Adaptive Fisheries Governance in Changing Coastal Regions in Japan

Akiko Ikeguchi Akiko Ikeguchi is an associate professor in the College of Education, Yokohama National University, Japan. As a geographer she has been working in the field of society and nature, focusing on aquatic resource use and development issues. She has conducted collaborative research projects aiming to advance an interdisciplinary approach between biophysical sciences and social sciences, and she is a founding member of the Nature–Society Study Group in the Association of Japanese Geographers (AJG). She works closely with the local communities, government, and NGOs in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Japan and carries out field research focusing on emerging governance issues in response to global ecological changes. She is currently an editor of the Geographical Review of Japan and a board member of AJG and the Human Geographical Society of Japan (HGSJ).   Takafumi Yokoyama Takafumi Yokoyama is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Faculty of Geo-Environmental Sciences of Rissho University, Japan. He is a human geographer researching coastal fishing villages in Japan and Chile. His research interests are the socio-economic impact of aquaculture on villages, local institutions of collective fishing grounds use and fishery resource management, local and global seaweed trade and aquaculture, and adaptive capacity to tsunamis in different social scales. In his research especially, he focuses on the geographical diversity and social structure of fishing villages, the livelihoods, and the social relationships of fishers. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba awarded in 2012 and has been in his current position since 2015.   Seishiro Sakita Seishiro Sakita is a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). His academic background consists of human geography, cultural ecology, and political ecology, while his research has also been inspired by the study of the commons. He has been exploring the micro-scale diversity of small-scale fisheries, examining diversification factors, and asking how local people have been involved in fisheries management practices. He focuses especially on the roles and transitions of the local community, indigenous ecological knowledge, co-management among multiple actors, and social-ecological systems. His work is based on empirical case studies on coastal areas in Japan and Greece. He holds a Ph.D. in geography from Nagoya University. Currently, he is also a visiting researcher of the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.

Changing Community Governance in the Coastal Fishing Regions.- Examining Geographical Methods for Analyzing Relationships Among Actors in Fishing Ground Use.- Rethinking the State of Fisheries Cooperative Associations Through the Long-Term Consolidation Movement in Japan.- Fisheries Resource Governance in Hyogo Seto Inland Sea: Fishers, the Government, Research Institutes and Fisher’s Organizations.- Fishery Activities in Response to the Rapid Decline of the Herring Catch in Hokkaido.- Adaptive Capacity in Fishery Restoration Process at Tsunami-Affected Areas: Assets, Flexibility and Social Organization.- Adaptive Governance of Coastal Fisheries Resources in Response to Isoyake (Seaweed Deforestation).