TY - JOUR
T1 - International legal requirements for environmental and socio-cultural assessments for large-scale industrial fisheries
AU - Nakamura, Julia
AU - Diz, Daniela
AU - Morgera, Elisa
N1 - Funding Information:
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), Grant/Award Number: NE/S008950/1; UK Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation programme, Grant/Award Number: NE/M007650/1
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
N2 - This article seeks to clarify the extent of international legal requirements for environmental impact assessments (EIAs) and strategic environmental assessments (SEAs) for large-scale industrial fisheries, including whether these requirements entail the assessments of potential social and cultural impacts of the sector's activities. We discuss the current practices of impact assessments more generally and explain the potential and actual environmental and social impacts caused by large-scale industrial fisheries. Based on this analysis, we revisit the international legal foundations for a duty to carry out EIAs, arguing that such a duty applies to large-scale industrial fisheries. We also argue that EIAs for large-scale industrial fisheries, as well as SEAs for related policies and programmes, should integrate the assessment of social and cultural impacts, based on a mutually supportive interpretation of international law regimes dedicated to the sea, fisheries, biodiversity and human rights.
AB - This article seeks to clarify the extent of international legal requirements for environmental impact assessments (EIAs) and strategic environmental assessments (SEAs) for large-scale industrial fisheries, including whether these requirements entail the assessments of potential social and cultural impacts of the sector's activities. We discuss the current practices of impact assessments more generally and explain the potential and actual environmental and social impacts caused by large-scale industrial fisheries. Based on this analysis, we revisit the international legal foundations for a duty to carry out EIAs, arguing that such a duty applies to large-scale industrial fisheries. We also argue that EIAs for large-scale industrial fisheries, as well as SEAs for related policies and programmes, should integrate the assessment of social and cultural impacts, based on a mutually supportive interpretation of international law regimes dedicated to the sea, fisheries, biodiversity and human rights.
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U2 - 10.1111/reel.12462
DO - 10.1111/reel.12462
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85137505185
SN - 2050-0386
VL - 31
SP - 336
EP - 348
JO - Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law
JF - Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law
IS - 3
ER -
