Governance of marine fisheries and biodiversity conservation: A history
Governance of marine fisheries and biodiversity conservation: A history
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海洋渔业治理和生物多样性保护:历史
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2014
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A. Charles
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S. Garcia;J. Rice;A. Charles
The governance of fisheries and of nature conservation has developed within two parallel and interacting streams of events and decisions. Their present characteristics arise from this complicated history, which must be understood to improve their performance. Towards that end, this chapter presents the political, legal and institutional international events that have shaped the evolution of the two streams of governance for centuries. The key events have been assembled in a timeline (Annex 1) that is the backbone of Chapters 1 and 2. Despite our efforts, the list of events in Annex 1 cannot claim to be exhaustive. In the early years, governance has focused necessarily on the northern hemisphere where modern conservation, fishery science and international governance originated. Being based on formal literature, the list is bound to be deficient with regard to evolution of customary practices. Even though the two streams seem to have developed with little direct interaction until recently, the processes of economic development, colonization, globalization and international collaboration as well as the Internet have progressively synchronized their evolution to some extent. Regarding conservation of biodiversity, the chapter starts necessarily on terrestrial systems where most of the concepts used in the marine environment originated. The phases and milestones of the timeline contained in Annex 1 reflect the purposes of this book, but we are confident that key events would be considered benchmarks in almost any reasonable timeline. Abstract: The governance of marine fisheries and biodiversity conservation has evolved significantly since its origin. The chapter describes its evolution, at a global scale, using the international events compiled from the literature as data. The history of the two streams of governance is rich and reflects a constant quest to improve performance with mixed results. These streams have important common roots in pre-capitalistic and pre-colonial communities. They tend to emerge more clearly during the 19th century as a utilitarian and an aesthetic branch of conservation with tumultuous relationships. In fisheries, centralized forms of governance already existed in the 13th century. In marine conservation, they were practically absent until the 1960s and have emerged forcefully since the mid-20th century. From 1970 onwards, the emergence of the Law of the Sea and a number of cross-sectoral summits established institutional bridges between the two streams, accelerating conceptual convergence. The trend today towards creating new incentive structures and market-based approaches in both streams has the potential to accelerate their convergence and produce better integration in their implementation.