Environmental stewardship as a new form of fisheries governance

Gray, Tim; Hatchard, Jenny

doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsl041

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“…In practice, it is sometimes difficult to judge how stewardship differs from other environmental governance or natural resource management systems, or similar concepts like custodianship or trusteeship. 31 For example, co-management 32 , like stewardship, is not necessarily driven purely by conservation objectives 33 but also by the need for benefit sharing 34 . In developing countries, stewardship principles are inherent to many community-based management systems 35 based on traditional and indigenous cultural values and beliefs (but for an opposing view see Fennell 36 ).…”

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broader view of stewardship to achieve conservation and sustainability goals in South Africa

Barendse¹,

Roux²,

Currie³

et al. 2016

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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Stewardship is a popular term for the principles and actions aimed at improving sustainability and resilience of social-ecological systems at various scales and in different contexts. Participation in stewardship is voluntary, and is based on values of altruism and long-term benefits. At a global scale, ‘earth stewardship’ is viewed as a successor to earlier natural resource management systems. However, in South Africa, stewardship is narrowly applied to biodiversity conservation agreements on private land. Using a broader definition of stewardship, we identify all potentially related schemes that may contribute to sustainability and conservation outcomes. Stewardship schemes and actors are represented as a social network and placed in a simple typology based on objectives, mechanisms of action and operational scales. The predominant type was biodiversity stewardship programmes. The main actors were environmental non-governmental organisations participating in prominent bioregional landscape partnerships, together acting as important ‘bridging organisations’ within local stewardship networks. This bridging enables a high degree of collaboration between non-governmental and governmental bodies, especially provincial conservation agencies via mutual projects and conservation objectives. An unintended consequence may be that management accountability is relinquished or neglected by government because of inadequate implementation capacity. Other stewardship types, such as market-based and landscape initiatives, complemented primarily biodiversity ones, as part of national spatial conservation priorities. Not all schemes related to biodiversity, especially those involving common pool resources, markets and supply chains. Despite an apparent narrow biodiversity focus, there is evidence of diversification of scope to include more civic and community-level stewardship activities, in line with the earth stewardship metaphor.

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broader view of stewardship to achieve conservation and sustainability goals in South Africa

Barendse¹,

Roux²,

Currie³

et al. 2016

S. Afr. J. Sci.

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“…For example, the same policy implemented through a top‐down versus a bottom‐up approach will likely perform and look very different (Ostrom, 2005). Furthermore, as Gray and Hatchard (2007) point out, a shift over the last two decades in dominant societal values and norms from resource utilization to environmental stewardship has left a marked imprint on the role and function of fisheries management.…”

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A Systematic Approach to Studying Fisheries Governance

Basurto

Nenadović

2012

Global Policy

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How can policies for governing marine fisheries become more effective? How can we engage in developing a new science of fisheries governance that promotes knowledge accumulation and collective learning? We look into these issues by reviewing the current social-ecological status of marine fisheries, common policy approaches in place to govern them, and key learned lessons and shortcomings. While great efforts have been made towards understanding marine governance in the last 50 years, if we are to meet the current and upcoming challenges facing global fisheries, we need to engage with systematic knowledge accumulation about governance performance. To this end we report on a novel classificatory framework which, while nascent, could offer the potential to help us move in that direction.

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“…The phenomena of local environmental stewardship has been studied in numerous different contexts, including forests (English et al 1997;Adhikari et al 2007;Kilgore et al 2008;Messier et al 2015), freshwater (Shandas and Messer 2008;Kreutzwiser et al 2011), grasslands and rangelands (Appiah-Opoku 2007;Squires 2012;Sayre et al 2013;Henderson et al 2014), rural agricultural landscapes (Worrell and Appleby 2000;Plummer et al 2008;Ellis 2013;Gill 2014;Raymond et al 2015), urban environments (Krasny and Tidball 2012;Connolly et al 2014;Romolini et al 2016), fisheries (Gray and Hatchard 2007;McConney et al 2014;van Putten et al 2014;Medeiros et al 2014) and coastal or marine habitats (Sharpe and Conrad 2006;Friedlander et al 2013;Silbernagel et al 2015). These studies tend to focus their analysis either on a subset of the different factors that can support or undermine stewardship -for example, on ethics, motivations, capacity, institutions, networks, context-or simply on whether or not action is being taken to steward the environment.…”

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Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

Bennett¹,

Whitty²,

Finkbeiner³

et al. 2018

Preprint

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There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet environmental stewardship has not received adequate conceptual attention. Establishing a clear definition and comprehensive analytical framework could strengthen our ability to understand the factors that lead to the success or failure of environmental stewardship in different contexts and how to most effectively support and enable local efforts. Here we propose such a definition and framework. First, we define local environmental stewardship as the actions taken by individuals, groups or networks of actors, with various motivations and levels of capacity, to protect, care for or responsibly use the environment in pursuit of environmental and/or social outcomes in diverse social–ecological contexts. Next, drawing from a review of the environmental stewardship, management and governance literatures, we unpack the elements of this definition to develop an analytical framework that can facilitate research on local environmental stewardship. Finally, we discuss potential interventions and leverage points for promoting or supporting local stewardship and future applications of the framework to guide descriptive, evaluative, prescriptive or systematic analysis of environmental stewardship. Further application of this framework in diverse environmental and social contexts is recommended to refine the elements and develop insights that will guide and improve the outcomes of environmental stewardship initiatives and investments. Ultimately, our aim is to raise the profile of environmental stewardship as a valuable and holistic concept for guiding productive and sustained relationships with the environment.

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Environmental stewardship as a new form of fisheries governance

Cited by 23 publications

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broader view of stewardship to achieve conservation and sustainability goals in South Africa

broader view of stewardship to achieve conservation and sustainability goals in South Africa

A Systematic Approach to Studying Fisheries Governance

Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

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