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  09:15 AM - 10:15 AM

  Interdisciplinary ocean and fisheries economics with examples from the trenches

  • Rashid Sumaila, presenter, University of British Columbia

  A crucial question still facing humanity is how to successfully manage our interactions with the ocean to ensure long term sustainability both for people everywhere and ocean biodiversity. Here, I explore this question in an interdisciplinary fashion, couched around three key issues, i.e., global warming and climate change; the deployment of public policies such as the provision of fisheries subsidies; and how we manage the high seas. I argue that our ability to manage our oceans successfully depends strongly on enacting policies and taking actions in such a way that positive feedbacks are transmitted between people and nature. The alternative is for negative feedbacks to fester, to the detriment of both.