Unfinished Business: New Zealands experience with rights-based fisheries management - gebruikt boek

New Zealands Quota Management System (QMS), based on Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs), has for a number of years figured as either heaven or hell in the fisheries debate. For most economists the ITQ-system has been presented as the solution to inefficient state management, while many social scientists and biologists have considered the system as a recipe for uneven distribution, regional dislocations and unsustainable yields. But what is the evidence? Unfinished Business tries to bring a balanced account of the first 15 years of the QMS, highlighting both its merits and shortcomings. As such it is a relevant contribution to the debates on fisheries management, co-management and stakeholder participation. The book is also the first attempt of giving a coherent presentation of the New Zealand management system, from the start to the present times, covering all important stakeholder groups.