Microbehavior, Macroresults and Externalities: Conceptual Issues

I. GOVERNANCE, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Conceptual & Empirical Perspectives in Contemplating Social & Biological Processes

• Interactions between humans and the resources they use
• Ecosystems modeling: the social, economic and biological interdependencies
      "Back to the Future"
• Through the eyes of historians
• Chaos theory and other non-linear dynamics
• Evolutionary economics

Valuation: Conceptual & Measurement Issues

• Behavioral and economic approaches to valuation of non-market goods
         - Conceptual and empirical innovations
• Estimation of the demand for recreational fishing
• Econometric estimation of recreation supply

Fishery Biology and the Social Sciences

• Bioeconomic modeling
• Defining and achieving sustainability: standards; performance indicators
• Biodiversity: many dimensions; many perspectives
• Watershed management, the forests and fisheries

Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

• The interdependencies
• Lessons from modeling systems
• Public policy: similarities and differences

The History of Fisheries

Endangered Species and Commercial Fisheries

• When endangered species prey on commercially valuable species
         - The Steller sea lion and Alaska pollock
• When endangered species ARE commercially valuable species
         -Columbia River salmon
• The decline (and recovery?) of Columbia River Salmon
• Subsistence whaling

Aquaculture

• Fisheries and aquaculture: competitive or complementary?
• Aquaculture: income-generation versus environmental externalities.
• Aquaculture and mariculture in developing countries
• Does aquaculture have a future? Is aquaculture THE future?

Fisheries in Economic Development

• Fisheries in developing countries
• Open access and low incomes: an idea whose time has come back?
• Traditional community-based management
• Trade in fish and trade in access rights: gainers and losers
• Export-oriented growth in resource based sectors: costs and benefits
• The role of international development organizations
• Transactions costs in the private versus the public sectors

Property Rights: Design Lessons from Fisheries and Other Natural Resources

• Those who ignore history....
• Those pesky transactions costs
• Equity and efficiency: Must they be in conflict?
  
• Institutional design and function:
         -for coordination across political boundaries
         -legitimacy
• Human behavior in resource systems:
         -incentives
         -compliance
         -rituals, customs and routine behaviors
         -emerging structures
• Governance alternatives
         -economic properties
         -social and economic design links (scale questions and
            performance measures)
         -co-management: a form of social contract? successes and
            failures

Culture, Values and Perspectives on Resource Uses

• Perspectives of indigenous peoples:
      - The Americas, Europe, Africa, Oceania
• Theology and Ecology:
      - Confucianism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism
• What difference do the differences make?

Fishery Management and Seafood Markets

• International seafood trade and its impacts on local fisheries
• Fishery management: paying attention to markets
• Do seafood attributes change across the life cycles of fish and shellfish? If so, what are the implications of alternative fishery management strategies for seafood consumption? for human health?
• International trade agreements: regulating products; regulating processes

Why Do People Obey the Law?

• Deterrence and the legitimacy of institutions
• Revisiting the Coase Theorem
• Codes
• Choice and constraints: internally and externally-generated rules

Fishery Regulation and Compliance

• Regulatory compliance in commercial fisheries
• Regulatory compliance in recreational fisheries
• Regulating for what?
• Fishery management costs: international comparisons

A Quarter of a Century of Extended Jurisdiction: What Have We Learned? Where Do We Stand?

• Fishery management experiences around the world
         -Decision-making within groups of quota-holders
         -ITQs
         -Time, area, gear, catch and bycatch restrictions
• Transferable quotas versus landings fees: the issues revisited
• Creative approaches to fishery management: international experiences
• Legal dimensions of fishery management, national and international
• Transition economies
• Where do we go from here?

Equity, Efficiency and Communities

• Access: distributional questions; international trade in resource access; alternative access mechanisms; the commons in history.
• Gender, family issues and the community
• Viability of coastal communities: what have we learned from agriculture and forestry?
• Community-based management: confreria, tribes and families
• Addressing problems facing coastal communities

Capacity in the Fisheries: How to Measure? How to Reduce?

• Alternative approaches to measuring productivity and capacity
• Excess capacity in the fisheries versus the general economy
• From vessel capacity to fleet capacity
• The organization and administration of the marine resource based firm

Capacity Reduction: International Perspectives

• International experiences with capacity reduction programs
• Subsidies in the fisheries
         -What are subsidies?
         -What is their role in excess capacity?
         -The consequences of subsidy reduction
         -Lessons from agriculture
  

• Legal and economic dimensions of high seas fishery management
• Treaties and other Institutions: past, present and future
• Resolving fishing conflicts among countries
• What has game theory taught us: what are the alternatives?
• Case studies:
         -Pacific salmon
         -North Atlantic cod
         -Highly migratory species
  

• Global climate change and fisheries

Interdisciplinary Approaches

• To teaching
• To research
• The uses and misuses of historical data
• Collaboration: industry, universities, government

Consumer Choice and Market Demand

• Consumer and market interdependencies. Are preferences endogenous?
• Whose choice is it anyway? Resource allocation within the household.
• The role of uncertainty: preference reversals and other choice anomalies
• Contributions to demand estimation
• Decision-making under uncertainty

Markets and Trade

• Analyzing the structure of markets
• Trade Theory: the old and the new
• Markets, institutions and equilibrium

Tastes and Food Consumption

• Changes in food consumption patterns: international perspectives
• Cross-cultural comparisons of food demand
• Foodways:
         -habits and traditions
         -the many roles of food

Consumer Demand for Seafood

• Modeling Fish Supply and Demand in Developing Countries: Integration of Fish into the World Food Model
• Seafood Consumption: an historical perspective
• Estimating the demand for seafood: addressing anomalies
• The demand for seafood attributes
• Does seafood compete with or complement meat and poultry? Is there competition among seafoods?

Seller Decisions and Market Supply

• Pricing strategies
• Contributions in industrial organization: cooperation, non-cooperation and other dimensions of seller interdependencies
• Behavioral patterns within organizations and the behavior of organizations
• Local markets
• What is "price?"

Non-price Competition

• Advertising and information
• The quality dimension
• What if everyone adopts an eco-label?

International Trade Issues

• The evolution of regional trade agreements.
• Globalization and fragmentation: is the role of multinationals changing?
• Perspectives on foreign direct investment
• Contributions to international trade theory

Trade, Natural Resources and the Environment

• Are trade, environmental quality and resource sustainability compatible?
• Natural resources, the environment and trade institutions
• Whales, seals, dolphins and turtles: indicator and endangered species
• Environmental and natural resource regulations as trade restrictions
• The World Trade Organization, markets and the environment

Nutrition, Human Health and Consumer Behavior

• The health benefits of seafood consumption
• Effects of nutrition issues on consumer demand
• Farmed fish and fatty acids

Health, Safety and Consumer Choice

• Food Safety: how to measure?
• The role of risk in food purchase decisions
• Do consumers make healthy choices?
• Health and safety concerns as trade restrictions
• The HACCP program: costs and benefits

The Market for Food

• Trends in food distribution and food retailing
• Developments in the away-from-home food market
• Globalization of the food industry

Seafood Market Behavior

• What is the price of fish?
• What determines seafood prices?
• Changes in seafood retailing and seafood supplies
• How competitive are seafood markets?
• Seafood auction markets

International Trade in Food

• Trends in food trade
• Is the industry structure changing?
• Multinationals and food trade policy
• Resolving food trade conflicts among countries
• Global economic conditions and food trade
• International food marketing strategies

International Seafood Trade

• Trends in seafood trade
• Economic models of seafood trade
• Seafood trade and the World Trade Organization
• Trade in fish versus trade in access
• Subsidies, taxes, and tariffs
• Trends in seafood processing

Seafood Markets and Fishery Management

• What are the linkages?
• How do uncertainties at the fishing level affect choices and decisions elsewhere in the market channel?
• Global swordfish markets: The trade-harvest relationship
• Marketing strategies: are they circumscribed by fishery management?
• ITQs and CDQs. What are the marketing implications?
• Organic and Green marketing