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Empowering NGOs? Long-term effects of ecological and institutional change on regional fisheries management organizations
Global Environmental Change ( IF 8.6 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 , DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2020.102197
Lisa M. Dellmuth , Matilda T. Petersson , Daniel C. Dunn , André Boustany , Patrick N. Halpin

The participation of environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) in regional fisheries management organizations has inspired optimism among many observers and researchers about increasing the effectiveness of these regional organizations in managing highly migratory and straddling fish stocks sustainably. Others claim that the attendance of ENGOs in meetings of regional fisheries management organizations as accredited observers or as part of member state or cooperating non-member state delegations, could make decision-making complex, long, and inefficient. More generally, NGO participation has attracted broad scholarly interest in the study of interest groups and transnational advocacy in political science. Yet, we know little about the determinants of ENGO participation in meetings of regional fisheries management organizations in the first place. To fill this gap, this article develops a theoretical framework conceptualizing ENGO participation and developing expectations about how ecological and institutional change shapes ENGO participation. The framework deals with structural determinants of ENGO participation, as existing literature primarily has been preoccupied with the study of actor-specific explanations of specific NGOs’ impact in specific political processes. By contrast, we examine how ecological change – such as target fish stock health and biomass status – and institutional change – such as financial resources, membership composition of regional fisheries management organizations and participation by other non-state actors, such as experts and fishing industry representatives – shape ENGO participation. We empirically explore this framework in the context of seven regional fisheries management organizations. A dataset comprising yearly fish stock-level data on participation, institutional, and ecological factors, for 1980–2014, was compiled for our quantitative inquiry into the determinants of ENGO participation. We find robust evidence that institutional change shapes ENGO participation, but not ecological factors related to target fish stock health. We discuss our findings against the backdrop of ongoing debates about NGOs in political science, and spell out broader implications for future research on NGOs in regional fisheries management organizations.



中文翻译:

赋予非政府组织权力?生态和体制变化对区域渔业管理组织的长期影响

环境非政府组织(ENGOs)参与区域渔业管理组织,激发了许多观察家和研究人员的乐观态度,他们希望提高这些区域组织在可持续管理高度highly游和跨界鱼类种群方面的效力。其他人则说,非政府组织作为经认可的观察员或作为成员国的一部分或与非成员国合作的代表团参加区域渔业管理组织的会议,可能会使决策复杂,漫长且效率低下。更广泛地说,非政府组织的参与在兴趣团体的研究和政治学的跨国倡导中引起了广泛的学术兴趣。然而,首先,我们对ENGO参加区域渔业管理组织会议的决定因素知之甚少。为了填补这一空白,本文建立了一个理论框架,将ENGO的参与概念化,并就生态和制度变化如何影响ENGO的参与提出了期望。该框架涉及ENGO参与的结构性决定因素,因为现有文献主要集中在研究特定非政府组织在特定政治进程中的影响的行为者特定解释。相比之下,我们研究了生态变化(例如目标鱼类种群健康和生物量状况)以及体制变化(例如财政资源,区域渔业管理组织的成员组成以及其他非国家行为者的参与)如何,例如专家和捕捞业代表–决定ENGO的参与。我们在七个区域渔业管理组织的背景下经验性地探索了这一框架。编制了一个包含1980-2014年年度鱼类种群水平有关参与,体制和生态因素的年度数据集,以供我们对ENGO参与的决定因素进行定量研究。我们发现有力的证据表明,机构变革会影响ENGO的参与,但不会影响与目标鱼类种群健康相关的生态因素。我们在关于政治学非政府组织的持续辩论的背景下讨论我们的发现,并阐明对区域渔业管理组织中非政府组织未来研究的更广泛意义。我们在七个区域渔业管理组织的背景下经验性地探索了这一框架。编制了一个包含1980-2014年年度鱼类种群水平有关参与,体制和生态因素的年度数据集,以供我们对ENGO参与的决定因素进行定量研究。我们发现有力的证据表明,机构变革会影响ENGO的参与,但不会影响与目标鱼类种群健康相关的生态因素。我们在关于政治学非政府组织的持续辩论的背景下讨论我们的发现,并阐明对区域渔业管理组织中非政府组织未来研究的更广泛意义。我们在七个区域渔业管理组织的背景下经验性地探索了这一框架。编制了一个包含1980-2014年年度鱼类种群水平有关参与,体制和生态因素的年度数据集,以供我们对ENGO参与的决定因素进行定量研究。我们发现有力的证据表明,机构变革会影响ENGO的参与,但不会影响与目标鱼类种群健康相关的生态因素。我们在关于政治学非政府组织的持续辩论的背景下讨论我们的发现,并阐明对区域渔业管理组织中非政府组织未来研究的更广泛意义。为我们对ENGO参与决定因素的定量调查而编写。我们发现有力的证据表明,机构变革会影响ENGO的参与,但不会影响与目标鱼类种群健康相关的生态因素。我们在关于政治学非政府组织的持续辩论的背景下讨论我们的发现,并阐明对区域渔业管理组织中非政府组织未来研究的更广泛意义。为我们对ENGO参与决定因素的定量调查而编写。我们发现有力的证据表明,机构变革会影响ENGO的参与,但不会影响与目标鱼类种群健康相关的生态因素。我们在关于政治学非政府组织的持续辩论的背景下讨论我们的发现,并阐明对区域渔业管理组织中非政府组织未来研究的更广泛意义。

更新日期:2020-11-12
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