TY - CHAP
T1 - Artisanal fishers and their participation in public policies for biodiversity conservation in their communities
AU - Rodríguez-Quiroz, Gerardo
AU - Rodríguez-Franco, Isidro Luis
AU - Gracía-Urquídez, Daniel
AU - Pinkus Rendón, Miguel Ángel
AU - Pinkus Rendón, Manuel Jesús
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Of the Mexican population, 46% live in coastal states, and most of them fish or are connected to economic activities around fisheries. In 2014, Mexico obtained revenues of US$387,574,351 from fisheries. Fishing drives development and strengthened in a sustainable form will support millions of families, but a correct instrumentation of public policies based on a real information exchange between government and social actors is needed. If a government is not capable of generating the abovementioned exchange of information, public policies cannot be instrumented correctly. Using a mixed methodology of surveys with fishermen and using the Likert scale, we were able to conclude that in the studied communities, it is not possible to speak about public policies, but we can figure out which government programs are lacking. The fishing sector has not been valued in its right dimension and has been displaced as a priority from the programs benefitting social and economic development within and outside protected natural areas.
AB - Of the Mexican population, 46% live in coastal states, and most of them fish or are connected to economic activities around fisheries. In 2014, Mexico obtained revenues of US$387,574,351 from fisheries. Fishing drives development and strengthened in a sustainable form will support millions of families, but a correct instrumentation of public policies based on a real information exchange between government and social actors is needed. If a government is not capable of generating the abovementioned exchange of information, public policies cannot be instrumented correctly. Using a mixed methodology of surveys with fishermen and using the Likert scale, we were able to conclude that in the studied communities, it is not possible to speak about public policies, but we can figure out which government programs are lacking. The fishing sector has not been valued in its right dimension and has been displaced as a priority from the programs benefitting social and economic development within and outside protected natural areas.
KW - Artisanal fishery
KW - Fishing camp
KW - Governance
KW - Gulf of california
KW - Poverty
KW - Public policies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063473090&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-90584-6_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-90584-6_7
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:85063473090
SN - 9783319905839
SP - 149
EP - 164
BT - Mexican Natural Resources Management and Biodiversity Conservation
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -