Stakeholder participation and sustainable fisheries: an integrative framework for assessing adaptive comanagement processes

Stöhr, Christian; Lundholm, Cecilia; Crona, Beatrice; Chabay, Ilan

doi:10.5751/es-06638-190314

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“…The applied analytical framework focused, in particular, on participation in terms of "access", "standing" and "influence" as key aspects. The results show that by supporting stakeholder dialogues in various ways (e.g., by skilled mediators ensuring constructive and respectful dialogues, and access to attend meetings through funding), the participatory process was successful in achieving positive outcomes in terms of learning, trust building and compliance [16]. With regard to the Swedish case, the results also showed that participants' influence concerning what they were allowed to decide upon was not clearly defined at the outset, which caused major problems and threats to the continuation of the project.…”

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“…It could be argued that complexity generally makes the development of a shared understanding more difficult. However, by bringing the aspect of uncertainty into decision-making and the management process in an explicit and strategic manner may well result in a shared understanding of innate complexity of the system [12,16].…”

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“…The interviews focused on their views of the participatory process and outcomes (social, ecological, and economical), and, if they thought they had learnt about ecological, social or institutional aspects of fisheries as a result of taking part in the dialogues. The results from these interviews have been reported elsewhere (see [16] and Introduction).…”

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“…This was of concern to all stakeholders (and was a core incentive to engage in the co-management initiative, see [16]) but different reasons for the decline were suggested: over-fishing, the increase of crayfish (eating char roe), reproduction problems (where climate change was seen to be effecting freezing of the lake, in turn influencing reproduction), and climate change causing higher water temperature which could potentially effect the char negatively as it is a cold-water fish.…”

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Stakeholder Dialogues and Shared Understanding: The Case of Co-Managing Fisheries in Sweden

Lundholm

Stöhr

2014

Sustainability

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Abstract:There is growing interest in communication, participation and learning in multiple fields, such as governance and policy research, natural resource management research and educational research. This paper reports a study on stakeholder dialogues and shared understanding in the context of co-managed fisheries aiming at participation and learning to increase aspects of efficiency, legitimacy and accuracy. The research investigates differing views held by participants on resource decline and how these could be affected through stakeholder dialogues. The results show that diverging views remained after four years of meetings and dialogues, but also that shared understanding in relation to certain topics developed. Participants highlighted that shared understanding was important for the feasibility of co-management, while also addressing issues of invisibility of the resource (fish living under water), uncertainty due to the complexity of the eco systems, and the epistemological difficulties of bringing scientific results into decision-making, which makes shared understanding in this case challenging and even impossible at times.

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Stakeholder Dialogues and Shared Understanding: The Case of Co-Managing Fisheries in Sweden

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Stöhr

2014

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“…The Swedish Board of Fisheries supported the surrounding region in 2004 as a "Co-management Initiative Project", which worked successfully for the development of regional fisheries co-management. In October 2009, this project, characterised by the inclusion of multiple stakeholders in a dialogue for learning, enhancement of trust, and influence on decision-making on resource extraction was ended, resulting in an institutional and permanent co-management structure (see Stöhr et al, 2014).…”

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Learning ecosystem complexity: a study on small-scale fishers’ ecological knowledge generation

Garavito-Bermúdez

2016

Environmental Education Research

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Small-scale fisheries are learning contexts of importance for generating, transferring, and updating ecological knowledge of natural environments through everyday work practices. The rich knowledge fishers have of local ecosystems is the result of the intimate relationship fishing communities have had with their natural environments across generations (see e.g. Urquhart and Acott 2013). This relationship develops strong emotional bonds to the physical and social place. For fishing communities and fisherswho depend directly on local ecosystems to maintain their livelihoodsfishing environments are natural places for living, working and defining themselves. Previous research on fishers' ecological knowledge has mainly been descriptive, i.e., has focused on aspects such as reproduction, nutrition and spatial-temporal distribution and population dynamics, from a traditional view of knowledge that only recognises scientific knowledge as the true knowledge. By doing this, fishers' ecological knowledge has been investigated separately from the learning contexts in which it is generated, ignoring the influence of social, cultural and historical aspects that characterise fishing communities, and the complex relationships between fishers and the natural environments they live and work in. This thesis investigates ecological knowledge among small-scale fishers living and working in the ecosystems of Lake Vättern and the Blekinge Archipelago (Baltic Sea) in Sweden and explores how ecological knowledge is generated with particular regard to the influences of work and nature on fishers' knowledge of ecosystems. The aim of this thesis is to contribute to the knowledge and understanding of informal learning processes of ecosystem complexity among small-scale fishers. This knowledge further contributes to the research field of ecological knowledge and sustainable use and management of natural resources. It addresses the particular research questions of what ecological knowledge fishers generate, and how its generation is influenced by their fishing work practices and relationships to nature.The thesis consists of three articles. Article I focuses on the need to address the significant lack of theoretical and methodological frameworks for the investigation of the cognitive aspects involved in the generation of ecological knowledge. Article II deals with the need to develop theoretical, methodological and empirical frameworks that avoid romanticising and idealising users' ecological knowledge in local (LEK), indigenous (IEK) and traditional (TEK) ecological knowledge research, by rethinking it as being generated through work practices. Article III addresses the lack of studies that explicitly explore theories linking complex relations and knowledge that humans form within and of ecosystems. It also addressed the lack of attention from environmental education researchers to theory and empirical studies of 'sense of place' research, with a particular focus on environmental learning. Research into the question of what ecologic...

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Too much of a good thing? A systematic review about the conditions of learning in governance networks

Riche

Aubin

Moyson

2020

European Policy Analysis

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Stakeholder participation and sustainable fisheries: an integrative framework for assessing adaptive comanagement processes

Cited by 38 publications

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Stakeholder Dialogues and Shared Understanding: The Case of Co-Managing Fisheries in Sweden

Stakeholder Dialogues and Shared Understanding: The Case of Co-Managing Fisheries in Sweden

Learning ecosystem complexity: a study on small-scale fishers’ ecological knowledge generation

Too much of a good thing? A systematic review about the conditions of learning in governance networks

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