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View article: Maximum sustainable employment: Adding to the beacons of wild fisheries governance
Maximum sustainable employment: Adding to the beacons of wild fisheries governance Open
This paper proposes to establish Maximum Sustainable Employment (MSE) as a new guiding light, or beacon, for wild fisheries governance. This new social beacon complements the directives provided by the prevailing beacons: Maximum Sustainab…
View article: Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace
Earth system boundaries and Earth system justice: sharing the ecospace Open
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View article: Conceptualizing Earth system justice
Conceptualizing Earth system justice Open
Environmental assessments increasingly call for just transformations, yet do not offer concrete visions of what these might be. This paper conceptualizes and operationalizes Earth system justice (ESJ) through articulating just ends which m…
View article: Impacts of Meeting Minimum Access on Critical Earth Systems amidst the Great Inequality
Impacts of Meeting Minimum Access on Critical Earth Systems amidst the Great Inequality Open
The UN 2030 Agenda includes 17 Sustainable Development Goals towards improving access to resources and services, reducing environmental degradation and bringing down inequality. However, there is debate on the magnitude of the environmenta…
View article: Fishing for health: Do the world’s national policies for fisheries and aquaculture align with those for nutrition?
Fishing for health: Do the world’s national policies for fisheries and aquaculture align with those for nutrition? Open
Aquatic foods are rich in micronutrients essential to human health, and fisheries and aquaculture are increasingly recognized for their capacity to contribute to reducing global micronutrient deficiencies and diet‐based health risks. Wheth…
View article: A tale of fish in two cities: consumption patterns of low-income households in South India
A tale of fish in two cities: consumption patterns of low-income households in South India Open
While much is known about fish production patterns and consumption at an aggregate level, there is little understanding of consumption behavior among low-income households in city regions. Given that fish is an important and possibly cheap…
View article: Fish for food and nutrition security in Ghana: Challenges and opportunities
Fish for food and nutrition security in Ghana: Challenges and opportunities Open
Fish is an important dietary source of micronutrients, particularly in low-and middle-income countries. In Ghana, effective management of fish and the fisheries is essential for food, economic and nutrition security and is critical towards…
View article: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Small-Scale Fisheries and Coastal Fishing Communities
The COVID-19 Pandemic, Small-Scale Fisheries and Coastal Fishing Communities Open
The COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread around the world with extensive social and economic effects. This editorial focuses specifically on the implications of the pandemic for small-scale fishers, including marketing and processing aspec…
View article: Collateral damage? Small‐scale fisheries in the global fight against IUU fishing
Collateral damage? Small‐scale fisheries in the global fight against IUU fishing Open
Concern over illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has led to a number of policy, trade and surveillance measures. While much attention has been given to the impact of IUU regulation on industrial fleets, recognition of the dis…
View article: Re-imagining the driver–pressure–state–impact–response framework from an equity and inclusive development perspective
Re-imagining the driver–pressure–state–impact–response framework from an equity and inclusive development perspective Open
The Driver–Pressure–State–Impact–Response (DPSIR) framework has been used by environmental agencies and others to assess environmental challenges and policy responses. However, in doing so, social justice or equity issues tend to come as a…
View article: Cross-cutting Issues
Cross-cutting Issues Open
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View article: Fisheries as social struggle: a reinvigorated social science research agenda
Fisheries as social struggle: a reinvigorated social science research agenda Open
Many social scientists in the field of fisheries display a strong concern for the social engineering of environmental sustainability, but also a tendency to identify with the concerns of government. This paper posits that social scientists…
View article: Transforming conflicts from the bottom-up? Reflections on civil society efforts to empower marginalized fishers in postwar Sri Lanka
Transforming conflicts from the bottom-up? Reflections on civil society efforts to empower marginalized fishers in postwar Sri Lanka Open
We analyze the efforts of an international consortium of academics and activists to understand and address a transnational\nfisheries conflict in South Asia. The so-called REINCORPFISH project (2010–2016) focused on an asymmetrical conflic…
View article: The elusive quest for access and collective action: North Sri Lankan fishers’ thwarted struggles against a foreign trawler fleet
The elusive quest for access and collective action: North Sri Lankan fishers’ thwarted struggles against a foreign trawler fleet Open
The purpose of this paper is to further the understanding of how unequal access to commons is (re)produced and contested. I do so by looking into the thwarted struggle of small-scale fishers in post-war Northern Sri Lanka to contest encroa…
View article: Fishing in the margins: North Sri Lankan fishers’ struggle for access in transboundary waters
Fishing in the margins: North Sri Lankan fishers’ struggle for access in transboundary waters Open
In this dissertation, I highlight the condition of a fisher population in post-war northern Sri Lanka whose access to fishing grounds has been structurally compromised. Decades of civil war in Sri Lanka (1983–2009) shattered the north Sri …