Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries
Global Reflections
Editors: Jentoft, Svein, Chuenpagdee, Ratana (Eds.)
- 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
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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 studied empirically, 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
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Interactive Governance for Small-Scale Fisheries
- Book Subtitle
- Global Reflections
- Editors
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- Svein Jentoft
- Ratana Chuenpagdee
- Series Title
- MARE Publication Series
- Series Volume
- 13
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-17034-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-17034-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-17033-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-38451-1
- Series ISSN
- 2212-6260
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVII, 775
- Number of Illustrations
- 35 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour
- Topics
