Publications

Fish for Life: Interactive Governance for Fisheries

Jan Kooiman, Maarten Bavinck, Svein Jentoft and Roger Pullin (eds.)

‘Fish for Life’ presents an interdisciplinary and intersectoral approach to the governance of capture fisheries and aquaculture, with special reference to the circumstances of developing countries. Holistic in scope, and building on state-of-the-art understandings of the field, the authors argue for an interactive style of governance that takes account of the diversity, complexity, dynamics, and scales affecting marine ecology as well as human society. Food security is one of the core concerns addresses. Governance, the authors argue, is the joint responsibility of governments, civil society, and market.

Fish for Life is part of the MARE Publication Series which publication is in the hands of the Amsterdam University Press.

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Interactive fisheries governance: A guide to better practice

Maarten Bavinck, Ratana Chuenpagdee, Mamadou Diallo, Peter van der Heijden, Jan Kooiman, Robin Mahon and Stella Williams

This guide presents a new and creative approach to the governance of fisheries and aquaculture in the world. Called interactive governance, this approach addresses the diversity, complexity and dynamics of fisheries and aquaculture systems through an inclusive, holistic and adaptive framework that is principle-based, with an emphasis on partnership and learning. The guide suggests that all governance systems stand to benefit from the change in perspective that is proposed in this volume.

The practitioner’s guide is meant for policy makers, scientists, and other stakeholders in the fields of fisheries and aquaculture. The guide is the outcome of a three-year collective exchange of ideas that arose out of concern with the way in which fisheries governance is commonly conceived and practised. The enhancement it proposes is interactive governance, which is based on the idea that the challenges in fisheries can be addressed only if the participants work and learn together. The contributors to this practitioner’s guide are part of the network FISHGOVNET, which includes natural and social scientists from different parts of the globe. Interactive fisheries governance is published by Eburon Academic Publishers, Delft, The Netherlands; 2005.

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