Governance and Fisheries Management
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What are the three important concepts that emerge as a result of issues related to CPR?

Co-management, governance, and decentralization.

In the context of co-management, what does the State represent in the definition?

One among a set of stakeholders.

What is co-management in the context of resource management?

A situation in which two or more social actors negotiate, define, and guarantee amongst themselves a fair sharing of the management functions, entitlements, and responsibilities for a given territory, area, or set of natural resources.

What is the key characteristic of a state-managed system in the context of co-management?

<p>Nearly total state management.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the alternative to a state-managed system in the context of co-management?

<p>Community-managed (folk-managed) systems.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the vertical contracting out model of state management characterized by?

<p>Devolution of rights.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of resources are the models of co-management particularly useful for analyzing?

<p>Common pool resources (CPRs).</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the basis of the dichotomy between the State and local resource users?

<p>An implicit dichotomy.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the understanding of management in the context of co-management systems?

<p>Management is shared between resource users and government agencies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the key benefit of using co-management models in analyzing resource management issues?

<p>They have proven fruitful for analyzing a number of problems associated with the management of common pool resources.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Study Notes

Governance

  • Governance refers to the processes, systems, and controls used to safeguard and grow assets, as well as the exercise of economic, political, and administrative authority to manage a country's affairs at all levels.
  • It includes mechanisms, processes, and institutions that allow citizens and groups to articulate their interests, exercise their legal rights, meet their obligations, and mediate their differences.
  • Good governance promotes equality, participation, pluralism, transparency, responsibility, and the rule of law, and assures that corruption is minimized, the views of minorities are taken into account, and the voices of the most vulnerable are heard in decision-making.

Fisheries Governance

  • Fisheries governance is the sum of the legal, social, economic, and political arrangements used to manage fisheries, with international, national, and local dimensions.
  • It includes legally binding rules as well as customary social arrangements, and is an intricate web of public, private, and hybrid institutions interacting in a complex manner to administer and regulate the sector.
  • Weakness in fisheries governance is considered the main factor behind the problems of overfishing and stock decline.

Aspects of Fisheries Governance

  • Connecting the fishery policy framework within a supporting national policy framework.
  • The capability of fishery administrations.
  • Failure to distinguish between what is private and what is public, establishment of a predictable framework of laws, and prioritization consistent with development.
  • Non-transparent decision-making, lack of sufficient regulations, and excessive regulations that encourage "rent-seeking" behavior.

Actors in Fisheries Governance

  • Government
  • Civil society, including:
    • Rural stakeholders (local people, influential land lords, associations of peasant, farmers, cooperatives, NGOs, research institutes, religious leaders, finance institutions, political parties, the military, etc.)
    • Urban stakeholders (organized crime syndicates, media, lobbyists, international donors, multi-national corporations, etc.)

Principles of Good Governance

  • Participation by both men and women
  • 8 principles of good governance:
    1. Participation
    2. 2nd Order Governing (institutional arrangements)
    3. 3rd Order (meta-governance) Governing (the 'center of the onion' that feeds, binds, and evaluates the entire governing exercise)

Co-management

  • Co-management can be understood as a situation in which two or more social actors negotiate, define, and guarantee amongst themselves a fair sharing of the management functions, entitlements, and responsibilities for a given territory, area, or set of natural resources.
  • Two models to conceptualize co-management:
    1. Horizontal continuum from nearly total self-management to nearly total state management.
    2. Vertical contracting out model of state management powers, characterized by devolution of rights.

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This quiz covers the concept of governance, including its definition, mechanisms, and processes in managing a nation's or organization's affairs, with a focus on fisheries governance.

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