The Dutch fisheries sector and the North Sea Accord:Unpacking stakeholder participation in multi-levelled marine governance

Integrated, participatory forms of marine governance can form a basis of stakeholder support on which to base increasingly complex marine planning efforts, in the EU and beyond. Yet such stakeholder support is often the product of a constellation of external factors at the local, national and international level as well as of the internal organisation of a given interest group. This paper presents a qualitative study of an outlier case, examining the question why the Dutch fisheries sector was the only involved interest group which was unable to give its full support to the 2020 North Sea Acco... Mehr ...