FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 489 Human dimensions of by Cassandra De Young Fishery Policy Analyst Fisheries and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department Rome, Italy Anthony Charles FAO Visiting Expert Management Science/Environmental Studies Saint Mary’s University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and Antonia Hjort FAO Volunteer Munkarp, Sweden |
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De Young, C.; Charles, A.; Hjort, A. Human dimensions of the ecosystem approach to fisheries: an overview of context, concepts, tools and methods. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 489. Rome, FAO. 2008. 152 p. Abstract This document aims to provide a better understanding of the role of the economic, institutional and sociocultural components within the ecosystem approach to fisheries |
Introduction1. Introduction and background
Introduction2. Human values of ecosystem services
Policy frameworks affecting EAF3. Policy, legal and institutional frameworks
Introduction4. Social and economic considerations
5. Initial steps in implementing the EAF
Boundaries, scale and scope
Boundaries
Scale
Scope
Conclusions
6. Assessing the impacts of EAF management
Benefits and costs of EAF
Measuring benefits and costs
Decision-making tools for assessing EAF
Goal ranking
Problem trees
Cost-benefit analysis
Social impact assessment
Indicator frameworks
Socio-economic monitoring
Systems of national accounts
Scenario modelling and simulations
Bio-economic models
The discount rate
Conclusions
Appendix 6.1 – Benefits and costs arising in the EAF guidelines
Appendix 6.2 – Related environmental decision-making tools
Appendix 6.3 – FAO indicators for sustainable development of capture fisheries
7. Incentive mechanisms for applying EAF
Introduction
Types of incentives and their EAF implications
Institutional incentives
Legal incentives
Financial/material incentives
Social incentives
Perverse incentives
Conclusions
Appendix 7.1 – An economic analysis of the need for appropriate incentives
Appendix 7.2 – Kenya and Lake Victoria
Appendix 7.3 – The Bunaken National Marine Park co-management initiative
8. External financing for the EAF
Introduction
“Polluter pays” financing
External conservation financing
Conclusions
Appendix 8.1 – The global environmental facility and the EAF
Appendix 8.2 – Debt-for-nature swaps – how they work
9. Synthesis and final observations
Summing up
Key aspects
Entry points
Human realities
The importance of policy, institutions and incentives
Information needs for decision-making
Closing comments
Part 4 (368 Kb)References
Annex – Process-oriented methodologies and information management tools for use in EAF implementation
Process methodologies
Conflict management and negotiation
Consensus building
Delphi method
Facilitation
Visioning
Information acquisition and dissemination
Asset mapping
Brainstorming
Communication strategy
Focus groups
Institutional analysis
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
Poverty assessment
Rapid and participatory rural appraisals
Risk and vulnerability assessment
Social mapping
Stakeholder analysis
Survey methods
Transect diagram and walk
Workshop methods