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Johan Hultman.

Johan Hultman

Professor

Johan Hultman.

From moral to markets: The Rhetoric of Responsibility and Resource Management in European Union Fisheries Policy

Author

  • Filippa Säwe
  • Johan Hultman

Summary, in English

Abstract in Undetermined
Ecological, economic, and social sustainability has been prioritized by the European Union in its proposal for a reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), but it is recognized that there is a lack of knowledge concerning the objectives of these three aspects. Addressing the issue of how these objectives are given meaning as policy is being articulated, two Swedish seminars where fisheries' stakeholders discuss the proposal for a reformed CFP are analyzed. The analysis shows how fish become defined as a specific kind of resource and how their status as a resource is framed as a moral issue. Once morally charged the resource is subjected to valorization through economic modeling. As a result, the potential for sustainability in fisheries becomes conditional upon the creation of new markets.

Department/s

  • Department of Service Studies

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

507-520

Publication/Series

Society & Natural Resources

Volume

27

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • sustainability
  • fisheries
  • markets
  • individually transferrable quotas (ITQ)
  • Comman Fisheries Policy (CFP)
  • discarding ban

Status

Published

Project

  • Sustainability through markets?
  • Co-management of coastal fisheries

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0894-1920