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0000-0002-6689-2246
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Wageningen University
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-2016
DOI: 10.1038/538171D
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 17-07-2015
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 06-09-2013
Abstract: Certification's limited contribution to sustainable aquaculture should complement public and private governance.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Wageningen University and Research
Date: 2017
DOI: 10.18174/440790
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-08-2015
Abstract: The authors show how certification assembles ‘sustainable’ territories through a complex layering of regulatory authority in which both government and nongovernment entities claim rule-making authority, sometimes working together, sometimes in parallel, sometimes competitively. It is argued that territorialisation is accomplished not just through (re)defining bounded space, but more broadly through the assembling of four elements: space, subjects, objects, and expertise. Four case studies of sustainability certification in seafood are analyzed to show that ‘green gabbing’ is not necessarily the central dynamic in assembling sustainable territories, and that certification always involves state agencies in determining how the key elements that comprise it are defined. Whereas some state agencies have been suspicious of sustainability certification, others have embraced it or even used it to extend their sovereignty.The authors call for more nuanced understandings of sustainability certification as made up of multiple logics beyond the market.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2019
Publisher: Brill | Wageningen Academic
Date: 2007
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 23-08-2007
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-07-2017
DOI: 10.3390/F8070262
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 23-10-2013
DOI: 10.1111/GEOJ.12035
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-06-2019
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 12-10-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2019
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2014
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 05-2015
Abstract: Require improvements as conditions for market access
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 04-10-2021
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 07-11-2017
Abstract: The presence of multiple eco-certification standards for sustainable aquaculture is thought to create confusion and add cost for producers and consumers alike. To ensure their quality and consistency, a range of so-called metagovernance arrangements have emerged that seek to provide harmonized quality assurance over these standards. This article aims to answer the question of how these metagovernance arrangements differ and whether they actually reduce confusion, with a focus on aquaculture in Southeast Asia. We compare three metagovernance arrangements, the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative, the International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Good Aquaculture Practices, with respect to differences in their goals, their levels of inclusiveness, and their internal governance arrangement. The findings indicate that these metagovernance arrangements differ with respect to their goals and approaches and do not seem to directly reduce confusion. More critically, they represent a new arena for competition among market, state, and civil society actors in controlling the means of regulation when aiming for more sustainable aquaculture production.
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Date: 05-2015
Abstract: How can the ecological consequences of the increasing use of airspace by humans be minimized?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 30-11-2013
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12066
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 29-01-2010
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-04-2020
DOI: 10.1111/FAF.12462
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 10-02-2015
DOI: 10.3390/SU7021861
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2012
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2011
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.ENVPOL.2018.04.016
Abstract: Coastal zone is of great importance in the provision of various valuable ecosystem services. However, it is also sensitive and vulnerable to environmental changes due to high human populations and interactions between the land and ocean. Major threats of pollution from over enrichment of nutrients, increasing metals and persistent organic pollutants (POPs), and climate change have led to severe ecological degradation in the coastal zone, while few studies have focused on the combined impacts of pollution and climate change on the coastal ecosystems at the global level. A global overview of nutrients, metals, POPs, and major environmental changes due to climate change and their impacts on coastal ecosystems was carried out in this study. Coasts of the Eastern Atlantic and Western Pacific were hotspots of concentrations of several pollutants, and mostly affected by warming climate. These hotspots shared the same features of large populations, heavy industry and (semi-) closed sea. Estimation of coastal ocean capital, integrated management of land-ocean interaction in the coastal zone, enhancement of integrated global observation system, and coastal ecosystem-based management can play effective roles in promoting sustainable management of coastal marine ecosystems. Enhanced management from the perspective of mitigating pollution and climate change was proposed.
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 12-01-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 13-09-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 12-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-02-2023
DOI: 10.1038/S41586-023-05737-X
Abstract: Blue foods, sourced in aquatic environments, are important for the economies, livelihoods, nutritional security and cultures of people in many nations. They are often nutrient rich 1 , generate lower emissions and impacts on land and water than many terrestrial meats 2 , and contribute to the health 3 , wellbeing and livelihoods of many rural communities 4 . The Blue Food Assessment recently evaluated nutritional, environmental, economic and justice dimensions of blue foods globally. Here we integrate these findings and translate them into four policy objectives to help realize the contributions that blue foods can make to national food systems around the world: ensuring supplies of critical nutrients, providing healthy alternatives to terrestrial meat, reducing dietary environmental footprints and safeguarding blue food contributions to nutrition, just economies and livelihoods under a changing climate. To account for how context-specific environmental, socio-economic and cultural aspects affect this contribution, we assess the relevance of each policy objective for in idual countries, and examine associated co-benefits and trade-offs at national and international scales. We find that in many African and South American nations, facilitating consumption of culturally relevant blue food, especially among nutritionally vulnerable population segments, could address vitamin B 12 and omega-3 deficiencies. Meanwhile, in many global North nations, cardiovascular disease rates and large greenhouse gas footprints from ruminant meat intake could be lowered through moderate consumption of seafood with low environmental impact. The analytical framework we provide also identifies countries with high future risk, for whom climate adaptation of blue food systems will be particularly important. Overall the framework helps decision makers to assess the blue food policy objectives most relevant to their geographies, and to compare and contrast the benefits and trade-offs associated with pursuing these objectives.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-06-2016
DOI: 10.1111/RAQ.12151
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 11-09-2008
DOI: 10.1017/S0022463408000349
Abstract: Development policies for fishery resources within the Mekong River Basin are increasingly ided between aquaculture and capture fisheries. The modern production orientation of aquaculture has been adopted by government and NGOs and justified by the rhetoric of poverty alleviation and rural development. In contrast, capture fisheries has been subjugated as an activity that reaffirms the dependency of the rural poor on natural resources. This paper critically analyses the ision between aquaculture and capture fisheries in Cambodia, Thailand and Lao PDR by tracing the emergence and influence of ‘development narratives’ used to justify contemporary policy and practice.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2004
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 22-03-2016
DOI: 10.3390/SU8030292
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 11-11-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 2008
DOI: 10.1002/BBB.50
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-04-2016
Abstract: Comanagement in Vietnamese Special-Use Forests (SUFs) has been constrained by an administrative mode of state control. Consequently, SUF Management Boards have limited scope to engage local resource users in conservation and management. Concurrently, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have developed capacities as bridging organizations between SUF Management Boards, local communities, and the government by coordinating collaboration across levels, sectors, and knowledge systems. We analyze the extent bridging roles of NGOs can overcome the constraints of administrative comanagement by facilitating knowledge sharing, a common vision, conflict resolution, and local empowerment. Our analysis is based on a national survey of SUF managers and four in-depth case studies of NGO engagement in SUFs. The results indicate NGOs are only partly able to fulfill their bridging roles and thus overcoming the dominant mode of administrative comanagement in Vietnam. We conclude that the structural barriers of state engagement with NGOs demonstrate a need to better contextualize the form and function of bridging organizations in natural resource management.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 24-11-2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2010
DOI: 10.1068/C09194
Abstract: International environmental and social concerns about tropical shrimp production have led to the emergence of private transnational governance and regulation. Using cases from Ca Mau we investigate how the shift to private transnational regulatory networks has changed the role of the government from a regulator to a facilitator of global private governance interests and arrangements. The rise of these various schemes has also been part of a shift from quantitative to qualitative policy goals within the Vietnamese aquaculture sector. In turn, this has led to new internal relationships, most notably the repositioning of private interests and community-based management within the Vietnamese state framework. We conclude that the ongoing transformation of the government's role in environmental shrimp governance requires mechanisms that foster improved participation and compliance between the state and private actors. To achieve this efforts are needed to better include local government at both communal and village levels and to use existing global market incentives more strategically.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-09-2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-12-2022
DOI: 10.1111/JIEC.13367
Abstract: This article uses an institutional capacity framework to assess the interplay between the macro level institutional environment in the form of the centralized Vietnamese state, and the meso level institutional capacity of three different industrial zones to develop technological water use efficiency strategies. Our results show that the relational, knowledge, and mobilization capacities of these industrial zones are constrained by the centralized nature of the Vietnamese state. These industrial zones also show a limited capacity to instigate reform of macro level regulatory institutions. However, we also find instances where industrial zones do demonstrate capacity for implementing water use efficiency technologies because of their capacity to coordinate relations with client firms, universities, and provincial industrial zone authorities. If the institutional capacities of industrial zones are better supported, we argue there remains room for them to influence the macro institutional context to support innovation in water use efficiency. Our results indicate the value of institutional capacity as a framework for assessing processes of technical innovation for industrial ecology, especially in the context of centralized states.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-06-2016
DOI: 10.1111/JOAC.12168
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 17-06-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2016
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 08-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2011
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 05-04-2017
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Date: 13-08-2010
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2013
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2021
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-01-2013
DOI: 10.1007/S00267-012-0012-6
Abstract: Special-use forests (SUFs) are nature protected areas in Vietnam used to conserve nature and its bio ersity. While the Vietnamese government has managed to increase the size and number of SUFs, bio ersity within these areas continues to decline. To improve protection of these SUFs, co-management has been advocated in Vietnam. Successfully implementing co-management requires decentralization of authority and a certain extent of public involvement in management activities. This paper assesses how and to what extent the governance of Vietnam's SUFs have taken up the challenge of shifting from conventional government-based management to co-management. Current practices of (co-) management were investigated in 105 of the 143 SUFs. The results show that the type of co-management varies little between different categories of SUFs. Nevertheless, a national 'style' of Vietnamese co-management could be identified, labelled 'administrative' co-management fostering interaction between a variety of actors, but final decision-making power on management remaining strongly in the hands of the provincial government.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2014
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-06-2010
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 14-08-2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2012
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 27-06-2011
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-2007
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