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Sustainable Food Governance by Governments and Markets

The Case of Sustainable Seafood Provision

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Peter Oosterveer
Peter Oosterveer*
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Wageningen University
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Abstract

The environmental consequences of the increasing global seafood production and consumption are substantial and drive a search for providing more adequate governance responses. In recent years, market-based approaches to sustainable seafood governance have gained considerable traction. Born in part out of perceived failures of state-based regulations, a range of civil society-led governance approaches have emerged. Private seafood governance arrangements interact with public seafood regulations and this may lead to competition, collaboration or hybridity. This interaction should however not be assessed in general but more closely related to the different stages in the regulatory cycle: agenda setting/negotiation, implementation and monitoring/enforcement. Collaboration between public and private global seafood governance arrangements occurs primarily in the first phase of the regulatory cycle but gets much less prominent in later phases where competition or even separation prevails. Harmonization between public and private sustainable seafood governance arrangements in the near future is therefore unlikely.

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Special Issue on the Patterns of Interplay between Public and Private Food Regulation
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European Journal of Risk Regulation , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 525 - 531
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015

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