Sustainable development of rural coastal areas: Impacts of a new fisheries policy |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Agricultural Products Marketing and Quality Control, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia, Terma Kontopoulou, 53100 Florina, Greece;2. Department of Ichthyology and Aquatic Environment, School of Agriculture, University of Thessaly, Fytoko Street, 38446 Volos, Greece;3. Department of Agricultural Economics, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, P.O. Box 225, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece;1. The Ohio State University School of Environment and Natural Resources, 210 Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210, United States;2. Research Group Governance, Participation and Sustainability, Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication and Center for the Study of Democracy, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Scharnhorststr. 1, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany;1. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom;2. CENSE – Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Research, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal;1. Universidade de Vigo, ECOBAS, Facultad CC Economicas y Emp., Campus Universitario Lagoas-Marcosende, 36310 Vigo, Spain;2. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy;3. AZTI, Txatxarramendi ugartea z/g 48395 Sukarrieta, Bizkaia, Spain |
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| Abstract: | In most EU coastal areas, over the last two decades, a significant employment and income shrink was observed; this was attributed to a gradual decline of fishery activities. Hence, the EU, in an attempt to restrain this decline and to safeguard a sustainable development of the coastal areas, initiated new measures within the current (2007–2013) Common Fisheries Policy (CFP). This work attempts to assess the effectiveness of this new policy, Axis 4 of the Operational Fisheries Programme, by measuring the employment and income effects upon the whole economy. The analysis was applied in a Greek coastal area as a case study. Results demonstrate that the employment and income generated, due to those measures, are relatively small mainly because of fund limitations and weak interactions in the local economy in a short-run timeline, though indirect benefits could occur in the long run. |
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| Keywords: | Rural coastal areas New fisheries policy approach Impact analysis Regional input–output modeling |
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