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The conservation of natural forests contributes significantly to the goal of achieving sustainable economic development. There is, however, growing concern that natural forests (which provide tangible and intangible economic benefits to humankind) are being lost at a rate which (combined with...
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more recent development of aquaculture continues this development process. In this note, aquaculture practices that are … likely to lead to biodiversity loss are listed and their consequences are specified. Trends in fish supplies from aquaculture … compared to supplies from the wild are outlined. These indicate increasing replacement of supplies form the wild by aquaculture …
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Environmental conditions play a significant role in the economic success of aquaculture. This article classifies … environmental factors in a way that facilitates economic analysis of their implications for the selection of aquaculture species and … developing aquaculture species and systems, it is often unrealistic to assume the degree of managerial efficiency implied by the …
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Although aquaculture has been practised for many centuries, it was in the past on quite a modest scale and limited to a … few species e.g. carp. However, in recent decades, aquaculture has shown very rapid expansion. This is partly because … made in aquaculture. Furthermore, by the mid-1990s evidence available to scientists indicated that catches of wild fish had …
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remain under mounting harvesting and other pressures. Therefore, we need to consider the role that aquaculture can play in … overcoming these problems. The possible ways in which aquaculture can do this are outlined and discussed. …
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This review will focus on the question of discounting. The paper begins with an outline of the expected utility model … used in the Stern Review. Next, the question of ‘inherent discounting’, that is, the idea that future outcomes should be … preference. This discussion forms the basis for an assessment of the approaches to discounting and climate change adopted by the …
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The most widely accepted view of sustainable economic development is that it is economic development ensuring that each succeeding generation is no less well off than its predecessor. This mainstream approach, however, has several limitations. It can, for example, result in a development path...
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In many resource management problems, the starting point is one involving a large number of users with imprecisely defined rights and an aggregate rate of resource use that is environmentally unsustainable. One possible policy response is to make formal or informal contracts with users, under...
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