DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102197
论文题名: Empowering NGOs? Long-term effects of ecological and institutional change on regional fisheries management organizations
作者: Dellmuth L.M. ; Petersson M.T. ; Dunn D.C. ; Boustany A. ; Halpin P.N.
刊名: Global Environmental Change
ISSN: 9593780
出版年: 2020
卷: 65 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs)
; Fisheries Governance
; Institutional change
; Non-state actors
; Participation
; Regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs)
英文关键词: fishery management
; fishing industry
; institutional framework
; migratory species
; nongovernmental organization
; stock assessment
; Matthiola
英文摘要: The participation of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) in regional fisheries management organizations has inspired optimism among many observers and researchers about increasing the effectiveness of these regional organizations in managing highly migratory and straddling fish stocks sustainably. Others claim that the attendance of ENGOs in meetings of regional fisheries management organizations as accredited observers or as part of member state or cooperating non-member state delegations, could make decision-making complex, long, and inefficient. More generally, NGO participation has attracted broad scholarly interest in the study of interest groups and transnational advocacy in political science. Yet, we know little about the determinants of ENGO participation in meetings of regional fisheries management organizations in the first place. To fill this gap, this article develops a theoretical framework conceptualizing ENGO participation and developing expectations about how ecological and institutional change shapes ENGO participation. The framework deals with structural determinants of ENGO participation, as existing literature primarily has been preoccupied with the study of actor-specific explanations of specific NGOs’ impact in specific political processes. By contrast, we examine how ecological change – such as target fish stock health and biomass status – and institutional change – such as financial resources, membership composition of regional fisheries management organizations and participation by other non-state actors, such as experts and fishing industry representatives – shape ENGO participation. We empirically explore this framework in the context of seven regional fisheries management organizations. A dataset comprising yearly fish stock-level data on participation, institutional, and ecological factors, for 1980–2014, was compiled for our quantitative inquiry into the determinants of ENGO participation. We find robust evidence that institutional change shapes ENGO participation, but not ecological factors related to target fish stock health. We discuss our findings against the backdrop of ongoing debates about NGOs in political science, and spell out broader implications for future research on NGOs in regional fisheries management organizations. © 2020 The Author(s) Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168152
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作者单位: Department of Economic History and International Relations, Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-10691, Sweden; Stockholm University, Stockholm, SE-10691, Sweden; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, United States; Monterey Bay Aquarium, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940, United States
Recommended Citation:
Dellmuth L.M.,Petersson M.T.,Dunn D.C.,et al. Empowering NGOs? Long-term effects of ecological and institutional change on regional fisheries management organizations[J]. Global Environmental Change,2020-01-01,65