food sovereignty and maintaining communities in coastal areas. The recent worldwide focus on SSF derives from their environmental sustainability, which distinguishes many of their activities from those of large-scale fisheries. This book analyses the diversity of SSF and shows how fishing communities have sometimes developed successful governing models, demonstrating social and economic resilience. While the book emphasizes the strengths of SSF and the synergies that occur with other marine sectors, it also presents cases of failure, in whichcollective action and policy have actually contributed to a weakening of the sector. In this context, the book shows how governmental policies toward SSF vary considerably from country to country, in a way that is not entirely consistent with European policies.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Cristina Pita, PhD in Social and Environmental Sustainability, is a Senior Researcher at Center of Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) and the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She has been engaged in several projects and has published extensively on small-scale fisheries, seafood value chain and market initiatives for small-scale fisheries, fisheries governance, coastal community development, fisheries (commercial and recreational) management and socioeconomics, and sustainable use of marine resources.
Maarten Bavinck is a Professor in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies (GPIO) of the University of Amsterdam and a member of the Governance and Inclusive Development programme group. He also holds a chair in coastal resource governance at the Norwegian Fisheries College of UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. Dr. Bavinck specializes in the governance of capture fisheries, particularly in the South, and is especially interested in the fate of small-scale fisher peoples. He is the founder and co-director of the social-science Centre for Maritime Studies (MARE).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Small-Scale Fisheries in Europe: Status, Resilience and Governance
Editors: José J. Pascual-Fernández, Cristina Pita, Maarten Bavinck
Series Title: MARE Publication Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37371-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37370-2Published: 29 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-37373-3Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-37371-9Published: 28 April 2020
Series ISSN: 2212-6260
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6279
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 610
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 78 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Geography, Microeconomics, Environmental Policy, Coastal Sciences, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management