Approaches and Tools for Examining Governability

Several tools and approaches are available for investigating the characteristics of the system-to-be-governed, the capacity of the governing system and the quality of their interactions. Diversity and complexity of the fisheries ecosystem can be understood using, for instance, food web analysis. Similarly, stakeholder analysis helps describe diversity and complexity of the social system that is being governed, as well as of the governing system. These tools, along with many others, provide ways and means to gauge what and where in these systems governability issues may be pronounced. We present some examples of these tools to illustrate their utility in examining key aspects of the fisheries system that may give rise to governability. They also illustrate the diversity of tools that may be required when the perception of governance and governability expands beyond the conventional to encompass the full range of stakeholders, processes and interactions. This investigation is one of the main steps in the full governability assessment framework.

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