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In an effort to measure and track marine-dependent economic activities, the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has developed two statistical tools: The Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) and the Marine Economy Satellite Account (MESA). In both efforts, the...
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marine biodiversity conservation, in spite of concerns over their effectiveness and equity. However, explanations for this … consensus on MPAs is produced, in spite of conflicting understandings of MPA forms and functions. Both a local narrative of … participatory MPAs and a global narrative of science driven high seas conservation articulate a regional scale as ideal for MPA …
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The purpose of this chapter is to identify the reasons for collective action failures and successes in natural resource management, and to understand, in the light of economic theory, the mode of operation of the factors involved whenever possible. In the first section, we clarify the notion of...
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Structural uncertainty arises when key features of the behavior of a system are not well understood. Observational uncertainty arises when key variables in a system are not directly observed. Both types of uncertainty lead to problems for standard dynamic optimization approaches. The replacement...
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decision on biofuels and bio-diversity, biofuels were portrayed as holding many different, conflicting characteristics. Using …
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Biodiversity targets were prominent at the Tenth Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity …
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concerns over the extent and rate of biodiversity loss have led to renewed interest in extinction outcomes and speculation …
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