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Economic Evaluation of Climate Change Impacts on Ground Transportation in Atlantic Canada: General Equilibrium Framework

Yevdokimov, Yuri - EcoMod Network - 2014

Climate change has become one of the most serious consequences of human activities. According to the IPCC Fourth assessment report, the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) generated by human activities is the primary cause of the climate change and especially global warming. In general,...

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Climate change, adaptive capacity and policy direction in the Canadian North: Can we learn anything from the collapse of the east coast cod fishery?

Budreau, Davin; McBean, Gordon - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 12 (2007) 7, pp. 1305-1320

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The Canada-Atlantic Canada Manufacturing Productivity Gap: A Detailed Analysis

Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector. A number of possible factors contributing to the...

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Stress Test: Demographic Pressures and Policy Options in Atlantic Canada

Busby, Colin; Robson, William B.P.; Desjardins, … - In: C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder (2009) 120

A rapidly aging population means the Atlantic provinces face the prospect of shrinking workforces as early as 2010. To stem the population pressures of tomorrow, a suite of policies – such as those that boost workforce participation and others that prefund demographically sensitive government...

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Labour Market Seasonality in Canada: Trends and Policy Implications

Sharpe, Andrew; Smith, Jeremy - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2005

The objective of this paper is to examine labour market seasonality in Canada over the past three decades in order to shed light on what policies might be best suited to address seasonal economies. The main findings are as follows. The seasonality of the Canadian economy has declined since 1976...

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Quota Enforcement in Resource Industries: Self-Reporting and Differentiated Inspections

Hansen, Lars; Jensen, Frank; Nøstbakken, Linda - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 58 (2014) 4, pp. 539-562

Quotas are frequently used in the management of renewable resources and emissions. However, in many industries there is concern about their basic effectiveness due to non-compliance. We develop an enforcement model of a quota-regulated resource and focus on a situation with significant...

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Modeling Effort and Lobbying in a Heterogeneous Common Pool Resource Setting

Freeman, Matthew; Anderson, Christopher - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 56 (2013) 3, pp. 399-414

Extraction from a common pool resource (CPR), such as a fishery, can lead to socially inefficient and undesirable outcomes as a result of appropriation problems. Through regulation of the CPR, users may achieve a more profitable and socially efficient outcome. Feeny et al. (Land Econ...

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Removing biases in forecasts of fishery status

Costello, Christopher; Deschênes, Olivier; Larsen, Ashley - In: Journal of Bioeconomics 16 (2014) 2, pp. 213-219

="italic">MaxCatch</mi> </mrow> </math> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation>). The model is parameterized with a small sample of fisheries from the …> </EquationSource> </InlineEquation> to global fisheries is questionable. Here, we rectify both oversights and provide an updated …

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Recent Developments in Fisheries Economics Research

Kronbak, Lone Grønbæk; Squires, Dale; Vestergaard, Niels - In: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 7 (2014) 1, pp. 67-108

Fisheries economics stand on the cusp of potentially sizeable changes in orientation and policy focus, leading in turn … to comparable changes in modeling and general analysis. Notably, fisheries are increasingly framed as part of the overall …

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Climate change impacts on freshwater recreational fishing in the United States

Jones, Russell; Travers, Constance; Rodgers, Charles; … - In: Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 18 (2013) 6, pp. 731-758

We estimated the biological and economic impacts of climate change on freshwater fisheries in the United States (U …. In general, the spatial distribution of coldwater fisheries is projected to contract, being replaced by warm/cool water … and high-thermally tolerant, lower recreational priority (i.e., “rough”) fisheries. Changes in thermal habitat suitability …

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