Power, knowledge, and conflict in the shaping of commons governance. The case of EU Baltic fisheries

Burns, Tom; Stöhr, Christian

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“…My claim is that a paradigm concept is very suitable to the analysis of societal, institutional, and public policy developments which are shaped and governed by societal agents (scientists included) sharing and developing cognitive-normative frameworks. Elsewhere several of us have specified and empirically tested the "architecture of social paradigms" (see [6,12,13]). Capra [11] considers and argues for a "scientific revolution", and, in particular for a shift from a mechanistic to an ecological paradigm (grounded in scientific ways of thinking).…”

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The Sustainability Revolution: A Societal Paradigm Shift

Burns

2012

Sustainability

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This article addresses a question relevant to those interested in the achievement of greater sustainability: What are some of the ways that major societal transformations come about? Firstly, four key mechanisms are identified in the article. Then, I go on to focus on one of these, which has a prominent place in the sustainability revolution that it is argued is now taking place. The question of what are characteristic features of the sustainability revolution is addressed. The ongoing transformations are largely piecemeal, incremental, diffuse-in earlier writings referred to as "organic". Organic is a more encompassing notion than "grassroots", since the innovation and transformation processes may be launched and developed at multiple levels by collective agents that in some cases are very large and would not be understood as "grassroots" actors. The article argues that the sustainability revolution shares some features, in particular its organic character, with the early industrial revolution. It concludes by addressing the question of what are the similarities and differences between the sustainability and industrial revolutions.

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The Sustainability Revolution: A Societal Paradigm Shift

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2012

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“…The analysis of wolf governance will be accommodated according to a specific conceptualization of governance systems as proposed by Burns & Stöhr (2011) using an institutional approach to governance. We aim to expound the nature and degree of complexity inherent to a socio-ecological system by revealing some of the dynamics between nature conservation and social management.…”

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“…According to the Burns & Stöhr (2011), the architecture of governance systems can be described and compared as governance paradigms (Note 4). The purpose of using paradigms in governance analysis is to interlink the three broad categories of ideas/culture, institutions and actors and show how they interrelate.…”

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The Governance of the Wolf-Human Relationship in Europe

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2013

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We analyze the architecture and functioning of wolf governance in the European Union revealing some of the dynamics between biology conservation and social management. Comparing Germany, Galicia (Spain), Portugal and Sweden as illustrative examples the paper highlights important similarities and differences in the governance conceptualizations and architectures. In the second part, the article examines struggles and challenges to the EU's protective governance paradigm. Our findings indicate that active opposition to wolves becomes especially visible in Sweden and Germany, the two countries with the least number of wolves but their fairly recent re-appearance. We conclude that such opposition cannot be sufficiently explained by rationally grounded disadvantages due, for example, loss of farm animals caused by the large carnivores and/or insufficient compensation measures. We argue it's more accurate to assume a clash of paradigms, which have in themselves vaster ontological, epistemological, experiential and axiological issues and which, in turn, strongly shape opinions, values and attitudes.

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“…Extensive field evidence demonstrates that fishers can contribute important information streams for decision-making, but that integration into corresponding scientific, management, and policy frameworks remains challenging (Pinto da Silva and Kitts 2006;Gray and Hatchard 2008;Johnson 2009;Burns and Stöhr 2011). For example, natural scientists raise concerns about conservation costs of fishing gear interactions with target and non-target fish,…”

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Harvesting a knowledge commons: collective action, transparency, and innovation at the Portland Fish Exchange

Brewer

2014

Int J Commons

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While localist visions of alternative food systems advocate for the expansion of local ecological knowledge through more proximate producerconsumer relationships, globalized seafood supply-demand chains persist. Moving beyond this dichotomy, commons scholars recognize that collective action among resource users at the local level can shape cross-scalar producer relations with government and more capitalized firms operating in regional and global markets. In the case of the New England groundfishery, a quasi-public fish auction not only transformed the scalar, logistical, and financial parameters of harvester-buyer relationships, it altered the production and use of local knowledge among some harvesters, and their technological choices. Resulting markets offer potential benefits that extend to broader publics, by increasing the monetary value and experimental development of a knowledge commons. Qualitative analysis of field data shows that with new market transparency, fish are no longer valued as an undifferentiated commodity, but as a variety of products with individually nuanced price structures. Displacement of local seafood buyers incurred some shoreside job losses, but fishers on smaller, owner-operated boats in multi-generational fishing harbours benefit particularly from new opportunities compared to larger, fleet boats due to different labour relations, allocations of decision-making responsibilities, observational contexts, and associated information flows. Implications for the mobilization of knowledge-action linkages to influence formal resource management arenas merit further research. 156Jennifer F. Brewer of Geography, Planning, and Environment. In addition to many anonymous informants, I wish to thank past and present staff of the Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance and members of the Fish Locally Collaborative for building a big tent, asking hard questions, seeking informed solutions, and maintaining a deeply integrative and committed spirit. Thank you also to the editors and anonymous reviewers, for their insightful and supportive comments.

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Power, knowledge, and conflict in the shaping of commons governance. The case of EU Baltic fisheries

Cited by 29 publications

References 21 publications

The Sustainability Revolution: A Societal Paradigm Shift

The Sustainability Revolution: A Societal Paradigm Shift

The Governance of the Wolf-Human Relationship in Europe

Harvesting a knowledge commons: collective action, transparency, and innovation at the Portland Fish Exchange

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