Beyond the Tragedy in Global Fisheries (Politics, Science, and the Environment)

The oceans are heavily overfished, and the greatest challenges to effective fisheries management are not technical but political and economic. She finds that the management treadmill is speeding up with population growth and economic development, and so concludes that sustainable fisheries can only exist within a sustainable global economic system.. G. Grounded in the concept of responsive governance, Webster's interdisciplinary analysis goes beyond the conventional view of the "tragedy of the commons." Using her Action Cycle/Structural Context framework, she maps long-running patterns that cycle

Webster is Assistant Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at Dartmouth College and the author of Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management (MIT Press).. D. G

G. Her holistic approach yields new and important insights for everyone concerned with preserving Earth's common pool resources. Anyone seeking a comprehensive, up-to-date, balanced, and accessible account of issues relating to the management of marine fisheries will find this book indispensable. D. Webster presents a magisterial overview of fisheries issues across time and space. She brings a welcome and heretofore largely underutilized perspective from political science and organizational theory and an emphasis upon the ever-changing politics of competing interest groups and gainers and losers. (Arild Underdal, Professor of Political Science, University of Oslo) . G.