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Governability of Fisheries and Aquaculture pp 335–349Cite as

Assessing Governability – What’s Next

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Issues, challenges and concerns in fisheries and aquaculture, and the problems associated with addressing them, must be examined through a comprehensive governability lens. Drawing from lessons learned in the application of the interactive governance perspective to assessing governability of various fisheries and aquaculture systems, we summarize what we believe should be the key elements of such an assessment framework. The first two parts focus on how to recognize and conceptualize the problems facing governance, and examine the main characteristics of the systems-to-be-governed, the governing system and the governing interactions that improve or inhibit governability, respectively. The next two parts of the framework outline the additional steps required to investigate: (1) goodness of fit, responsiveness and performance of the governing system in addressing the challenges found in the systems-to-be-governed; and, (2) how the system-to-be-governed and the governing system interact. Such assessment broadens the understanding of the limits and opportunities for improving governance, leading to a higher level of governability.

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  1. Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada

    Ratana Chuenpagdee

  2. Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

    Svein Jentoft

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 14, Amsterdam, 1018 TV, Netherlands

    Maarten Bavinck

  2. , Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Main Office: SN2012, St. John's, A1B 3X9, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

    Ratana Chuenpagdee

  3. , Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Office A 378, Tromsø, 9037, Norway

    Svein Jentoft

  4. , Centre for Maritime Research, Erasmus University, Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, Amsterdam, 1018 VZ, Netherlands

    Jan Kooiman

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Chuenpagdee, R., Jentoft, S. (2013). Assessing Governability – What’s Next. In: Bavinck, M., Chuenpagdee, R., Jentoft, S., Kooiman, J. (eds) Governability of Fisheries and Aquaculture. MARE Publication Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6107-0_18

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