Bioeconomics to date has focused almost exclusively on lumped parameter models where the resource is described by a single state variable defined as biomass. While such models are convenient mathematically they may be inappropriate in fisheries where recruitment and fecundity are dependent on...

Buse’s concept of total response is extended to advertising effects. Results suggest that partial advertising elasticities overstate advertising’s ability to increase market demand. One implication is that advertising bans (e.g., for alcohol and tobacco) are apt to be less effective than...

Dairy cow ownership has been widely promoted by a number of development projects in Kenya (and other countries in East Africa) for the last two decades, and the country has the largest population of smallholder producers with dairy cows in sub-Saharan Africa. Supporters of dairy development...