Abstract
Governance of marine resources is increasingly characterized by integrated, cross sectoral and ecosystem based approaches. Such approaches require that existing governing bodies have an ability to ...
Highlights
The ecosystem approach to management is increasingly perceived as the desirable approach to govern marine ecosystems (Murawski 2007; Ruckelshaus et al 2008)
We construct an ideal type of adaptive governance to which we compare the way in which how the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM) is operating and relate these dynamics to two other international marine environment governance organizations, the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF) and the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
The first part of our study shows both similarities and differences between CTI-CFF, HELCOM, CCAMLR and the ideal type
Summary
The ecosystem approach to management is increasingly perceived as the desirable approach to govern marine ecosystems (Murawski 2007; Ruckelshaus et al 2008). A large number of empirical local case studies have delivered important insights regarding how, and under which circumstances, governance systems are likely to adapt to challenges and complex ecosystem dynamics (Ostrom et al 2002). Key components of such successful adaptive governance have generated a widely used framework for the study of common resources (Dietz et al 2003; Ostrom 2009). The effectiveness of environmental regimes has been thoroughly scrutinized (Young 1999; Miles et al 2002; Breitmeier et al 2006) but this literature has paid a relatively limited amount of attention to the adaptive capacity of international regimes (see, Young et al 2008; Webster 2009; Young 2010)
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