The K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea (JCLOS) and The Elisabeth Haub School of Law are pleased to announce the program for the workshop:

“Natural Marine Resource Management in a Changing Climate”

June 13-14, 2017

Tromsø, Norway

Day 1 – 13 June

08.30-09.00

Registration, Introductory Remarks and Welcoming by Elise Johansen (JCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway)

09.00. 9.45

30 minute Keynote followed by 15 minutes Q&A

  • Opening Keynote by Robin Craig (University of Utah College of Law, United States), Resilience Thinking and Marine Fisheries in the Anthropocene: Has the Time Come to Transition Away from Wild-Caught Fisheries to Aquaculture?

9.45-10.15

Morning coffee

10.15-11.45

Panels Begin. For each panel, 15 minutes for each speaker, followed by 30 minutes of Discussion and Q&A.

Panel 1: Ocean Management

  • Vicky Tzatzaki (Special Secretariat for Water, Hellenic Ministry of Environment and Energy, Greece), Adapting the Legal Framework of Natural Marine Resources Management to Climate Disruption: The case of Greece
  • Elise Johansen (JCLOS UiT the Arctic University of Norway), Adaptation to a changing Arctic climate with dynamic ocean management
  • Niko Soininen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland), Legal Adaptivity of EU’s Aquatic Environmental Law – An evaluation and comparison of the WFD, MSFD, and MSPD
  • Xiao Recio-Blanco (Environmental Law Institute, United States), No “best” science available: strengthening deep seabed legal protection in the age of climate change

11.45-13.00

Lunch

13.00-14.15

Panel 2: Marine Protected Areas

  • Jason Czarnezki (Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, United States), The Path to Protected Areas
  • Cameron Jefferies (University of Alberta Faculty of Law, Canada), Legal Tools for Addressing Climate Change in Cetacean Conservation: The Role of Adaptive Ecosystem-based Management and Marine Protected Areas
  • Xuechan Ma (Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University Netherlands), Private Governance in Marine Protected Areas: An Alternative Regulatory Tool for Natural Marine Resource Management in a Changing Climate

14.15 – 14.30

Coffee break

14.30 - 15.45

Panel 3: Restoration & Ecosystem-Based Management

  • Lena Schøning (JCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway), Integrated Ocean Management as a Strategy to Meet Rapid Climate Change: The Norwegian Case
  • AlixCotumaccio (Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, United States), Restoring and Protecting Critical Coastal Habitat in the Wake of a Changing Climate
  • Richard Caddell (Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS), Utrecht University, Netherlands), Back to the Future? Climate-Induced Species Reintroductions, Ecosystem Restoration and the Law of the Sea

15.45-16.00

Closing Remarks

18.30

Cocktails and Dinner

Day 2 – 14 June

09.00- 09.15

Introductory remarks

09.15-10.30

Panel 4: Maritime Boundaries & Marine Spatial Planning

  • James Nolan (International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ret.), Hamburg), Access to Dwindling Resources under the UNCLOS Regime, Some Comments on the South China Sea Award
  • Signe Busch (JCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway), Sea Level Rise and Shifting Maritime Limits: Securing the Entitlement of Particularly Vulnerable States
  • Robin Craig (University of Utah College of Law, United States), Incorporation of Native Peoples into Marine Spatial Planning: A Comparison of the United States and New Zealand

10.30-10.45

Morning coffee

10.45– 12.00

Panel 5: Fisheries Management

  • Erik J. Molenaar (JCLOS, UiT the Arctic University of Norway and NILOS, Utrecht University), Five-plus-Five process on high seas fishing in the central Arctic Ocean
  • David Cassuto (Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, United States), Fish, Suffering and Climate Change
  • Angela Lee and Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny (University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law), Farming the Sea, a False Solution to a Real Problem: Critical Reflections on Canada’s Aquaculture Regulation
  • Irene Vanja Dahl (JCLOS, UiT, the Arctic University of Norway), Legal Mechanisms and Climate Change Impacts on Aquaculture

12.00-13.00

Lunch