Seminar Series: Elizabeth Havice
Join the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions and the UPEP Environmental Institution fall 2011 seminar series featuring leading experts discussing a variety of pressing environmentally focused topics.
| When |
Oct 14, 2011 from 10:00 am to 11:30 am |
|---|---|
| Where | LSRC A158 |
| Contact Name | Erika Weinthal |
Elizabeth Havice, assistant professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, will be the second speaker of the series. Her presentation is titled "Resource Regulation from the Middle: How Processing Firms Influence Tuna Management."
The multibillion dollar global tuna industry is dependent upon a hunted commodity whose ecological limits have been met. There extensive literature on state-led and market-based efforts to control environmental problems (particularly population decline) in the tuna fishery, but very limited engagement with concrete firm-level responses to environmental and regulatory change in the sector. Drawing on a case study of a newly-formed partnership among tuna processing firms, Havice will highlight how processors work collectively, and deploy a commitment to conservation and sustainable use of tuna stocks, to gain influence over tuna regulation.
