摘要:

The recognition of a greater role for value concerns in natural resource allocation policies and the shift to more biocentric moral perspectives in our treatment of the environment have considerable implications for natural resource allocation policy in the future. These issues are documented in the context of allocation policies in the Great Lakes basin. It is recommended that “backcasting” techniques, which create a future image of what we want a resource to be, be used to assist the transition to a more ecosystemic and sustainable form of environmental management in which values play a predominant role.

ISSN:0002-8487    

DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1987)116<525:CVPINR>2.0.CO;2

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1987

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

This paper explores three areas of political theory and their implications for fishery management. First, democratic traditions in local autonomy and public consent establish two major constraints for fishery management. Local autonomy fragments resource management across political jurisdictions; broader policies are fragmented more than local ones. Public consent insures that the publics' values are incorporated into resource management. Policymakers must evaluate public preferences in some way, and the public must believe that the policies are consistent with its values. Thus, effective two-way communication is necessary to gain public acceptance of policies. Second, political theory seeks to better understand “held values” and norms, how they change over time, and how people utilize these values and other information to form political preferences, attitudes, and actions. Management programs must consider a wide range of public values, not just those directly related to the fishery being managed. Finally, political theory also attempts to explain how and why certain policy ideas become accepted and ultimately succeed in solving the problems at hand. The influences of formal and informal “structures,” or institutions and arrangements, often explain policy successes and failures.

ISSN:0002-8487    

DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1987)116<532:UPTIFM>2.0.CO;2

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1987

数据来源: Taylor

摘要:

Participants in the Social Assessment of Fisheries Resources Symposium recommended several steps to increase the use of social sciences in Great Lakes fishery resource management. They urgently recommended greater use of existing social science research methods and findings in fishery management. They also recommended multidisciplinary research on total value assessment as a means of integrating contributions of social sciences in evaluating human dimensions of fishery resource management. By consensus, they recommended three short-term activities: (1) integrative case studies in which social scientists and Great Lakes fishery managers jointly evaluate and manage important current or emerging issues to help improve science methods, to solve real problems, and to demonstrate research and problem-solving methods; (2) science transfer projects that would help managers learn to better use social sciences; and (3) a “field guide” to social science methods that would help managers become familiar with the various methods. They also recommended by consensus (1) that politicians and resource managers be better educated about social science concepts, (2) that communication be improved between social scientists and others, and (3) that social scientists be integrated into management agencies. Other recommendations involved social science development and interpretation.

ISSN:0002-8487    

DOI:10.1577/1548-8659(1987)116<537:RFTSS>2.0.CO;2

出版商:Taylor & Francis Group    

年代:1987

数据来源: Taylor