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The Regional Advisory Councils: what is their potential to incorporate stakeholder knowledge into fisheries governance?
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PMID:  21446392     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
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The protection of the Baltic Sea ecosystem is exacerbated by the social, environmental and economic complexities of governing European fisheries. Increased stakeholder participation and knowledge integration are suggested to improve the EU's Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), suffering from legitimacy, credibility and compliance problems. As a result, the CFP was revised in 2002 to involve fisheries representatives, NGOs and other stakeholders through so called Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) in the policy process. We address the RAC's task to incorporate stakeholder knowledge into the EU's fisheries governance system in empirical and theoretical perspectives. Drawing on a four-stage governance concept we subsequently suggest that a basic problem is a mismatch between participation purpose (knowledge inclusion) and the governance stage at which RACs are formally positioned (evaluation of management proposals). We conclude that, if the aim is to broaden the knowledge base of fisheries management, stakeholders need to be included earlier in the governance process.
Authors:
Sebastian Linke; Marion Dreyer; Piet Sellke
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Ambio     Volume:  40     ISSN:  0044-7447     ISO Abbreviation:  Ambio     Publication Date:  2011 Mar 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-03-30     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0364220     Medline TA:  Ambio     Country:  Sweden    
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Languages:  eng     Pagination:  133-43     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Section for Science and Technology Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. sebastian.linke@sts.gu.se
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