Academic management

The course is devoted to legal reference related with management and administration of marine resources. During the course three levels of related legal references: international, national and regional will be considered as basis to management and conservation. Environmental economics will be introduced, and a few cases of economic valuation will be discussed. Special emphasis will be devoted to the economic analysis of natural resource exploitation of renewable and open access resources, with application to fisheries. The course also addresses marine ecosystem conservation and biodiversity management, with an emphasis on the social-ecological aspects of marine protected areas. It tackles threats to marine conservation and current designs and lessons from the implementation of marine protected areas. The course explores different strategies to manage, control and monitor marine protected areas and their relationship with end users.

General knowledge on biology and conservation biology. Some practice with Geographical Information Systems and with internet searches will be helpful. For the Legal and Economic content there are no special prerequisites, as it is an introductory course.

Capacity to understand legal regulations at international, national and regional level for marine resources exploitation and marine biodiversity conservation. Ability to analyze the valorization of marine resources. Ability to understand economic matters concerning externalities and natural resource management. Capacity for a multidisciplinary approach to marine resources and biodiversity. Ability to understand the complexities in managing existing marine protected areas and to adopt decisions for the establishment of new areas. Ability to include social and ecological complexity the management of marine resources. Ability for multidisciplinary work on biodiversity management at different administrative level and in a multi institutional framework.

1) IIntroducción a la gestión de los recursos marinos.

2) Regulación de los recursos marinos. La relaciones entre diferentes niveles normativos. El marco legal de los entornos marinos, Marco Legal General sobre Protección de la Biodiversidad (Convention on Biological Diversity and Aichi targets).
3) Legal tools for protection of marine ecosystems: principles, prevention of pollution, management and conservation of living resources and biodiversity conservation. International, European and national regulation (European directives including the Water Framework Directive, the Marine Strategy Directive, the Common Fisheries Policy, the Habitats Directive; regional seas conventions like OSPAR or Barcelona; Bern Convention); .
3’) Ecosystem services: definitions, assessments including the different methods for monetary assessments, the different values of the nature, uses and misuses of ecosystem services in the biodiversity conservation (see the TEEB initiative, the MAES program or the IPBES)

4) Environmental Economics. Externalities and the cost of pollution. Coase theorem and market failures; Pigouvian taxes and other alternatives: real case studies

5) Economic valuation of natural resources
6) Economic analysis of fisheries. Examples from fisheries management

7) Foundations of Marine Conservation: the targets of marine conservation (from the nature for itself to nature for people)

8) Classical view of MPAs.

9) Marine conservation in Europe.

9’) High Seas Conservation

9’’) Marine Spatial Planning

10) Bottom-up approaches: TURFs, ITQs, Co-management.

11) Bottom-up approaches: Community participation and local ecological knowledge

Students will be presented a detailed syllabus at the beginning of the course both at the classroom and through the online teaching platform. Teaching will be based on group work, lectures, seminars, self-reliant study activities, field trips and a role play. The course will have a strong component of case studies.

Eventually, in case of sanitary restrictions on the acces to the Faculty, more online activities could be included, as lectures, meetings, etc. Under this situation, students will be informed both by email and through the Virtual Campus.

Evaluation will be based on written exam and/or written essay and/or oral presentations and classroom performance.

Examination method: written examination with open and closed questions.

Eventually, online evaluation methods could be applied, in case sanitary restrictions meassures deter the access to the Faculty.

Differentiated evaluation: in cases with the right to duly formulated differentiated evaluation and that entail the impossibility of participating in face-to-face activities, the personal situation of each student will be taken into account and the assessment of participation in the sessions may be totally or partially replaced. face-to-face tasks for alternative non-face-to-face tasks.

It is recalled that the Code of Ethics of the University of Oviedo is in force and is applicable, which you can access from the following link:  Universidad de Oviedo - Código ético (uniovi.es)

Benett, J. (2003) The economic value of biodiversity: a scoping paper http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/publications/scoping-paper/application.html
Caddy, J.F; Grifitts, R.C. (1996) Recursos marinos vivos y su desarrollo sostenible. Perspectivas institucionales y medioambientales, http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/V5321s/V5321S00.htm

Cavuta, G.(2003) Environmental Goods Valuation: The Total Economic Value. Gorizia Campus. Universitá. http://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/bitstream/10077/860/1/e7cavuta.pdf 

FAO, 1996 (cap 7) http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/V5321s/V5321S00.htm

Field, B.C. y Field, M.K.(2012): Environmental Economics: An Introduction
Harrison, J., (2011), Making the Law of the Sea, Cambridge University Press.

Kiss, A., and Shelton, D., (2007), Guide to International Environmental Law, MartinusNijhoff Publishers;
King, N.A. (2007): “Economic valuation of environmental goods and services in the context of good exosystem governance”. Water 2007 Vol 2 p 51-67.
Kula,E. (1994): Economics of natural resources and environment and policies.
Krupnik. A. ET AL (2011) Understanding The Costs And Benefits Of Deepwater Oil Drilling Regulation RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE DISCUSSION PAPER NO. 10-62 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1744203

Lipton, W; Weilman, K; Sheifer, C., Weihel, F. Economic Valuation Of Natural Resources: A Guidebook for coastal resources policymakers NOAA http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/programs/extension/valuation/handbook.htm

Parejo, L.; Jans, J. H., Vedder, H., (2008) European Environmental Law (3rd. Ed.)
Pearce, D. W., Turner, R.K. and Bateman, I. (1994): Environmental Economics: An elementary introduction. Harvester Wheatsheaf, New York. .

Rothwell, D.R., Stephens, T., (2016), The International Law of the Sea, (2nd ed.), Hart, Oxford-Portland.

Tanaka, Y., (2012), The International Law of the Sea, Cambridge UP.
 

For the second part of the course, focused on Marine Conservation and Marine Protected Areas, a compilation of up to date reports will be made available to the students.

Other resources 
Ocean Law of the Sea: Division of Ocean affairs of the United Nations: http://www.un.org/Depts/los/index.htm 

FAO (FOOD ANDAGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITEDNATIONS) http://www.fao.org/index_es.htm Specially, the webpage on Fisheries and Aquaculture: http://www.fao.org/fi/inicio.asp 
International Authority on Seabed: http://www.isa.org.jm/sp/default.htm

The World ConservationUnion: http://www.iucn.org/