Arctic Marine Resource Governance and Development / Springer Polar Sciences (PDF)

in economics from Northwestern University and is a Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Department of Sociology, Environmental and Business Economics. She is Unit Lead on Fisheries for Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI). She uses economic tools with interdisciplinary connections to ecology and history to generate insights into policies governing resource use and sustainable development, with a particular focus on invasive species. In conjunction with the other editors, she is currently investigating the impacts of the Red King and Snow Crab introductions in the Barents Sea and has run several workshops bringing together researchers across disciplines relevant to the Arctic with stakeholders, resource managers, and policy makers. She regularly contributes to international economics, natural science, and Arctic conferences and meetings as speaker and/or organizer, and publishes in both economics and interdisciplinary venues.

Niels Vestergaard:

Niels Vestergaard has been a Professor of Resource Economics at University of Southern Denmark since 2005, and is leading the Centre of Fisheries & Aquaculture Management & Economics there. His research focuses on the economics of renewable resources, and he is especially interested in the dynamics of fisheries and marine ecosystems. He has published about 50 peer-reviewed articles as well as numerous book chapters and scientific reports. Recently, Niels and several colleagues formed a Nordic-based network of researchers interested in Arctic marine resource governance under climate change. In 2015, he was awarded the Fulbright Arctic Initiative grant, and he is currently engaged in examining 1) how the development of new technology and operations in resource-based industries interact, 2) the governance of Arctic marine resources and how to manage these resources under climate change. Before entering academia, he worked in the Greenland HomeRule Administration from 1987-1990. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Copenhagen in 1998.