Elinor Ostrom's Contributions and Fisheries Management Scholarship

Abstract

"The concepts underlying approaches to fisheries management have undergone very extensive changes in the last two decades. This has been driven by a series of collapses of major fish stocks, beginning most spectacularly with the Northern Cod in Canada, and the resulting perception of a crisis in the condition of globally fisheries. Elinor Ostrom’s thought has had an important influence on the direction of these changes."