Policy

With receding coastlines and climate change factoring into a variety of environmental policies, students and faculty have naturally explored the plethora of policy implications associated with the science conducted at Rosenstiel School. From coastal zone management, ocean and coastal law and policy, and natural resource economics to political ecology, climate affairs, marine anthropology and underwater archeology, Rosenstiel School researchers incorporate basaic and applied research and training activities that address the policy questions are science helps answer as well as the new considerations that arise with new-found knowledge.

Current areas of research include:

  • Sustainable fishery issues, including experts from the on-site Pew Institute of Ocean Science
  • Shark and sturgeon caviar conservation
  • The effects of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events on the fisheries-based economies of communities along the South American Pacific coast
  • Integrated coastal zone management
  • Political ecology and marine anthropology
  • Aquaculture and new offshore technology
  • Natural resource economics
  • Ocean and coastal law and policy
  • Geographic information systems applications
  • Climate studies
  • Encroachment issues, including those impacting a unique Florida history depository, Little Salt Spring
  • Marine cultural resource management