Browsing WorldFish Community by Author "Fabinyi, M."
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Access to marine ecosystem services: Examining entanglement and legitimacy in customary institutions
(2020)Type: Journal ArticleEcosystem services have become a dominant paradigm for understanding how people derive well-being from ecosystems. However, the framework has been critiqued for over-emphasizing the availability of services as a proxy for ... -
Aquatic product consumption patterns and perceptions among the Chinese middle class
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleThe Chinese market for aquatic products is the largest in the world, and growing rapidly. An increasingly large proportion of Chinese aquatic product consumption is coming from imported sources, making the market of high ... -
Blind spots in visions of a ‘‘blue economy’’ could undermine the ocean’s contribution to eliminating hunger and malnutrition
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleIncreasing the production of food from the ocean is seen as a pathway toward more sustainable and healthier human diets. Yet this potential is being overshadowed by competing uses of ocean resources in an acceler- ating ... -
China at a crossroads: An Analysis of China's changing seafood production and consumption
(2020)Type: Concept NoteChina is a key player in global production, consumption, and trade of seafood. Given this dominance, Chinese choices regarding what seafood to eat, and how and where to source it, are increasingly important—for China, and ... -
Chinese trader perceptions on sourcing and consumption of endangered seafood
(2017)Type: Journal ArticleGrowing trade networks through globalization have expanded governance of local environments to encompass multiple scales. The governing role of market actors, such as traders and consumers in importing countries, has been ... -
Collateral damage? Small-scale fisheries in the global fight against IUU fishing
(2020)Type: Journal ArticleConcern over illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has led to a number of policy, trade and surveillance measures. While much attention has been given to the impact of IUU regulation on industrial fleets, ... -
Do fish scales matter? Diversification and differentiation in seafood commodity chains
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleRecent studies in the literature on fisheries trade have contrasted the challenges and opportunities associated with domestic and internationally oriented fish trade. We examine forms of domestic and international fish ... -
Evolving the narrative for protecting a rapidly changing ocean, post-COVID-19. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems.
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleCalls for global action on environmental issues have been popular since the 1970s and public interest in them has been raised by rallying people to the notion that we all share one world. One need look no further than the ... -
Fish, trade and food security: Moving beyond 'availability' discourse in marine conservation
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleThe goal of food security increasingly serves as an objective and justification for marine conservation in the global south. In the marine conservation literature this potential link is seldom based upon detailed analysis ... -
Food security and the coral Triangle Initiative
(2013)Type: Journal ArticleThe Asia-Pacific's Coral Triangle is defined by its extremely high marine biodiversity. Over one hundred million people living in its coastal zones use this biodiversity to support their livelihoods. Hundreds of millions ... -
Governance interactions in small-scale fisheries market chains: Examples from the Asia-Pacific
(2019)Type: Journal ArticleSmall-scale fisheries are subject to various governing institutions operating at different levels with different objectives. At the same time, small-scale fisheries increasingly form part of domestic and international ... -
Morals and climate decision-making: insights from social and behavioural sciences
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleDecisions about climate change are inherently moral. They require making moral judgements about important values and the desired state of the present and future world. Hence there are potential benefits in explaining climate ... -
Rethinking environmental leadership: The social construction of leaders and leadership in discourses of ecological crisis, development, and conservation
(2015)Type: Journal ArticleLeadership is heralded as being critical to addressing the "crisis of governance" facing the Earths natural systems. While political, economic, and corporate discourses of leadership have been widely and critically ... -
The role of voluntary commitments in realizing the promise of the Blue Economy
(2021)Type: Journal ArticleVoluntary (or non-binding) commitments offer an action-oriented mechanism for addressing interconnected, complex and pressing issues. Though not designed to replace negotiated or binding outcomes, voluntary commitments can ... -
Securing a just space for small-scale fisheries in the blue economy
(2019)Type: Journal ArticleThe vast development opportunities offered by the world’s coasts and oceans have attracted the attention of governments, private enterprises, philanthropic organizations and international conservation organizations. ... -
Social equity is key to sustainable ocean governance
(2022)Type: Journal ArticleCalls to address social equity in ocean governance are expanding. Yet ‘equity’ is seldom clearly defined. Here we present a framework to support contextually-informed assessment of equity in ocean governance. Guiding ... -
The importance of qualitative social research for effective fisheries management
(2017)Type: Journal ArticleOver recent decades it has become widely accepted that managing fisheries resources means managing human behaviour, and so understanding social and economic dynamics is just as important as understanding species biology ... -
The Social context of the Chinese food system: An Ethnographic study of the Beijing seafood market
(2016)Type: Journal ArticleChina's role in the global food system has expanded immensely in recent years. In the seafood sector, it is now the largest consumer of seafood products in the world, making the Chinese market highly significant for global ... -
Towards Ocean Equity
(2020)Type: Working PaperThis paper examines the distribution of the goods and services provided by the ocean, existing inequities and the resulting impacts on the environment, human health, and income distribution now and in the future. The paper ...
