Transforming the Fisheries: Neoliberalism, Nature, and the Commons - Couverture rigide

Bresnihan, Patrick

 
9780803254251: Transforming the Fisheries: Neoliberalism, Nature, and the Commons
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0803254253 ISBN 13 : 9780803254251
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2016

Synopsis

There is now widespread agreement that fish stocks are severely depleted and fishing activity must be limited. At the same time, the promise of the green economy appears to offer profitable new opportunities for a sustainable seafood industry. What do these seemingly contradictory ideas of natural limits and green growth mean in practice? What do they tell us more generally about current transformations to the way nature is valued and managed? And who suffers and who benefits from these new ecological arrangements? Far from abstract policy considerations, Patrick Bresnihan shows how new approaches to environmental management are transforming the fisheries and generating novel forms of exclusion in the process.

Transforming the Fisheries examines how scientific, economic, and regulatory responses to the problem of overfishing have changed over the past twenty years. Based on fieldwork in a commercial fishing port in Ireland, Bresnihan weaves together ethnography, science, history, and social theory to explore the changing relationships between knowledge, nature, and the market. For Bresnihan, many of the key concepts that govern contemporary environmental thinking--such as scarcity, sustainability, the commons, and enclosure--should be reconsidered in light of the collapse of global fish stocks and the different ways this problem is being addressed. Only by considering these concepts anew can we begin to reinvent the ecological commons we need for the future.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patrick Bresnihan is an assistant professor in environmental geography at Trinity College, Dublin.

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Éditeur
University of Nebraska Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803254253
ISBN 13 
9780803254251
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9781496206404: Transforming the Fisheries: Neoliberalism, Nature, and the Commons

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ISBN 10 :  1496206401 ISBN 13 :  9781496206404
Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2018
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