Governance Literacy
Description
This book is premised on the great expectation about small-scale fisheries globally as a means of providing food security and alleviating poverty among the millions of people in coastal and inland communities. To reach these goals, small-scale fisheries must be governed in a way that is efficient, effective and socially just. The reality, however, as this book shows, is that governance systems are not always up to the task. Small-scale fisheries are not given the attention they deserve by governments, they are vulnerable to external pressures, and they often find themselves at the losing side in the competition with other goals like conservation, and for access to markets, resources, and space, making the life in small-scale fisheries an uphill struggle for sustainability and survival. The book, which draws on case studies from around the world, provides a sharp analysis of the key elements, the design and the functioning of the governance systems as they relate to small-scale fisheries. A unifying analytic approach is "interactive governance theory", which has its own language that can help improve governance, and governance literacy, for fisheries and ocean sustainability. The theory has also been explored and applied in other TBTI publications in the Mare Series.
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Part I:Governing for literacy.- Interactive governance as a language.- Governance transformation in small-scale fisheries: Insights from interactive governance.- Part II:Governing the conservation.- Assessing governability of closed fishing season for sardine fishery in the Visayan Sea, Philippines.- A fishing refuge zone in Mexico: Exploring motivations and social actions for marine conservation and fisheries management.- Conservation and fisheries: The case of dolphin strandings and small-scale fisheries in the Bay of Biscay.- How can 'co-governance' involve community? Prospects for governing together for marine conservation.- Part III:Governing the governance.- Rethinking the quota system in Japanese small-scale fisheries: An interactive governance analysis.- Governing access to resources in the Bangladesh Sundarbans: A three-order analysis.- Governance mismatch: Lessons from anchovy fisheries management in Thailand.-Alignment of legal mismatches with the meta-order: A case of Social Blue Justice?.- Caribbean and Brazilian small-scale fisheries governability: Interactions and distractions.- Part IV: Governing the value chain.- Access to markets for small-scale mud crab fishers in Bangladesh: Challenges during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.- Governing the middle: Post-harvest governance of dried anchovies in Thailand.- Situated citizenship and human rights: An interactive governance analysis of a dried fish value chain in Valsad, India.- Adapting to changing markets to survive: Struggles of small-scale fisheries in the Canary Islands.- Part V: Governing the interactions.- Interactive governance against uncertainty: Coastal flooding adaptation through active participation.- Interactive Governance and Blue (In)Justice: Pathways for just transformation in the blue economy of Coastal Islands.- How did these women end up here? The transition of governance modes in the on-foot shellfish fishery in Galicia, Spain.- Blue Justice" for inland, small-scale fisheries in Nepal: Relevance, challenges and opportunities.- Social innovation for just and sustainable small-scale fisheries.- Part VI: Governing for the future.- Investigating power in interactive small-scale fisheries governance.- Future directions for interactive governance.