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The interactive governance approach views the fisheries system or ‘fish chain’ as consisting of a system-to-be-governed, a governing system and governing interactions between them. This system can also be viewed in a complementary way as a network of nodes or actors with links among them. Some nodes will belong to the system-to-be-governed, some to the governing system and some belong to both system-to-be-governed and governing system. The linkage between any pair of nodes can take any or several of four forms: goods, services, payment or a governing interaction. A network perspective on the interactive governance approach offers the opportunity to analyze the fisheries system using network analysis tools. These analyses can reveal system characteristics such as where links are weak or lacking, or how power and centres of organization are distributed within the system. These findings can guide interventions to create or strengthen governing interactions. This information can be used to determine where interventions can be designed to improve governability of the system, for example by improving network connectivity to increase capacity for learning, or creating new pathways to distribute power more equitably.
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This contribution has been developed through: (1) The MarGov Project at CERMES, Marine Resource Governance in the Eastern Caribbean, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada; and (2) The PROGOVNET Project at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada and CERMES, ‘Strengthening Principled Ocean Governance Networks – Transferring Lessons from the Caribbean to the Wider Ocean Governance Community’Supported by The Nippon Foundation of Japan.
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Mahon, R., McConney, P. (2013). A Network Perspective on Governing Interactions. In: Bavinck, M., Chuenpagdee, R., Jentoft, S., Kooiman, J. (eds) Governability of Fisheries and Aquaculture. MARE Publication Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6107-0_16
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