autumn 2016
SVF-3554 A social science perspective on fisheries management and development - 10 ECTS

Application deadline

Applicants from Nordic countries: 1 June for the autumn semester and 1 December for the spring semester. Applicants from outside the Nordic countries: 1 October for the spring semester and 15 April for the autumn semester.

Type of course

The course is an integrated course of International Fisheries Management, and can also be taken as a singular course.

Admission requirements

Application code: 9371

The course is an integrated part of the IFM programme, but is also open for single course students with relevant background.


Course overlap

If you pass the examination in this course, you will get an reduction in credits (as stated below), if you previously have passed the following courses:

SVF-3505 Fisheries and aquaculture management 10 stp

Course content

The topic focuses on fisheries and aquaculture management and how different stakeholders operate within different institutions. Based on the tragedy of the commons we discuss the experiences of marine management, with a particular focus on solutions like Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) and co-management. The course is also covering the use of different fishing and aquaculture technologies and how these may affect various goals, such as food production, export, employment and income. Special attention is given to how western experiences can be used in a different setting, i.e. adapted to the challenges meeting the fishing sectors in the developing world.

Objectives of the course

The aim is to give the students a social science perspective at fisheries management and fisheries development. During the course the students are introduced to different theoretical approaches to fisheries management and development and the practical application of these approaches. After the course the students should be familiar with the historical development of fisheries management institutions and instruments, know the challenges and problems, and be able to understand why different solutions are relevant in different settings.

Language of instruction and examination

The language of instruction is English.

Teaching methods

Lectures and seminars

Assessment

Exam: 5 hours written exam, with internal and external examiner. Grad scale: A-F, where F is not passed. A re-sit exam will be arranged for the written exam in the next semester.

Recommended reading/syllabus

Reading list (Total 880 pages)

Due to the Norwegian copyright regulations the literature in the course is available in accordance with the KOPINOR agreement. (More information: http://www.kopinor.no/en/agreements/education/universities). The students are expected to individually get access to and download the relevant articles that are available through the library service or through open access sources, or buy or borrow the relevant books.

The search for the course literature in libraries and databases is a part of the scientific training at a university. Articles in open access journals are available from personal computers; articles in other scientific journals (not open access) are normally only available through university computers or through computers connected to the university network through VPN client. Only book chapters and articles not available on web or through libraries and book stores will be handed out in paper copy by the teacher before the relevant lecture.

Social theory and method

  • Blaikie, N. 2000. Designing Social Research. Cambrigde: Polity Press. Chapter 2. Designing Social Research (19p)
  • Waters, M. 1994. Modern sociological theory, Chapter 1. 14p. Sage.
  • Outhwaite, W. and S. Turner. (2008). The SAGE Handbook of Social Science Methodology.
  • SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Introduction (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/upm-data/17274_01_Outwaite_Introduction.pdf) (2p)
  • Chapter one:  (http://www.uk.sagepub.com/upm-data/17275_02_Outwaite_Ch_1.pdf) (29p)

The Tragedy of the Commons

  • Gordon, H. Scott (1954). The Economic Theory of a Common Property Resource: The Fishery. Journal of Political Economy 62(2): 124-42
  • Hardin, G. (1968). The Tragedy of the Commons. Science 162: 1243-1248.)

The Economic approach

  • Christy jr, F. T.  (1975). Property rights in the World Ocean. Natural Resources Journal Vol 15: 695-712. (17p)
  • Hannesson, R. (2006). The privatization of the oceans: Cambridge: MIT press. Chap. 3 Property rights in fisheries (25p)
  • The Sunken Billions, The economic justification for fisheries reform, World Bank.  (Chapter 1-5 (59p) http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTARD/Resources/336681-1224775570533/SunkenBillionsFinal.pdf

The Institutionalist approach

  • Berkes, F., D. Feenes, B.J. McCay and J.M: Acheson (1989). The Benefits of the Commons. Nature, Vol 340, pp 91-93.
  • Chuenpagdee, R. and A. M. Song (2012). Institutional thinking in fisheries governance: broadening perspectives. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 4(3): 309-315.
  • Dolsâk, N. and E. Ostrom (2003) The Challenges of the Commons. In Dolsâk, N. and E. Ostrom (eds.) The Commons in the New Millennium. Challenges and Adaptations. MIT. Pp. 6-34.
  • Jentoft, S.(2004) Institutions in fisheries: what they are, what they do and how they change.  In Hersoug, B., S. Jentoft and P. Degnbol (2004) Fisheries Development: The Institutional Challenge. Delft: Eburon. P.205-228. (Available on fronter).
  • Jentoft S. (2000). The Community: A Missing Link of Fisheries Management. Marine Policy 24(1); 53-60.
  • McCay, B.J. and J. M. Acheson (1987). Human Ecology of the commons. In McCay B.J and J. M.Acheson: The  Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources. The University of Arizona Press, Pp. 1-34.
  • McCay, B.J. and S. Jentoft. (1998). Market or Community Failure? Critical Perspectives on Common Property Research. Human Organization, Vol. 57, No. 1.  (9p)
  • Ostrom, E.  (1990). The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Actions. Cambridge. Chapter 1 Reflections on the Commons. Pp 1-28.

The Co-management discourse

  • Jentoft, S. (1989). Fisheries Co-management: Delegating Government Responsibility to Fishermen's Organization.  Marine Policy. April 1989, pp. 137-154.
  • Jentoft, S. (2005). Fisheries Co-management as Empowerment. Marine Policy 29(1) 1-7.
  • Jentoft, S. B.J. McCay and D. Wilson (1998).  Social Theory and Fisheries Co-management. Marine Policy, Vol. 22, No. 4-5, pp. 423-436, 1998.
  • Sen, S. and J.R. Nielsen (1996). Fisheries Co-management: A Comparative Analysis. Marine Policy 20 (5) 405-18.

The Knowledge crises discourse

  • Berkes, F. (1998).Sacred Knowledge. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management. Taylor and Francis. (Chapter 1 and 10).
  • Davis. A. and J. (2003). Wagner Who Knows? On the Importance of Finding Experts when Researching Local Ecological Knowledge.  Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal 31(3): 463-489.
  • Holm, P. (2003). Crossing the Border: On the Relationship Between Science and Fishermen¿s Knowledge in a Resource Management Context. MAST 2(1): 5-33.
  • Johannes, R. E., M. M. R. Freeman, and R. J. Hamilton. (2000). Ignore fishers¿ knowledge and miss the boat. Fish and Fisheries 1: 257-271,
  • Johnsen, J. P., Murray, G., & Neis, B. (2009). North Atlantic fisheries in change - from organic associations to cybernetic organizations. Mast, 9(2), 55-82.
  • St. Martin, K. 2009. "Toward a Cartography of the Commons: Constituting the Political and Economic Possibilities of Place¿ Professional Geographer 61(4): 493-507.

The Governance, complexity and ecosystems discourse:

  • Berkes, F. and N. Turner ( 2006). Knowledge, Learning and the Evolution of Conservation Practice for Social-Ecological System Resilience. Human Ecology 34:479-494.
  • Berkes, F. (2009). Shifting perspectives on resource management: Resilience and the Reconceptualization of `Natural Resources¿ and `Management¿ MAST 2010, 9(1): 13-40
  •  Chuenpagdee, R. J. J.Pascual-Fernandez, E. Szelianszky, J.L.Alegret, J. Fraga,  S. Jentoft. (2013)  Marine protected areas: Re-thinking their inception. Marine Policy 39, pp 234-240. 
  • Gray, T. (ed.) (2005).  Participation in Fisheries Governance. Springer. Chapter One: Theorising about participatory fisheries goverance.  Pp.1-25.
  • Jentoft. S. (2007). Limits of Governability? Institutional Implications for Fisheries and Coastal Governance. Marine Policy, 31, pp. 360-370.
  • Jentoft S. and R. Chuenpagdee (2009). Fisheries and Coastal Governance as a Wicked Problem. Marine Policy. 33, pp. 553-560.
  • Johnsen, J. P. (2014). "Is fisheries governance possible?" Fish and Fisheries 15(3): 428-444.
  • Johnsen, Jahn Petter, Petter Holm, Peter S Sinclair, and Dean Bavington. (2009). The cyborgization of the fisheries. On attempts to make fisheries management possible. MAST  7 (2):9-34.
  • Kooiman J. et al. (2008). Interactive Governance and Governability: An Introduction. The Journal of Transdisciplinary  Environmental  Studies, Volk 7. No. 1 http://www.journal-tes.dk/vol_7_no_1/no_2_Jan.pdf (11p)
  • Song, A. M. and R. Chuenpagdee. 2014. Exploring stakeholders' images of coastal fisheries: A case study from South Korea. Ocean & Coastal Management 100:10-19.
  • S. Parks and   J. Gowdy (2013). What have economists learned about valuing nature? A review essay. Ecosystem Services 3, pp 1-10.
  • Valdés-Pizzini, M., C. G. Garcia-Quijano and M. T. Schärer-Umpierre. (2012). Connecting Humans and Ecosystem-Based Fisheries management in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Caribbean Studies 40, (2) pp. 95-128.

Poverty and development

  • Allison, E.H. B. D. Ratner, B. Åsgård, R.Willmann, R. Pomeroy, J. Kurien (2012). Rights-based fisheries governance: from fishing rights to human rights.  Fish and Fisheries, Volume 13, Issue 1, pages 14-29, DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00405.x
  • Béné, C, B. Hersoug and E.H. Allison (2010). Not by Rent Alone: Analysing the Pro-Poor Functions of Small-Scale Fisheries in Developing Countries. Development Policy Review 28 (3): 325-358.
  • Eide, A., M. Bavinck and J. Raakjær. (2011). Avoiding Poverty: Distributing Wealth in Fisheries.  In Jentoft, S. and A. Eide (eds). Poverty Mosaics: Realities and Prospects in Small-Scale Fisheries. Springer.  (pp 13-25, 12p)
  • Hersoug, B., S. Jentoft and P. Degnbol (2004) Fisheries Development: The Institutional Challenge. Delft: Eburon. (Available on fronter). (180p)

In addition: All lectures and lecture notes published on Fronter are relevant for the written exam.

Recommended reading

EAF Toolbox The ecosystem approach to fisheries (FAO 2012) Manual (171p) (http://www.fao.org/fishery/eaf-net/topic/166272/en)

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