Dr. Hauck, Maria

Maria Hauck has a background in criminology, having completed her BA (honours Criminology) at the University of Edmonton (Canada) and her MA (Criminology) at the University of Cape Town. She completed her PhD in early 2009, with a specific focus on small-scale fisheries compliance. Maria spent six years at the Institute of Criminology (UCT) before moving to the EEU in 2002. She has spent more than a decade researching informal (ie: ‘illegal’) fisheries, the compliance discourse and the underlying social and political dynamics associated with these.

This has led her to explore alternative strategies to reactive law enforcement and thus, she has gained expertise in the area of natural resource management and governance. This has largely focused on establishing new approaches and methods of achieving compliance and instituting partnership arrangements between resource users and government. Maria’s current research, which includes international and regional collaborations, focuses on issues such as social justice, equitable benefit-sharing and participatory management approaches, and how these relate to enhancing sustainable fisheries governance.

Email: Maria.Hauck@uct.ac.za / mhauck4@gmail.com
Phone: 021-6502872