Market-Based Fisheries Management

Høst, Jeppe

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16432-8

Cited by 32 publications

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“…A rights-based approach rolled out using individual transferable quotas fundamentally differs in its underpinnings and implementation from a human-rights approach; the latter being advocated by small-scale fishers and their supporters (Allison et al, 2012;World Forum of Fisher Peoples et al, 2016) and which stresses alignment to a broader human-rights based approach to international development, adopted by many international development agencies since the late 1990s (Ratner et al, 2014). For those with an eye on human rights and wellbeing, the implementation of (fishing) rights-based strategies designed strongly toward an economic rationale raise serious concerns that fisheries benefits will largely be captured and controlled by a relatively few powerful entities (Béné et al, 2010;Cardwell, 2015;Høst, 2015). An additional challenge is that the economic rationale and objectives of powerful actors and wellresourced (economic or environmental, for example) initiatives may not be as transparent as they need to be.…”

Section: Blue Growth Trade-offsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Securing a Just Space for Small-Scale Fisheries in the Blue Economy

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The vast developmental opportunities offered by the world's coasts and oceans have attracted the attention of governments, private enterprises, philanthropic organizations, and international conservation organizations. High-profile dialogue and policy decisions on the future of the ocean are informed largely by economic and ecological research. Key insights from the social sciences raise concerns for food and nutrition security, livelihoods and social justice, but these have yet to gain traction with investors and the policy discourse on transforming ocean governance. The largest group of ocean-userswomen and men who service, fish and trade from small-scale fisheries (SSF)-argue that they have been marginalized from the dialogue between international environmental and economic actors that is determining strategies for the future of the ocean. Blue Economy or Blue Growth initiatives see the ocean as the new economic frontier and imply an alignment with social objectives and SSF concerns. Deeper analysis reveals fundamental differences in ideologies, priorities and approaches. We argue that SSF are being subtly and overtly squeezed for geographic, political and economic space by larger scale economic and environmental conservation interests, jeopardizing the substantial benefits SSF provide through the livelihoods of millions of women and men, for the food security of around four billion consumers globally, and in the developing world, as a key source of micro-nutrients and protein for over a billion low-income consumers. Here, we bring insights from social science and SSF to explore how ocean governance might better account for social dimensions of fisheries.

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Section: Blue Growth Trade-offsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Securing a Just Space for Small-Scale Fisheries in the Blue Economy

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“…By institutionalising legal regimes that define ownership over resources, assembling land for investment and creating infrastructures, state planning plays an important part in shaping economic development (Andreucci et al, 2017;Holgersen, 2020;Shih and de Laurentis, 2022). The state governs the institutionalisation of markets, whether industries can access material use-values and whether actors can acquire economic rents from national resources (Høst, 2015). By conditioning how economic actors can benefit from natural resources, by conditioning how economic actors can benefit from natural resources, the state is actively influencing the distribution of natural resources for production, and particularly by conditioning access to scarce resources, the state plays a role in distribution of rents (Andreucci et al, 2017;Emel et al, 2011;Parenti, 2015).…”

Section: Analysing the Political Economy Of Debt And Natural Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

State capacity and the ‘value’ of sustainable finance: Understanding the state-mediated rent and value production through the Seychelles Blue Bonds

Christiansen

2023

Environ Plan A

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Financial capital is currently being heralded for its potential to provide social and environmental transformations. This paper provides an in-depth case study of the Seychelles Blue Bond, highlighting the state’s (fiscal and planning) capacities as central in mediating the future rents and value production when channelling thematic bond proceeds. Even as the Blue Bonds tapped into private capital markets and bond proceeds were intended to provide leverage for private businesses, this operation was contingent on complex economic and environmental planning by the state. Using literature on fictitious capital, rent and the role of the state in governing natural resources, this paper shows how the state needed to govern investment flows and its environmental conditions simultaneously in the case of the Seychelles Blue Bonds. By examining how the state tries to govern environments and finance in tandem, this paper contributes to geographical research on public fiscal policy, financialisation and environmental governance.

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“…The choice of legal form determines to a great extent the entrepreneur's outlook in terms of investment opportunities, tax regime and transmission of the company at retirement. Across the EU fishing industry, there seems to be a shift from simple legal forms (sole proprietorship or partnership companies) to limited liability companies (LLCs) [15,[79][80][81].…”

Section: Selection Of Firm Attributes For Typology Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%