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Social Wellbeing and the Values of Small-scale Fisheries

  • First book-length application of the social wellbeing approach to small-scale fisheries

  • Shows that social and cultural values are at least as important if not more so than economic considerations in fisher and non-fisher assessments of the contributions of small-scale fisheries

  • Promises to stimulate debate and further research about how to measure the contributions of small-scale fisheries

Part of the book series: MARE Publication Series (MARE, volume 17)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. The Values of Small-Scale Fisheries

    • Derek S. Johnson
    Pages 1-21
  3. Understanding Social Wellbeing and Values of Small-Scale Fisheries amongst the Sama-Bajau of Archipelagic Southeast Asia

    • Natasha Stacey, Dirk J. Steenbergen, Julian Clifton, Greg Acciaioli
    Pages 97-123
  4. Labour, Identity and Wellbeing in Bangladesh’s Dried Fish Value Chains

    • Ben Belton, Mostafa A. R. Hossain, Shakuntala H. Thilsted
    Pages 217-241
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 333-343

About this book

This book advances discussions of values in fisheries by showing the rich theoretical insights and connections possible when value is grounded in a multi-dimensional social well being approach. Questions of value have long been a central, if often unacknowledged, concern in maritime studies and in research on fisheries. Social scientists have looked at changing perceptions of value as coastal regions and fisheries have industrialized, economic interconnections have deepened, ecosystems have been depleted, shifts in population have occurred, and governance arrangements have been transformed. With a focus on the diverse ways in which small-scale fisheries are valued, the contributions to this volume address these and other themes through cases from numerous countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. 

This volume provides a timely contribution to the development of new approaches that seek to capture the complexity of how fisheries can be understood beyond standard mo

no-dimensional, and often economic, interpretations. Each chapter makes a clear and stand-alone contribution to conceptual and methodological advancement, and collectively these works cover a wide range of frameworks and schools of thought.”

Dr Sarah Coulthard, Senior Lecturer in International Development, Northumbria University, UK

The list of contributing authors [is] impressive and covers a wide geographical range of illustrative examples, [which] helps to demonstrate the global value of small-scale fisheries.”

Professor J. Allister McGregor, Professor in Political Economy, the University of Sheffield, UK

Keywords

  • Cultural ecosystem services
  • Fisheries governance
  • Place-based approaches
  • Place identity
  • Value-contribution matrix
  • Fish and Wildlife Biology

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

    Derek S. Johnson

  • Department of History, Politics and Social Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

    Tim G. Acott

  • Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Australia

    Natasha Stacey

  • Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

    Julie Urquhart

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Wellbeing and the Values of Small-scale Fisheries

  • Editors: Derek S. Johnson, Tim G. Acott, Natasha Stacey, Julie Urquhart

  • Series Title: MARE Publication Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60750-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-60749-8Published: 29 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86925-4Published: 22 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-60750-4Published: 10 August 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2212-6260

  • Series E-ISSN: 2212-6279

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 343

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sustainability, Economic Geography, Human Geography, Animal Science

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eBook EUR 42.79
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