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Current European Projects on Water and Biodiversity Governance

IBEFish:
Interaction between Environment and Fisheries

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Project name IBEFish
Homepage: on www.environment.fi
Project partners: UFZ
Common criteria: Information, Legitimacy, Social Dynamics, Costs
Short abstract: IBEFish takes the two needs of an enlarged fisheries management regime(the ecosystem-based approach and stakeholder participation) as astarting point and explores their theoretical and practicalimplications with a special focus on the role of participation in integrated management of the interaction between environment and fisheries. The project has two objectives:
  1. 1) to share the results and theoreticalunderstandings gained in past projects with regard to the ecosystemapproach in fisheries management, with a special focus on the role ofparticipation in integrated management of the interaction betweenenvironment and fisheries; and
  2. 2) to make practical recommendations forimproving fisheries management towards an ecosystem-based approachespecially emphasising the need for an enhanced knowledge-base, legitimacy and trust-building in the management.

GoverNat evaluation grid of governance
(common criteria)

Information management
I1 Elucidating and integrating different types of information
I2 Outcome of management and governance structure
I3 Coping with uncertainty and complexity

Legitimacy
L1 Legal compatibility
L2 Accountability
L3 Inclusion/ representation
L4 Transparency of rules and assumptions to in- and outsiders

Social dynamics
S1 Respect/ relationship
S2 Agency/ empowerment
S3 Changing behaviour, changing perspectives/ learning
S4 Facilitate convergence or illustrate diversity

Costs
C1 Cost-effectiveness
C2 Costs of the method
C3 Decision failure costs