Manchester, 6-7 June
Deadline for Abstract submission: 15th April.
People worldwide depend on fisheries and coastal ecosystems for their income and subsistence production needs. How these systems are managed and developed is therefore a critical question with sustainability, equity, poverty and health dimensions. Studies of the risks associated with the management of these systems are traditionally led by top-down approaches dominated by scientific and technical experts. However, in many cases opportunities are opening up for including plurality of perspectives in management and for decentralisation of decision-making. Increasingly, there are bottom-up study tools available to support this.
Agent-based models are well-suited for applying systems approaches to the study of fisheries and coastal ecosystems and the options for management. Evidence, if it is needed, can be gained from a look at recent publications, work of scientific associations like ESSA and funding of collaborative projects (eg. SAF21) and increasing support from interdisciplinary programmes.
The Workshop is organized by the Centre for Policy Modelling, the Stockholm Environment Institute (Oxford Centre), the University of Tromsø and the SAF21 Marie-Curie Project
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