A course on ‘Coastal Fisheries Resources and Management’
Two experts from the Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development, Denmark, will conduct a course on ‘Coastal Fisheries Resources and Management’ for AARM and ITCZM students, from 8 to 11 November 2000.
Dr. Poul Degnbol is the Director of the Institute and has a degree in Environmental Biology, University of Copenhagen. His key qualifications include Fisheries management and development, Fisheries research planning and development, and fish stock assessment in temperate and tropical environments.
Dr. Douglas Wilson is a senior researcher at the Institute, and the editor-in-chief of the publication, Common Property Resource Digest. He has a degree in Sociology from Michigan State University, U.S.A. He did a dissertation on The Critical Human Ecology of the Lake Victoria Fishing Industry. He is an environmental and natural resource sociologist specializing in fisheries, and is a university instructor in African studies, development sociology, economic sociology, qualitative and quantitative methods, rural sociology and the sociology of science.
The Institute for Fisheries Management and Coastal Community Development performs research and consultancy services within socio-economic and institutional aspects of fisheries and coastal zone management and development. The Institute is part of the Danish Consortium with whom the ITCZM-AIT has a twinning program, under the Danida special program.
More information can be found at http://www.ifm.dk.
