Dana Elizabeth Wright at the Norwegian College of Fishery Science (NFH) will hold her trial lecture and defend her thesis for the PhD degree in Social Science.
The trial lecture will take place at 10:15. Title of trial lecture:
"The economics of climate impacts on spatially-explicit fisheries: Theory and empirical evidence"
The defense will take place at 12:15. Thesis title:
"Assessing the impacts of climate change and spatial dynamics on the Canadian lobster fishery (Homarus americanus)"
Dean Jørgen Berge will lead the disputation.
This thesis offers a comprehensive analysis of how climate change affects fisheries, presenting empirical evidence and methodological innovations that contribute to the development of adaptive management strategies. In particular, it seeks to understand how warming waters, distributional species shifts, and extreme weather events are disrupting fishery dynamics and undermining the stability of fishers’ livelihoods. Different facets of production are examined such as expected output, variance in harvest, and production risk. Using the lobster (Homarus americanus) fishery in Atlantic Canada as a case study and advanced econometric and statistical methods, this research provides insights that are applicable to other fisheries, particularly those with input-controlled management systems.
Both the defense and the trial lecture will be streamed and recorded from panopto:
The thesis is available through Munin