The role of relationships in achieving and maintaining a social licence in the New Zealand aquaculture sector

Baines, James; Edwards, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.aquaculture.2017.11.047

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“…Baines and Edwards () delineate between production systems that are founded on “relational” connections and those that are “transactional.” Relational connections refer to those based on personal ties, trust, and direct communication. These contrast with transactional connections, which place an emphasis on monetary exchange and tend to result in weak or non‐existent ties between consumers and producers.…”

Section: Adding Tools To the Sustainability Toolboxmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This represents a significant gap considering an estimated 37 million people participate in small-scale fisheries (FAO 2012). Baines and Edwards (2018) delineate between production systems that are founded on "relational" connections and those that are "transactional." Relational connections refer to those based on personal ties, trust, and direct communication.…”

Section: Using a Conservation Tool As A Hammermentioning

confidence: 99%

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Alternative pathways to sustainable seafood

Stoll

Bailey

Jonell

2019

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Seafood certifications are a prominent tool being used to encourage sustainability in marine fisheries worldwide. However, questions about their efficacy remain the subject of ongoing debate. A main criticism is that they are not well suited for small‐scale fisheries or those in developing nations. This represents a dilemma because a significant share of global fishing activity occurs in these sectors. To overcome this shortcoming and others, a range of “fixes” have been implemented, including reduced payment structures, development of fisheries improvement projects, and head‐start programs that prepare fisheries for certification. These adaptations have not fully solved incompatibilities, instead creating new challenges that have necessitated additional fixes. We argue that this dynamic is emblematic of a common tendency in natural resource management where particular tools and strategies are emphasized over the conservation outcomes they seek to achieve. This can lead to the creation of “hammers” in management and conservation. We use seafood certifications as an illustrative case to highlight the importance of diverse approaches to sustainability that do not require certification. Focusing on alternative models that address sustainability problems at the local level and increase fishers’ adaptive capacity, social capital, and agency through “relational” supply chains may be a useful starting point.

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Section: Adding Tools To the Sustainability Toolboxmentioning

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Section: Using a Conservation Tool As A Hammermentioning

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Alternative pathways to sustainable seafood

Stoll

Bailey

Jonell

2019

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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“…As a result, researchers globally have variously discussed the importance of key attributes of SLO, including the role of relationships and dialogue (Mercer-Mapstone et al 2017, Baines and Edwards 2018), trust and engagement (Kelly et al under review) and accountability and fairness (Zhang et al 2015) in seeking to establish greater understanding of how SLO functions. These, along with other SLO attributes have been used or prioritised differently depending on the context, e.g.…”

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Trust, engagement, information and social licence—insights from New Zealand

Edwards

Fleming

Lacey

et al. 2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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This research examines trust at the government, industry, community nexus, as mediated by media, and its effect on social licence. We attempted to understand levels and importance of trust in New Zealand's natural resource sectors by examining ways of building, maintaining and assessing public trust in a post-truth society. We surveyed 128 New Zealand public and held a stakeholder forum about perceptions of trust in relation to natural resource sectors. The results provide indications of novel advances around trust and trustworthiness. Honesty was highlighted as the top influencer of trustworthiness and trust, and dishonesty as the top influencer of distrust. In contrast to other literature, we find a nuanced understanding of trust among respondents in relation to the mediarespondents distrusted actors cited in media more than the media outlet or platform itself. Further, our findings suggest there is no discernible change in trust levels in the post-truth era, in this context.

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“…Under the circumstances applicable to seabed mining, approaches borrowed from terrestrial mining practices would practice civic participation, refer to formal guidance (mining codes), and consider the lifetime of the mine from exploration through its operation to its closure [66]. Such practices treat the societal contexts of mining by advocating a participatory approach to regulation, governance and operational decision-making [67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75]. Thus, good terrestrial mining practices take governance issues into primary focus.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ethics to Intersect Civic Participation and Formal Guidance

2019

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Sound governance arrangement in socio-ecological systems (human niche) combines different means of sense-making. The sustainability of human niche-building depends on the governability of the social-ecological systems (SES) forming the niche. Experiences from small-scale marine fisheries and seabed mining illustrate how ethical frameworks, civic participation and formalised guidance combine in the context of a “blue economy”. Three lines of inquiries contextualise these experiences driving research questions, such as “what is the function of ethics for governability?” First, complex-adaptive SES are featured to emphasise the sense-making feedback loop in SES. Actors are part of this feedback loop and can use different means of sense-making to guide their actions. Second, the “Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries” and geoethical thinking are featured to highlight the relevance of actor-centric concepts. Third, Kohlberg’s model of “stages of moral adequacy” and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) are used to show how to strengthen actor-centric virtue-ethics. Combining these lines of inquiry leads to the conclusion that ethical frameworks, civic participation and formalised guidance, when put in a mutual context, support governability and multi-actor/level policy-making. Further research could explore how creativity can strengthen civic participation, a feature only sketched here.

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The role of relationships in achieving and maintaining a social licence in the New Zealand aquaculture sector

Cited by 55 publications

References 14 publications

Alternative pathways to sustainable seafood

Alternative pathways to sustainable seafood

Trust, engagement, information and social licence—insights from New Zealand

Ethics to Intersect Civic Participation and Formal Guidance

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