Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- About the editors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Globalization and fisheries: a necessarily interdisciplinary inquiry
- Part I Impacts of globalization on fisheries and aquatic habitats
- Part II Case studies of globalization and fisheries resources
- Part III Governance and multilevel management systems
- Part IV Ethical, economic, and policy implications
- 16 The intersection of global trade, social networks, and fisheries
- 17 Fishing for consumers: market-driven factors affecting the sustainability of the fish and seafood supply chain
- 18 Globalization and worth of fishery resources in an integrated market-based system
- 19 Can transgenic fish save fisheries?
- 20 Contributing to fisheries sustainability through the adoption of a broader ethical approach
- Part V Conclusions and recommendations
- Index
- Plate section
- References
16 - The intersection of global trade, social networks, and fisheries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- About the editors
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Globalization and fisheries: a necessarily interdisciplinary inquiry
- Part I Impacts of globalization on fisheries and aquatic habitats
- Part II Case studies of globalization and fisheries resources
- Part III Governance and multilevel management systems
- Part IV Ethical, economic, and policy implications
- 16 The intersection of global trade, social networks, and fisheries
- 17 Fishing for consumers: market-driven factors affecting the sustainability of the fish and seafood supply chain
- 18 Globalization and worth of fishery resources in an integrated market-based system
- 19 Can transgenic fish save fisheries?
- 20 Contributing to fisheries sustainability through the adoption of a broader ethical approach
- Part V Conclusions and recommendations
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
GLOBALIZATION AND NETWORKS
In this chapter, we explore globalization through networks. Of course, globalization can be described in terms of networks of trade between countries and as executed by multinational corporations (Breiger 1981; Chase-Dunn and Grimes 1995; Kim and Shin 2002). And fisheries ecosystems have long been characterized in terms of networks of predator and prey relationships between taxon or species (e.g., Cohen et al. 1993; Gaedke 1995; Krause et al. 2003). But here we will explore how human social networks mediate between global economic exchanges and the dynamics of aquatic ecosystems. Thus we extend critiques of the globalization literature for lack of attention to individual agency (e.g., Schechter 1999:62) by calling attention to the effects of human relationships in globalization. Ultimately, our focus allows us to integrate theories related to social networks (e.g., social capital) as well as inform policy and management of and research on fisheries and their associated ecosystems.
What is globalization?
We define globalization as an increase in the rate of exchange of resources and information across geographic regions and cultures. Though communities have been interdependent through trade as long as people have traversed the oceans, our current awareness of globalization suggests that we are increasingly globalized – that the resources and related actions in distant regions of the world have an unrivaled immediacy in the lives of most people (Harrison 1996; Kim and Shin 2002; One World 2007).
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- Globalization: Effects on Fisheries Resources , pp. 385 - 423Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007
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