Certifying the commons: eco-certification, privatization, and collective action

• Main Authors: Foley, Paul, McCay, Bonnie
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Resilience Alliance 2014
• Subjects: Baja California Sur; Mexico; collective action; common pool resources; commons; community-based fisheries; cooperatives; environmental certification; environmental governance; fisheries; Fogo Island; Newfoundland and Labrador; Canada; governance; Marine Stewardship Council; MSC; northern shrimp; privatization; property rights; spiny lobster; sustainable; Newfoundland; Baja; Canada; Fogo; Fogo Island; northern shrimp
• Online Access: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss2/art28/

We examine new dynamics of privatization and collective action in common pool resource situations facilitated by the nonstate multistakeholder institutions of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), the global leader in sustainability certification for wild caught seafood. Through a review of the lite...