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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Discourse, Policy Controversies and the Role of Science in the Politics of Shrimp Farming Development
Author(s) -
Béné Christophe
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7679.2005.00304.x
Subject(s) - politics , sustainability , power (physics) , agriculture , process (computing) , shrimp , political science , policy development , shrimp farming , aquaculture , sociology , environmental ethics , political economy , public administration , fish <actinopterygii> , fishery , law , ecology , biology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science , operating system
This article revisits through a policy analysis the ongoing debate on shrimp farming aquaculture. It describes the changes in policy orientations that have taken place in recent years, and tries to relate them to the advocacy strategies developed by different networks and policy communities. The analysis reveals in particular the crucial contribution of the ‘power of expertise’ and shows how it has been instrumentalised by certain advocacy networks to depoliticise the debate. While this has allowed a number of key stakeholders to refocus the debate on technical solutions, it has prevented other groups concerned with more intractable social and political issues from engaging successfully in the policy process, thus leaving the long‐term sustainability of aquaculture still a contentious issue.