Rethinking Fisheries Governance: The Role of States and Meta-Governance

Rethinking Fisheries Governance: The Role of States and Meta-Governance
ISBN-10
3319610554
ISBN-13
9783319610559
Category
Political Science
Pages
215
Language
English
Published
2017-08-11
Publisher
Springer
Author
Hoang Viet Thang

Description

This book explores how the state can foster collective action by fisher’s communities in fisheries management. It presents a different perspective from Elinor Ostrom’s classic work on the eight institutional conditions that foster collective action in natural resource management and instead emphasizes the role of the state in fisheries co-management, engaging a state-centric notion of ‘meta-governance’. It argues that first, the state is required to foster collective action by fishers; and secondly, that the current fisheries co-management arrangements are state-centric. The study develops these arguments through the analysis of three case studies in Japan, Vietnam and Norway. The author also makes a theoretical contribution to governance literature by developing Ostrom’s ‘society-centric’ framework in a way which makes it more amenable to the analysis of state capacity and government intervention in a comparative context. This book will appeal to students and scholars of global governance, fisheries management, co-management, and crisis management, as well as practitioners of fisheries management.

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