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13 - Great Lakes fisheries as a bellwether of global governance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2009

By
Grant Folland  and
Michael G. Schechter
Edited by
William W. Taylor ,
Michael G. Schechter  and
Lois G. Wolfson
Grant Folland
Affiliation:
School of Law University of Chicago 1307 E 60th Street No. 307 Chicago, IL 60637 USA
Michael G. Schechter
Affiliation:
James Madison College Michigan State University South Case Hall East Lansing, MI 48825 USA
William W. Taylor
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Michael G. Schechter
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
Lois G. Wolfson
Affiliation:
Michigan State University
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Summary

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this chapter is both straightforward and unique: to apply a global governance approach (Brühl and Rittberger 2001) to the study of Great Lakes (and particularly Michigan) fisheries. Case studies in global governance are rare; case studies focused in the United States are even rarer. Although students of international relations have done some work on fisheries (Peterson 1993) and international law scholars much more, little of that is recent enough to apply and contribute to the insights of the global governance literature. Moreover, an inquiry such as this one seems in keeping with Francis' notion of what is needed to garner further insights for “realistic applications of the ‘ecosystem approach’” to the Great Lakes:

More attention needs to be given to the study of these Great Lakes actor systems and to their “dynamics” over time. Such study could provide a common focal point for the diverse disciplines and specialties that comprise the social sciences and the humanities. The subject is well within their domain, in a way that the Great Lakes viewed only as hydrological–biological phenomena never was. (Francis 1987:235)

Thus this paper's purpose is to investigate “the processes and institutions, both formal and informal, that guide and restrain the collectivities of a group” (Keohane and Nye 2002) to begin to answer the question “of how the various institutions and processes of global society can be meshed more effectively in a way that would be regarded as legitimate by attentive publics controlling access to key resources” (Keohane 2002) (of the Great Lakes, in this instance).

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Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources , pp. 305 - 330
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2007

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