To understand land degradation and assess policy responses, knowledge is needed of the bio-physical causes, the economic effects on farms and the incentives farmers face to avoid or ameliorate the degradation. An empirical study of land degradation in the Australian state of New South Wales is...

Protected areas in fishery management have been suggested to hedge management failures and variation in harvests. In this paper, a stochastic bioeconomic model of a two-species fishery in the Manning Bioregion is used to test the performance of protected areas as a management tool in a fishery....

The use of marine protected areas as a fishery management tool has been suggested as a hedge against management failures and variation in harvests. A stochastic bioeconomic model of a hypothetical predator-prey fishery is used to test the performance of protected areas in a fishery with...

A multiproduct spatial equilibrium model of world steel trade is presented in this paper. The model is used to analyse the impacts of the safeguard trade barriers brought about by the USA in order to protect their domestic industry from the so-called unfair competition. Emphasis is placed on the...

Institutional Economics and Fisheries Management: The Case of Pacific Tuna, edited by Elizabeth H. Peterson. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, 2006, pp. xvii + 186, ISBN 1 84376 782 1 (pbk), £49.95. Copyright 2007 The AuthorsJournal compilation 2007 Australian...