Complexity and the Political Economy of Fisheries
From Open World
This page is for work on a parallel project exploring the cross-scale political economy of fisheries, and how a complexity perspective can deepen Ostrom's work on commons management.
Fishery collapse is a global concern, affecting world food supply, economic prospects for fishing communities, and with plenty of spill-over effects for marine environments and endangered species. A growing set of policies are being developed to address this problem: catch quotas, gear restrictions, marine reserves, and community management.
However, systemic incentives...
- short-term
- souverty
- don't tell
- entrenched stakeholders
- mistrust of science
- stock uncertainty
- perverse policy incentives
- subsides: http://oceana.org/en/eu/media-reports/press-releases/new-oceana-report-reveals-true-amount-of-eu-fishing-sector-subsidies-to-be-33-billion
This project aims to understand how cross-scale issues underlie the potential for institutional change.
- Individual incentives lead to collective tragedy.
- How do individual decision-making dynamics affect global decision-making?
- How do global decision-making dynamics affect individual decision-making?
How do I test this? Want to observe one dynamic, and the response...
Ideas:
- How can cross-scale dynamics and definition-by-deliberation help solve the commons problem?
- How can new technology change fisheries?
