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Chefs and Ocean Conservation
This week I heard Barton Seaver speak at the Center for American Progress. A very inspiring and smart speaker. So I thought I’d highlight this interview with him at Grist. He makes a great point...
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Culture, Eco-Philosophy, and Saving the Planet
The World Values Survey Cultural Map, 2005-2008. A great example of how cultures differ around the world. Notice how countries with strong environmental movements tend to correlate with both...
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Words to Ponder: Serge Michel Garcia
Serge Michel Garcia, formerly the director of Fisheries Management at the FAO, writes on the prospects for implementing the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) in countries around the world. The...
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Paying Attention to the Natural World
It's easy to pass by little gems. A Pygmy Seahorse. Credit: PacificKlaus, Flikr. Matthew McDermott over at TreeHugger has a nice book review of The Way of Natural History, a compilation on how mindful...
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Closing the Fishing Frontier in Southeast Asia
I highly recommend John G. Butcher’s The Closing of the Frontier: A History of the Marine Fisheries of Southeast Asia. This book compares positively with Callum Roberts’ The Unnatural History of the...
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Resource Regimes
I just finished reading the 1982 classic, Resource Regimes: Natural Resources and Social Institutions, by Oran Young. I highly recommend it for anyone interested in understanding marine resource...
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The State of Marine Social Science
One follow up to yesterday’s post on Oran Young’s Rescource Regimes. Consider this statement from Young’s preface: I am not a natural scientist, and I have nothing to contribute to our understanding of...
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The Privatization of the Oceans
I just finished reading The Privatization of the Oceans by Rögnvaldur Hannesson. The book covers the history of property rights as applied to natural resources, the recent rise of exclusive access...
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The First Flag of Convenience
Though I wasn’t a fan of Hannesson’s The Privatization of the Oceans, I did find one nice little anecdote on the first flag of convenience: A book by Thomas Wemyss Fulton, lecturer at the University of...
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State Behavior and Fisheries Management
I’ve been thinking about another idea Hannesson shared in his book, The Privatization of the Ocean, which I recently reviewed. In it he provided a theory of state behavior with regards to marine...
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