Scaling-up Small-Scale Fisheries Governability Through Marine Protected Areas in Southern Brazil

摘要: This chapter investigates governing interactions at the Baleia Franca Environmental Protection Area (Santa Catarina state, South Brazil) as an example of new opportunities and challenges to scale-up small-scale fisheries governability through Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Previous studies on MPAs in Brazil highlight innovative aspects these systems such their well-functioning, active, progressive management councils. We describe increasing response system issues that are largely aligned with governance paradigms collaboration social learning. Despite all efforts some notable accomplishments responsiveness performance, we point out related mismatch between systems-to-be-governed hinders fishers’ political agency limits broader territorial levels. identify analyse wicked problems faced by actors engaged processes transformation coastal-marine provide suggestions for improving governability.