Dear Friends and Colleagues,
On behalf of the organizers at Nha Trang University, and the Executive
Committee and Secretariat of the International Instititute of Fisheries
Economics & Trade (IIFET), I would like to warmly welcome you to join us
for IIFET 2008 Vietnam, for "Achieving a Sustainable Future: Managing
Aquaculture, Fishing, Trade and Development". Our fourteenth biennial
international conference on fisheries and aquaculture economics will be
held July 22-25, 2008, in Nha Trang, Vietnam.
For details, please view our second call for abstracts at
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/IIFET/iifet2008.html.
Major themes of the conference will include Fisheries and Aquaculture
Policy and Management, Allocation, Aquaculture Economics, International
Seafood Trade, Marketing, and the Economics of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Development.
Special sessions organized to date include:
Climate Change as an Emerging Issue in Fishery Governance
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission: Challenges for
Sustainable Fisheries Development
Reframing Fisheries Governance to Include Poverty Reduction: do
different frames alter the picture presented to policy maker?
Innovation, Production and New Markets in Aquaculture
Applied Fisheries Economic Modelling under ECOST
Markets for Ecolabeled Seafood: What is the Future?
Building Decision-making Capability in International Seafood Marketing:
Field-researched, Decision-focused Case Method, Dealing with Risk and
Uncertainty in Fisheries
"Rent Drain" - Towards an Estimate of the Loss of Resource Rents in the
World's Fisheries
In addition we will host a day-long Policy Forum entitled Fisheries and
Globalisation - Meeting the Policy Challenges, and a Vietnam Policy Day
to discuss ways to achieve sustainability, reduce poverty and enhance
livelihoods in coastal communities through small-scale, nearshore
fisheries management in Vietnam.
These forums, like the rest of the conference, will be designed to bring
together policymakers, industry, and researchers to interact on vital
and current fishery management problems. We encourage broad
participation from individuals in academia, industry, government, and
NGOs interested in the economic aspects of fishery and aquaculture
management, trade, and development.
For more detail visit the conference website at
http://www.ntu.edu.vn/iifet2008/, or contact
Ann.L.Shriver@oregonstate.edu.
If you would like to make an oral or poster presentation, please submit
your 250 word abstract by January 20 via our online abstract submission
website: http://www.x-cd.com/iifet08/abstract.cfm.
Ann Shriver
Executive Director, International Institute of Fisheries Economics &
Trade (IIFET)
Oregon State University
Dept. of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Corvallis, OR 97331-3601 USA
Email: Ann.L.Shriver@oregonstate.edu
IIFET Website: http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/IIFET
Phone: 541 737 1416 Fax: 541 737 2563
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