Certifying the commons
Eco-Certification, Privatization, and Collective Action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4239019 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Foley (0000-0001-8012-0173, Memorial University of Newfoundland), Bonnie J Mccay (0000-0003-4949-2918, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey), Bonnie Mccay |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Conservation Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087 |
| Publisher | Resilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.5751/es-06459-190228 |
| OpenAlex | W1978586772 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 18 |
We examine new dynamics of privatization and collective action in common pool resource situations facilitated by the nonstate multistakeholder institutions of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), the global leader in sustainability certification for wild caught seafood. Through a review of the literature and two case studies of fishing cooperatives in Baja California Sur, Mexico and on Fogo Island in the Canadian Province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), we advance two interrelated arguments. First, certification and eco-labeling institutions privatize fisheries governance in largely unexamined ways through the injection of new forms of exclusive rights or privileges into common pool resource situations already complicated by access and property privileges, creating conditions for confusion and conflict as well as cooperation. Second, the MSC whole stock definition of sustainability places greater demands on certification clients for engaging in collective action by encouraging coordination over all social extractions from targeted fish stocks. Although rules encouraging collective action in common pool situations militate against the narrow private capture of certificate and eco-label rights, they also undermine the ability of small-scale and community-based fisheries that are embedded in larger unhealthy fishery contexts to acquire the right to the MSC stamp of sustainability. We conclude that MSC certification and ecolabeling create new institutions of private property rights and collective action, which can result in exclusionary practices, inclusionary collective action, or both. Much will depend on the specific common pool context and history of the fishery
Biology · Business · Certification · Collective action · Common-pool resource · Commons · Economics · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Natural resource economics · Political science · Politics · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Ecology
Broadening the perspective on ocean privatizations
An indicator framework to support comprehensive approaches to sustainable fisheries management
Introduction to the Special Feature on rebuilding fisheries and threatened communities
A multilevel evolutionary framework for sustainability analysis
Alternative environmentalities
Environmental governance theories
Agencing an innovative territorial trade scheme between crop and livestock farming
The Landscape of Leadership in Environmental Governance
Institutional matrix of social management in region's economy
Limits to fishing
Balancing Barriers to Entry and Administrative Burden in Voluntary Regulation
The ability of fish ecolabels to promote a change in the sustainability awareness
Marine Stewardship Council sustainability certification in developing countries
Diversity, challenges, and opportunities of Fishery Improvement Projects in the Latin America and the Caribbean region
Emergence and evolution of aquaculture sustainability certification schemes
Job satisfaction in small-scale fisheries
Drivers of chefs’ purchasing behaviour towards eco-labelled seafood in the hospitality sector
Informational institutions in the agrifood sector
The (Slow) Tragedy of Improvement
The fisherly imagination
Understanding the social–ecological systems of non-state seafood sustainability scheme in the blue economy
Coffee certification in Brazil
Structure, path dependence, and adaptation
Revisiting neoliberalism in the oceans
Situaciones de acción y juegos cooperativos. Un análisis teórico de la doble dimensión de la acción colectiva para la gobernanza comunitaria de recursos de uso común
(Re)Assembling Marine Space
Governing the Commons
The Tragedy of the Commons
National Government Responses to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Fisheries Certification
Certification and Communities
Greener than Thou
The Polanyian Way? Voluntary Food Labels as Neoliberal Governance
A Cautionary Note on Individual Transferable Quotas
Legitimacy and the Privatization of Environmental Governance
Why Shade Coffee Does Not Guarantee Biodiversity Conservation
The Social Dimensions of Sustainability and Change in Diversified Farming Systems
Alternative Regimes of Transnational Environmental Certification
Access and Property
A Theory of Access
The Political Economy and Ecology of Capture Fisheries
Fishing for Development? Tuna Resource Access and Industrial Change in Papua New Guinea
The Political Economy of Fishing Rights and Claims
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and the Making of a Market for 'Sustainable Fish
The Political Economy of Marine Stewardship Council Certification
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 17 |