Editorial team
Ratana Chuenpagdee, Memorial University, Canada
Svein Jentoft, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Since the publication of the ‘Fish for Life’ book in 2005 (Kooiman et al., eds.), numerous efforts have been made to advance the Interactive Governance (IG) theory and its applications. Some of these efforts have culminated into the 2013 book (Bavinck et al., eds.), focusing on governability, and the 2015 book (Jentoft & Chuenpagdee, eds.), focusing on the application of IGT on small-scale fisheries. The literature on IG shows that the theory has been applied globally and widely, beyond fisheries and oceans. To help celebrate the 20 years since the publication of the Fish for Life book, and in recognition of the great work by IG scholars around the world, it is deemed opportune to contemplate the 4th book, to highlight the progress made in theorizing IG, to reflect on lessons learned from various applications, to identify and fill theoretical and application gaps, and to project areas and spheres where IG theory can have the most real-world impact.
Similar to the 2013 and the 2015 books, we hope that the proposed book will be published in the Springer MARE Publication Series, with the release date around June 2025, in time for the celebration at the MARE Conference in Amsterdam. This means the writing of the book will begin in early 2024, and will complete in December 2024.
