About This Programme
The PhD Blue Economy, Governance and Social Resilience is a three-year multidisciplinary doctoral programme of the Department of Applied Economics, School of Economics, University of Cape Coast.
The first year is taught and is shared with the MPhil programme. It combines a core of applied microeconomics and applied macroeconomics for the blue economy, contemporary issues in the blue economy of Africa, ocean governance, gender, social resilience and sustainable development in Africa, coastal resource management, the economics of natural resources and the environment, climate change mitigation and adaptation in coastal communities, research methods and computer applications, and the University-wide Academic Writing for Graduate Students, with two electives drawn from blue tourism and recreation economics, marine transport and trade, fisheries and aquaculture, marine minerals and renewable energy, finance and insurance for marine business, marine biotechnology, and human rights and the law of the sea. Candidates may also be required to take MPhil courses to supplement the requirements for progression.
The second and third years are devoted to research: Graduate Research Seminars I to IV and the thesis, which candidates begin at the start of the second year. The programme is practically oriented - students undertake field work in coastal communities and a compulsory one-month industrial attachment, which is graded, and take a non-scoring course in Blue Entrepreneurship aimed at building the entrepreneurial skill set needed to create jobs in the blue space.
Facilitators are drawn from the School of Economics, the Faculty of Social Sciences, the School of Law, the School of Biological Sciences and the School of Business.
Programme Aim
Aim(s)
To produce graduates with the capacity to undertake multidisciplinary research, implement programmes and contribute to policy-making in the blue economy, ocean governance and sustainable development.
