When Social Sustainability Becomes Politics: Perspectives from Greenlandic Fisheries Governance
"This article approaches the topic of social sustainability as a discourse which holds potential for affecting fishery policy and investigates the extent to which this potential has actually materialised. The article identifies an Arctic social sustainability discourse and asks how it interacte...
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ftdlc:oai:http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu:10535/9735 2023-05-15T14:51:42+02:00 When Social Sustainability Becomes Politics: Perspectives from Greenlandic Fisheries Governance Delaney, Alyne Jacobsen, Rikke Becker Europe Greenland 2014 http://hdl.handle.net/10535/9735 English eng http://hdl.handle.net/10535/9735 Maritime Studies 13 6 June quotas arctic fisheries--policy social science sustainability Anthropology Fisheries Journal Article published Case Study 2014 ftdlc 2021-03-11T16:19:20Z "This article approaches the topic of social sustainability as a discourse which holds potential for affecting fishery policy and investigates the extent to which this potential has actually materialised. The article identifies an Arctic social sustainability discourse and asks how it interacted with Greenlandic fisheries governance in the period from 2010 to 2012 when a major individual transferable quota (ITQ) reform was introduced into one of the largest coastal fisheries in Greenland: the coastal Greenland halibut fishery. The analysis is based on an impact assessment study of the ITQ reform, a self-reflexive discourse analysis of the social scientific production of truths relating to 'Arctic social sustainability' and participant observation of the policy-making process. The article concludes that in the planning of the ITQ reform, the 'truths' provided by the social sustainability discourse were deemed less relevant than the ones provided by competing discourses on biological and economic sustainability. The article suggests the possibility that the social sustainability discourse was dismissed because it was equated to a previously dominant political stance in Greenlandic fishery policy which the ITQ reform was meant to replace." Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Greenland greenlandic Indiana University: Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) Arctic Greenland |
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"This article approaches the topic of social sustainability as a discourse which holds potential for affecting fishery policy and investigates the extent to which this potential has actually materialised. The article identifies an Arctic social sustainability discourse and asks how it interacted with Greenlandic fisheries governance in the period from 2010 to 2012 when a major individual transferable quota (ITQ) reform was introduced into one of the largest coastal fisheries in Greenland: the coastal Greenland halibut fishery. The analysis is based on an impact assessment study of the ITQ reform, a self-reflexive discourse analysis of the social scientific production of truths relating to 'Arctic social sustainability' and participant observation of the policy-making process. The article concludes that in the planning of the ITQ reform, the 'truths' provided by the social sustainability discourse were deemed less relevant than the ones provided by competing discourses on biological and economic sustainability. The article suggests the possibility that the social sustainability discourse was dismissed because it was equated to a previously dominant political stance in Greenlandic fishery policy which the ITQ reform was meant to replace." |
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When Social Sustainability Becomes Politics: Perspectives from Greenlandic Fisheries Governance |
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When Social Sustainability Becomes Politics: Perspectives from Greenlandic Fisheries Governance |
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When Social Sustainability Becomes Politics: Perspectives from Greenlandic Fisheries Governance |
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When Social Sustainability Becomes Politics: Perspectives from Greenlandic Fisheries Governance |
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When Social Sustainability Becomes Politics: Perspectives from Greenlandic Fisheries Governance |
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when social sustainability becomes politics: perspectives from greenlandic fisheries governance |
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