Exploring the connections between inequality, community dysfunction and sustainability : fishery case studies from Newfoundland, Tasmania and Pakistan ...

• Main Author: Phillips, Gregory Vincent
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: University Of Tasmania 2023
• Subjects: Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/23245676; https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Exploring_the_connections_between_inequality_community_dysfunction_and_sustainability_fishery_case_studies_from_Newfoundland_Tasmania_and_Pakistan/23245676

Analysis of political economy within primary sectors such as fisheries and agriculture provides insights that can be applied more broadly. Since the 1990s there has been a growing recognition that the world's fisheries are in a state of crisis and that this is symptomatic of a more general, global sustainability crisis. In fisheries, worldwide, excessive capacity is harvesting fish at unsustainable levels. New technologies for communication and the processing, transport and storage of fish is contributing to the development of expanding marketing opportunities. These generate economic incentives that motivate ever more intensive fishing effort on declining stocks of increasingly valuable fish. In addition, environmental damage to marine and freshwater ecosystems undermines their capacity to sustain healthy, productive fisheries. Fishing communities are also experiencing stress associated with worldwide trends in fisheries management. These trends can be linked to the global ascendancy of neoliberalism as, a ...