Who Benefits? How Interest-Convergence Shapes Benefit-Sharing and Indigenous Rights to Sustainable Livelihoods in Russia

Tysiachniouk, Maria; Henry, Laura A.; Tulaeva, Svetlana; Horowitz, Leah S.

doi:10.3390/su12219025

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“…We applied the GGN theory in order to conceptualize our findings and understand the global/local interplay of actors in governance of fisheries. GGN represents the phenomenological explanatory concept, which is appropriate for institutional analysis and explains how global standards developed transnationally are translated, adapted, and implemented locally by global to local networks operating across different scales [23,[65][66][67][68].…”

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Marine Stewardship Council Certification in Finland and Russia: Global Standards and Local Practices

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The state of seafood resources around the world has been declining for the last 50 years. There are multiple global, regional, and national regulatory arrangements that make an effort to revert this situation. The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is a voluntary global instrument, believed to foster sustainability in commercial fishing practices. This paper analyzes the institutionalization of MSC in Finland and Russia, and highlights how MSC as a global standard adapts to the different local contexts. It also shows which other global regulatory arrangements contribute to regulating fish production and what are the specifics of interaction between them. For the analysis of the MSC scheme, this paper uses the governance generating network (GGN) theory, which has been widely applied to the research on the FSC forest certification scheme and oil sector. The GGN lens helps to analyze the generative capacity of multiple global regulatory instruments including MSC in the Baltic Sea (Finland) and the Barents Sea (Russia). Qualitative methodology, such as semi-structured interviews with the same interview guide, document analysis, and participant observations were used in both Finland and Russia. We show that several GGNs are contributing to fishing regulations, e.g., the implementation of MSC in both countries is facilitated by multiple international organizations and conventions, which were signed prior to the creation of the MSC scheme. The limited added value of MSC certification is observed in both Finland and Russia: MSC ensures economic stability of certified companies and contributes to biodiversity conservation.

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Marine Stewardship Council Certification in Finland and Russia: Global Standards and Local Practices

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“…Ensuring fairness in partnerships can be subverted by unacknowledged power differentials (Berbeś-Blaźquez et al, 2016;Crosman et al, 2021). The theory of interest convergence recognizes that gains made to marginalized groups usually only materialize when they align with the interests of groups with the power to affect policy and lead interventions (Bell, 1980;Belanger and Walker, 2009;Tysiachniouk et al, 2020). While this principle can theoretically help predict which interventions can lead to equity gains, this principle has often described how politically powerful groups only promote marginalized groups as it benefits the powerful (Bell, 1980;Belanger and Walker, 2009;Feldman, 2011;Crowder, 2013).…”

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An inequity assessment framework for planning coastal and marine conservation and development interventions

Singh,

Keefer,

Ota

2023

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Sustainable development should promote equity with benefits for coastal communities. Many conservation and development initiatives promise to contribute to an equitable future without being designed to do so. Here, we promote an assessment tool to help interventions plan to promote equity through forecasting and evaluating the risks of contributing to inequities, in order to plan against them. Building from rich literatures of impact assessment, procedural justice, postcolonial studies, critical race theory, and fields in sociology studying the accrual of advantage and disadvantage among different groups, we propose the assessment framework follow key principles that center on understanding how interventions affect marginalized people, and assess how planning, implementation, and outcome decisions build on each other and reflect (or work against) broader systemic contextual pressures that perpetuate inequities. In forecasting and monitoring potential inequities, coastal communities and proponents of interventions should be able to plan against the realization of these adverse impacts. We show how the framework can be used in three case studies: 1) a climate adaptation project; 2) marine protected areas; 3) a debt relief program. Sustainable development is about promoting equity, but only with methods employed to confront and understand inequitable consequences can interventions do so.

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“…Corporate extractives may use this weakness to exclude members such as women, youth, and settlers from the bargaining process. As Horowitz et al posits, such 'intersecting patterns' of marginalization are not merely super cial, but they interact in complex ways to disenfranchise marginalized rural people (Tysiachniouk et al, 2020).…”

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The intersecting impact of mining operations and climate change on sustainable livelihoods at the extraction frontiers of Ghana

Pakmoni

Udimal

Hussein

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Mining operations in developing countries are situated within complex ecological and social dynamics and are exacerbated by the multiplier effects of climate change. This paper explores the intersecting impact of mining activities and climate change, mediated by the politics of power on the rural livelihoods and the environment. Applying the qualitative research approach using focus group discussion, interviews, and document reviews. The results show that a) the impacts of mining exploitation and climate change intersect and manifest in altering the dynamics of the environment and ecosystems, resulting in adverse societal outcomes; b) the expansion of mining operations is determined by power politics and the search for resource rent and profits. This extraction process continues with little regard for rural livelihoods and good environmental stewardship. This paper argues that if the conjoint impact of mining activities with climate change threats is not handled well, it may reconfigure rural livelihood portfolios in extraction enclaves. Thus, creating a new site for struggle and contestation over resources never seen before in resource-rich countries of Africa. This paper contends that it is possible to conceptualize a sustainable mining pathway that mitigates the "multiplier threat " of climate change and mining activities on rural populations and the environment.

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Who Benefits? How Interest-Convergence Shapes Benefit-Sharing and Indigenous Rights to Sustainable Livelihoods in Russia

Cited by 5 publications

References 54 publications

Marine Stewardship Council Certification in Finland and Russia: Global Standards and Local Practices

Marine Stewardship Council Certification in Finland and Russia: Global Standards and Local Practices

An inequity assessment framework for planning coastal and marine conservation and development interventions

The intersecting impact of mining operations and climate change on sustainable livelihoods at the extraction frontiers of Ghana

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