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Barriers to Collaborative Governance in New Zealand Fisheries: Pt II
Author(s) -
Ali Memon P.,
Kirk Nicholas A.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
geography compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.587
H-Index - 65
ISSN - 1749-8198
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2010.00346.x
Subject(s) - corporate governance , typology , incentive , collective action , common pool resource , sustainability , collaborative governance , fisheries law , order (exchange) , resource (disambiguation) , fisheries management , business , political science , fishery , geography , economics , ecology , finance , biology , fishing , computer network , archaeology , politics , computer science , law , microeconomics
Recurrent ecological crises in fisheries throughout the world make it imperative that a fundamental re‐alignment of institutional arrangements occurs in order to promote sustainability. Collaborative institutional arrangements that provide incentives for collective action are seen as a more effective way to solve this problem than the more traditional hierarchical regulatory or market led approaches used in the past. While the merits of devolved collaborative governance have been stressed in recent fisheries literature, this paper is the second in a series of two which attempt to critically examine the barriers which impede collaboration in fisheries, using a New Zealand case study. This paper presents a typology of collaboration in New Zealand fisheries, and outlines three barriers to collaboration: the bio‐physical attributes of the resource, community factors and institutional barriers. We conclude the arguing that the success of devolved collaboration has so far been contested and highly uneven in the New Zealand setting.