Freedom and Poverty in the Fishery Commons

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dc.contributor.authorJentoft, Svein
dc.contributor.authorOnyango, Paul O.
dc.contributor.authorIslam, Mohammad M.
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-08T11:50:05Z
dc.date.available2016-07-08T11:50:05Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractPoverty was at the heart of the tragedy of the commons discourse from the very beginning. The idea was that commoners would inevitably end up deprived due to their own resource overuse. As Hardin saw it, if the initial problem was freedom of the commons, then limiting that freedom would logically reduce poverty. In this article, we argue that alleviating poverty among resource users calls for a broader concept of freedom than Hardin’s – one that is more in line with that of Amartya Sen’s “freedom as agency.” Based on case-studies of smallscale fisheries and poverty in Bangladesh and Tanzania, we claim that the root of the tragedy of the commons is the restriction of freedom rather than unlimited freedom and that it is arguable whether the people who have no other option than to continue fishing for their livelihood, even in over-exploited ecosystems, could be understood to be free.en_US
dc.identifier.citationJentoft, S., Onyango, P. and Islam, M.M., 2010. Freedom and poverty in the fishery commons. International Journal of the Commons, 4(1).en_US
dc.identifier.issn1875-0281
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11810/2849
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectCapability deprivationen_US
dc.subjectCommon pool resourcesen_US
dc.subjectGovernanceen_US
dc.subjectPovertyen_US
dc.subjectSmall-scale fisheriesen_US
dc.titleFreedom and Poverty in the Fishery Commonsen_US
dc.typeJournal Article, Peer Revieweden_US
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