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The Fisheries Co-management Approach: Critiques and Theoretical Framework of the Research

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This chapter provides a critical analysis of co-management scholars’ thinking on the role of the state. In doing so, it refers to the definition of power by Dahl, in which “A has power over B to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.” The chapter then discusses state capacities in order to challenge the view that the state is equal with other actors in fisheries co-management arrangements. Based on critiques of Ostrom’s approach, co-management scholars’ thinking and the state-centric concept of meta-governance, it produces a research framework to investigate three selected case studies in fisheries co-management in Japan, Vietnam and Norway.

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Viet Thang, H. (2018). The Fisheries Co-management Approach: Critiques and Theoretical Framework of the Research. In: Rethinking Fisheries Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61055-9_3

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