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Towards polycentric governance of small‐scale fisheries: insights from the new ‘Management Plans’ policy in Chile

Towards polycentric governance of small‐scale fisheries: insights from the new ‘Management Plans’... INTRODUCTION Small‐scale fisheries are increasingly conceptualized as complex social–ecological systems (Folke et al ., ; Basurto et al ., ). Management of complex social–ecological systems requires knowledge to monitor resource availability, make decisions about their allocation, and respond to feedbacks from the system at multiple social and ecological scales (Berkes et al ., ; Robinson and Berkes, ). Typically, no one agency, organization or group is likely to have the full range of knowledge needed for effective management of complex social–ecological systems (Berkes et al ., ; Gelcich et al ., ). Thus, there is a pressing need to develop environmental governance models, the structures and processes by which people in societies make decisions and share power with respect to the environment (Folke et al ., ), which can allow partnerships and cooperation among agencies and stakeholders to confront the management of such complex systems (Berkes, ; Gelcich et al ., ; Robinson and Berkes, ). A possible way to deal with environmental governance of complex marine social–ecological systems is to incentivize shifts towards the development of new multi‐level, polycentric forms of governance, partly through government‐designed decentralization (Ostrom, ). ‘Polycentric’ connotes many centres of decision making, that are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems Wiley

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"Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd."
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1052-7613
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1099-0755
DOI
10.1002/aqc.2506
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INTRODUCTION Small‐scale fisheries are increasingly conceptualized as complex social–ecological systems (Folke et al ., ; Basurto et al ., ). Management of complex social–ecological systems requires knowledge to monitor resource availability, make decisions about their allocation, and respond to feedbacks from the system at multiple social and ecological scales (Berkes et al ., ; Robinson and Berkes, ). Typically, no one agency, organization or group is likely to have the full range of knowledge needed for effective management of complex social–ecological systems (Berkes et al ., ; Gelcich et al ., ). Thus, there is a pressing need to develop environmental governance models, the structures and processes by which people in societies make decisions and share power with respect to the environment (Folke et al ., ), which can allow partnerships and cooperation among agencies and stakeholders to confront the management of such complex systems (Berkes, ; Gelcich et al ., ; Robinson and Berkes, ). A possible way to deal with environmental governance of complex marine social–ecological systems is to incentivize shifts towards the development of new multi‐level, polycentric forms of governance, partly through government‐designed decentralization (Ostrom, ). ‘Polycentric’ connotes many centres of decision making, that are

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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater EcosystemsWiley

Published: Oct 1, 2014

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