Design principles for managing coastal fisheries commons in present-day Japan

Sarker, Ashutosh; Ikeda, Tôru; Abe, Takaki; Inoue, Ken

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2015.06.019

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“…These districts and their water governance issues are complex, encompassing multiple actors, geographic characteristics, land uses, and overlapping legal and institutional (sub)systems from more traditional state and nontraditional public centers of governance activity. The legal provisions illustrated in this case span multiple legal domains, including administrative laws that expand and create authority for self-organization, and substantive laws that govern regulation, cooperation, and compliance (see also Sarker et al 2015).…”

Section: Polycentric Governance: Irrigation Commons Of Japanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance

DeCaro¹,

Chaffin²,

Schlager³

et al. 2017

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Legal and institutional structures fundamentally shape opportunities for adaptive governance of environmental resources at multiple ecological and societal scales. Properties of adaptive governance are widely studied. However, these studies have not resulted in consolidated frameworks for legal and institutional design, limiting our ability to promote adaptation and social-ecological resilience. We develop an overarching framework that describes the current and potential role of law in enabling adaptation. We apply this framework to different social-ecological settings, centers of activity, and scales, illustrating the multidimensional and polycentric nature of water governance. Adaptation typically emerges organically among multiple centers of agency and authority in society as a relatively self-organized or autonomous process marked by innovation, social learning, and political deliberation. This self-directed and emergent process is difficult to create in an exogenous, top-down fashion. However, traditional centers of authority may establish enabling conditions for adaptation using a suite of legal, economic, and democratic tools to legitimize and facilitate self-organization, coordination, and collaboration across scales. The principles outlined here provide preliminary legal and institutional foundations for adaptive environmental governance, which may inform institutional design and guide future scholarship.

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Section: Polycentric Governance: Irrigation Commons Of Japanmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance

DeCaro¹,

Chaffin²,

Schlager³

et al. 2017

E&S

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“…Thus, the Japanese Fisheries Agency has allowed fishermen to manage the fisheries and has supported them. Sarker et al (2015) called Japan's coastal fisheries management system "state-reinforced self-governance".…”

Section: Fishery Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political economy of voluntary approaches: A lesson from environmental policies in Japan

Arimura

Kaneko

Managi

et al. 2019

Economic Analysis and Policy

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In this paper, we attempt to identify the reasons behind the differences in environmental policy between Japan and other developed countries, particularly the US. Japan's environmental policy is unique in that voluntary approaches have been taken to reduce total emissions. This strategy is quite different from the traditional approach of heavy-handed regulation. In Japan, voluntary approaches are conducted through negotiations with polluters. The idea behind this type of voluntary approaches is that the government can induce polluters to abate emissions voluntarily by using light-handed regulations and the threat of heavy-handed regulations. The light-handed regulation is quite effective especially when it is costly to introduce heavy-handed regulations, although the negotiations are difficult to conduct when the number of stakeholders is large. To strengthen our analysis, we provide some examples of Japanese environmental policies which are successful and the ones that are not.

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“…This method was introduced in 1988 by Chua Thia-Eng to collect activities related to coastal and aquatic areas in one central place. Integration will provide benefits in terms of (1) cost reduction and delay on development implementation, (2) minimize damage to the environment and water resources, (3) reduce the amount of land used, (4) provide development efficiency and infrastructure operations [12].…”

Section: Integrated Management Of Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Assessing and understanding the resource data contained in an area is also required for the development process. And the inter-agency coordination aspect is needed so that every development in every field can run well [12].…”

Section: Integrated Management Of Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Analysis of Port Integration on Fishing Cold Chain: The Case of Collaboration Between General Port and Fish Operator

Budiyanto¹,

Gurning²,

Cahyagi³

2018

Proceeding of Marine Safety and Maritime Installation (MSMI 2018)

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The development of fishery sector in Indonesia, especially in the north coast of Java has led to a more intensive fishery product flow. The development consists of both domestic and export demand. As consequences, product quality, environment, transportation, cold chain system, and ports should bring as the basis that must be strengthened to create sustainable fisheries. In general, Indonesia fishing port has a separate system from a general port that deals with cargoes. Although in practice (especially in the Port of Tegal), fishing boats also berthing, drop off, and trade at general ports area. The disadvantage that very clearly felt by the fishermen are the lack of development of cold chain system that impact on fishery products and lowering the selling price. This article provides strategies to improve the quality of the fisheries sector through port governance system with cooperation scenarios. The main idea is general ports and national fisheries companies has a joint cooperation to build and operate cold storage facilities in the general ports area (case study at Port of Tegal). In the planning process, the general port companies invest cold storage building and machinery, while the fishing companies operate cold storage facilities. In order to know the quantitative effects of scenarios, the financial approach with NPV, and IRR components is conducted in this article. The result shows that this scenario gives IRR approximately 20%-50% for overall network. The proposed scenario is expected to provide information to various groups (such as government, decision maker, general ports companies, fishing companies, and fishermen) that integrated between general port and fish operator may give a better impact the future fishing sector especially in national fishing logistics.

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Design principles for managing coastal fisheries commons in present-day Japan

Cited by 18 publications

References 45 publications

Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance

Legal and institutional foundations of adaptive environmental governance

Political economy of voluntary approaches: A lesson from environmental policies in Japan

The Analysis of Port Integration on Fishing Cold Chain: The Case of Collaboration Between General Port and Fish Operator

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