Application deadline

Type of course

The course is open for candidates with a documented admission to a PhD programme.

Registration deadline for PhD students at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway: February 1st.

Admission requirements

This course is open for students with a documented admission to a PhD programme in economics, environmental- and resource economics, or in related fisheries management programs, or who fulfil the admission requirements.
Other students with an interest in the course issues may follow in full or parts of the course, without taking the final exam (essay).

PhD students or holders of a Norwegian master´s degree of five years or 3+ 2 years (or equivalent) may be admitted. PhD students must upload a document from their university stating that there are registered PhD students. This group of applicants does not have to prove English proficiency and are exempt from semester fee.

Holders of a Master´s degree must upload a Master´s Diploma with Diploma Supplement / English translation of the diploma. Applicants from listed countries must document proficiency in English. To find out if this applies to you see the following list:

Proficiency in English must be documented - list of countries

For more information on accepted English proficiency tests and scores, as well as exemptions from the English proficiency tests, please see the following document:

Proficiency in english - PhD level studies

Course content

Objectives of the course

By the end of this course students will be expected to know and understand:

• theoretical models for the management of natural marine resources under varying conditions;
• the concept of ecosystem services and techniques to measure the economic value of such services;
• the use of analytical tools to discuss current and upcoming issues within the management of marine natural resources.

By the end of this course students will be expected to have gained the following skills:

• the overview  and knowledge of the key papers and books in the course fields;
• the ability to communicate with governance institutions, industry representatives and fellow experts key literature concepts and results in these economics and management fields;
• the ability to engage in contemporary debates on management and governance of  marine renewable resources on the nature and role of theory and case study findings;
• the ability to see their own research in a wider perspective, and to critically reflect upon the basic assumptions and challenges of their research projects.

Language of instruction and examination

Teaching methods

Assessment

Recommended reading/syllabus

The required readings consist mainly of journal articles and book chapters. Most of the literature is available on the internet through the services of the university library. Some will be made available on Fronter or by e-mail attachments prior to the course start.

Reading list (Papers marked with R is recommended, but not obligatory literature)

Classics and background

R) 1: Gordon, H.S. (1954) The economic theory of a common property resource: the fishery. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 62, pp. 124-42.

2: Wilen, J. E. (2000) Renewable resource economists and policy: What differences have we made? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 39(3): 306-327.

R) 3: Goulder, L.H. (2013) Markets for pollution allowances: What are the (New) Lessons? Journal of Economic perspectives, 27, 87-102

Recreational fisheries

4: Olaussen, J.O. and A.Skonhoft (2008) A bioeconomic analysis of a native Atlantic salmon recreational fishery. Marine Resource Economics 23, 273-293

R) 5: Liu, Y., J.O.Olaussen, and A.Skonhoft (2011) Wild and farmed salmon in Norway - A review. Marine Policy, 35, 413-418

R) 6: Liu, Y., O.H.Diserud, K.Hindar and A.Skonhoft (2013) An ecological-economic model on the effects of interactions between escaped farmed and wild salmon, Fish and Fisheries 14, 158-173

Marine Ecosystem services

R) 7: Beaumont, N. J., Austen, M. C., Mangi, S. C., Townsend M. (2008) Economic valuation for the conservation of marine biodiversity. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56, 386-396.

8: Aanesen, M., C.Armstrong, M.Czajkowski, J.Falk-Petersen, N.Hanley, S.Navrud: Willingness to pay for unfamiliar public goods: preserving cold-water coral in Norway. Ecological Economics 112, 53-67

R) 9: Foley, N. S., V. Kahui, C.W. Armstrong og T. van Rensburg (2010). Estimating Linkages between Redfish and Cold Water Coral on the Norwegian Coast.  Marine Resource Economics 25(1), 105-120.

Negotiations and international environmental cooperation

10: Jensen, F. and N. Vestergaard (2002). - Management of Fisheries in the EU: A principal-agent analysis, Marine Resource Economics, 16, 277-291.

11: Aanesen, M. and C. Armstrong (2015) The political game of European fisheries management. Environmental and Resource Economics, DOI 10.1007/s10640-015-9878-0

R) 12: Barrett, S. (1994) Self-Enforcing International Environmental Agreements. Oxford Economic papers, 46, 878-894

Climate change

13: Eide A. (2007). Economic impacts of global warming - the case of the Barents Sea fisheries. Natural Resource Modelling, 20:199-221.

R) 14: Eide, A. and K. Heen (2002). Economic impacts of global warming - A study of the fishing industry in North Norway. Fisheries Research, 56:261-274.

Marine reserves

17: Flaaten, O. and E. Mjølhus (2010). Nature reserves as a bioeconomic management tool - a simplified modeling approach. Environmental and Resource Economics, 47:125-148.

R)18: R. Hannesson (1998). Marine reserves: What will they accomplish? Marine Resource Economics, 13, 159-170.

Additional (recommended)

Each student adds 2-3 papers of his/her own choice, in cooperation with the supervisor.

One topic which can be recommended is Fisheries, poverty and regulations, and the following paper:

Eide, A., M. Bavinck and J. Raakjær (2011). "Avoiding Poverty: Distributing Wealth in Fisheries." Poverty Mosaics: Realities and Prospects in Small-Scale Fisheries: 13-25.