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Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregon's Deepwater Trawl Fishery

Tomberlin, David; Holloway, Garth John - 2014

In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has...

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Valuing Ecosystem Services with Fishery Rents : A Lumped-Parameter Approach to Hypoxia in the Neuse River Estuary

Smith, Martin D.; Crowder, Larry B. - 2008

Valuing ecosystem services with microeconomic underpinnings presents challenges because these services typically … demonstrates a method to value a portion of ecosystem services when a commercial fishery is dependent on the quality of estuarine …-prey interactions, this paper quantifies part of the value of improved ecosystem function in the Neuse River Estuary when nutrient …

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Super-Grids and Concentrated Solar Power : A Scenario Analysis with the WITCH Model

Massetti, Emanuele; Ricci, Elena Claire - 2014

We extend the WITCH model to consider the possibility to produce and trade electricity generated by large scale concentrated solar power plants in highly productive areas that are connected to the demand centres through High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) cables. We find that it becomes optimal...

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Participatory Modelling and Decision Support for Natural Resources Management in Climate Change Research

Giupponi, Carlo; Myšiak, Jaroslav; Sgobbi, Alessandra - 2014

The ever greater role given to public participation by laws and regulations, in particular in the field of environmental management calls for new operational methods and tools for managers and practitioners. This paper analyses the potentials and the critical limitations of current approaches in...

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Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Environment : A Case for Green Growth Accounting

Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Tzouvelekas, Vangelis; Vouvaki, … - 2014

We examine whether the use of the environment, proxied by CO2 emissions, as a factor of production contributes, in addition to conventional factors of production to output growth, and thus it should be accounted for in total factor productivity growth (TFPG) measurement and deducted from the...

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Designing a Decision Support System for Marine Reserves Management : An Economic Analysis for the Dutch North Sea

Ding, Helen; Ruijs, Arjan; van Ierland, Ekko - 2007

In this paper we discuss how a Decision Support System (DSS) for managing the marine environment can be set up. We use the Driving force-Pressure-State-Impact-Respond (DPSIR) framework to analyze which are the major driving forces impacting upon the marine environment in the North Sea. Moreover,...

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International Environmental Agreements Under Uncertainty : Does the Veil of Uncertainty Help?

Finus, Michael; Pintassilgo, Pedro - 2010

Na and Shin (1998) showed that the veil of uncertainty can be conducive to the success of self-enforcing international environmental agreements. Later papers confirmed this negative conclusion about the role of learning. In the light of intensified research efforts worldwide to reduce...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve from Multiple Perspectives

Jaeger, William K.; Kolpin, Van - 2013

The analysis finds that in addition to U-shaped paths of environmental quality arising for growth in income per capita, growth in population can also produce socially efficient patterns that are U-shaped. Sufficient conditions for both types of paths are identified for a range of models and...

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Traditional Natural Resources Management Practices and Biodiversity Conservation in Ghana : A Review of Local Concepts and Issues on Change and Sustainability

Sarfo-Mensah, Paul; Oduro, William - 2014

This paper reviews the importance of traditional natural resources management practices in Ghana. It highlights the roles of traditional beliefs, taboos and rituals in the management and conservation of key natural resources in the country. The paper is based on desk studies undertaken as part...

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Domestic Politics and the Formation of International Environmental Agreements

Dietz, Simon; Marchiori, Carmen; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2012

The theory of international environmental agreements overwhelmingly assumes that governments engage as unitary agents. Each government makes choices based on benefits and costs that are simple national aggregates, and similarly on a single set of national-level motivations, together drawing a...

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