21st century catch toolkit: practical approaches for sustainable inshore fishing communities

The 21st Century Catch Toolkit is a product of the INTERREG IVa 2 Seas project GIFS (Geography of Inshore Fishing and Sustainability). Work on the GIFS project was completed between January 2012 and September 2014 and was undertaken by a collaboration of six partners from four European countries bordering the Southern North Sea and English Channel. GIFS aimed to understand and capture the social, economic and cultural importance of inshore fishing to better inform fisheries policy, coastal regeneration strategies and sustainable community development. The project has involved a range of research projects, regeneration activities and case studies across southern England, northern France, Flanders and the southern Netherlands. GIFS partners have worked with local stakeholders and communities to explore the geographical diversity and similarities of fishing ports, harbours and people along the Channel and Southern North Sea. This toolkit is a product of that collaboration which provides useful findings and advice on how to value the social, economic and cultural importance of inshore fishing today

To regulate congestion with prices: an application of a repeated random utility model to outdoor recreation

In France open access is the rule for recreational areas. This generally leads to suboptimal equilibrium of visitation due to congestion externality. Furthermore, congestion is a result of a Nash equilibrium. This assumption needs to be taken into account in econometric estimations and in welfare calculations. In our work, we explore some ways of regulating congestion by prices. Repeated random utility models are estimated on data about the visitation of 43 coastal sites from west France, using a procedure which ensures the consistency with the Nash equilibrium. Taxing only one site reduces the collective welfare because of substitution effects, whereas global taxation manages to maximise welfare due to participation reduction

Brest et son passé industriel : enfermement ou ouverture ?

Dans cet article, nous transposons l’approche évolutionniste, traditionnellement circonscrites aux firmes, à l’analyse d’un territoire pour appréhender sa dynamique et ses perspectives de diversification. Les concepts d’enfermement, de trajectoires et de contraintes de sentier nous paraissent particulièrement pertinents pour étudier l’inertie du pays de Brest (France) en matière de diversification des activités. Marqué par l’industrie de la Défense, le pays de Brest peine à concrétiser les projets de diversification vers des activités civiles. Nous avançons l’idée selon laquelle l’industrie de la défense, par sa singularité, est à l’origine d’empreintes territoriales et notamment cognitives expliquant en grande partie pourquoi les acteurs locaux demeurent réticents à l’égard de tout projet de diversification. Les résultats de deux enquêtes menées auprès de personnes ayant ou non travaillé dans l’industrie de la défense confirment la présence de ces empreintes territoriales mais révèlent également une acceptabilité croissante des brestois à l’égard de deux projets de diversification : la déconstruction de coques de navires et la conception et fabrication d’hydroliennes et d’éoliennes flottantes, soit deux activités qui inscriraient le pays de Brest dans la transition écologique.In this article we transpose the evolutionist approach, traditionally circumscribed to firms, to a territory analysis to understand its dynamics and perspectives of diversification. Concepts of constriction, trajectories and path dependency seem particularly relevant for studying the inertia of the Brest (France) area in terms of activities diversification. Marked by the defense industry, the country of Brest is struggling to realize the projects of diversification towards civil activities. We are advancing the idea that the defence industry, by its singularity, is at the origin of territorial footprints and cognitive, explaining to a large extent why local actors remain reluctant to any diversification project. The results of two surveys of people who have or have not worked in the defence industry confirm the presence of these territorial footprints. It also reveals a growing acceptability of the inhabitants of Brest towards projects of diversification: the deconstruction of hulls of ships and the manufacturing of marine turbines and floating wind turbines. These two activities would register the area of Brest in the ecological transition