In recent years there have been several alarming predictions about the future of the planet s fish stocks. As a result, many national governments and supranational institutions, including the European Union, have instituted reforms designed to mitigate the crisis.

This book examines the discourse and practice of good governance in the context of fisheries management. It starts by examining the crisis of fisheries in the North Sea, caused primarily by overfishing and failure of the European Union s Common Fisheries Policy. It then goes on to analyse reforms to this policy enacted...

This book examines the relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience, exploring the emerging connections, contradictions and tensions between them in cities of the Global South. The contributors use case studies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine the institutional governance of resilience and environmentally just practice, everyday bottom-up attempts to achieve resilience and environmental justice, and co-produced governance. The book presents inequalities, injustices and power relationships in the multidimensionality of urban life, and approaches social...