Conventional ‘people-free’ conservation often fails to deliver both social and ecological outcomes. Communitybased conservation (CBC) – which is underpinned by local community participation, knowledge and priorities – offers a viable alternative in certain contexts. We explore the applicability of established ‘commons’ design principles, and factors enabling community-based conservation, to ...

European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa) is a key species in commercial fisheries in the North Sea, Skagerrak, Kattegat, and Baltic Sea. The reformed European Union Common Fisheries Policy includes the possibility of exemptions from the landing obligation for “species for which scientific evidence demonstrates high survival rates”. Discard survival from set-net fisheries is poorly studied. Trials ...

Innovasjon og nyskaping er viktig innenfor de fleste bransjer som studeres. Slike prosesser blir ofte presset frem gjennom forholdene på konkurransearenaen og higet etter å skape konkurransefortrinn. Denne oppgaven har benyttet ressursmodellen til Barney og omgivelsesmodellen til Porter som analysemodell for å synliggjøre ressurser som kan være verdifulle og gi fortrinn ved en innovasjon. Jeg har ...

Rising atmospheric carbon concentrations affect global health, the economy, and overall quality of life. We are fast approaching climate tipping points that must be addressed, not only by reducing emissions but also through new innovation and action toward carbon capture for sequestration and utilization (CCSU). In this perspective, we delineate next-generation biotechnologies for CCSU supported by ...

Denne oppgaven tar for seg et samarbeidsprosjekt mellom Norges Fiskerihøgskole og University of Fisheries, Vietnam. Prosjektet er et bistandsprosjekt i regi av NORAD, og er et ledd i en generell opprustning av fiskerisektoren i Vietnam. Hovedmålsetningen er å bygge opp den institusjonelle kapasiteten innen utdanning og forskning ved Uinversity of Fisheries. Dette prosjektet har hatt gode resultater ...

Good governance of consumptive wildlife tourism, a complex socio-ecological system, requires finding the right balance between natural resource and tourism management. Fishing takes the lead globally as the most popular product offering within consumptive wildlife tourism, and both Iceland and Norway offer a marine angling tourism product. The two countries offer similar pristine Arctic fjord ...

Resource management in the coastal zone involves a large number of stakeholders and resource users, from traditional fishermen and recreational housing owners to state and municipal government. The aim of this study is to show how spatial scarcity in Norwegian aquaculture is not solely a technical definition, but scarcity also depends upon the social context in which it operates. That is, what ...

Coastal resources are overexploited and thus coastal livelihoods provides very little in terms of micro-economy. Seaweed farming activities have been considered as alternative income generating activities in Tanzanian coastal communities. Nonetheless, the sustainability of seaweed industry is dependent on the nature of interactions between the three orders of governance and the governability depends ...

Translocation of organisms within or outside its native range carries the risk of modifying the community of the recipient ecosystems and induces gene flow between locally adapted populations or closely related species. In this study, we evaluated the genetic consequences of large‐scale translocation of cleaner wrasses that has become a common practice within the salmon aquaculture industry in ...

Interdisciplinary research has faced many challenges, including institutional, cultural and practical ones, while it has also been reported as a ‘career risk’ and even ‘career suicide’ for researchers pursuing such an education and approach. Yet, the propagation of challenges and risks can easily lead to a feeling of anxiety and disempowerment in researchers, which we think is counterproductive to ...