Assembling sustainable territories: space, subjects, objects, and expertise in seafood certification

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1907-1925

  Vandergeest, Peter ^a   Ponte, Stefano ^b   Bush, Simon ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Business and Politics ^*  (Denmark)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

green grabbing; seafood; sustainability certification; territorialization

Indexed keywords

CERTIFICATION; SEAFOOD; SUSTAINABILITY; TERRITORY;

EID: 84946846921     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15599297     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. G.AuldC.BalboaS.BernsteinB.CashoreM.DelmasO.Young (2009) “The emergence of non-state market-driven (NSDM) global environmental governance”. In: M.A.DelmasO.Young (eds) Governance for the Environment: New Perspectives, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 183–218
2. R.BanksL.ClarkT.HuntingtonT.LewisA.Hough (2011) MSC Assessment Report for PNA Western and Central Pacific Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) unassociated and log set purse seine fishery. Version: 5, Derby, UKPublic Certification Report Ref: 82122/v5. Moody Marine
3. C.Bear (2013) “Assembling the sea: materiality, movement and regulatory practices in the Cardigan Bay scallop fishery”. Cultural Geographies20: 21–41
4. C.BearS.Eden (2008) “Making space for fish: the regional, network and fluid spaces of fisheries certification”. Social & Cultural Geography9: 487–504
5. C.Béné (2005) “The good, the bad and the ugly”. Development Policy Review23: 585–614
6. S.Bowen (2011) “The importance of place: re-erritorialising embeddedness”. Sociologia Ruralis51: 325–348
7. G.Bridge (2011) “Resource geographies 1 making carbon economies, old and new”. Progress in Human Geography35: 820–834
8. D.BromheadJ.FosterR.AttardJ.FindlayJ.Kalish (2003) A Review of the Impact of FADs on Tuna Fisheries: Final Report to Fisheries Resources Research Fund, AustraliaCommonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
9. R.E.Brummett (2013) Growing Aquaculture in Sustainable Ecosystem”, Washington, DCWorld Bank
10. S.R.BushB.BeltonD.HallP.VandergeestF.J.MurrayS.PonteP.OosterveerM.S.IslamA.P.J.MolM.HatanakaF.KruijssenT.T.T.HaD.C.LittleR.Kusumawati (2013) “Certify custainable aquaculture?”. Science341: 1067–1068
11. S.R.BushA.P.Mol (2014) “Governing in a placeless environment: sustainability and fish aggregating devices”. Environmental Science & Policy. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2014.07.016
12. S.R.BushP.A.M.Van ZwietenL.VisserH.Van DijkR.BosmaW.F.De BoerM.Verdegem (2010) “Scenarios for resilient shrimp aquaculture in tropical coastal areas”. Ecology and Society15. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss12/art15/
13. L.CamplingE.Havice (2014) “The problem of property in industrial fisheries”. Journal of Peasant Studies41: 707–727
14. B.CashoreG.AuldD.Newsom (2004) Governing Through Markets: Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press
15. C.Corson (2011) “Territorialization, enclosure and neoliberalism: non-state influence in struggles over Madagascar's forests”. Journal of Peasant Studies38: 703–726
16. C.CorsonK.MacDonaldB.Neimark (2013) “Grabbing ‘green’: markets, environmental governance, and the materialization of natural capital”. Human Geography6: 1–15
17. L.DagornK.N.HollandV.RestrepoG.Moreno (2013) “Is it good or bad to fish with FADs? What are the real impacts of the use of drifting FADs on pelagic marine ecosystems?”. Fish and Fisheries14: 391–415
18. T.DempsterM.Taquet (2004) “Fish aggregation device (FAD) research: gaps in current knowledge and future directions for ecological studies”. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries14: 21–42
19. S.Eden (2009) “The work of environmental governance networks: rraceability, credibility and certification by the Forest Stewardship Council”. Geoforum40: 383–394
20. J.FairheadM.LeachI.Scoones (2012) “Green grabbing: a new appropriation of nature?”. Journal of Peasant Studies39: 237–261
21. FAO (2012) The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture, RomeFAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
22. P.Foley (2012) “The political economy of Marine Stewardship Council certification: processors and access in Newfoundland and Labrador's inshore shrimp industry”. Journal of Agrarian Change12: 436–457
23. P.Foley (2013) “National government responses to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) fisheries certification: insights from Atlantic Canada”. New Political Economy18: 284–307
24. P.FoleyK.Hébert (2013) “Alternative regimes of transnational environmental certification: governance, marketization, and place in Alaska's salmon fisheries”. Environment and Planning A45: 2734–2751
25. P.GibbonS.Ponte (2005) Trading Down: Africa, Value Chains and the Global Economy, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press
26. L.H.Gulbrandsen (2013) “Dynamic governance interactions: evolutionary effects of state responses to non-tate certification programs”. Regulation & Governance8: 74–92
27. T.T.T.HaS.R.BushA.P.J.MolH.Van Dijk (2012) “Organic coasts? Regulatory challenges of certifying integrated shrimp-mangrove production systems in Vietnam”. The Journal of Rural Studies28: 631–639
28. M.Hatanaka (2010) “Certification, partnership, and morality in an organic shrimp network: rethinking transnational alternative agrifood networks”. World Development38: 706–716
29. M.HatanakaC.BainL.Busch (2005) “Third-party certification in the global agrifood system”. Food Policy30: 354–369
30. E.Havice (2013) “Rights-based management in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean tuna fishery: economic and environmental change under the Vessel Day Scheme”. Marine Policy42: 259–267
31. E.HaviceA.Iles (2015) “Shaping the aquaculture sustainability assemblage: revealing the rule-making behind the rules”. Geoforum58: 27–37
32. V.HigginsJ.DibdenC.Cocklin (2008) “Building alternative agri-food networks: certification, embeddedness and agri-environmental governance”. Journal of Rural Studies24: 15–27
33. D.Klooster (2005) “Environmental certification of forests: the evolution of environmental governance in a commodity network”. Journal of Rural Studies21: 403–417
34. J.Konefal (2010) “Food, the environment, and democracy: a case study of the marine conservation movement's shift from state-centered to market-based approaches”. Journal of Rural Social Sciences25: 226–252
35. J.Konefal (2013) “Environmental movements, market-based approaches, and neoliberalization: a case study of the sustainable seafood movement”. Organization & Environment26: 336–352
36. R.KusumawatiS.R.BushL.Visser (2013) “Can patrons be by-passed? Frictions between local and global regulatory networks over shrimp aquaculture in East Kalimantan”. Society and Natural Resources26: 898–911
37. I.KvalvikB.H.NoestvoldJ.A.Young (2014) “National or supranational fisheries sustainability certification schemes? A critical analysis of Norwegian and Icelandic responses”. Marine Policy46: 137–142
38. B.Latour (2007) Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press
39. L.LebelR.MungkungS.H.GheewalaP.Lebel (2010) “Innovation cycles, niches and sustainability in the shrimp aquaculture industry in Thailand”. Environmental Science & Policy13: 291–302
40. K.MacDonald (2013) “Grabbing green: cynical reason, instrumental ethics and the production of ‘the green economy’”. Human Geography6: 46–63
41. A.M.MillerS.R.Bush (2014) “Authority without credibility? Competition and conflict between ecolabels in tuna fisheries”. Journal of Cleaner Production. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.02.047
42. T.Mitchell (2002) Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-politics, Modernity, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press
43. J.Murdoch (1998) “The spaces of actor-network theory”. Geoforum29: 357–374
44. T.Mutersbaugh (2005) “Fighting standards with standards: harmonization, rents, and social accountability in certified agrofood networks”. Environment and Planning A37: 2033–2051
45. T.MutersbaughS.Lyon (2010) “Transparency and democracy in certified ethical commodity networks”. Geoforum41: 27–32
46. R.L.NaylorR.W.HardyD.P.BureauA.ChiuM.ElliottA.P.FarrellI.ForsterD.M.GatlinR.J.GoldburgK.HuaP.D.Nichols (2009) “Feeding aquaculture in an era of finite resources”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences106: 15103–15110
47. R.Omoto (2012) Small-scale Producers and the Governance of Certified Organic Seafood Production in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, WaterlooDepartment of Geography, University of Waterloo
48. J.Painter (2010) “Rethinking territory”. Antipode42: 1090–1118
49. G.ParkesJ.A.YoungS.F.WalmsleyR.AbelJ.HarmanP.HorvatA.LemA.MacFarlaneM.MensC.Nolan (2010) “Behind the signs — a global review of fish sustainability information schemes”. Reviews in Fisheries Science18: 344–356
50. PNA (2010) “A third arrangement implementing the Nauru Agreement setting forth additional terms and conditions of access to the fisheries zones of the parties”, Koror, PalauParties to the Nauru Agreement
51. S.Ponte (2008) “Greener than thou: the political conomy of fish ecolabeling and its local manifestations in South Africa”. World Development36: 159–175
52. S.Ponte (2012) “The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and the making of a market for ‘sustainable fish’”. Journal of Agrarian Change12: 300–315
53. A.Ramirez Cover (2013) “Uneven territorialization and sea turtle conservation in neoliberal Costa Rica”. Human Geography6: 151–165
54. P.Vandergeest (2007) “Certification and communities: alternatives for regulating the environmental and social impacts of shrimp farming”. World Development35: 1152–1171
55. P.VandergeestN.L.Peluso (1995) “Territorialization and state power in Thailand”. Theory and Society24: 385–426
56. P.VandergeestA.Unno (2012) “A new extraterritoriality? Aquaculture certification, sovereignty, and empire”. Political Geography31: 358–367