Arctic Geopolitics, Climate Change, and Resilient Fisheries Management
Arctic Geopolitics, Climate Change, and Resilient Fisheries Management
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北极地缘政治、气候变化和弹性渔业管理
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10.1163/22116001-03601016
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2022
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O. Stokke
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This article examines the resilience of fisheries management institutions to the combined challenges inherent in geopolitical and climatic change. Institutional resilience concerns the ability to deal with changing circumstances by adapting institutions, or relationships among them, to an extent sufficient for maintaining or improving institutional performance. 1 Twenty years of rising geopolitical tensions have not severely restrained international cooperation on Arctic affairs. Despite the intensifying greatpower rivalry in global politics, Arctic governance continues to thrive, as evident in the acceptance of China and other geo-economically rising States as observers in the Arctic Council, in the evolution of a legally binding Polar Code on shipping, and in the entry into force in 2021 of an agreement to prevent unregulated fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean, involving all Arctic coastal States and others with a real interest in Arctic fisheries, including China, Iceland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the European Union (EU). In fact, the coexistence of geopolitical tension and progress in the formation and strengthening of Arctic governance structures is neither paradoxical nor coincidental. Increased emphasis on geopolitical considerations tends to make governments more, not less, inclined to seek practical management arrangements acceptable to all. As this article argues, solutions that can accommodate underlying geopolitical tensions tend to be particularly resilient. Mechanisms that may explain this relationship are of two kinds, both operating at the level of States. The first mechanism is interest aggregation, as when governmental* The author thanks Alf Håkon Hoel, Øystein Jensen, Arild Moe, Cecilie Juul Stensrud, and two anonymous reviewers for very helpful comments on this article, and is grateful to Susan Høivik for her excellent language and copyediting services. This research was funded by the Research Council of Norway under grant 302176 (GEOSEAS). E-mail: o. s. stokke@ stv. uio. no. 1 OR Young,“Institutional dynamics: Resilience, vulnerability and adaptation in environmental and resource regime,” Global Environmental Change 20, no. 3 (2010): 378–385.