Addressing Social Sustainability for Small-Scale Fisheries in Sweden: Institutional Barriers for Implementing the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines

Arias-Schreiber, Milena; Säwe, Filippa; Hultman, Johan; Linke, Sebastian

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55074-9_34

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“…For example, such reasons might include procedural and institutional barriers, behavioral and cultural barriers (see, e.g., [82] for a study of sustainability policy implementation in urban planning). Similar hinders are reported in studies that investigate barriers for sustainability policy implementation in different areas, e.g., sustainable transportation (e.g., [83,84]), natural resource management and planning [85,86], conservation (e.g., [87]) and climate change (e.g., [88]).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Urban Planning as a Strategy to Implement Social Sustainability Policy Goals? The Case of Temporary Housing for Immigrants in Gothenburg, Sweden

Stepanova

Romanov

2021

Sustainability

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Planning is one of the envisioned strategies for reaching policy goals of urban social sustainability. However, the practical realization of this vision faces a number of challenges not least due to conflicts of interests and goals that arise in the planning process. There also seems to be a lack of understanding of the relationship between formal planning and social sustainability goals that are often normative and visionary. In order to bridge this knowledge gap, this paper investigates how urban social sustainability can be implemented in urban planning in the context of conflicts of interests and goals. In particular, we explore two questions: (i) whether and how planning procedures are interconnected with local policy goals for social sustainability; (ii) whether and how conflict affects the implementation of these goals through planning. The paper presents a qualitative case study of planning of temporary housing for immigrants in Gothenburg, Sweden, where a conflict of interests developed in conjunction with the planning. The local social sustainability goals are operationalized through the specific sub-goals of accessible and more equal living conditions, distribution of and equal access to housing for all groups in the community, and reduced social and ethnic segregation and discrimination in regard to housing. We identify shortcomings in the integration of local urban social sustainability goals into planning procedures and find that conflicts of interests as well as conflicts of priorities within and between the policy goals complicate their integration into formal planning procedures. More attention needs to be given to improved operationalization of the questions of priority and conflict resolution, both in planning and in urban social sustainability policy, if planning is to be considered a viable strategy for implementation of social sustainability goals.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 66%

Urban Planning as a Strategy to Implement Social Sustainability Policy Goals? The Case of Temporary Housing for Immigrants in Gothenburg, Sweden

Stepanova

Romanov

2021

Sustainability

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“…A herring fishery of unprecedented size in European history developed on the west coast of Sweden during the latter half of the 18th century (Poulsen et al 2007). On the east coast (Baltic Sea and the Sound), fishing sustained many communities and was for centuries part of local ways of life and distinctive place identity (Arias-Schreiber et al 2017;Vesterberg 2019;Bj€ orkvik et al 2020). In the first half of the 20th century, the number of fishers in Sweden was estimated at around 25,000 (Krogseng 2016).…”

Section: Brief Summary Of Swedish Fisheries Participation and Fisheries Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Navigating Motivations for Fisheries Participation and Exit in Sweden

Schreiber

Gillette

2021

Society & Natural Resources

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Fisheries' supply of ecosystem services depends on recruiting, maintaining and-in cases of overfishing-preventing fishers' participation. Participation is influenced by fishers' levels of job satisfaction and a variety of motivations that cannot be reduced to income size. Previous research on fishers' job satisfaction has applied Maslow's hierarchy of basic, socio-psychological and self-actualization needs. Using these as three categories of co-existing rather than hierarchical needs, we investigate Swedish fishers' motivations for considering fisheries exit. Our results suggest that more than half of fishers are considering exiting and that they identify conflicts with seals (31%), environmental policies (17%) and performance of government agencies (16%) as their main reasons. These motivations, we argue, impact simultaneously basic, socio-psychological and self-actualization needs. Accordingly, fishers' motivations for participation-exit decisions are not solely, and may not be primarily, monetary. A better understanding of fishers' motivations, particularly non-monetary ones, would improve fisheries management.

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“…In the recent past, if not today, such fisheries provided high-quality seafood and local employment, and drove economic and social life in many rural areas (e.g., Menzies 2011;Snyder and St. Martin 2015). Yet over recent decades, EU coastal fisheries have been neglected and marginalized relative to demands from large-scale commercial fisheries and pro-environmental organizations (Arias Schreiber et al 2017;Said et al 2016;Høst 2015;Ertör-Akyazı, this issue;Said and MacMillan, this issue). Moreover, an ongoing and in cases irreversible degradation of European marine ecosystems, the results of overfishing, and more recently climate change, have also been negatively impacting on coastal fishers and their communities (Lloret et al 2018;Gascuel et al 2016).…”

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Swimming upstream: community economies for a different coastal rural development in Sweden

2019

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The EU Blue Growth agenda is being implemented at a time when European coastal fisheries and traditional fishing communities are struggling to survive or have already vanished from areas where they used to flourish. Driven by the strong conviction that current disadvantaged and vulnerable coastal fishers still have a central role to play in rural development, local level initiatives are calling for a different future for this fishery sector. The participants in these initiatives insist that coastal fisheries should not be driven to extinction, despite their low economic profitability and thus minimal contribution to economic growth compared to large-scale enterprises. Through participatory observation and informal interviews, we investigate one of these local level initiatives on the Swedish Baltic Sea coast and analyse how it aligns with a community economies' project based on a different economic perspective. We describe first the primary activities carried out by the initiative and follow by an examination on what drove it, how it has been maintained, and how it might spread. We conclude on the potentials of the community economies framework and project to advance a Blue degrowth agenda based on difference and not necessarily less.

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Addressing Social Sustainability for Small-Scale Fisheries in Sweden: Institutional Barriers for Implementing the Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

Urban Planning as a Strategy to Implement Social Sustainability Policy Goals? The Case of Temporary Housing for Immigrants in Gothenburg, Sweden

Urban Planning as a Strategy to Implement Social Sustainability Policy Goals? The Case of Temporary Housing for Immigrants in Gothenburg, Sweden

Neither Fish Nor Fowl: Navigating Motivations for Fisheries Participation and Exit in Sweden

Swimming upstream: community economies for a different coastal rural development in Sweden

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