| Title | Blue Justice principles for small-scale fisheries in marine protected areas |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Ratana Chuenpagdee (author) |
| Svein Jentoft (author) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0395.17 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0395/chapters/10.11647/obp.0395.17 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Ratana Chuenpadgee; Svein Jentoft; |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2025-01-30 |
| Long abstract | Ratana Chuenpadgee and Svein Jentoft provide a thorough global review of governance in small-scale fisheries. They focus both on formal ‘top-down’ governance in a variety of different settings and countries, but they also review various forms in informal ‘bottom-up’ governance that have proven effective in many cases. There are many ways for governance to fail, but also many ways for combinations of formal and informal governance to promote sustainability for local social-ecological systems. The authors emphasize emerging approaches to ‘Blue Justice’ principles that seem to be spreading in small-scale fisheries, particularly those associated with marine protected areas. |
| Page range | pp. 265–274 |
| Print length | 10 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
Ratana Chuenpagdee is a University Research Professor in Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in St. John’s. She is leading a major global research partnership, Too Big To Ignore (TBTI), which aims at elevating the profile of small-scale fisheries and rectifying their marginalization in national and international policies. As part of this project, she’s coordinating research and activities to support the implementation of the SSF Guidelines and transdisciplinary research for fisheries and ocean governance around the world. Ratana also co-leads a research module on informing governance responses in a changing ocean for the Ocean Frontier Institute, another major collaborative research initiative between universities, governments, private sectors and communities.
Svein Jentoft is a sociologist and a professor at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Norway. He has been a prominent figure in the marine social sciences. He has worked extensively on fisheries and coastal issues, including resource management, industrial organization, and community development in his native Norway, as well as in many other countries. The list of his publications is impressive, as is the extent to which his work is cited. Suffice to say, he has published more than 25 books and numerous journal articles on fisheries and coastal governance. Among his colleagues in the Norwegian College of Fishery Science at UiT the Arctic University of Norway, he is not only respected as a productive researcher but also as one of the best supervisors of students and young academics around.