Making rules to live by: Was the proposed regulatory regime for invasive species reasonable? Perceptions of the South African trout industry

Marire, Juniours; Snowball, Jeanette D; Fraser, Gavin C G

Title: Making rules to live by: Was the proposed regulatory regime for invasive species reasonable? Perceptions of the South African trout industry
Creator: Marire, Juniours
Creator: Snowball, Jeanette D
Creator: Fraser, Gavin C G
Date Issued: 2015
Date: 2015
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/68566
Identifier: vital:29285
Identifier: http://2015.essa.org.za/fullpaper/essa_2938.pdf
Description: Publisher version
Description: Despite considerable economic impact of trout-based aquaculture and recreational fishing, the Department of Environmental Affairs has been focusing almost entirely on ecological criteria in deciding the regulatory regime for trout. We examined whether the proposed regulatory regime for alien and invasive species that was published by the Department of Environmental Affairs in 2014 for public comment was reasonable. The analysis produced factors that might matter in the design of reasonable institutional arrangements that impose a reasonable regulatory burden on economic sectors utilising invasive species. We conducted factor analysis using an online survey that we conducted between May and July 2014. We obtained four clusters of factors: participatory policymaking, people-centeredness, credible scientific evidence for listing species as invasive and contextualisation of international evidence. We then utilised the factors in a logistic regression framework to assess their influence on the probability of perceiving the regulations to be reasonable. The likelihood of a trout sector player perceiving the regulations to be reasonable was 1.2%. We found that a one standard deviation increase in the “credibility of scientific evidence” increased the odds of perceiving the regulations to be reasonable by 1645%. A one standard deviation increase in “participation” increased the odds of perceiving the regulations to be reasonable by 410%. A one standard deviation increase in “people-centeredness” increased the odds of perceiving the regulations to be reasonable by 600%. Lastly, a one standard deviation increase in the variable “contextualising international evidence” increased the odds of perceiving the regulations to be reasonable by 415%. This research demonstrates that properly addressing the socioeconomic aspects of new policies in addition to ecological criteria makes it far more likely that stakeholders will regard them as reasonable, even if the new policies impose increased regulatory transaction cost burden on users or reduced access to a resource.
Format: 23 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA)
Language: English
Relation: Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA)
Relation: Marire, J., Snowball, J., Fraser, G. (2015) Making rules to live by: Was the proposed regulatory regime for invasive species reasonable? Perceptions of the South African trout industry. Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA), 2938 (1-23)
Relation: Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) volume 2938 number 1 23 2015
Rights: Copyright held by the Authors
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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