Sustainability Assessment of the Societal Cost of Fishing Activities in a Deliberative Perspective

Jean-Marc Douguet (1) , Pierre W. Johnson (1) , P. Failler (2) , Gianluca Ferraro (3) , Aurélie Chamaret (1)

1 REEDS - Centre international de Recherches en Economie écologique, Eco-innovation et ingénierie du Développement Soutenable
2 CEMARE - Centre pour l'Economie et la Gestion des Ressources Aquatiques
3 PMI - Public Management Institute

The paper presents an assessment of fishing activities and policies in order to contribute to a better management of aquatic resources which affect sustainable development in coastal zones around the world. We propose to define the societal cost in a sustainability assessment process of (positive and negative) effects of fishery metiers in different eco-regions (West African coastal upwwellings, and South-East Asian deltas). The originality of this article is (1) to consider the assessment process of the societal cost of fishing activities as a question of social choice and, (2) the comparison of fishing activities in a multi-criteria and multistakeholder approach in a deliberative perspective.

Mots clés: Sustainability Assessment; societal costs; deliberative perspective; fishing activities

Domaines: Environnement et Société; Etudes de l'environnement; Economies et finances; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Jean-Marc Douguet, Pierre W. Johnson, P. Failler, Gianluca Ferraro, Aurélie Chamaret. Sustainability Assessment of the Societal Cost of Fishing Activities in a Deliberative Perspective. 2010. ⟨hal-00879665⟩