Social innovation for developing sustainable solutions in a fisheries sector

IF 3 3区 社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Ebun Akinsete, Achilleas Vassilopoulos, Laura Secco, Elena Pisani, Maria Nijnik, Valentino Marini-Govigli, Phoebe Koundouri, Alkis Kafetzis
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Abstract

In this paper, we explore how social innovation can provide a range of ecosystem services to local people while supporting public policies and private sector initiatives in delivering successful and innovative food distribution channels. In the Mediterranean basin, the status of commercial fish stocks is critical. In this sense, small-scale, low-impact fishing is a way to sustainably utilise socially innovative practices in the use of natural assets and to provide support to rural livelihoods while having minimal impacts on the marine environment. We use an innovative evaluation method, based on the integration of qualitative information with quantitative indicators, to assess social innovation initiatives and their impacts. The use of the methodology is demonstrated on the example of the project A Box of Sea, Greece. The results obtained show that this social initiative provides a novel food consumption and distribution model aiming at making low impact fishing more economically viable, and therefore achieving a triple sustainability for the sector (environmental, social, and economic). We identify third sector social innovation schemes as key tools to develop novel distribution systems supporting local communities (providing employment, fostering new networks and collaborations across fishers), while improving governance practices of the current fishing sector by creating a fairer market that protects the marine environment. Our findings provide a foundation upon which future evaluations of similar projects can build and compare. Such comparisons are crucial in determining patterns related to the innovation transfer processes.

促进渔业部门可持续解决方案的社会创新
在本文中,我们探讨了社会创新如何为当地人民提供一系列生态系统服务,同时支持公共政策和私营部门倡议,以提供成功和创新的食品分销渠道。在地中海盆地,商业鱼类资源的状况至关重要。从这个意义上说,小规模、低影响的捕捞是可持续地利用自然资产的社会创新做法和支持农村生计的一种方式,同时对海洋环境的影响最小。本文采用一种基于定性信息与定量指标相结合的创新评价方法,对社会创新活动及其影响进行了评估。以希腊A Box of Sea项目为例,说明了该方法的应用。所获得的结果表明,这一社会倡议提供了一种新的食品消费和分配模式,旨在使低影响捕鱼在经济上更加可行,从而实现该部门的三重可持续性(环境、社会和经济)。我们将第三部门社会创新计划确定为开发支持当地社区的新型分配系统(提供就业,培育新的渔民网络和合作)的关键工具,同时通过创建更公平的保护海洋环境的市场来改善当前渔业部门的治理实践。我们的发现为将来类似项目的评估提供了基础,可以建立和比较。这种比较对于确定与创新转移过程有关的模式至关重要。
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Environmental Policy and Governance
Environmental Policy and Governance ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-
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6.10
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13.30%
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67
期刊介绍: Environmental Policy and Governance is an international, inter-disciplinary journal affiliated with the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). The journal seeks to advance interdisciplinary environmental research and its use to support novel solutions in environmental policy and governance. The journal publishes innovative, high quality articles which examine, or are relevant to, the environmental policies that are introduced by governments or the diverse forms of environmental governance that emerge in markets and civil society. The journal includes papers that examine how different forms of policy and governance emerge and exert influence at scales ranging from local to global and in diverse developmental and environmental contexts.
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