Extracting ideology from policy: Analysing the social construction of conservation priorities in the Coral Triangle region |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia;2. Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Mineral Institute, The University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia;1. School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia;2. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia;3. Associated Scientific Limited, Australia;1. Key Lab of Environmental Optics and Technology, Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 230031 Hefei, China;2. School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 3010 Melbourne, VIC, Australia;3. School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, 230026 Hefei, China;4. Center for Excellence in Regional Atmospheric Environment, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China;5. International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, QLD 4000, Australia;6. Climate Science Centre, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, 3195 Aspendale, VIC, Australia;7. School of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, 2522, NSW, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This study presents an analysis of marine resource management activities designed to ameliorate concerns over fish stocks, food and livelihood insecurity in the coastal Asia Pacific region, with a specific focus on the area encompassed by the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF). Firstly, the study explores how the CTI-CFF framing of food insecurity as symptomatic of economic deficiencies at the household level reflects the broader neoliberal conservation agenda driving the CTI-CFF and serves to legitimate the latter as the natural authority for intervention. Secondly, the paper uses an example of local level fishery management to demonstrate how the logic of neoliberalism translates to regulations which fail to recognise social and political complexities confronting fishers, thereby exacerbating the precarity of food and livelihood security in these communities. Thirdly, the paper contrasts the Western scientific emphasis on maintaining food security through managing coral reef fisheries with evidence from Indonesia and the Philippines which demonstrates the much larger contribution from pelagic fisheries and aquaculture to food security. The paper concludes with a call for research and aid-funded interventions on fishery management, livelihoods and food security to better reflect the needs of coastal people in the Asia-Pacific region, rather than the values commonly espoused by Western scientists and conservationists. |
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