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When Social Sustainability Becomes Politics: Perspectives from Greenlandic Fisheries Governance

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dc.contributor.author Delaney, Alyne
dc.contributor.author Jacobsen, Rikke Becker
dc.date.accessioned 2015-06-12T13:20:45Z
dc.date.available 2015-06-12T13:20:45Z
dc.date.issued 2014 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9735
dc.description.abstract "This article approaches the topic of social sustainability as a discourse which holds potential for affecting fishery policy and investigates the extent to which this potential has actually materialised. The article identifies an Arctic social sustainability discourse and asks how it interacted with Greenlandic fisheries governance in the period from 2010 to 2012 when a major individual transferable quota (ITQ) reform was introduced into one of the largest coastal fisheries in Greenland: the coastal Greenland halibut fishery. The analysis is based on an impact assessment study of the ITQ reform, a self-reflexive discourse analysis of the social scientific production of truths relating to 'Arctic social sustainability' and participant observation of the policy-making process. The article concludes that in the planning of the ITQ reform, the 'truths' provided by the social sustainability discourse were deemed less relevant than the ones provided by competing discourses on biological and economic sustainability. The article suggests the possibility that the social sustainability discourse was dismissed because it was equated to a previously dominant political stance in Greenlandic fishery policy which the ITQ reform was meant to replace." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject quotas en_US
dc.subject arctic en_US
dc.subject fisheries--policy en_US
dc.subject social science en_US
dc.subject sustainability en_US
dc.subject.classification Anthropology en_US
dc.title When Social Sustainability Becomes Politics: Perspectives from Greenlandic Fisheries Governance en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region Europe en_US
dc.coverage.country Greenland en_US
dc.subject.sector Fisheries en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Maritime Studies en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 13 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 6 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth June en_US


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