In developing regions, coastal communities are particularly dependent on small-scale
fisheries for food security and income. However, information on the scale and impacts of …

The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which a social wellbeing approach can
offer a useful way of addressing the policy challenge of reconciling poverty and …

Responsible fisheries management is of increasing interest to the scientific community,
resource managers, policy makers, stakeholders and the general public. Focusing solely on …

This paper introduces two concepts-interactive governance and governability-with a view to
exploring their applicability for assessing the governance of natural resource systems …

Highlights•Legal pluralism is a regular phenomenon in capture fisheries.•Methods for
assessing the implications of legal pluralism for governance are scarce.•The interactive …

Governance is one of the most frequently discussed issues in contemporary policy science
literature, and this has led to a wide variety of conceptualisations. However, few of these …

New estimates of the global mean depth of fishing, which consider both the between and
within species changes over time, showed a stronger shift to deeper water than estimated …

This chapter presents the conceptual foundations of governability and interactive
governance upon which it is based. Interactive governance is a theoretical perspective that …

Indonesian fisheries law and policy is currently dominated by hierarchical or centralised
governance models which have several shortcomings compared to participatory …

Deliberative forms of stakeholder participation have been widely embraced as a key
measure for addressing legitimacy deficits and non-compliance in environmental …