ARTISANAL CORAL REEF FISHERIES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE ARNO ATOLL FISHERIES ASSOCIATION

Authors

Jim Hess, Program in Social Networks, University of California, Irvine

Abstract

The concept of sustainable development is inexact, requiring additional specification in application. How the subject of analysis is bounded will have consequences for understanding what is being sustained as well as for determining whether something is sustained. Here I examine a fisheries development project in the Marshall Islands. Shifting boundaries, I create three accounts of the project. In the first account, which focuses on resources and monetary cost and benefits, the project is clearly unsustainable. In the second account, focusing on international relations, the project sustains the relations of power and dependency. In the third account, I suggest that evaluation should take into account history, process, and the costs of knowledge rather than settle for facile assessments of success or failure.

Recommended Citation

Hess, Jim (1999) "ARTISANAL CORAL REEF FISHERIES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE ARNO ATOLL FISHERIES ASSOCIATION," Pacific Studies Journal: Vol. 22: No. 3, Article 7.
Available at: https://digitalcollections.byuh.edu/pacific-studies-journal/vol22/iss3/7